The artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, came to the theater and took a bow with the actors after the performance of Dead Souls. Serebrennikov, accused of embezzlement in the Seventh Studio case , was released from house arrest on April 8 on bail. Serebrennikov has been under house arrest since August 2017.

The chairman of the right-wing Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the leader of the centre-left Blue and White bloc, Benny Gantz, simultaneously announced the victory of their forces in the parliamentary elections in Israel, Reuters reports. Various exit polls predict very close results for both parties, with Blue and White slightly ahead. According to exit polls, Likud can get from 33 to 36 seats in the 120-seat parliament, Blue and White - 36 or 37 seats.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow sentenced the former mayor of Vladivostok Igor Pushkarev to 15 years in a strict regime colony and a fine of 500 million rubles. Pushkarev was found guilty of taking a particularly large bribe, abuse of power and commercial bribery. As the court established, from 2008 to 2015, Pushkarev provided bribes for controlled enterprises to win competitions for the construction of roads in Vladivostok.

The UK Parliament has backed Prime Minister Theresa May's proposal to ask the EU to delay Brexit until June 30. 420 deputies voted in favor of this initiative, 110 voted against. European Council President Donald Tusk is proposing a one-year delay to Brexit with an open date: once the UK parliament approves the withdrawal agreement , the country will cease to be a member of the EU. EU leaders will discuss the decision on another Brexit delay at a summit on April 10.

The Frunzensky District Court of St. Petersburg declared illegal the dismissal of an employee of the printing house Anna Grigoryeva after a sex change. Grigoryeva got a job as a printer in the gravure department while still a man. In 2017, after hormonal therapy and surgical correction, she changed her gender and received new documents. After that, she was fired.

For the first time ever in Russia, a court has acknowledged workplace discrimination against a transgender woman. On April 9, a judge in St. Petersburg ruled that a printing press violated Anastasia Vasilyeva’s civil rights when it fired her after she re-registered her identification documents as a woman. The employer cited a federal provision that makes it illegal for women to hold certain jobs, including printing press work.

The authorities of New York have declared an emergency regime in the field of healthcare due to the outbreak of measles among the orthodox Jews Brooklyn. The authorities at the threat of a fine of $ 1,000 will require the unvaccinated residents of several sections of the district to vaccinate within 48 hours.

Daniel Pontet / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Zhang Yurzin in court on April 8, 2019. Figure of the artist In the American media, new details of the Chinese woman Zhang Yurzin appeared, who was detained on March 30 at the Donald Trump residence in Mar-A-Loye with many electronic devices, including a flash drive with a malicious program. In particular, on April 8, at a court session, it turned out that she had a device with her to identify hidden chambers in the room.

The shortlist for the National Bestseller award, one of Russia’s most prestigious literary prizes, was announced today in a TASS press conference.

Chris Hemsworth, who plays Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, mocked his colleagues on the set. He painted posters featuring the characters of Robert Downey Jr., Jeremy Renner, Paul Rudd and Chris Evans. Hemsworth added a goatee and mustache to Ant-Man, freckles and glasses to Captain America, and I love Thor to Iron Man. The hero of Jeremy Renner, Hawkeye, the actor added long eyelashes. By the way, Renner himself also appeared in the video (he and Hemsworth hugged).

Universal Pictures has published the first teaser of the cartoon "Addams". The role of the father of the family, Gomez Addams, is voiced by Oscar Isaac, his wife Mortisha is Charlize Theron. The voice of Uense's daughter is Chloe Grace Motz, the son of Pagli is Finn Wolfard, who played the main role in the series “Very Strange Things”.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has refused to block, as part of an interim measure, a film about the investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) dedicated to the organization of meals in Moscow schools and kindergartens, Open Media reports. The company Moskovsky Shkolnik, which supplies food to Moscow schools, insisted on blocking the film as a security measure in the lawsuit.

President Vladimir Putin has finally weighed in on the finished U.S. Justice Department investigation into Russian election meddling and collusion in America’s 2016 presidential race, telling reporters on Tuesday, “The mountain gave birth to a mouse,” referring to one of Aesop's Fables . “We said from the start that Mr. Mueller’s notorious commission wouldn’t find anything. [...] So the fact that it’s concluded like this is like ‘the mountain giving birth to a mouse,’ as it were.

The VKontakte social network launched the VK Coin service on April 1 - a game that allows you to get internal currency, clicking on a large blue circle. The resulting coins can be spent on improvements for automatic “mining” currency or on the offers of third -party companies. At the same time, a real economy arose around the service - many users of VKontakte began to buy and sell mined coins for real money.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, commenting on the results of the investigation into Russian interference in the US elections , said that “the mountain gave birth to a mouse.” "We initially said that the notorious commission of Mr. Mueller would not find anything. <…> Therefore, the fact that it would end up like this - as if "the mountain gave birth to a mouse", as they say - was clear to us in advance," the Russian president said.