Film producer Steve Golin has died in the United States, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Golin was 64; He had been battling cancer for a long time. Golin has produced such films as The Game, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Revenant, Being John Malkovich, as well as TV series True Detective, Mr. Robot and others. Golin won an Oscar in 2016 for Spotlight.

How anti-Putin graffiti triggered the first enforcement of Russia's new ban on insulting the government online — and the ethical mess that followed Alexandra Savelyeva 76.ru’s newsroom in Yaroslavl For several days in April, Russia’s federal censor, Roskomnadzor, blocked two of the most popular local media outlets in Yaroslavl: Yarcube and 76.ru .

A court in Chechnya sentenced Shamil Kazbulatov, a resident of Stavropol Krai, to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony for participating in an attack on servicemen of the 76th Pskov Airborne Division in 2000. The court established that during the battle Kazbulatov fired aimed shots at the paratroopers from a Kalashnikov assault rifle. He was found guilty under Article 317 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempt on the life of military personnel).

The meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un will take place on the campus of the Far Eastern Federal University on Russky Island on April 25. Kommersant writes about this, citing sources. Kim Jong Un will arrive in Russia on April 24 on the same armored train that his father Kim Jong Il came to in 2002.

The governor of the Nikolaev region of Ukraine, Oleksiy Savchenko, has written a letter of resignation, Ukrainian News reports, citing a representative of his administration. In the next few hours, Savchenko intends to personally hand over the application to the presidential administration. his resignation announced On the morning of April 22 , Oleg Sinyutka, governor of the Lviv region, .

Rosseti will invest more than 5.6 billion rubles in a program to reduce electricity losses in Chechnya, TASS reports. The head of the Rosseti subsidiary, IDGC of the North Caucasus, Vitaly Ivanov, said that the electric grid complex of Chechnya “requires increased attention.” 30% of the company’s entire investment program will be allocated to modernize the region’s networks.

The head of the Innopraktika Foundation, Katerina Tikhonova, who is considered the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, will defend her dissertation on May 24 for the title of Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. The corresponding announcement on the MSU website drew the attention of Open Media. Tikhonova's dissertation is devoted to the creation of devices that help pilots and cosmonauts better navigate in space under extreme conditions.

Updated . Samsung has confirmed that it is postponing the launch of the Galaxy Fold. A new date has not yet been set. Samsung Corporation has postponed the start of sales of a smartphone with a flexible screen Galaxy Fold, writes The Wall Street Journal, citing sources. The Galaxy Fold was scheduled to go on sale in the US on April 26th. Now, according to the interlocutors of the publication, the start of sales is postponed until at least the beginning of May.

Sergey Supinsky / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and his team thank voters for their support at his campaign headquarters. April 21, 2019 On April 21, several days before the official results of Ukraine’s presidential election are set to be announced, incumbent Petro Poroshenko admitted defeat and congratulated his rival, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, on his victory.

The Kyiv District Administrative Court, as an interim measure, suspended the renaming of the Kyiv Metropolis of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP). The decision was made at the suit of the Kyiv Metropolis, which demands to cancel the order of the Ministry of Culture, including the UOC-MP among the religious organizations that are obliged to change their name by April 26.

Notoriously conservative Russian Senator Elena Mizulina has offered her latest defense of the federal prohibitions adopted by the State Duma in recent years. Speaking at an Internet security forum, Mizulina argued that freedom is actually restricted by civil rights. The senator then explained that rights “are when you can act, but only according to the way it’s written in the law.” “The more rights you have, the less freedom,” she concluded.

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David Frenkel St. Petersburg, April 3, 2019 Since March 2019, in the cities of Russia, activists of various protest movements have been establishing "tombstones to Vladimir Putin." They say that the action has already grown into the All -Russian flash mob, which should show that "Putin died for Russian citizens." Now it is known about the "tombstones" at least in seven cities - the latter appeared in Yekaterinburg on April 21.

The NTV channel began work on a documentary series under the working title "The Other Day". This was reported on the channel's website. The series will consist of stories filmed by NTV journalists throughout the existence of the channel's information service. “The focus of each episode is one week and the key events that took place on these days in different years, starting from the broadcast date of the TV company on October 10, 1993, to the present day,” the NTV website says.

Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA Volodymyr Zelenskiy at his campaign headquarters on April 21, 2019 Since declaring independence in 1991, Ukraine has elected six presidents. This weekend, voters chose their most recent leader: actor Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Once taking office, he will have to figure out how to cooperate with Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, where he has neither a majority nor his own faction.