US President Donald Trump called the appointment of Robert Mueller special counsel in the case of Russian interference in the US elections "the end of his presidency." The Washington Post writes about this, citing the Mueller report . “Oh my God, this is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m dead,” Trump said in May 2017 upon learning of Mueller’s appointment.

Police officers raided the Moscow newsroom of the media outlet Rosbalt on Thursday, seizing three computer processing units that contain information about the “ Young Shakro ” case, Rosbalt Moscow editor Nikolai Ulyanov told the news agency Interfax . Officers examined all the computers in Rosbalt ’s newsroom, powering on all devices in the office and searching each CPU for the word “Shakro.” Ulyanov says the three seized computers contained files mentioning this name.

How Roskomsvoboda became the primary force standing between the Russian government and Internet censorship RosKomSvoboda group on Facebook In the last seven years, the Russian government has drastically tightened its regulation of the Internet, and it has shown no signs of slowing down: on April 16, 2019, the State Duma passed a new law enabling the isolation of the Russian segment of the Internet from the World Wide Web.

The fire at Notre Dame Cathedral was likely caused by a short circuit, Associated Press reported, citing a source in the French police. A CNN source also stated that the investigation is considering the short circuit version. At the same time, the source noted that "other hypotheses are not excluded at this stage." Earlier, Le Parisien reported that the fire in Notre Dame could have been caused by electrical problems. The source of the fire was located at the base of the spire of the cathedral.

Updated . The Moscow Garrison Military Court has remanded FSB officer Sergei Belousov in custody until June 15, TASS reports . Two former FSB investigators, Alexei Kolbov and Sergei Belousov, have been arrested in Moscow in connection with a bribery case. Kolbov has been remanded in custody for two months, TASS was told in Moscow's Basmanny Court.

According to a report by the BBC Russian Service , federal officials recently met with leaders of Russia’s mass media. Representatives of the federal censor, Roskomnadzor, reportedly said that they consider the two phrases listed above to constitute illegal offensive speech. The agency’s spokesperson clarified, however, that each instance of either phrase appearing in the media will be considered in context, and the Attorney General’s Office will be responsible for this evaluation.

The Russian BBC service spoke about the closed meeting of representatives of Roskomnadzor and the Prosecutor General with the heads of Russian publications. On it, representatives of Roskomnadzor said that they consider the phrase “United Russia” - crooks and thieves and “Putin - thief”. At the same time, the department agreed that each specific case of quoting such statements should be considered in the context, and the General Prosecutor's Office gives the assessment.

During a search of the Moscow editorial office of the publication Rosbalt, police seized three system units on which information about the Shakro Molodoy case was stored, Rosbalt editor in Moscow Nikolai Ulyanov told Interfax. The computers of all the editorial staff were inspected.

In St. Petersburg, at the intersection of Nevsky Prospect and the embankment of the Fontanka River, a car drove onto the sidewalk at high speed and knocked down pedestrians. As the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Anna Mityanina told Interfax, six people were injured, including citizens of Germany and Estonia. Doctors assess the condition of one of the wounded as serious, five more people, including a child, received moderate injuries.

Stockphotovideo / Shutterstock.com On April 18, the Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk Region opened a criminal case on a violation of the inviolability of private life: in the city of Iskitim, someone distributed information about the diagnosis of a seven-year-old child with HIV. Presumably, it was a doctor - he faces up to two years in prison. According to foster parents, almost the whole city knows about the diagnosis, and local residents advise the family to leave.

Donald Trump tweeted a picture with the words: “No collusion. No obstruction. To Haters and Radical Left Democrats: GAME OVER. It happened on April 18 during a press conference by Attorney General William Barr, who summed up the investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller about possible Russian interference in the US presidential election. Trump has been accused of colluding with Russia and obstructing justice, but the report cleared all suspicions.

On April 19, the debate of presidential candidates Petro Poroshenko and Vladimir Zelensky will be held. They are going to broadcast, including Russian channels. The host of the “60 minutes” show on “Russia 1” Olga Skabeeva promised to “cross TV and the Internet” to illuminate Ukrainian debate on the air. “Let's go together at night,” she described the duration of broadcasting during the debate. The first channel did not comment on the issue of broadcasting Ukrainian debate.

In January, the mathematician, engineer and blogger Eric Farmer calculated : to find two packs of Skittles with the same amount of sweets of each taste, you need to study from 400 to 500 packs. Farmer wanted to demonstrate the “power of mathematical forecast”. Therefore, on January 12, he began his experiment, which took 82 days. The mathematician purchased sweets with boxes. Every day he examined six packs.

Bloomberg has released its annual ranking of the world's most miserable economies, the Misery Index . The "misery index" is defined as the sum of projected inflation and unemployment in a given country. Venezuela took first place by a huge margin , as it did a year ago. Argentina came in second, South Africa came in third. Ukraine came in sixth. Russia has risen 17 positions in the anti-rating compared to the previous year.

The editorial board of Znak.com asked the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika to check possible violations in the work of the State Duma during the voting at the plenary session on April 16. The reason for the appeal was the consideration of a bill on the creation of digital polling stations in Moscow for elections in the regions of the Russian Federation.