The current president of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, invited his opponent in the election of the head of state, Vladimir Zelensky, to hold a debate at the Olimpiysky stadium in Kyiv on the evening of April 14. He stated this in an interview with the TV channel "Ukraine".

Employees of the Basket-Hall sports arena in Krasnodar again refused the fans to visit the match of the Lokomotiv-Kuban basketball club due to the fact that his clothes were the inscription “Navalny”. This was reported by the local headquarters of supporters of the opposition policy. For the first time, a similar case occurred on March 19.

The output of the first, previously not published clip of the Alliance group on their main hit “At Dawn” was the most discussed musical news of the last days. On April 5, the video was published in his account on Utube by the former keywide of the group and the author of the composition Oleg Parastaev. He recently found this video clip in his archive, which, after filming in 1987, was recognized as the musicians unsuccessful and laid on the shelf.

Abdelhak Senna / AFP / Scanpix / Leta refugee camp in Giseni - the city on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. November 16, 1996 April 7 - International Day of Memory of Genocide in Rwanda. The mass murder of Tutsi by order of the government of Hutu began 25 years ago (April 6, 1994) and lasted about a hundred days. According to various estimates, from 800 thousand to a million tutsi and the moderate Hutu were killed.

Yoga classes for prisoners will remain in pretrial detention centers, and training in qigong breathing exercises will also be introduced. Deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Valery Maksimenko said this in an interview with the radio station Govorit Moskva.

Aleksey Lipnitsky / TASS / Scanpix / Leta on April 7, residents of Arkhangelsk held an unauthorized procession and a rally on the central square of Lenin against the construction of the ShIES training ground, to which garbage from Moscow will be taken to the region. The protest was attended by several thousand people. The police did not disperse the protesters, but the local authorities refused to communicate with the participants in the action.

The FSB Investigative Service for St. Petersburg has brought charges against the leader of the Tambovskaya organized crime group, Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), in connection with the murder of State Duma deputy Galina Starovoitova, Fontanka reports. This information was confirmed to TASS by Barsukov's lawyer Konstantin Kuzminykh. "Charges have been brought in the murder case. It is difficult to comment on the specifics yet. We have not yet familiarized ourselves with the case," he said .

Residents of Arkhangelsk held a procession and a rally on April 7 in protest against the construction of the ShiES training ground, to which they plan to bring garbage from Moscow. The rally participants gathered at the trade union square, and then moved to the central square of Lenin to the building of the regional administration. There they demanded a meeting with Governor Igor Orlov, and then his resignation.

Abdelhak Senna / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Refugee camp in Gisenyi, a city on the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. November 16, 1996 April 7 is International Day of Remembrance of the Rwandan Genocide. The massacre of Tutsis ordered by the Hutu government began 30 years ago (April 6, 1994) and lasted about one hundred days. According to various estimates, from 800 thousand to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus who sympathized with them were killed.

Updated . The movement of trains on the Sokolnicheskaya line has been restored and put back on schedule, reports the press service of the Moscow metro . It took about an hour to clear the emergency. On the afternoon of April 7, smoke occurred in the tunnel near the Chistye Prudy metro station in Moscow, as a result of which there was a failure in the movement of trains on the central section of the Sokolnicheskaya line.

In Belarus, tourist routes were launched in the alienation zone established after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, the ONT channel reports.

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Interview with Sophie Turner and Macy Williams - about the last season of "Game of Thrones" Vanessa Carvalho / Rex / Vida Press The eighth - the last - season - season of “Game of Thrones”: the world premiere will take place on HBO and in “Amediak” will be released on April 14 (in Russia - on the morning of April 15). On the eve of the start of the final season, "Medusa" publishes an interview with actresses Sophie Turner and Macy Williams, who played the roles of Sansa and Arya Stark.

A major fire broke out on the afternoon of April 7 in the underground parking of a 20-story residential building in Moscow. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, the area of ​​fire in the house 29 on the Leningrad highway was 500 square meters. The fire was assigned the third rank of difficulty out of five possible. As a result of the fire, eight garage boxes burned down. More than 400 residents were evacuated from the house. One person was injured and was hospitalized.

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