State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced on Tuesday that new draft legislation to arm the government with more “counter-sanctions” against the United States would not affect 90 of the 1,019 American pharmaceutical products currently imported from the U.S., as these 90 drugs are not manufactured domestically and aren’t available in other countries.

Several Russian officials and deputies who commented on the situation with the blocking of Telegram continue to log into the messenger after the formal restriction of access to it. The radio station "Moscow speaking" drew attention to this. In particular, the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov logged into Telegram at 19:31.

Meduza The Russian authorities ordered Internet providers to start blocking the instant messenger Telegram on April 16. A few days earlier, advertisements for another chat app started appearing on several Telegram channels (and even in a few newspapers). The service is being promoted as a “complete copy of Telegram” and “another messenger with channels,” implying that this is the app that should replace Telegram in Russia. What on Earth is TamTam?

In Iraq, a court sentenced to life imprisonment two natives of Dagestan found guilty of terrorism and illegal border crossing. Kheda Saratova, a member of the Human Rights Council under the head of Chechnya, told the BBC Russian Service about this. According to Saratova, the convicted women are named Elvira Magomedkhanova (born in 1997) and Alisa Ismailova (born in 1992). Both women are in Iraq with their children; the first has two, the second has three.

Representatives of about 60 companies turned to the lawyers of the international human rights group "Agora" for legal assistance in connection with the massive blocking of IP addresses. This was reported to Meduza by lawyer Damir Gainutdinov. According to him, “owners of small businesses — online stores, delivery services, proxy servers” who “suffered by accident, for the company” asked for help. “Everyone has a question: we were unexpectedly blocked, WHAT TO DO?!” the lawyer said.

Users of several popular online games have complained of connection problems amid the blocking of millions of IP addresses by Amazon and Google in Russia. Issues are reported in the official PlayerUnknownʼs Battlegrounds , Fortnite , World of Warships Blitz communities ; Issues have also been reported by users of Guild Wars 2, Splatoon 2, and the Nintendo Switch digital store. Users of EVE Online have complained that chats are not working in the game.

State Duma chairman Vyacheslav Volodin said that under the proposed law on sanctions against the United States, it will not be forbidden to import 90 American drugs - out of 1019 supplied to Russia from America. We are talking about medicines that have no analogues in Russia and which cannot be delivered from other countries, Volodin explained. “Let's try to calm the public,” he said on the air of Russia 24.

Owners and sites on which (accidentally) hit Roskomnadzor - about how much they lost "Jellyfish" On April 16 and 17, Roskomnadzor introduced millions of IP addresses of the largest hosting providers-Amazon and Google to the register of prohibited sites. This was done to block the Telegram messenger, but led to the fact that for some time a wide variety of sites and servers were inaccessible-from online schools to courier delivery services.

Telegram lawyers asked the Moscow City Court to cancel the immediate execution of the decision of the Tagansky court to block the messenger. This was announced by the head of the Agora international group Pavel Chikov, whose lawyers represent the interests of Telegram. The complaint, published by Chikov, says that the Tagansky court allowed the immediate blocking of the messenger, believing that otherwise “public and private interests” could be damaged.

The head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov said that "the degradation of Telegram is now 30%." This is reported by The Bell on the evening of April 17. Not all subnets used by Telegram are blocked, he added. The Bell The Telegram messenger has been blocked in Russia since April 16. Roskomnadzor asked the court to authorize the blocking due to the messenger's refusal to issue the FSB encryption keys from users' correspondence.

Roskomnadzor discovered the IP addresses from which Telegram sends push notifications to bypass the blocking, head of the department Alexander Zharov said in an interview with Russia Today. “We are aware of this technology, its IP addresses have been identified. We are currently developing a technical solution for this blocking bypass technology,” Zharov said.

April 17. Roskomnadzor is fighting with the Internet Roskomnadzor blocked millions of Amazon and Google IP addresses-the largest hosting providers, whose infrastructure uses Telegram to detour locks (and so far successfully- this is how it works ). Users of sites and services using these IP addresses faced interruptions in their work-in particular, some popular network games did not work, and Viber messengers “broke” calls.

On April 17, the Armenian parliament elected former President Serzh Sargsyan as the country's new prime minister, Panarmenian.net reports. 77 deputies voted for Sargsyan's candidacy, 17 votes were cast against. Protests against Sargsyan's nomination for the post of prime minister have been going on in Yerevan for several days. On April 16, protesters clashed with police, in which more than 40 people were injured. On April 17, the protesters began blockading state institutions.

Users in Russia complained about Twitter. When you try to enter the web version, a message appears about technical problems, a mobile application works with interruptions. Twitter failures were also recorded in Latvia. According to the Downdetector website, Twitter failure reports from the USA, Japan, Great Britain, Germany and several other European countries, as well as in the Philippines.

The scriptwriters of Russian series tell by what rules they work Maxim Zmeyev / Interpress / TASS on the set of the series “Breathe with me”, published on the channel “Russia”. St. Petersburg, May 16, 2011 “Blood”, “Birch”, “Secrets of the investigation”, “Brother”, “sea devils”, “flint”, “testament of the princess” and so on, and so on. Daily in the morning, afternoon and evening, TV shows that watch millions of people come out on Russian television channels.