Real Madrid defeated Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final. The meeting ended with the score 2:1. The first in the first half was scored by the midfielder of the German club Joshua Kimmich. Marcelo then equalized and Marco Asensio put Real in the lead. Yesterday, Liverpool beat Roma 5-2. The second legs will be held May 1-2. Real Madrid are the winners of the last two Champions League games. This is the only club that managed to win this tournament twice in a row.

In California, law enforcement announced the arrest of 72-year-old former police officer Joseph James DeAngelo, who is linked to 12 murders and 50 rapes committed in the 1970s and 1980s. So far, DeAngelo has been charged with the murders of two married couples, in 1978 and 1980. Authorities have confirmed that he is linked to the murder of at least one other couple, but no charges have yet been filed for the crime.

The Science Council under the Ministry of Education and Science has published a statement with a request to restore access to scientific Internet resources that were blocked as a result of Roskomnadzor’s attempts to block Telegram.

Alexandra Kozhevnikova, a 90-year-old citizen of Russia and Canada, was injured in a collision with pedestrians in Toronto on April 23, the Russian Embassy in Canada said. According to the embassy, ​​she is in a stable condition and her family is counting on "an early discharge." Unfortunately, 90-year-old Russian woman A.S. Kozhevnikova, who lives in Canada, was injured in an attack in Toronto. She is in the hospital.

Representatives of the Moscow City Hall intend to discuss with supporters of Alexei Navalny the holding of a protest action on May 5 in the city center on Akademika Sakharov Avenue. This was stated by the head of the Department of Regional Security Vladimir Chernikov. “Tomorrow there will be a meeting where the possibility of providing Akademika Sakharov Avenue for the rally will be discussed,” he said.

Writer George R. R. Martin announced the release on November 20, 2018 of the first volume of the book "Fire and Blood", dedicated to the history of House Targaryen from the A Song of Ice and Fire universe he created.

In St. Petersburg, the 93-year-old French singer Charles Aznavour was taken to the hospital, who became ill during a rehearsal. “Nothing catastrophic, just felt bad. Doctors will establish a diagnosis, ”said a representative of the Oktyabrsky concert hall to Interfax. The concert, which was supposed to take place on April 25, has been cancelled. On the website of Oktyabrsky, it is reported that it has been postponed to April 9, 2019.

"Jellyfish" Quote “A week after blocking, the number of views of Telegram channels has decreased significantly”-the material with such a heading on April 25 published “Mediaology”, which is engaged in monitoring the media and social networks. News about a serious fall in Telegram-76.5%-with reference to "Mediaology" was published by the largest Russian Internet publications and agencies.

A new report by the monitoring website Medialogia claims that traffic to Telegram’s channels fell by 76.5 percent in the week after Russia started blocking the instant messenger. Medialogia says it counted the number of views on posts by the network’s 158,000 most active channels between April 16 (when Roskomnadzor started blocking Telegram) and April 23, finding that the total fell from almost 47 million to just more than 11 million.

A court in Saratov ruled to pay 150,000 rubles to local journalist Sergei Vilkov, who was acquitted in a criminal case of slandering United Russia regional Duma deputy Sergei Kurikhin. As Vilkov himself told Mediazona, he asked for compensation of 2 million rubles, since, as part of the criminal case, he was under house arrest for 25 months, he underwent three searches, and legal proceedings with Kurikhin lasted more than a year.

25th of April. The Supreme Court ignored the decision of the ECtHR in the case of "Yves Rocher" The Presidium of the Supreme Court of Russia declared legal the verdict in the Yves Rocher case, in which Oleg Navalny was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison. The Board considered the case because of the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), which recognized the trial in Russia as unfair.

Page Kujai Nyamarebva in VKontakte A student from Zimbabwe called everyone to a party in a Protestant church Kudzai Nyamarebva came from Zimbabwe to Nizhny Novgorod in 2012 and entered the Volga Research Medical University. She studied at the faculty of medical affairs, lived in a student dormitory and visited the local Protestant Church “Embassy of Jesus”. A friend of the student Galina Lyamin told Medusa that only English knows Nyamarebva, so she mainly talked with classmates-foreigners.

French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte visited the United States on a visit . They were accepted by American President Donald Trump with his wife Melania. During official events, journalists drew attention to the fact that Melania Trump did not want to hold her husband's hand. And this is not the first time she does. Trump generally loves to betray hands to people, including leaders of states. But they, unlike Melania, have to endure. Subscribe to our YouTube

Wrigley has released a limited series of Skittles dragees in the colors of the Russian flag. SKITTLES Rashn MIX sweets were designed specifically for the Russian market on the eve of the World Cup. Mars The Rashn Mix included 5 colors (two shades of red, two shades of blue and white). There are five tastes too: an apple, cherry, raspberries, strawberries and black currants.

Russia’s Investigative Committee has refused to open a criminal case in response to reports that Federal Security Service agents tortured a second suspect in the “Penza case,” in which several leftist activists are charged with forming a terrorist organization and plotting attacks during the March 2018 presidential election and 2018 FIFA World Cup. Earlier this month, investigators rejected allegations that the FSB tortured another suspect in the same case.