Instagram now has the ability to download all of your account information, including photos, videos, stories, and comments. The function is currently only available in the desktop version of the service. To request a download, you need to go to the "Privacy and Security" section in the settings. Data collection can take up to 48 hours, reported when attempting to request collection. “We process no more than one request per account at a time,” the page says.

Air defense forces at the Russian Khmeimim military base in Syria have destroyed "small air targets of unknown origin," a spokesman for the base said. The targets were detected "at a distance from the airfield" at nightfall on 24 April. The base is functioning as planned, the source added. RIA Novosti In January, the Ministry of Defense confirmed the attack on the Russian Khmeimim base using drones.

Senator from the Kurgan region Sergei Lisovsky complained about the large number of advertisements for expensive foreign drugs instead of potassium permanganate and ascorbic acid. This is how he commented on a possible ban on the import of American drugs into Russia, Ura.ru and Znak.com report . “Something I didn’t see, potassium permanganate to be advertised, which I was treated with as a child, or ascorbic acid, which worked great,” Ura.ru quotes Lisovsky.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow imposed fines of 20,000 rubles on 29 protesters near the Armenian temple complex, the press service of the court told Interfax. They were found guilty of participating in an unsanctioned rally. Three more participants of the action were assigned 40 hours of compulsory work under the same article. Four people were fined 1,000 rubles for disobeying the police.

The Rosetta station, which explored the Churyumov-Gerasimenko comet, fell on its surface on September 30, 2016, but the European Space Agency (ESA) continues to work with the information it transmitted - and publish photos. Twitter user landru79 compiled an incredible gif from images posted on March 22: The photos were taken on March 1, 2016, when the station was a few kilometers from the comet.

The Moscow Chamber of Lawyers has stripped Mark Feigin of his legal status, RIA Novosti reports. According to lawyer Stalina Gurevich, who filed a complaint against Feygin, the chamber had previously considered it unethical for him to use obscene language in social networks in relation to colleagues and their clients. Feigin explained to Interfax that these were three of his tweets concerning Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shariy.

French President Emmanuel Macron, along with his wife Brigitte Macron, flew to the United States on an official three-day visit. As a gift to the American presidential couple, they brought an oak sapling from Belleau Wood, a French forest that American troops recaptured from the German army in World War I (and Trump, in response, carefully brushed dandruff off Macron's suit).

April 24. A St. Petersburg oncologist started a blog about how he is being treated for cancer. Main In Toronto, 25-year-old student Alec Minassian hit passers-by on the street while driving a van. 10 people were killed and another 15 were injured. Minassian was detained - it is believed that he acted intentionally, and charges have already been brought against him. Nothing is known yet about Minassian's motives; at the time of his arrest, he asked the police to shoot him in the head.

The owner of the Bashetle supermarket chain, the deputy of the State Council of Tatarstan Muslim Latypova complained to the President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, who sell their own production on the Internet. “They filled the social networks. Everyone who sells products through social networks does not pay taxes, there are no deductions to social funds. This business takes volumes from us, ”Latypova said at a meeting of the Council on Entrepreneurship under the President of the Republic.

Alexei Navalny said that the Moscow mayor's office refused to allow him to hold a protest action in the city center. The action is scheduled for May 5 and timed to coincide with the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, which is to take place two days later. Navalny applied for a march along Tverskaya Street, but indicated that his supporters were "ready to consider acceptable options in the city center." The politician announced that, despite the ban, on May 5 at 2 p.m.

Recently, Facebook has been actively talking about its internal structure - apparently, this is a response to the criticism that the company faced after news of a user data leak. On April 24, the administration of the social network explained for which publications users could be banned. Not only that. The rules highlight one and a half dozen categories of prohibited information.

Adrian Dennis / AFP / Scanpix / Leta in London opened a statue of suffrazhists Millisent Fosset, who fought for granting voting rights to women. In front of the parliament building, a new monument is adjacent to 11 male monuments, including the statues of Winston Churchill, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. The opening is timed to the centenary of the British admission to the elections. True, in 1918 they allowed to vote only to women over 30 years old with property.

Amazon online store announced the start of delivery of orders to user cars. The service is so far available only for owners of certain brands of cars in 37 cities of the United States. The Amazon Key In-Car service is working with the 2015 General Motors and Volvo production machines or newer. These machines have a remote access function that the courier uses to open and lock the car.

Reporters discovered earlier this week that Telegram CEO Pavel Durov owed four rubles and 23 kopecks (less than $0.70) to the Federal Tax Service for underpaid taxes on his St. Petersburg apartment. Though a person’s tax arrears must exceed 3,000 rubles ($49) before federal officials can ask a court to freeze their bank accounts, several Telegram channels speculated that the authorities might use the back taxes as a pretext to harass Durov, in retaliation for his stand against Roskomnadzor.

📊 Minimal support Just a quarter of Russian Internet users say preserving Telegram access is important to them, according to a new national survey by VTsIOM. Nearly half of all respondents — 43 percent — told the pollsters that Telegram access “doesn’t matter whatsoever.” Being able to use the instant messenger was more important to young people, however. Among Internet users between the ages of 18 and 24, roughly 45 percent of respondents said Telegram access matters to them.