The official Telegram service account sent users in Russia a notification about the promotion against blocking the messenger, which will be held in Moscow on April 30. The notification contains a link to the record of the founder of Telegram Pavel Durov-the first in his Russian-speaking telegram channel, which was created on April 29. Durov calls the rally on April 30 "a historical chance for Muscovites to express a common position." “Someone will say that the rally will not change anything.

On April 28, the administration of the health site for LGBT “Parni Plus” received a notification from Roskomnadzor that it was included in the register of banned sites. As stated in the letter from Roskomnadzor, this happened by decision of the Burlinsky District Court of the Altai Territory dated January 26. The administration of "Party Plus" claims that it learned about the court decision only now and, accordingly, missed the deadline for filing an appeal.

Update . The Russian Embassy in the UK called the findings of The Sunday Times investigation frivolous, noting that the article was published ahead of local council elections to be held in the UK on May 3. Russian Twitter bots tried to help the Labor Party and its leader Jeremy Corbyn win the 2017 UK parliamentary elections. This is evidenced by the results of a study conducted by the British newspaper The Sunday Times in conjunction with the university in Swansea.

"Instead of studying, you are considering naked women" Mr. Gvell / yiutube The director of one of the institutes of the UGTU forbade students to eat in the rooms and use computers On April 26, a video of the meeting of the director of the Industrial Institute of the Ukhta State Technical University (UKTU) Vasily Zavyalova with students of the Forest College (part of the institute) living in the male dormitory of the UKSU appeared on Yuytyube.

On April 28 and 29, Pirates of the Caribbean will once again be shown on STS. The TV channel made a promo for the film, which beats the fight between Roskomnadzor and the Telegram messenger. “At first they wanted to take the keys from him, but he didn’t give them back,” the announcer says at the beginning of the video, clearly alluding to the encryption keys that Telegram did not provide to the FSB. “And there was judgment. And there was a verdict.

On April 23, the US President Emmanuel Macron visited the United States on April 23. As a gift to US President Donald Trump, he brought a seedling of an oak from Bello Wood - a French forest, which American troops had repaired from the German army in the First World War. The presidents of the two countries planted a seedling near the White House. Their wives carefully watched their work - Brigitte Macron and Melania Trump - and journalists.

A court in Baghdad sentenced 19 Russian women to life terms; women were found guilty of participating in ISIS and supporting the organization, AFP reported. Since the autumn of 2017, the Chechen authorities have organized the return to Russia of more than 100 women and children detained in Syria and Iraq. Their husbands, who fought on the side of the IS, were killed or ended up in prisons.

On April 29, the construction of power units for a new nuclear power plant began in the Kursk region - it will be called Kursk NPP-2. The power plant is needed to replace the Kursk nuclear power plant, which was put into operation more than 40 years ago. According to a press release from Rosatom, on April 29, the first cubic meters of concrete were laid into the foundation slab of the reactor building of the first power unit. Concreting should be completed in June 2018.

Telegram resumed work in Russia, CIS countries, Western Europe and Africa. This is reported by the administration of the messenger Telegram issues in Iran and the Middle East will be fixed shortly. Users in North and South America, as well as in Southeast Asia, were not affected by the failures, the administration of the messenger reports. The failure of Telegram occurred due to a massive power outage in the Amsterdam area, where some of the messenger servers are located.

In the first Stanley Cup playoff game between the Boston Bruins and Toronto Maple Leafs, which took place on April 14, the following episode occurred: QC News Brad Marchand kisses Leonid Komarov Boston forward Brad Marchand (called the NHL's main bully ) kissed and licked Toronto forward Komarov. Probably, he provoked the opponent to be rude, but Komarov did not succumb to the provocation. “In a way, I liked it,” Komarov said after the match.

In the Armenian capital, protesters took to the streets again after a two-day break, an Interfax correspondent in Yerevan reports. According to the agency, the demonstrators are holding marches and blocking roads with the help of garbage cans and benches. In particular, the avenues connecting different parts of the city with the center of Yerevan and the central Mashtots avenue were blocked; Roads to the central square of Yerevan - Republic Square were closed.

Aeroflot decided to fire the flight attendant after Vitaly Tretyakov, dean of the Higher School of Television at Moscow State University, complained on Twitter. He stated that during the Moscow-Kaliningrad flight on April 25, the crew named the destination as Koenigsberg. According to Tretyakov, the old name of Kaliningrad was mentioned during the announcement of information about the flight in English.

The Russian MMA fighter defeated the American Frank Mir by knockout and reached the semifinals of the Bellator Heavyweight Grand Prix. The battle was broadcast by the Match TV channel, a video of the battle was posted on the channel's website. At the very beginning of the fight, Emelianenko missed several blows and fell, but was able to get up and carry out a counterattack. The semi-finals of the Grand Prix will take place in the fall. Fedor Emelianenko will face Chael Sonnen.

High school students at a Florida school were given the following anatomy homework: "Ursula was devastated because her boyfriend broke up with her after they had sex. To get revenge, she slept with his best friend the next day. Nine months later, she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Ursula's blood type is O , her ex-boyfriend's is AB and his best friend's is A.

Update . The Telegram administration wrote that the electricity supply has resumed, and the messenger is gradually restoring work. Problems in the work of Telegram arose due to a massive power outage in the Amsterdam area, the administration of the messenger said on Twitter. Reportedly, the failure affected users in Russia, the CIS countries, Western Europe and North Africa, as well as in the Middle East.