Moscow hockey club CSKA won the fourth match in the final series of the KHL playoffs against Avangard Omsk and became the owner of the Gagarin Cup for the first time in its history. The game, which took place in Balashikha on the evening of April 19, ended in overtime with a score of 3:2 in favor of the army team. Previously, CSKA reached the Gagarin Cup final twice in the 2015-2016 and 2017-2018 seasons, but lost to Metallurg and Ak Bars, respectively.

Two Russian brothers started a video game company and got onto Bloomberg's billionaire list. Here’s their first long interview. Corinna Kern / Bloomberg / Getty Images In April, Bloomberg added Igor and Dmitry Bukhman to its list of U.S. dollar billionaires. The brothers, born in the northwest Russian city of Vologda, founded a video game company out of their hometown in 2004.

STEPAN Franko / EPA / Scanpix / Leta candidate of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky during the Olympic stadium at the Olympic stadium in Kiev on April 19 knelt before Ukrainians who lost relatives during the war in the Donbass. His call was followed by the current President Petro Poroshenko, who bowed his knee in front of the flag of Ukraine and the woman who lost her husband in the ATO zone.

Ukrainian presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelensky did not appear at the official pre-election debate, which is held under the auspices of the CEC of Ukraine on Public Television. His opponent, Petro Poroshenko, came to the debate. For an hour he spoke and answered questions from the presenter alone.

Zelensky: I voted for Poroshenko in 2014, but we were all wrong, because there are two Poroshenkos. Peter the First is a brilliant specialist and orator; Peter the Second appears when the cameras are turned off and ruins everything. I am the result of your unfulfilled promises. How can Ukraine be the poorest country in Europe with the richest president in its history? You promised to sell your business, but you only got richer.

The short film directed by Olesya Yakovleva “Difficulty” entered the Cinéfondation program of the Cannes Film Festival. In total, 17 films from different films of the world participate in the competition. The list of participants is published on the festival website on April 19. Olesya Yakovleva The main role in the film was played by the frontman of the ShortParis group Nikolai Komyagin. There is no information about the plot of short films.

On April 19, the Investigative Committee of Russia announced the detention of the former majority shareholder of the Ugra bank Alexei Khotin. The Basmanny Court appointed him a preventive measure in the form of house arrest. He is accused of embezzlement of 7.5 billion rubles from customers of his own bank. Who is Khotin and why did he stay in Russia, despite the threat of arrest? Alexey Khotin in the Basmanny Court. Mikhail Postuev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Who is Alexey Khotin?

The North Caucasus District Military Court sentenced Yevpatoria anarchist Yevgeny Karakashev to six years in prison in a case of online calls for terrorism . This was reported to Meduza by Alexey Ladin, a lawyer for the Agora human rights group who represents Karakashev. The case against the anarchist was opened in January 2018. The reason was an untitled video file that he allegedly published on his VK page in 2014, and a text sent to an unnamed chat in 2017.

What happened: debate of candidates for president of Ukraine Who participated: Petro Poroshenko and Vladimir Zelensky Where: The Olympic Stadium in Kiev Watch the record in the original: Channel 112 Watch a record with a translation into Russian: NTV , "Echo of Moscow" , "Present" April 19, 2019 18:30:36 Hi all! Welcome to the main political event of April - the debate of presidential candidates Petro Poroshenko and Vladimir Zelensky on the eve of the second round of elections.

Twitter user brookeawindsor posted a photo of a man playing with a child (presumably his daughter) near Notre Dame Cathedral. The picture was taken an hour before the fire that broke out in the temple on the evening of April 15th. Unfortunately, Twitter cut off part of the picture. Click on the post to see the full version. Generally speaking, brookeawindsor photographed Notre Dame itself, but noticed that a man and a girl were having fun in the frame.

The Investigative Committee has questioned Evgeny Yenikeyev, a member of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission (PMC) and the Moscow Helsinki Group, as a witness in the Baring Vostok fund case . This was reported by Interfax. Yenikeyev did not disclose the details of the interrogation: he signed a non-disclosure agreement.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How Paris is experiencing a fire in Notre Dame On April 15, the Cathedral of the Paris Mother of God caught fire in Paris - Sasha Sulim tells Konstantin Benyumov how the Parisians perceive what had happened, why did firefighters fought with fire for 14 hours and what is happening in the building now?

Updated . The Basmanny Court sent Alexei Khotin under house arrest. The Investigative Committee filed a petition for the main shareholder of the Ugra Bank Alexei Khotin to the Moscow Basmanny Court, suspected of embezzlement of 7.5 billion rubles. The preventive measure is asked to apply until June 18. Alexey Khotin was detained on April 19. A criminal case has been instituted against him under part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation .

A company called GLONASS-TM that is controlled jointly by Igor Rotenberg, Rostekh, and GLONASS has announced plans to create a federal network using Internet of things (IoT) technology. IoT technology establishes remote connections among objects that would typically lack Internet access, enabling them to exchange data and be controlled remotely. RBC reported that, according to a presentation of the project, its construction is scheduled to begin in 2020.

Malsag Uzhakhov, the chair of Ingushetia’s Council of Teips, has been arrested in the republic’s Nazran district, Mediazona reported . Uzhakhov’s son said that a group of armed individuals took his father away in an unmarked vehicle. When his son asked where Uzhakhov would be transported, the officers answered, “To the committee.” Ruslan Uzhakhov said they did not say which agency they represented and did not show him any documents.