A jury in the US city of Norristown found actor Bill Cosby guilty of raping former Temple University employee Andrea Constand, reports the Associated Press. The jury, which included seven men and five women, debated Cosby's verdict for 14 hours over two days. The comedian was found guilty on three counts in the Constant rape case.

Update. At about 2:00 on the night of April 27, the addresses of the largest Internet companies were removed from the registry. They stayed in it for two hours. Whether the providers managed to start blocking is unknown. Roskomnadzor introduced a number of IP addresses belonging to the largest Russian Internet companies to the register of prohibited sites-Yandex, VKontakte and Odnoklassniki. In addition, IP addresses belonging to Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and LiveInternet were in the registry.

The main prize of the 40th Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) was awarded to the film by the Yakut director Eduard Novikov "The Tsar Bird". The Special Jury Prize went to the film "Nu" by the director and actress of the Gogol Center, a native of China, Yang Ge. Alexander Kott received the Best Director award for Spitak. Italian actress Giovanna Mezzogiorno won the Best Actress award for Naples in Veil.

Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov announced his readiness to file a libel suit against Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation over an investigation into the oligarch's purchase of the Italian villa of Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin. Navalny’s assertion that the deal was completed at an inflated price and constituted a bribe is a lie, an unnamed representative of the press service of the ONEXIM group, owned by Prokhorov, told Dozhd. “We will file a libel suit,” he said.

A court in Grozny extended the arrest of Oyub Titiev, head of the Chechen branch of the Human Rights Center Memorial, until June 9. The investigation stated that the human rights activist may hide because his family left Chechnya, and he himself has no housing in the republic. As reported Memorial in February, Titiev's home was one of 37 private houses in the village of Kurchaloy that the authorities decided to demolish in order to build a shopping center.

Here are some of the dozens of online services disrupted by Russia's scattershot assault on Telegram Meduza For roughly two weeks, Russia’s federal censor has tried to cut access to the instant messenger Telegram by indiscriminately blocking millions of IP addresses operated by major cloud computing providers, disrupting an array of websites and online services that have nothing to do with Telegram. The outages have been intermittent and unexpected. One day, you can’t buy movie tickets online.

On April 26, the U.S. Senate approved the candidacy of CIA Director Mike Pompeo for the post of Secretary of State, reports The New York Times. On the eve of Pompeo's nomination hearing in the Senate on April 12, the White House issued a statement on Pompeo's views on US foreign policy. In particular, it declared its readiness to pursue a tougher policy towards Moscow. “Russia continues to act aggressively due to years of soft policy in response to this aggression.

The Moscow Regional Duma has adopted a law that allows you to fine for violation of the rules of conduct at the airports. These rules will act in Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo and Zhukovsky. The prohibitions do not apply to Vnukovo Airport. Photo in the announcement: Anton Gvozdikov / Shutterstock.com

From April 21 to April 24, FSB officers killed 12 terrorists and detained 14 more in a number of Russian regions, Interfax reports. According to the FSB, the criminals were "neutralized" in Dagestan, Tatarstan, Omsk and Ulyanovsk regions, as well as in the Stavropol Territory.

In 2017, 1563 people were justified in Russia for criminal cases, more than 695 thousand people were convicted, and the judicial department at the Supreme Court follows . Thus, for each justified, there were 445 convicts, and the share of acquittals was 0.22%. Over the past few years, the share of acquittals in Russian courts has been steadily declining. Subscribe to our YouTube

On April 25, Twitter user Yevgeny Samsonov posted photos from Voronezh: they show the house of merchant Balashov, over which a huge shopping center was built. Only the facade remains of the building, which was built in the 19th century and is recognized as a cultural heritage site. Samsonov's followers began sharing other structures that Russian architects had added to old buildings. Completing and modernizing buildings while leaving historical facades is a global practice.

Update . Armen Dzhigarkhanyan came to his senses after a coma, told the official representative of the artist Elina Mazur RBC. She clarified that the actor spent about an hour in a coma. Actor Armen Dzhigarkhanyan was taken to a Moscow hospital with a heart attack, told TASS. a source in medical circles “He is in a coma and is connected to a ventilator,” the source said, without specifying which hospital the 82-year-old actor is in.

April 26. Russian biathlete accused the coach of harassment The 17-year-old biathlete Anna Moiseeva in an interview with Soviet Sports spoke about the repeated harassment of her coach Sergei Temmin. According to the athlete, the coach told her: “If you agree to build a relationship with me, then I will help you. You will go to the team, you will have everything: equipment, result.

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta photography Joseph James Deanjelo, accused of a series of rape and murders, presented during the Sacramento Police press conference. April 25, 2018 Dear grandfather On April 25, the Sacramento police announced that she revealed a series of cruel rape and murders that were committed in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s.

Able-bodied, but not working residents of Belarus will reimburse 100% of the cost of such utility services as hot water, heating and gas (if gas boilers are available). This is stated in the decree of the Belarusian government of April 24. According to the document, "parasites" will start paying full tariffs for hot water from January 1, 2019, gas and heating - from October 1, 2019.