Figure skater Evgenia Medvedeva will become the host of the children's ice show “Ice Age. Children" on Channel One. This was announced on March 29 by the press service of the TV channel. The other host will be Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin, who also hosted previous seasons of Ice Age. Evgenia Medvedeva is temporarily out of competition due to injury. President of the Russian Figure Skating Federation Alexander Gorshkov said that she "absolutely" does not plan to end her career.

Several thousand people protested outside the Volokolamsk district administrative building on Thursday evening, demanding that local officials declare a public health emergency in response to air pollution leaking from the nearby “Yadrovo” landfill. The city’s mayor, Pyotr Lazarev, and the newly appointed head of the district, Andrey Vikharev, addressed the crowd and promised to begin the process of declaring an environmental emergency.

The Media Center of the Higher School of Economics deleted the video recording of the meeting of students with the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, in which he compared the accusations against MP Leonid Slutsky with the Harvey Weinstein case and compared the actresses who spoke out against the producer with prostitutes. Several participants in the meeting told the BBC Russian Service about this, to whom the media center explained the refusal to hand over the recording.

On the evening of March 29, several thousand people gathered near the administration building of the Volokolamsky district. Those who gathered demand to introduce a state of emergency throughout the district, Vedomosti writes, citing activist Artem Lyubimov. Judging by the videos on social networks, the audience chanted “Come out.” the protesters addressed Mayor Pyotr Lazarev . He stated that the state of emergency will be introduced on March 30.

The page "No Landming of Kolomna" in VKontakte residents of Kolomna on the road leading to the Volovichi training ground On the evening of March 28, the police dispersed the residents of the Kolomna near Moscow, protesting against the garbage training ground. The police detained about 20 people, for three of them drew up protocols on an administrative offense.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that diplomats from those countries that announced the expulsion of Russian diplomatic staff in response to the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal would be expelled from Russia. Russia is also withdrawing consent to the operation of the US consulate in St. Petersburg, Lavrov said. The United States must vacate the building by March 31, the Foreign Ministry said . “Literally at this moment, the Ambassador of the United States, Mr.

March 29. Peskov defends deputy Slutsky Fire in Kemerovo The doors to the cinema hall, where dozens of people died during a fire in Kemerovo, were closed by one of the visitors. This was told by Igor Vostrikov, who lost three children, his wife and sister in the fire. According to him, the CCTV footage shows that when “there was already thick smoke in the corridor”, “some man decided to lock the door, block the cracks and wait for the rescuers” .

The head of the Volovichi landfill in Kolomna, Moscow Region, Vladimir Plyasunov, resigned of his own free will, Denis Lebedev, head of the Kolomna urban district, wrote on Facebook. to RBC This information was confirmed by the press service of the district administration. The new head of the Volovichi test site will be presented on April 2, Lebedev said.

HBO has released a trailer for the second season of the Wild West series, dedicated to an amusement park with humanoid robots. The soundtrack to the trailer features the song "Heart-Shaped Box" by Nirvana. HBOWestworld Season 2 | Official Trailer | HBO The video shows the first amusement park (in which the action takes place in the Wild West), but shots from the second flicker - with samurai. The second season of the series will be released on April 22, 2018.

Russian President Vladimir Putin did not come out to the protesters during his trip to Kemerovo, because it is impossible to speak objectively with a crowd of several thousand people. This was stated by the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov during the talk show "To the Point" at the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design of the Higher School of Economics. “A crowd of people, several thousand people who are chanting. You know that Putin is a very specific, pragmatic president.

Disney studio released a cut of unsuccessful duplicates from the filming of the film "Star Wars: The Last Jedi." The first half a minute in it, General Leia organ (Carrie Fisher) gives a slap in the face of a pilot in Dameron (Oscar Isaac). The scene was stopped at least 28 times - so many shots from one angle are shown in the video. From another angle, the camera captured another 13 slap in the face.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said spreading false information could be one of the ways other countries are using to bring about a “color revolution” in Russia. “It is clear that these are unfriendly steps, interference in our internal affairs, an attempt to create tension and implement color revolution technologies,” Volodin said. According to him, false information often comes from abroad.

Update. According to BBC News, Yulia Skripal is conscious and can speak. This has not been officially confirmed. The UK National Health Service has reported an improvement in the condition of Yulia Skripal, who, along with her father, former GRU officer Sergei Skripal, was poisoned with a nerve agent in Salisbury. Yulia Skripal's condition is no longer rated as critical. She is recovering quickly, the UK National Health Service said. Sergei Skripal is still in a stable, serious condition.

After refusing for weeks to comment on the sexual harassment allegations against State Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has finally shared his thoughts, comparing Slutsky’s victims to the dozens of actresses who say Harvey Weinstein harassed them. Peskov said these women remind him of “prostitutes.” “This has less to do with the Ethics Committee than the police,” Peskov told an audience at Moscow’s Higher School of Economics on Thursday.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, speaking on the talk show "To the Point" of the Faculty of Communications, Media and Design of the Higher School of Economics, commented on the allegations of harassment made by several journalists against MP Leonid Slutsky. His statements are quoted by the BBC Russian Service.