Maxim Kovalsky, former editor-in-chief of Kommersant-Vlast magazine, has died. He was 54 years old. Kovalsky's death was reported to Meduza by his friend and deputy at Kommersant-Vlast and Openspace.ru Veronika Kutsyllo. According to MBH -Media, he has been battling lung cancer for the past year. Kovalsky has worked at Kommersant since 1990. From 1999 to 2011, he headed Kommersant-Vlast. In 2012-2013 he was the chief editor of the Openspace.ru project.

Apple Apple Corporation refused plans to release mats for AirPower wireless charging, which were announced in September 2017. This is stated in a statement by the Senior Vice President of Apple to develop the hardware of Dan Ricchio, who entered TechCrunch. Riccio explained in a letter to the publication that AirPower never reached the “high standards” of the company, which is why the project was canceled. He apologized to those who were waiting for the launch of the rug.

On the Ukrainian public television channel UA: Pervyy, the debates of the three main candidates for the presidency of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, Yulia Tymoshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky, were disrupted. According to the Hromadske TV channel, Poroshenko and Zelensky did not attend the debate. Tymoshenko came, thanked the organizers of the debate, apologized and left the studio.

Taxi service Lyft's share price surged more than 20% in the first two hours of trading on the exchange. Trading began on Friday, March 29th. After their opening, Lyft shares rose to about $87 a share. The placement price at which the shares were offered to investors was $72. Based on the results of the auction, the market value of Lyft is about $30 billion. Lyft is the second largest taxi service in the world after Uber. Uber is set to go public later in 2019.

The Investigative Committee refused to open a criminal case due to the distribution of a nude photograph of 12-year-old Tasia Perchikova, who was harassed after she appealed to the Russian president. It is reported by Radio Liberty with reference to the girl's mother. A copy of the UK ruling is at the disposal of Meduza.

The neo-Nazi Dmitry Bobrov has been set free due to the Russian government’s partial decriminalization of Article 282, a law that now penalizes some cases of “enciting hate and enmity” against particular groups with fees and administrative penalties alone. Bobrov, who has led the recognized extremist groups Schultz-88 and National Socialist Initiative, went into hiding in September 2017 when he was sentenced to two years in prison. He was captured in January 2019.

More than 20 universities in Russia have chosen to reward their applicants for participating in Yunarmia (“Youth Army”), an explicitly patriotic youth movement sponsored by the country’s Defense Ministry. According to the Ministry, about half a million young people will be involved in the movement by early May. The universities agreed to award Yunarmia members extra points on Russia’s nationwide college aptitude test, the EGE, Yunarmia leader Roman Romanenko told TASS .

On March 29, Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev took part in a live interview on the social media platform VKontakte as part of the network’s #VKLive program. While Medvedev spoke positively of social media as a platform for two-way communication with the public, his own openness about current events was limited. On the case against American investment manager Michael Calvey : I don’t have any precise information about the case. The truth will be established in court.

The plant for the production of trolleybuses and electric buses "Trolza" in the Saratov region plans to reduce 500 employees from the beginning of June. In total, the company employs 800 people. The notice of planned layoffs, TASS reports, was received by the Engels employment center.

A live interview with Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev on the social network VKontakte proceeded with the broadcast’s comment function turned off. Comments were also blocked on social media pages belonging to the Russian executive branch and to the prime minister himself. At the beginning of Medvedev’s broadcast, which is part of VKontakte’s #VKLive program, the prime minister expressed interest in social media as a two-way communicative channel between the government and its constituents.

The United States has prepared new sanctions against Russia due to the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, Bloomberg reports, citing sources. According to the agency, the package of restrictions is already ready and awaits approval from the White House. Bloomberg does not specify what sanctions will be introduced.

AP / Scanpix / Leta An employee of the Russian Embassy in Sweden, whom the Swedish authorities suspected of working on the Russian special services, left the country. This was reported by the Swedish edition of Dagens Nyher, citing a letter sent by the Embassy of the Russian Federation to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden. It named the name of the diplomat - Evgeny Pind.

On March 29, Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev took part in a livestream called #VKLive on the social media platform VKontakte. During the livestream, Medvedev commented on the criminal case against his former aide Mikhail Abyzov, who stands accused of using his position at a Medvedev-initiated government ministry to form a criminal group and embezzle more than $62 million.

The results of the Meduza survey about subscriptions - as briefly as possible Meduza asked readers to talk about using subscriptions to various services. Only 6% of respondents have more than five subscriptions. And only 4% spend more than 3,000 rubles a month on subscriptions. Most people think that it is better to listen to music by subscription, and for games, a subscription is definitely not needed. Regarding the series and films, opinions were divided almost equally.

For the third time, the British Parliament has rejected an agreement to leave the European Union, proposed by the government of Theresa May. 344 parliamentarians voted against the document, 286 in favor. After that, the head of the European Council, Donald Tusk, announced the decision to hold an extraordinary meeting of the body on April 10. On March 29, the UK was supposed to leave the European Union, but received a reprieve.