Journalist, press secretary of Vladimir Putin's campaign headquarters and author of a documentary about the President of Russia Andrei Kondrashov became the first deputy general director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company. Information about this RBC was confirmed by the press service of the holding and Kondrashov himself.

The former general director of the Gogol Center, Alexei Malobrodsky, was transferred from an eight-bed to a four-bed cell in the Medvedkovo pre-trial detention center. As Tatyana Moskalkova, human rights ombudsman in Russia, told TASS, none of Malobrodsky's new cellmates smokes. Aleksey Malobrodsky has been in custody since the summer of 2017 in a case of embezzlement of budget funds allocated to the Seventh Studio theater company for staging performances.

Mail.Ru Group has allowed the National Bureau of Credit Histories (NBCH) to use a special service to analyze borrowers’ profiles on the company’s social network VKontakte, RBC reports. As a representative of Mail.Ru Group told the publication, the NBKI service will analyze only current open data; it will not have access to information that the VKontakte user decided to hide or delete. The company did not say whether the NBKI service will collect data on users of other Mail.Ru Group services.

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How women in Russia abuse medicine to lose weight Pavel Kubarkov / Shutterstock.com In April 2017, Meduza published a story about the life of Russians suffering from eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). There aren’t reliable statistics measuring the number of these people in Russia, but even the most conservative estimates put their population at more than 10,000. One of the most important aspects in this problem is the abuse of medicine.

Two of the four suspects in a Russian treason case, including a former agent in the FSB’s Information Security Center, have reportedly signed plea bargains where they confess to transferring data to foreign intelligence agencies. Three sources have confirmed to the magazine RBC that former FSB agent Dmitry Dokuchaev and entrepreneur Georgy Fomchenkov reached deals with prosecutors.

Three teenagers from Russia were injured when a carbon dioxide tank exploded at a Burger King restaurant in downtown Yerevan. This was reported by Interfax with reference to Lieutenant Colonel of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Armenia Tigran Voskanyan. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the names of the affected Russian citizens are Alena Agapova, Liza Abramova and Yaroslav Lyubenko. They are all 15 years old.

Pavel Chikov, the head of the Agora international human rights group that represents Telegram in courts, published a screenshot of a letter sent by the messenger’s lawyers to Roskomnadzor in response to a demand to provide the FSB with the keys to users’ correspondence. The department previously stated that they had not received a response from Telegram.

How in Yekaterinburg a rally was held against the abolition of direct elections of the mayor. Report "Medusa" Donat Sorokin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On April 2, a rally was held in Yekaterinburg against the abolition of direct elections of the mayor. According to the organizers, up to 10 thousand people took part in it (the city administration said that about 1.7 thousand people). One of the initiators of the action was the current head of the city Evgeny Roizman.

The Fairmont Empress Hotel in the Canadian city of Victoria forgave a guest 17 years after he almost destroyed one of the rooms. Accidentally. Because of the seagulls. About what happened 17 years ago, a resident of the city of Dartmouth Nick Burchill told in a letter that he sent to the hotel staff. Burchill posted a copy of the letter on Facebook. In April 2001, Nick Burchill went on a business trip to Victoria. He recently got a new job and was in the Marine Reserve.

April 2. 15 days of arrest for refusing to give a passport to the police Today, the Istrinsky City Court appointed 15 days of administrative arrest to Artem Lyubimov - one of the organizers of the shares against the landfill of the nucleus in Volokolamsk. He was found guilty of disobedience to the legal order of a police officer. The car, in which Lyubimov was traveling from Volokolamsk to Moscow, was detained by traffic police and criminal investigation officers yesterday.

Rosaviatsia has suggested that Saratov Airlines voluntarily cease flights. This is stated in a letter from the head of the agency, Alexander Neradko, to the director of the airline, Alexey Vakhromeyev ( Interfax has a copy). On March 15, Saratov Airlines sent an application to Rosaviatsia to lift the restriction on the operator's certificate following the An-148 crash in the Moscow region, the letter says.

Chip somodevilla / getty images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta leading News TV channel Laura Ingrem He who survived in an attack on school in Florida said that he was refused to take him to several universities At the end of March, 17-year-old American David Hogg, who survived during the attack on the School of Parckland, told TMZ that he was not accepted at four California university, where he submitted applications.

Memory of the playwright, director, founder of “theater.doc” Mikhail Ugarov Pavel Smertin / TASS On April 1, Mikhail Ugarov, director, playwright, founder and permanent artistic director of the Moscow Theater.doc, ideologist of the New Drama movement, died from a heart attack. He was 62 years old. He raised a lot of young actors and directors and revived in the Russian theater, cinema and television interest in new drama.

Adult Swim has released a short film based on the animated series Rick and Morty for April Fool's Day. Bushworld Adventures is ten minutes long and follows the adventures of a mad scientist and his grandson in Australia. The film can be viewed on the Adult Swim website . The script for the film was written by Michael Cusack. IndieWire notes that the humor in Bushworld Adventures is much darker and rougher than in Rick and Morty.