Twitter has banned the #OuiJeVote (“Yes, I vote”) advertising campaign by the French Ministry of the Interior calling on the French to participate in the European Parliament elections. This was reported by Le Figaro with reference to the information center of the French government, which coordinated the campaign. They said that Twitter blocked sponsored posts with the hashtag #OuiJeVote, citing the lack of a tool that allows you to specify who ordered this ad and how much he paid for it.

JPL-Caltech / NASA An artist’s representation of the spaceship for the “Venera-D” mission. Russia and the United States have set out scientific objectives for their joint mission “Venera-D,” which is scheduled to begin at the end of the 2020s. Ludmila Zasova, the manager of the project’s bilateral work group and a lead contributor at the Russian Space Research Institute, explained that Russia will produce an orbiter and a lander, while NASA will contribute a long-lived surface station.

Vital Development Corporation The scientist and businessman Alexander Plekhov was mentioned in the Panama Papers in connection with offshore accounts belonging to Sergey Roldugin, a friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Now, the investigative outlet Proekt has learned that Plekhov’s companies are also closely tied with a business owned by another friend of Putin’s, Yury Kovalchuk. Proekt found that Plekhov may be helping Kovalchuk avoid the effects of international sanctions.

Kremlin Press Service , edited by Meduza The February edition of Armeisky Sbornik (Army Collection), the Russian Defense Ministry’s official magazine, features a strange article titled “Super Soldier for the Wars of the Future” that describes the military’s work with “combat psychics.” The magazine RBC noticed the text, which says the Russian military supposedly uses paranormal tactics to help soldiers learn foreign languages, treat wounded troops in battle, detect ambushes, hideouts, and

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko organized a poll on his Telegram channel after his election rival Vladimir Zelensky invited him to hold a debate at the 70,000-seat Olympic Stadium in Kiev. “The Law on Presidential Elections of Ukraine stipulates that televised debates are held on the last Friday before the day of re-election between 19 and 22 hours live,” Poroshenko wrote.

Rosstat commented on the results of a study of living conditions of Russians, which raised questions in the Kremlin. Rosstat said the study was one of the most representative and in-depth in Russia. "Its methodology was developed jointly with the country's best experts and in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics. In the last [round of the study], 60,000 households were surveyed. Interviews were conducted with each family member and took at least an hour and a half," Rosstat said.

Cybersecurity company UpGuard discovered personal data of Facebook users freely available on Amazon cloud servers. UpGuard specialists found two databases; both were posted by Facebook application development companies. The first database weighed 146 gigabytes and contained 540 million records of comments and likes of Facebook users. It was closed on April 3, after Bloomberg reported a leak on Facebook and the social network contacted Amazon.

The losses suffered by Crimea due to the actions of Ukraine after the collapse of the USSR, according to preliminary estimates, exceed one and a half trillion rubles. This was stated by State Duma Deputy from Crimea Andrei Kozenko at the first meeting of the working group to assess the damage caused to the peninsula by Ukraine.

Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky has accepted a challenge to debate from his rival, incumbent head of state Petro Poroshenko. This is stated in a video that Zelensky posted on Facebook. I'm going to the debate. Published by Volodymyr Zelensky Wednesday, April 3, 2019 Zelensky set several conditions for his opponent. He said that the debates should be held at Kyiv's Olympic Stadium, which seats 70,000.

AGF / REX / Vida Press Alessandra Mussolini in 2013 in Rome At the end of March, actor Jim Kerry published his drawing on Twitter, depicting the bodies of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress Claretta Petacci, who were killed in April 1945 by partisans. The actor signed the drawing as follows: “If you are interested in what fascism leads to, ask Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clarette.” In a commentary on Kerry, the granddaughter of Mussolini Alessandra Mussolini came.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow has extended the arrest of football players Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev, who are accused of assault and hooliganism, until September 25. Also under arrest were Kirill Kokorin, the brother of Alexander Kokorin, and the footballers’ acquaintance Alexander Protasovitsky. On April 3, the court held a preliminary hearing in the case of Kokorin and Mamayev behind closed doors. The consideration of the case on the merits will begin on April 9.

Due to the threats of Donald Trump, to close the southern border of the United States prices for avocados, which is delivered to the country from Mexico, flew by 34%. Almost all consumers of Mexican avocados are the inhabitants of the United States, writes Bloomberg . And if the border is closed, the supply of useful fruits in the country will end in three weeks. Almost half of the American menu is threatened: restaurants can be left without salads and guacamole.

Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry has prepared a bill that, if passed, would introduce stricter requirements for migrants who are deported from Russia to reimburse the costs of their own deportation. Current Russian law turns to deportees first to request reimbursement but does not officially penalize them for refusing and allows for a string of other funding sources. The new bill would prohibit migrants from reentering Russia until they pay for their own removal from the country.

Yevpatoriya Mayor Andrey Filonov was detained in a case of abuse of power, TASS reports, citing the FSB department for Crimea. Filonov is suspected of instructing him to change the type of permitted use of several land plots owned by the city, in order to then lease them at a lower cost. The damage from his actions is estimated at 35 million rubles. Filonov declared his readiness to cooperate with the investigation.

A gravestone inscribed with Vladimir Putin’s name and portrait above the words “He betrayed the Russian people” has appeared on a lawn near St. Petersburg’s historic St. Isaac’s Cathedral. Similar graves had previously appeared in Naberezhnye Chelny as an act of protest against the Russian government’s attempts to isolate Russian Internet traffic.