Lawmakers adopt revised draft of Russia's ‘Internet isolation’ law, Michael Calvey is moved to house arrest, and Putin graffiti leads to a blocked website Thursday, April 11, 2019 This day in history: 37 years ago, on April 11, 1982, the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda published an article denouncing the work of the popular Soviet rock band “Time Machine,” beginning a coordinated public attack against the band. The article prompted a nationwide letter-writing campaign in the group's defense.

John Moore / Getty Images on April 11, the World Press Photo winners are announced - the most prestigious annual prize for photojournalists. In the nomination "Photo of the Year", the work of John Moore won. In the picture taken in June 2018 on the border of the United States and Mexico , the American border guard searches Sandra Sanchez from Honduras in front of her young daughter.

SpaceIL's Bereshit space probe crashed while landing on the moon. In the process of landing, the main engine of the apparatus turned off unscheduled, after which it crashed on the surface of the moon. Bereshit was the first privately invested lunar lander in history. The USSR, the USA and China were able to successfully land vehicles on the surface of the Moon.

In Chechnya, it is necessary to revise the unreasonably accrued debt for gas, the head of the region, Ramzan Kadyrov, believes. “The time has come to deal seriously with the gas debts attributed to Chechnya. First of all, it is necessary to find out how and by what parameters this amount of debt was determined, ”Kadyrov wrote on his Telegram channel.

Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On the morning of April 11, the State Duma adopted in the second, main reading a bill, which in certain conditions allows you to isolate the Russian segment of the Internet from the global network. 320 deputies voted for the document, 15 parliamentarians opposed. In the list of those who supported the bill, the State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin appears, although he physically could not vote for him.

The leader of the punk band Straw Raccoons, Boris Usov, has died. Boris Usov died Published by Maxim Semelyak Thursday, April 11, 2019 The punk band Straw Raccoons existed from 1992 to 2007. The group was one of the most influential and iconic on the Moscow underground scene.

Lithuania announced that the country's ambassador to Russia, Remigijus Motuzas, is being recalled for consultations. As explained by the country's Foreign Ministry, this is due to threats received by embassy staff and the ambassador after the court in Vilnius sentenced the head of the USSR Ministry of Defense Dmitry Yazov, as well as the status of a special witness that Motuzas has in the criminal case against former ambassador Rimantas Šidlauskas.

Blogger Kristina Potupchik received a medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st class, RBC writes, citing participants in the closed awards ceremony in the Kremlin. The ceremony took place on April 10, and the awards were presented by the first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko. In total, about 50 people received various awards - from orders to certificates of honor, including politicians and cultural figures.

The State Border Service of Ukraine reported on the morning of April 11 that two employees of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs were asked for political asylum due to a fabricated criminal case against them. In the published video, they call themselves employees of the drug control department and they say that they were initiated against them for the beating of the detainee whom they did not commit.

The new episode of “rewinds” continues the saga about the Davydov family . On April 3, 1960, a first-year student of MAI Alexander Davydov ran to visit his Moscow relatives-Aunt Vera and Uncle Doule. There they sat in front of the tape recorder and recorded Sasha’s parents with audio writers - to the Far East. On film, Sasha talks about her student everyday life. Probably, they will seem unbearable to today's students - before studying, he had to work out a full -fledged shift at the factory.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. I am the smallest figure, pawn. The story of the Soviet student about his life in 1960 In the spring of 1960, the 18-year-old pioneer student Sasha Davydov recorded audio writings and sent to the Far East-to his parents with whom he was shared by almost eight thousand kilometers. Like all students of those years, he had to receive production practice: in the morning Sasha went to the factory and only then to study.

Twitter user juliegagi spoke about an acquaintance who first borrowed money and then went into hiding (rather clumsily). to her According , the debtor still does not indicate her real name on social networks and at the same time monitors what juliegagi writes in her accounts. In the comments, users began to share their stories about how people who borrowed money from them were hiding.

CBS All Access On the CBS All Access channel, the Rome of the cult series “Twilight Zone” began: two episodes have already shown, the third series will be released on April 11. Now Anthology is produced by Jordan Pil, director of the films "Away" and "We." Film critic Yegor Moskvitin tells why mystical stories are the best way to relax. The Twilight Zone is a series with a rich history. For the first time on the screen, he appeared back in 1959.

Mikhail Abulkhatin / Russian State Duma / TASS On Thursday, April 11, the State Duma adopted the second reading of draft legislation designed to “ensure the safe and sustainable functioning” of Internet service in Russia. Lawmakers say the law will defend the country against foreign aggression, serving as insurance, in case Russia’s global Internet access is shut off from abroad.

Kinopoisk introduced DeepDive, an automatic face recognition system. It is available in 150 films and series from the service catalog. DeepDive analyzes the image and displays the names of the actors, as well as a list of films or series in which they played (just press pause). According to the creators, DeepDive recognizes the actors regardless of their age and makeup applied. The technology is based on the computer vision algorithms of Yandex and the developments of Kinopoisk.