Kendrick Lamar won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. The rapper received the award for the album Damn., which was released in April 2017. The Pulitzer Committee noted that Lamar reflected in his album the difficulties of life as a modern African American. Prior to this, the Pulitzer in the field of music was awarded only for classical and jazz works, notes .

Update. On April 17, Viber announced that the service had been fully restored. Viber users from Russia may have problems making calls in the messenger. This was reported in the official Viber account on Twitter. The company attributed the problem to communication problems on Amazon servers. On April 16, Russian providers began to restrict access to Telegram at the request of Roskomnadzor.

The Public Verdict Foundation In 2016, a woman living in Magnitogorsk reported that she was beaten and raped by the police On the evening of January 26, 2016, police officers in Magnitogorsk brought Salima Muhamedyanova and her husband Igor Gubanov in for questioning. Gubanov says one of their neighbors had called the police on them. He told Meduza that this neighbor had done this several times before. “She’s registered with a psychiatric ward, and she was trying to kick us out of the apartment.

Russia’s federal censor has reportedly started notifying the owners of various proxy servers that they will be blocked in Russia, if they refuse to cut access to the instant messenger Telegram, according to Pavel Chikov, a lawyer for the “Agora” human rights group, which has represented Telegram in Russian court.

Roskomnadzor began sending notifications about the upcoming blocking to the owners of proxy servers that allow bypassing the blocking of Telegram. This was announced by the head of the international group "Agora" Pavel Chikov, whose lawyers represent the interests of the messenger. According to Chikov, Roskomnadzor uses calls for riots and extremist activities as the basis for blocking.

Alexander Efimov, who now represents Russia in the United Arab Emirates, will replace Alexander Kinschak as the new Russian ambassador to Syria. Kommersant writes about this, citing diplomatic sources. about the replacement of the ambassador in Syria . also reported Earlier , Fontanka According to Fontanka, the decree on the appointment of a new ambassador should be signed by the May holidays.

Almost two million IP addresses Amazon and Google were blocked during the day Ramil Sitdikov / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta In the afternoon of April 16, Roskomnadzor began to massively block the IP address Amazon and Google. Both companies provide hosting services; The site or Internet project posted on their servers receives their IP address.

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, told RT that hundreds of thousands of IP addresses of the Amazon hosting provider were included in the register of banned sites due to the blocking of the Telegram messenger. By the evening of April 16, more than 800,000 Amazon IP addresses were in the registry. According to Zharov, the Amazon subnet, to which Telegram switched, got into the unloading of the registry, which goes to telecom operators for blocking.

None of the more than 100 missiles the US and its allies have fired into Syria have been shot down, US President Donald Trump said. “More than 100 missiles were fired, they did not shoot down a single one. <... > You heard that they shot down 40 missiles or 15 missiles, but no, each missile hit the target, ”Interfax quotes Trump.

Russia’s federal censor has reportedly ordered the country’s ISPs to start blocking hundreds of thousands of Amazon IP addresses. On Monday evening, according to Anti-Corruption Foundation activist Vladislav Zdolnikov , Roskomnadzor added four “subnet masks” to its “out-load list,” which specifies the domains and websites Russian Internet providers are required to block.

April 16. Monday without the best messenger Today in Russia they began to block Telegram - providers are complying with a court decision that was made due to the messenger’s refusal to hand over encryption keys to the FSB. Telegram founder Pavel Durov said that the court's decision was contrary to the Constitution and promised that the messenger would continue to defend the right of citizens to the privacy of correspondence.

Roskomnadzor added hundreds of thousands of Amazon IP addresses to the download of the registry of prohibited sites delivered to telecom operators. this on his Telegram channel. announced Vladislav Zdolnikov, an activist of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Zdolnikov drew attention to the fact that entries 52.58.0.0/15, 18.196.0.0/15, 18.194.0.0/15 and 35.156.0.0/14 appeared in the unloading for providers.

Thitsanu Angkapunyadech / Shutterstock.com The free mobile application Opera VPN, which allowed to bypass locks, will close on April 30. Such an announcement appeared in the middle of the month on the service website. A few days before, a similar notification appeared in some users in the application itself - although other Opera VPN worked normally. Users are invited to switch to another VPN - from the manufacturer Opera VPN (this is not Opera).

The short circuit that caused a fire in the Kemerovo shopping center "Winter Cherry" occurred due to a leak in the roof of the shopping center, Kommersant writes with reference to the preliminary conclusion of the Fire Expertise Research Center of St. According to the source of the publication, the roof leaked due to unremoved snow. Water got on the wires laid over the children's play area on the fourth floor of the shopping center, and caused a short circuit.

Update . 13 protesters on Lubyanka Square were detained. Administrative protocols were drawn up against them on violating the procedure for organizing or holding a mass event, they were left overnight at the Meshchanskoye police station, one of the detainees, a member of the Pussy Riot group Maria Alyokhina, tweeted . A rally in defense of the Telegram messenger was held on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow. Its participants threw paper airplanes at the FSB building.