The Russian online retailer Ozon has launched the Ozon.Invest platform, where individuals can invest in the development of the company's suppliers. At the moment, only one investment package is available to users, which includes five companies. Ozon promises a yield of up to 18% per annum with a minimum investment of 10 thousand rubles. Investments are formalized as the provision of funds under a loan agreement.

Update: European Council President Donald Tusk has confirmed that the EU has given the UK a six-month Brexit extension to "find the best possible solution". EU leaders have agreed to delay Brexit until October 31, 2019, Reuters reported, citing diplomatic sources. The proposal must be formally accepted by British Prime Minister Theresa May to take effect.

Several media outlets have removed or edited articles with a statement by Roskomnadzor head Alexander Zharov that the bill on isolating the Russian segment of the Internet will help in the fight against prohibited resources. This was noted by the Esher II channel.

Roskomnadzor, Russia’s federal censorship agency, wrote to the owners of 10 VPN services in late March to request compliance with the agency’s blacklist of websites that are blocked on Russian territory. Roskomnadzor threatened to block services that refused within the second half of May, and most of the VPN companies involved have already said they will not work with the agency.

Xiaomi paid a one-time bonus to its CEO Lei Jun at the end of the year in the amount of 636.6 million company shares. The value of these assets at current quotes is $957 million. Xiaomi noted that in this way they thank Lay, one of the founders of the company, for his “dedication.” Lei Jun will donate the entire amount remaining after paying taxes to charity. Xiaomi's net profit at the end of 2018 amounted to $1.3 billion.

The leaders of the centre-left Blue and White bloc, Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid, admitted defeat in the April 9 parliamentary elections in Israel. Lapid said that being in the opposition, Blue and White intends to "poison the life" of Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition and turn parliament "into a battlefield." According to preliminary calculations, Netanyahu and Blue and White receive the same number of seats in parliament - 35 each.

A group of State Duma deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation introduced a bill that would introduce liability for civil servants for insults directed at individual citizens, as well as social and professional groups.

The Cannes Festival in 2019 will open with the new film by Jim Jarmusha, “The Dead Do not Dya.” The festival will be held from May 14 to 25. The world premiere of the film is scheduled for June 14. “The dead do not die” - a film about a small city, which was attacked by the revived dead. The attacks are investigated by police officers played by Bill Murray, Adam Driver and Chloe Sevigny, as well as a pathologist performed by Tilda Swinton. The film trailer was released on April 1.

US Attorney General William Barr has said that US intelligence agencies "spied" on Donald Trump's 2016 election campaign and he intends to find out whether this was justified. Barr made the remarks in response to a question from Senator Jeanne Shaheen about his plans to look into the circumstances surrounding the FBI's decision to open a counterintelligence investigation into members of the Trump campaign, which later formed the basis of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation .

Netflix published the trailer for the horror series "Chambers". The show will tell about a heroine named Sasha, who survived a heart transplant. She meets the donor’s family, after which she begins to see the life of the deceased girl - and adopt her features. Netflix chambers | Season 1 Official Trailer [HD] | Netflix In the main role - Sivan Alira Rose, for whom this is the first big role. The mother of the donor is played by Uma Thurman.

How ‘public advocates’ are disrupting Russia’s justice system Dmitry Korotaev / Kommersant Since 2001, Russia has operated a system of “ public advocates ,” allowing individuals without a law degree (often defendants’ friends or relatives) to help defense attorneys build cases, including in felony trials. Recently, civic activists have started serving as public advocates, offering assistance not only to friends, but also to total strangers.

Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Pavel Mamaev in court, April 10, 2019 The case of Mamaev and Kokorin began to be considered - six months after their detention On April 9, in the Presnensky District Court of Moscow, hearings began in the case of football players Alexander Kokorin and Pavel Mamaev, who, together with Kirill Kokorin and Alexander Protasovitsky, are accused of causing easy harm to health, beatings and hooliganism after two fights.

Astrophysicists have presented the first image of a black hole (or rather, its visible boundary - the event horizon). The hole is located in the galaxy M87, in the constellation Virgo. It took scientists about two years to process the data collected by radio telescopes on different continents. And all this, of course, for the sake of jokes about the Eye of Sauron and comparisons with glazed donuts.

has been submitted to the State Duma A bill to toughen criminal liability up to 15 years in prison for committing an accident while intoxicated, as a result of which people died. Appropriate amendments are proposed to be made to articles 263 of the Criminal Code (“Violation of the rules of traffic safety and operation of vehicles”) and 264 of the Criminal Code (“Violation of the rules of traffic and operation of vehicles”).

Grigore Popescu / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Ion or Elescu leaves the court building in Bucharest after testing on October 21, 2015 The military prosecutor’s office of Romania prepared an indictment in the case of the events of December 1989, when the communist dictator Nikolai Chausko was overthrown. The new government was then headed by the former party functionary Ion Ion Ilescu, who later became the president of the country.