The instant messenger Telegram has created the first service in its future blockchain platform “TON” (Telegram Open Network) and the company is testing it privately, two sources told the newspaper Vedomosti . “Telegram Passport” will allow users to save encrypted copies of all their identification documents, which can then be sent instantly to Telegram’s various partners. The new service could be up and running as soon as the summer, says Vedomosti .

Members of the unregistered Other Russia party threw smoke bombs at the Latvian embassy in Moscow, according to the Other Russia page on VKontakte. The attack took place around 6:00 p.m. The police detained two protesters Olga Shalina and Gleb Buvanenko. against them Protocols were drawn up under the article on petty hooliganism. Until the trial, which is due tomorrow, they will remain in the Basmanny OVD.

The Tosno team won the 2018 Russian Football Cup. In the final of the tournament, the team, which occupies the penultimate place in the Premier League with one round to go, met with Avangard from Kursk, which plays in the FNL, the second most powerful league in Russia . The match, which took place in Volgograd, ended with the score 2:1. Goals for Tosno were scored by Aleksey Skvortsov (in the first half) and Reziuan Mirzov (in the second). Igor Kireev scored for Avangard in the first half.

The newspaper “ Chernovik ” (Rough Draft) Gadzhi Musayev Police officers detained a man trying to leave Dagestan for a job, and charged him with complicity in the murder of a federal judge On September 3, 2016, Gadzhi Musayev, a 21-year-old man living in Dagestan, boarded a bus to Moscow, where he planned to catch a flight to Kamchatka. Thanks to some help from people in his village, there was a construction job waiting for Musayev in Russia’s Far East.

A group of nationalists poured green paint on the head of the Russian Center for Science and Culture (Rossotrudnichestvo) in Kyiv, Konstantin Vorobyov. Vorobyov himself told RIA Novosti about this. According to him, the attack occurred when he left the house to lay flowers at the Eternal Flame in honor of Victory Day. “At the exit from the entrance, several people attacked me from behind and doused me with sewage and brilliant green,” said Vorobyov.

Now he himself will write you down in a hairdresser! The head of Google Pichai Sundar at the I/O conference in California showed the Google Duplex function, which the company is going to integrate in its voice assistant. With Google Duplex, the user can ask the virtual assistant to book a table in a restaurant or sign up for a hairdresser - and the assistant will call where to! Judging by the notes of the conversations that Pichai showed, people do not even know that the robot calls them.

The US State Department announced the introduction of sanctions against a number of Russian military structures suspected of violating the US law on the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The corresponding document was published in the US Federal Register.

Chechen parliamentarians have proposed changes to the constitution that would allow one person to serve as president for three consecutive terms instead of the current two. This was reported on the website of the Chechen Parliament. Deputies of the Chechen parliament will consider the issue of submitting a bill to the State Duma at a meeting on May 10.

North Korea has released three US citizens who were imprisoned in North Korea. US President Donald Trump announced this on Twitter. I am pleased to announce that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is flying from North Korea with three wonderful gentlemen that everyone has been waiting for. They seem to be in good health. The liberated Americans are from South Korea and China, but have American citizenship.

What Google showed at the I/O conference Jeff Chiu / AP / Scanpix / Leta On May 8, the annual conference of Google I/O was launched in California. The conference itself is primarily focused on developers, but at the presentation opening its presentation, Google top managers talked about new products that will be interesting to ordinary users.

At the Cannes festival, a film was shown about life in the DPR and LPR Festival de Cannes The Cannes Film Festival showed a new feature film by Sergey Loznitsa Donbass - about the life of self -proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics during and after the war. According to the film critic of Anton Dolina, for various reasons, for various reasons, both Russian and Ukrainian viewers may not like it, but this does not make it less frightening, paradoxical and outstanding.

The websites Gay.ru and Lesbi.ru have filed an appeal with Khakassia’s Supreme Court against the Altai District Court’s decision to add them to Russia’s Internet blacklist. According to the human rights group “Agora,” which is representing the websites, Gay.ru and Lesbi.ru were never even informed about the “gay propaganda” charges against them, and thus were denied their right to a fair trial by the district court. The verdict against these LGBT websites also relied on no linguistic expertise.

The Egyptian authorities are holding 18 Russian citizens (including nine children) in a deportation prison at one of Cairo’s airports, eyewitnesses told the human rights group “ Memorial .” The Russians in custody are all from Dagestan, and (as of May 1) Egypt apparently planned to send them back to Russia. According to Memorial, police in Egypt regularly carry out “repressive actions against citizens of post-Soviet states,” denying legal and consular aid to detainees.

Investigators in Sakhalin are on a manhunt for the rogue who filmed himselfwalking down the city’s Lenin Street, complaining about the absence of a sidewalk, and blaming Governor Oleg Kozhemyako, whom he also insults in the video . The footage appeared on the website Sakhalin.info on April 9. According to the mayor’s office, the man filmed himself walking along a roadside that never had a sidewalk.

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