The Ukrtransnafta company has suspended the transit of Russian oil through Belarus via the Druzhba main oil pipeline, the says . company's Facebook Transit was suspended because the oil "does not meet quality indicators," the company said. In addition, in Slovakia they refused to accept low-quality oil, and in Hungary there are no free tanks for raw materials, Ukrtransnafta added.

The Concord food processing plant of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin paid more than two million rubles in fines after an epidemic of dysentery in Moscow schools and kindergartens. The company paid the fine after inspections by Rospotrebnadzor, the head of the service’s Moscow department, Elena Andreeva, said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy. In December 2018, an outbreak of dysentery occurred in several kindergartens and schools in Moscow.

Writer and journalist Dmitry Bykov said on Echo of Moscow that the reason for his hospitalization was poisoning. “I know for sure that the cause of my poisoning - and it was poisoning - has not been established,” Bykov said. The journalist noted that it was because of the poisoning that he became ill on the plane flying to Ufa, after which he was taken to the hospital, where he was put into a medically induced coma.

Writer and journalist Dmitry Bykov recorded in the hospital a two-hour program "One" for "Echo of Moscow", the editor-in-chief of the radio station Alexei Venediktov said in a telegram channel. According to Venediktov, the program will be aired on the night of April 26. The website of the radio station specifies that the broadcast will begin at 00:07 Moscow time. Dmitry Bykov was hospitalized on April 16 in Ufa. The doctors put him in a medically induced coma.

Viktor Drachev / TASS / Vida Press Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed an order allowing for an expedited citizenship process for residents of the self-styled Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics (the DPR and LPR), which form Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region. Residents of the two breakaway regions may begin receiving Russian passports in the near future, and Putin’s move has drawn criticism and renewed calls for sanctions in Kyiv and the West.

The Chertanovsky Court of Moscow has appointed Olga Shalina, an activist of the unregistered Other Russia party, administrative supervision, according to the organization’s telegram channel. According to the court decision, Shalina was banned from participating in public events until 2021. She was also ordered to report twice a month to the police department at her place of residence.

Irina Reider, CEO of the BlaBlaCar travel companion search service, said on Facebook that the editor of the Good Morning program on Channel One refused to air with her after learning that she was a woman. Rader claims that the company received an invitation to shoot from Channel One. The service representative suggested to the editor of the TV channel that Raider participate in the air, but he refused.

The US State Department has banned head of the Chechen government Muslim Khuchiev and his wife Sapiyat Shabazova from entering the country, according to the department's website. The State Department believes that Khuchiev is involved in a gross violation of human rights. “The department has reliable information that Muslim Khuchiev was involved in torture,” the department said in a statement.

The restoration of Moscow’s Stone Flower Fountain cost more than a billion rubles. Why? ‘Moscow’ city news agency Restoration efforts conclude around the Stone Flower Fountain at Moscow’s VDNKh exhibition park. April 2019 In early April, photos of the newly renovated Stone Flower Fountain began popping up on social media.

The main prize of the 41st Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) was awarded to the film from Kazakhstan "Personal Growth Training" directed by Farhat Sharipov, Interfax reports. The Special Jury Prize went to the film "The Life of Marine Life" directed by Zhang Chi from China. Italian Valerio Mastandrea won the Best Director award for She Laughs. Representatives of Russia this year did not receive the main awards of the Moscow Film Festival.

About 250-260 people were killed in the terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka , Reuters reports, citing updated data from the country's medical service. A Sri Lankan defence ministry spokesman said the death toll had been reduced to 253 due to inaccurate information provided by morgues. Earlier, Sri Lankan authorities reported that 359 people were killed in the terrorist attacks.

François Ozon’s Grâce à Dieu ( By the Grace of God ) won the Jury Grand Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. However, because it depicts a court battle between Catholic priests and victims of sexual abuse, the film’s distributor told Meduza , Russia’s Culture Ministry has requested that screenings be delayed until after Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter.

The Anthony Burgess International Foundation has found an unfinished sequel to A Clockwork Orange, reports The Guardian. The book is called The Clockwork Condition, which can be translated as Clockwork Condition. The unfinished manuscript contains about 200 pages of text, notes and plans. The writer himself called the work "the main philosophical statement about the state of modern man." Burgess wrote the book in 1972-1973 but left work on it. She was in the archives of his house in Italy.

Jonathan Nackstrand / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Former US Vice President Joe Biden announced that he was going to participate in the president’s election for the third time. In his video message, the 76-year-old Biden said that he decided to run in 2020 to fight "for the soul of the people." “If we give Donald Trump for eight years in the White House, he will fundamentally change the character of the people at all and forever - will change who we are.

Pavel Mamaev: When the driver called us roosters, it upset me - not a little, but a lot. I would never call a stranger that. There was no intention to hit beforehand or collusion , but the situation flared up like a match. We wanted to eat, not sort things out. The driver hit first, and my actions were retaliatory. There was no hooliganism, it was a personal situation in which I behaved incorrectly.