Taxi drivers in Moscow from April 15 will have to check passengers' electronic passes through the Moscow Helper app. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the Moscow Department of Transport. Once in the car, the passenger must show the pass to the driver, if the application confirms the validity of the code, the driver will take the client to the destination.

Supporting the economy during the crisis due to the COVID-19 epidemic will cost the Russian budget 520 billion rubles, sources who participated in the work on the anti-crisis plan told Forbes. Of this amount, 100 billion rubles will go to support small and medium-sized businesses. Including 20 billion will cost a deferral of insurance premiums for six months for all companies from the affected industries , another 20 billion - tax deferral for shopping centers.

With mandatory paid leave and little government support, Russian employers and employees are going head to head as mass layoffs and pay cuts sweep the country Kirill Kukhmar/TASS/Scanpix/LETA With most Russian regions under some form of self-isolation as the COVID-19 pandemic escalates, mass job cuts and layoffs have begun.

A third of the guests of the nursing home in the city of Vyazma is suspected by Koronavirus, 14 employees have already been infected with them. What to do in this situation? "Vyazemsky boarding house for elderly and disabled people" In the city of the elderly in the city of Vyazma Smolensk region on April 12, 86 guests suspected Koronavirus. Now eight of them have elevated temperature, three were taken to the hospital.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Moscow electronic system of surveillance of citizens. How it appeared - and what it will be capable of after the introduction of digital passes From April 15, the capacity will operate in Moscow - restrictions are related to the coronavirus epidemic. Now everyone who needs to travel around the city by personal or public transport should have permission with the purpose of the trip, route or travel cards.

The Krost company, from one of whose structures the Moscow City Hall will buy concrete curbs for 3.2 billion rubles, is building an infectious diseases hospital in New Moscow, including at its own expense. BBC Russian Service writes about this. Meduza wrote in detail about the largest Moscow contract for the purchase of concrete curbs here .

Interview of the chief editor of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov about threats from Ramzan Kadyrov Mikhail Metzel / TASS / Vida Press On April 13, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov during a live broadcast on Instagram (and a little later-in his telegram channel ) spoke about the publication of the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Elena Milashina, dedicated to the situation with coronavirus in the republic.

Vanity Fair has released the first footage from the filming of Denis Villeneuve's Dune (Blade Runner 2049). This is an adaptation of the fantastic saga by Frank Herbert. According to the plot, in the future, powerful families take over distant planets. Duke Leto Atreides (Oscar Isaac) and his son Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) arrive on the sand planet Arrakis, given to their home. A valuable substance called "spice" is mined there.

The price of a barrel of Brent fell below $30 during trading on the evening of April 14. As Bloomberg notes , oil is falling on investor concerns that the recovery of economic activity in China amid the lockdown in Western countries will not be enough to support demand on the market, despite the recent OPEC+ agreement to reduce production.

On non-working days in Russia, the demand for online orders for picnic goods increased 29 times. Vedomosti writes about this with reference to the data of the Beru marketplace and the Adlabs agency. Demand for components for pipes (used in the repair of plumbing) increased 28 times, for women's rubber boots and boots 7.8 times, and demand for lighting equipment increased 6.6 times. At the same time, the demand for skirts fell a hundred times, as well as for men's business card holders.

From the beginning of the introduction of strict restrictive measures in Europe, due to pandemia, the Covid-19 has passed about a month. During this time, the incidence in most countries ceased to grow or decline, and therefore some of them decided to carefully soften the prohibitions. At the same time, other countries extend existing restrictions for a few more weeks. At the same time, the European Commission recommends the countries to coordinate actions with each other.

Ukrainian Ministry of Internal Affairs A forest fire near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. April 10, 2020 Natural fires burn through the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone on a regular basis. When flames were spotted on April 4, they looked like more of the same. By the next day, however, the fire had covered almost 50 acres, and background radiation levels in the area had spiked.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. "Want. Want! WANT!" Children all the time ask to buy something. How to explain to them that it's time to stop? (Spoiler: We do not know!) Children always ask for something: the attention of parents, sweets, clothes, toys. And, of course, gadgets. On the one hand, it is always nice to delight the child. And on the other hand, you can’t buy everything. How to be? When should you stop, indulging your child in his whims?

Entrepreneurs can add it themselves On April 13, a former employee of the Russian Ministry of Finance, Danil Makhnitsky, launched an interactive map of Russian businesses that are on the verge of ruin due to the coronavirus pandemic and quarantine measures. The map is part of Makhnitsky's campaign for the introduction of urgent measures to support small and medium-sized businesses: his petition more than 280,000 people have already signed on Change.org for zero taxes for this sector.

The Prosecutor General's Office has ordered an investigation into the validity of including a number of organizations, including bookmakers, in the list of systemically important companies. The order was sent to the Ministry of Economic Development, which was responsible for forming the list of systemically important companies. At the end of March, the government commission on economic policy created a new list of systemically important companies, expanding it from 200 to more than 600 items.