The Ministry of Internal Affairs has prepared a package of bills on the refusal to divide the rehabilitation of drug users and drug addicts into social and medical. The department proposes to conduct rehabilitation of such patients only in medical organizations operating under a license.

The Sixth Court of Appeal of Kyiv refused to satisfy the claim to cancel the registration of Vladimir Zelensky as a candidate for the presidency of Ukraine. This was reported by the publication “Strana.ua”. The lawsuit was filed by election observer, lawyer Andriy Khilko, who is a supporter of Petro Poroshenko. Khilko accused Zelensky of bribing voters by distributing free tickets to the debate with Poroshenko at the Olympic Stadium.

The Syrian seaport of Tartus will be leased to Russia for 49 years for transport and economic use. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov after a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. “The key issue that should give positive dynamics is the issue of using the port of Tartus. The trip consolidated all these agreements.

The Ukrainian President's website has edited the transcript of Petro Poroshenko's speech, which he delivered at the University of Zurich on January 20, 2015, Strana.ua reports. The word "rebels" in reference to separatists in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics was removed from the text, and replaced with the words "militants" and "mercenaries." The previous version of the text is available in Google cache.

Director Roman Polanski has filed a lawsuit against the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and demanded that his membership be reinstated, the Associated Press reports. The relevant documents were received by the Los Angeles court on April 19. They allege that Polanski was expelled from the academy in violation of the rules.

Sberbank and the Rambler Group holding have agreed on the terms of the bank's entry into the capital of the Internet holding. This was reported by RBC with reference to two sources. According to them, the deal may be announced next week.

Sergey Konkov / TASS The nurse of the regional children's clinical hospital (CSTO) No. 1 in Yekaterinburg Irina Ostafiev was forced to quit due to the fact that she organized a charity collection of clothes and diapers for newborns. It is reported by RIA Novosti. According to Ostafyeva, earlier she herself and the parents of the patients transferred things to the hospital for children lying in the department of the pathology of newborns without parents.

The condition of journalist and writer Dmitry Bykov has improved, his wife Irina Lukyanova said. "Positive dynamics. He hears and reacts, ”Lukyanova wrote on Facebook. She added that on April 19, doctors began to take Bykov out of drug-induced sleep. Earlier, the founder of the Direct Speech lecture hall Svetlana Bolshakova and the head of the editorial board of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov reported an improvement in the writer's condition .

Martin Mejia / AP / Scanpix / Leta Former President Peru Pablo Kuchinski, April 15, 2019 The court in Lima appointed Former President Peru Pablo Kuchinski three years of preliminary imprisonment as part of the investigation of the case of the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht. Kuchinski is suspected of laundering money received from Odebrecht as bribes.

Three new films from Netflix Merrick Morton / Netflix Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson are caught by Bonnie and Clyde, Ben Affleck and Oscar Isaac rob drug lords, Stanley Tuchchi fights with bloodthirsty bats. The film critic Yegor Moskvitin talks about the three noticeable Netflix films, which were released in March and April, “In pursuit of Bonnie and Claid”, “Triple border”, “Silence”. "In pursuit of Bonnie and Clide" In the ranking America, mid-30s.

Kirill Radchenko In the Moscow art space, Find Out is an exhibition of photographs of the operator Kirill Radchenko, who was killed with Orhan Dzhemal and Alexander Rastorguev in the Central African Republic. The name of the exposition - “neighbors” - came up with Kirill Radchenko himself a few months before his death: he believed that the borders between the countries were conditional, and all the people in the world are neighbors.

Alexandra Savelyev editors of the Yaroslavl site 76.ru In April, Roskomnadzor blocked the sites of two popular media in Yaroslavl for several days - Yarkub and 76.ru. The editors of both publications refused to fulfill the unofficial request of the department to delete the news that the police are looking for unknown people who wrote the word “Putin - *****” on the building of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The US Attorney's Office asked to sentence the Russian woman Maria Butina to 18 months in prison. It is reported by CNN with reference to court documents. The prosecution believes that Butina was not a traditional spy or trained intelligence officer. Prosecutors called her an "access agent" - a person used by Russian authorities to establish unofficial contact with conservative US political circles.

On April 19, the building of the Torat Chaim yeshiva was set on fire in the Moscow region. Olga Yesaulova, press secretary of the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, told TASS about this. According to her, no one in the yeshiva was hurt. The fire broke out in a warehouse with kosher meat. A swastika was painted on the doors of the building, Yesaulova noted. An investigation has been launched into the incident.

Galina Yuzefovich-about two Russian fantasmagoria novels Literary critic "Medusa" Galina Yuzefovich talks about two fantasmagoria novels: "Life of A.G." Vyacheslav Stavesky and "four" Alexander Pelevin. Vyacheslav Stavesky. Life A. G. M .: AST, editorial office of Elena Shubina, 2019 Like all the great dictators of his time, Augusto Hofredo Abelianda de la Garda (known to the world and subjects under the energetic initials of A. G.) dreamed of the power of the earthly and heavenly.