A look back at Russia's NATO overtures, Meduza talks transparency with Kaspersky Lab, and prosecutors crack down on mobile games Thursday, April 4, 2019 This day in history: 70 years ago today, on April 4, 1949, twelve countries in North America and Western Europe signed the North Atlantic Treaty, creating the defense alliance NATO, which would be Moscow's greatest military rival throughout the Cold War. NATO was born 70 years ago today.

For 24 hours straight, the Russian rap artist ST performed original tracks in a livestream on the social media site VKontakte. The event’s organizers believe the live show is the longest online performance in Russian history. After its conclusion, the rapper posted a photograph indicating that he had earned a place in the Record Book of Russia . Stepan Pivovarchik Throughout the day, ST took short breaks on a regular basis.

Anton Dolin - memory of director George Danelia Nikolay Malyshev / TASS Director George Danelia, a classic of domestic cinema, author of the paintings “Mimino”, “Afonya”, “Autumn Marathon”, “Kin-Dza-DZA” died in Moscow. He was 88 years old. The director, more precisely, reflected the four decades of our history, recalls film critic Anton Dolin. What George Danelia had no competitors is in the audience love.

The world's richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie announced on Twitter that their divorce is complete. MacKenzie said she ceded all of her shares in the Washington Post and space company Blue Origin to her ex-husband, but received a quarter of their combined stake in Amazon. That's 4% of the shares, worth $35.7 billion, Bloomberg notes . Forbes writes that MacKenzie will receive her stake in Amazon by early July.

Ieva Makare / Leta Neil Ushakov was removed from office by decision of the Ministry of Regional Development of Latvia The Minister of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of Latvia, Juris Potoce removed from the post of mayor of Riga Neil Ushakov. The decision was published on the website of the "Latvian messenger" - the official publication of the Government of Latvia - and entered into force from the moment of publication.

Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky invited Yulia Tymoshenko, who did not make it to the second round of elections, to become the moderator of his debates with the current head of state Petro Poroshenko. Zelensky stated this in a video posted on his Facebook page. < div class="fb-video" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/zelenskiy95/videos/2220985234818507/"> Zvernennya to Y. Tymoshenko for a debate.

The commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar , ordered his troops to launch an offensive on the country's capital, Tripoli. According to Al Jazeera, Haftar ordered not to shoot at civilians and also guaranteed the safety of those who voluntarily lay down their arms. Haftar launched an offensive on Tripoli ahead of the next round of peace talks in Libya under the auspices of the UN.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has communicated two class action lawsuits against Russia from relatives of those killed in the crash of the Malaysian Boeing near Donetsk. The corresponding document was published on the ECHR website. The applicants included 380 relatives of the deceased from Australia, Belgium, Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Israel, Canada, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, the UK, the USA and Vietnam.

In Yaroslavl, the police detained a man who wrote "Putin *****" on the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs building. This was reported by the Yaroslavl publications 76.ru and "Yarkub" with reference to sources. There is no official confirmation of this information. It is unknown what article the detainee is charged with. According to 76.ru, the man was identified from CCTV footage. Graffiti about Putin appeared on the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on March 31.

‘Meduza’ talks government relations and transparency with Kaspersky Lab’s Vice President for Public Affairs Kaspersky Labs One might expect the cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab to focus primarily on hackers and viruses, but in the last two years, the company has had to defend the safety of its own products. It all started in 2017 when the U.S.

Reuters / Scanpix / Leta bus with alleged Russian mercenaries near the base in Molkino, April 6, 2018 Reuters reported that Megaline, which is associated with businessman Evgeny Prigozhin, built a camp in the Krasnodar Territory on the territory of the Ministry of Defense. It serves as a transshipment point for mercenaries of private military companies before sending them to Syria, two sources of Reuters said.

In Ingushetia, they have been protesting for six months because of a new border with Chechnya. We talked with the vice speaker of the Ingush parliament Elena Afonina / TASS / Scanpix / Leta agreed on a rally in Magas on March 26, 2019 Since the fall of 2018, mass protests have been held in Ingushetia. First, local residents protested against the transfer of lands to neighboring Chechnya.

The Moscow Arbitration Court ordered the company "Moscow School" to pay compensation in the amount of 1.48 million rubles to school No. 760 for violations when performing a contract for the organization of schoolchildren. "Moscow Schoolboy" is the largest supply supplier to the city schools; The company is associated with businessman Evgeny Prigozhin (he himself denies this connection).

On April 3, at the age of 74, the radio host of the BBC and Oxford Bill Henee died . He will be remembered not only as a journalist, but also as a fighter with the system. For several years, Heine sought permission to leave a seven -meter sculpture of fiberglass shark on the roof of his own house. Christopher Griffin / Alamy / Vida Press Heine installed a shark on the roof in 1986-on the 41st anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki.

In the Belarusian memorial complex, the kuropaths, where the victims of the Stalinist repressions were buried, demolished the crosses that were established by opposition activists. This was reported by the Belarusian publication TUT.BY. TUT.BY/NOVOSKEN in partridges began to demolish crosses According to activist Dmitry Dashkevich, 70 crosses were demolished. According to TUT.BY, we are talking about about 30 crosses.