Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to provide Belarus with a $600 million state loan. “The funds will be used to refinance payments to repay the principal on loans previously provided by the Russian Federation,” said Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. The total debt of Belarus to Russia exceeds $6.5 billion.

Said Tsarnaev / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA Ingush residents protest in Magas against changes to the republic’s referendum process. March 26, 2019 Since October 2018, protesters in the Russian federal subject of Ingushetia have taken to the streets to object to their government’s attempts to give up territory to the neighboring republic of Chechnya.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case into the crash of a business jet in Germany, in which the co-owner of S7 airline Natalia Fileva died. The case was initiated under Part 3 of Article 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (violation of traffic safety rules and the operation of air transport, resulting in the death of two or more persons through negligence).

The United States has stopped supplying equipment and spare parts for F-35 fighter jets to Turkey due to the fact that Ankara intends to buy Russian S-400 Triumph air defense systems, Reuters reports citing sources. As the agency notes, this is the first direct action by Washington against its NATO ally because of the purchase of the S-400. Earlier, the United States has repeatedly called on Turkey to abandon Russian weapons. Updated .

At one of the churches in Gdansk, a group of priests burned several books, which, they believe, contradict Christian teachings. Among the books burned were J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels, as well as Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. The priests also burned several images of pagan gods. On the parish Facebook page, the priests cited quotes from the Old and New Testaments demanding the burning of statues of pagan gods and magical books.

Answers Konstantin Skorkin: carnegie.ru Brendan Hoffman / Getty images Vladimir Zelensky communicates with reporters at the end of the vote on March 31, 2019 in Kyiv. A good result in the first round of the elections of the President of Ukraine allows Vladimir Zelensky to reject ideas about the formation of coalitions, but he still remains a figure in a vacuum, a politician whose team is not known.

The Focus Features film studio published a trailer for the new film by Jim Jarmusha, "The Dead Do not die." Chloe Sevigny (“The guys don’t cry”, Bill Murray, Adam Driver, Iggi Pop, Steve Bushemi, Tilda Swinton, Tom Waits and other actors starred in the picture. Trailer in Russian Universal Pictures Russia Trailer in English Focus features The film takes place in a small city, which is attacked by the revived dead.

Alexander Chumichev / TASS Dmitry Yazov. February 22, 1998 On March 27, a Lithuanian court sentenced Dmitry Yazov, a former defense minister of the USSR, to 10 years in prison in absentia. He was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the deaths of pro-independence Lithuanians during mass protests in Vilnius in January of 1991. In total, 67 people were charged in retroactive cases related to the protests.

For several months now, social networks have been joking about things that no one asked about. The meme looks like a role-played scene. The importunity (or stubbornness!) of one of the participants in the conversation is emphasized by the replicas of his silent interlocutors. History of St. Petersburg The creative method of Tim Burton Relationships with people Nobody: "..." Me: "EVERY TIME I pose for a photo" In the animal world "Game of Thrones" Nobody: "…".

TNT Premier Studios At the Series Mania series in French Lille, the Russian show “Identification” of TNT Premier Studios, which will be released at TNT-Premier, was shown. This is a criminal - and maybe a spy - a story about illegal migrants in Moscow. Medusa talks about the “identification” pilot, which was launched into production after a successful show in Lille. Night, border, shepherds.

The press service of the National Police in the Rivne region is the entrance of the house in which the former officer of the Ukrainian army Ivan Mamchur was killed In the city of Rivne in the west of Ukraine, the trial of Oleg Smorodinov continues - a Russian citizen suspected of the murder of the former officer of the Ukrainian army Ivan Mamchur on September 16, 2016.

Each first of April, Google produces comic videos and adds funny Easter ladies to its services. In 2019, the Netherlands branch of the company announced the Google Tulip function, with which you can talk with tulips. It was supposedly possible thanks to neural networks. In the video, scientists greet flowers and listen to the requests of tulips who ask themselves to water.

Saudi Arabia's state oil company Saudi Aramco has become the most profitable company in the world, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing Saudi Aramco's financial statements. In 2018, the oil giant's revenue was $356 billion, with profits of $111 billion. That's more than Apple ($60 billion), Alphabet ($30.7 billion), and ExxonMobil ($21 billion) combined. Saudi Aramco has disclosed its financial statements for the first time ahead of an international bond offering.

Elections in the year of the pig, results on April Fool's Day, a comedian is in the lead. A comedian with no political experience is a three-finger combination that the Ukrainian people showed their government. Poroshenko lost, despite all the administrative resources: the results show that he has gotten on everyone's nerves. The current president is hopeless, because compared to him, even a comedian seems to be the country's only hope.

The criminal case of former accountant of the Seventh Studio Nina Maslyaeva, accused of embezzlement, has been submitted to the Meshchansky Court of Moscow. This was reported to TASS by the court. The court will begin hearing Maslyaeva's case on April 11. Nina Maslyaeva was the only one among the defendants in the Seventh Studio case to admit guilt, enter into a pre-trial agreement, and testify against the other defendants. Her case was separated into a separate proceeding.