Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova lost in the semifinals of the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix tournament in Stuttgart. Having won the first set with a score of 6:3, Sharapova lost to Frenchwoman Kristina Mladenovic 5:7, 4:6. The Porsche Tennis Grand Prix was the first tournament Sharapova entered after a year-long suspension for meldonium use.

At an unregulated railway crossing in the area of ​​the Krasnaya village of the Krasnaya village in the Stavropol Territory, the train collided with the KAMAZ concrete mixer. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies. As a result of the incident, seven people were injured: an electric train driver and six passengers. All of them are hospitalized. The driver of the concrete mixer was not injured.

The leaders of the EU countries at the summit on April 29 unanimously supported the strategy of negotiations with the UK on Brexit. This was announced by the President of the European Council Donald Tusk. As noted in the message on the website of the Council, it took the participants of the summit less than a minute to approve the strategy. The document was first published on March 31st.

Interpol refused to put the former Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk on the wanted list. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country Arsen Avakov. With the requirement to put Yatsenyuk on the wanted list, Russia earlier made. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation accuses the politician of participating in hostilities in Chechnya in 1994-1995 on the side of the separatists.

In Brazil, the first universal strike was held in many years. Photos In Brazil in the evening of April 28, the first nationwide strike began in many years. Large-scale demonstrations against the reduction of budget expenditures promised by the government took place in Rio de Janeiro, San Paulo and Brazilia. Protesters set fire to buses and covered the roads, in some places there were clashes with the police.

How was the protest campaign "Tired" throughout Russia Photo: Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" On April 29, the protest campaign “Tired” was held throughout Russia, announced by Mikhail Khodorkovsky and “Open Russia”. It turned out not too numerous-and proceeded relatively peacefully: the police delayed people in only a few cities, most massively in St. Petersburg. Medusa briefly talks about how the action took place in the cities of the Russian Federation.

20 people were detained at the "I'm tired" action in Tula. This is reported by "OVD-Info" with reference to one of the participants of the action. According to her, the detainees were loaded into a paddy wagon and brought to the Zarechensky police department. How many people took part in the action, the interlocutor of the publication did not say. Mass detentions at the "Nedered" actions organized by Mikhail Khodorkovsky's "Open Russia" also took place in St.

Photo: Anastasia Shpigina / YouTube On April 6, 2017, blogger Anastasia Shpigina, who made a name in bright puppet images, published a video on the problems that she encountered after plastic surgery on her nose on her YouTube channel. The video gained more than three and a half million views, they began to actively discuss it. On April 22, Shpagina laid out another video and stated that now she was threatened by representatives of the clinic in which she underwent surgery.

at the uncoordinated rally "I'm tired of it", which is held in St. Petersburg by "Open Russia" From 30 to 50 people were detained . This is reported by the organizers of the event. According to OVD-Info , we are talking about 110 detainees. According to Fontanka.ru , about 300 people took part in the action in St. Petersburg. Earlier it was reported about the arrests at the action "Fed up" in Kemerovo. According to the latest data, 14 people were detained there.

Photo: Evgeny Feldman for Medusa Police buses near the building of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation in the center of Moscow on April 29, 2017. On this day, “Open Russia” holds in the city an inconsistent campaign “Tired”, whose participants should transfer letters to the reception of the President of the Russian Federation with calls to Vladimir Putin to refuse to participate in the 2018 elections.

The building of the International Center of the Roerichs in Moscow was sealed after the Federal Property Management Agency unilaterally terminated the land lease agreement concluded with the museum. This was reported by Interfax on April 29 with reference to a lawyer from the State Museum of the East, an organization to which the Federal Property Management Agency transferred the building of the Lopukhins' estate (it houses the center of the Roerichs).

Chinese products are less and less associated with fakes Photo: Sherwin / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Concept of the Chinese NIO EP9 electric car at the International Motor Show in Shanghai. April 19, 2017 At the end of April, China launched the first of its own aircraft carrier - although it was made according to the project of the Soviet “Varangian”, but on its own. In the near future, China plans to build a completely new aircraft carrier made “from scratch”.

Visitors paid several thousand dollars for tickets for Fyre Festival. The musicians did not come, there is no food and housing, people are stuck on the island In December 2016, Fyre was announced-a music festival, which was supposed to be held in late April and early May on one of the Bahamas. The festival was advertised by instagram models, Major Lazer and Blink-182 were supposed to perform there, tickets cost several thousand dollars.

Three fantastic novels that adults and adolescents will like The Literary critic of “Medusa” Galina Yuzefovich tells about the “dark shade of magic” by the American Victoria Schwab and about two more fantastic novels that will like both adults and adolescents, “the homeland of the elephants” by Oleg Divova and the “islanders” Christopher Pros. Victoria Schwab. The dark shade of magic. M.: Rosman, 2017. Translation by V. Nugatov Have you thought there is only one London?

Continuation: The capture of the center of the Roerichs was explained by the termination of the lease On the evening of April 28, the building of the International Center-Museum of the Artists Nicholas and Svyatoslav Roerich in Moscow was seized and sealed. about the seizure on Facebook.