The head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow Region, Alexander Shestun, recorded a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he stated that he was forced to resign under the threat of confiscation of the house and the initiation of a criminal case.

AlexandraPopova / Shutterstock Telegram's Russian traffic is surging According to data gathered by TGStat.ru , which collects information about tens of thousands of Russian-language Telegram channels, traffic on the instant messenger is going bananas this week, despite the government’s attempts to cut off access to the app. Key: The top chart blue measures total daily traffic, wile the bottom green chart measures total daily new subscriptions.

Commissioner for Children's Rights Anna Kuznetsova criticized the intention of the Ministry of Transport to ban children in wheelchairs from the metro. According to Kuznetsova, out of a stroller, children can get hurt in overcrowded cars, “fall and get lost in the crowd,” and also accidentally get off the train. On the platforms, they are also in "serious danger". The measures proposed by the Ministry of Transport are “redundant and contrary to common sense,” the Ombudsman believes .

On April 17, the Russian Investigative Committee refused to open a criminal case on the complaint of the defendant in the "Penza case" Viktor Filinkov about torture by FSB officers. This was reported by Mediazona. The investigator concluded that the FSB officers' explanations about using a stun gun on Filinkov when he tried to escape "completely refute" Filinkov's version that he was taken to the forest and beaten and tortured for several hours in a minibus.

HaEFERL / WIKIMEDIA Commons (CC by-SA 3.0) The burial place of the victims of the Children's Euthanasia Program Clinic "Am Poligelgrund" at the Central Cemetery in Vienna On April 19, the Molecular Autism medical journal published a study by the historian of the Vienna Medical University Herwig Czech with the heading of Hans Asperger, National Socialism and Race Hygiene in the Nazi Vienna.

The Russian government has published a decree on the rules for data storage by telecom operators under the Yarovaya Law. As follows from the document, providers will have to store user messages for 30 days - the decree says that data stores must have a capacity equal to the volume of messages from operators for this period. The deadline for storing messages has been moved by the government from July to October 2018.

April 19. Russian students win programming; Roskomnadzor is fighting with programmers The best news of the day The Moscow State University team won the ICPC ASM programming championship - a competition in which tens of thousands of students from more than 100 countries take part. MFTi - among the teams that took second place. Ural Federal University and St. Petersburg ITMO - among those who were on the third. From 2012 to 2017 (for six years!) The championship won ITMO and St.

Meduza The company “E.Soft” operates out of the building pictured above. At 9 p.m., on April 18, on the floors occupied by E.Soft, the lights were on. On April 16, Russia’s federal censor (Roskomnadzor) started blocking the instant messenger Telegram. For technical support, the agency relies largely on a company called “E.Soft,” which has received hundreds of millions of rubles in state contracts to provide its services to Roskomnadzor.

KCNA / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Head of the DPRK Kim Jong -un and PRC Chairman Xi Jinping during the visit of the North Korean leader to China in March 2018 US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, who were calling each other “Man-Rocket” and “slightly-wise old man” six months ago, have been preparing for negotiations since the beginning of March.

Update. Shortly after the publication of the material, the hole was removed from the "Points of Interest" section of Google Maps. Also all reviews are gone. The pit on Kotovsky Street in Novosibirsk was included in the "Attractions" section of the Google Maps service. At the time of writing, the pit has a five-star rating and 75 reviews. Users note the “beautiful view” of the attraction, its “Russian spirit” and “inflexible character”.

In its expanding war on the instant messenger Telegram, Russia’s federal censor has blocked tens of thousands of IP addresses operated by the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. According to an unofficial copy of Roskomnadzor’s “out-load” list of banned online content, the agency has ordered Russian ISPs to cut access to the subnet 51.136.0.0/15, which masks 131,000 IP addresses, as well as the Azure subnet 51.136.0.0/17, which masks another 32,000 IP addresses.

Roskomnadzor has included several tens of thousands of IP addresses of the Azure cloud platform owned by Microsoft in the register of banned sites. As can be seen from the unofficial copy of the registry download sent to providers, Roskomnadzor ordered to block the 51.136.0.0/15 subnet, which includes 131,000 IP addresses. The official list of IP addresses of Azure data centers contains the subnet 51.136.0.0/17 (32 thousand addresses included in the range blocked by Roskomnadzor).

The Butyrsky Court of Moscow exacted almost 1.2 million rubles from Lyudmila Esipenko, a participant in the pogrom of the Sculptures We Cannot See exhibition, in a civil suit filed by the Manege. She announced this on Facebook. The decision was made in autumn 2017. According to the activist, she did not receive “any notifications about the need to appear in court,” and she learned about the fine because “the last 555 rubles” were debited from her account.

Medusa operates in this building E. Soft. April 18 at 9 pm on the floors where her office is located, light was burning Since April 16, Roskomnadzor began blocking the Telegram messenger in Russia. The largest company providing the department of technical support services is the company E. Soft, which receives from the RKN state contracts for hundreds of millions of rubles. It is possible that it is the hands of the E. Soft employees that is carried out by the Telegram blocking.

The head of Cuba for the first time in half a century did not become Castro Liu Bin / Xinhua / Vida Press Miguel Dias-Kanel and Raul Castro, 2016 On April 18–19, a session of the National Assembly takes place in Havana, at which the new head of state was elected-instead of 86-year-old Raul Castro, 57-year-old Miguel Dias-Kanel became the chairman of the Cuban State Council. "Medusa" says what has changed in Cuba over 10 years of Raul Castro and what is known about the new head of the state.