At least three journalists and one blogger from the United States have broken screens in Samsung Galaxy Fold smartphones, which the manufacturer provided them for testing. All reviewers used smartphones for no more than two days. CNBC journalist Steve Kovacs has lost half of his screen. Bloomberg contributor Mark Gurman and YouTube blogger Marquez Brownlee's screen is completely out of order.

The life and times of Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Olga Kashin thinks Babchenko's fate is ‘instructive,’ and Dmitry Bykov is hospitalized Wednesday, April 17, 2019 This day in history: 107 years ago today, on April 17, 1912, Imperial Russian Army soldiers fired on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia near the Lena River, killing more than 150 people.

At least 29 people have died in a tourist bus crash on the Portuguese island of Madeira. This is reported by the Portuguese TV channel RTP, citing local authorities. According to preliminary data, all the dead were citizens of Germany. Another 27 people were taken to the hospital. Whether there were Russians among the people on the bus is still unknown. According to the Portuguese edition of Diario de Noticias, the accident occurred at an intersection.

Police in St. Petersburg arrested 11 LGBTQ-rights demonstrators at the city’s annual “Day of Silence” protest. According to the website OVD-Info , the activists picketed the Great Gostiny Dvor department store plaza on Wednesday. After one arrest, the remaining demonstrators made their way toward the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, wearing red tape over their mouths. Police started arresting more people, as they marched, including some minors.

In 2018, the Internet contributed 3.9 trillion rubles ($61.1 billion) to the Russian economy — an 11-percent jump from just a year earlier, according to statistics released by the Russian Association of Electronic Communications. E-commerce generated a large chunk of this income — about 1.95 trillion rubles ($30.5 billion).

Updated . Action participant Elizaveta Astashova told Dozhd about the detention of 12 activists. According to her, four of them were minors (OVD-Info reports two). In St. Petersburg, police detained 11 participants in the annual "Day of Silence" event dedicated to hushing up LGBT issues. This was reported by OVD-Info and Mediazona . According to OVD-Info, at first the activists took turns standing near Gostiny Dvor in single pickets. The last of them, Daniil Maksimenko, was detained.

How Volodymyr Zelenskiy went from comedian to Ukraine's presidential front runner Valentin Ogirenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA In Ukraine’s current presidential elections, the first round of voting left actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy on top. In a sense, Zelenskiy has already held the Ukrainian government’s leading role — at least in Sluha Narodu ( Servant of the People ), a television series produced by his company, Studio Kvartal 95.

London Tottenham lost to Manchester City in the second leg of the Champions League quarter-finals with a score of 3:4, but reached the semi-finals of the tournament thanks to away goals (4:4 on aggregate). In the third added minute of the return match, Manchester City scored the fifth goal, which took the team to the semi-finals of the Champions League, but after a video replay the referee canceled the goal. In the other quarter-final pairing, Liverpool beat Porto 4-1.

In 2018, the contribution of the Russian segment of the Internet to the country's economy amounted to 3.9 trillion rubles. This is 11% more than the year before, the Russian Association of Electronic Communications ( RAEC ) reported . The bulk of revenues — 1.95 trillion rubles — came from e-commerce. Marketing and advertising accounted for 263 billion rubles. Infrastructure, including domain, hosting, and cloud services markets, brought in 106 billion, and media and entertainment — 75 billion.

Moscow's Alexey Kozlov Club took first place in the list of the 100 best jazz clubs in the world, compiled based on the results of a vote on the All About Jazz website. The second and third places in the ranking were taken by the Bop Stop venues in Cleveland (Ohio) and the Village Vanguard in New York. The fourth place was taken by the Philly Joeʼs club in Tallinn. The top five was rounded out by the Piedmont Piano Company, located in Oakland (California).

The UTAIR plane, which performed a flight from Moscow to Makhachkala, interrupted the departure from Vnukovo, because when the engine was launched, he had a flame of flame from the power plant. This was reported by RBC with reference to the press service of UTAIR. BAZA Airplane engine caught fire at Vnukovo Airport during take -off According to the airline, several flight passengers who noticed the emission of flame opened an emergency exit and went to the right wing of the aircraft.

Former Peruvian President Alan Garcia, who tried to commit suicide during his arrest, died in hospital. This was announced by the current Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra. “Grieved by the death of former President Alan Garcia. My condolences to his family and loved ones," Vizcarra tweeted. Earlier, the Latin American television channel Telesur reported about the death of Garcia .

The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office will conduct an investigation into a complaint filed by local businessman Pavel Dorosh, who saw the Nazi abbreviation SS on the city's justices of the peace website. This was reported by Fontanka, citing a response Dorosh received from the prosecutor's office. "I needed to send a letter to the court, and I saw the email address ss@mirsud.spb.ru . I believe that it is unacceptable for government bodies to use the Nazi abbreviation," Dorosh told Fontanka.

Oleg Govorun left the post of head of the department for cross-border cooperation in the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. The corresponding decree was signed by the President on April 17. Aleksey Filatov was appointed the new head of the department by the same decree. The Border Cooperation Office was established in October 2018.

The noisy company, which included Kokorin and Mamaev, violated the rules of conduct. One of the girls started kissing Kokorin and put his head on her knees in the groin area - it looked unpleasant. I heard shouts of "gangnam style" and tried to abstract myself from what happened, but in the end I asked if this was directed at me. With their implicit actions, the company made it clear to me that it was.