Facebook creates an isolated simulation of its platform with bots instead of real users. It is reported by The Verge. "Shadow" Facebook should become a system that is as similar as possible to a real social network. With the help of bots that mimic the behavior of real users, the social network hopes to detect bugs - the simulation will run on the same code as the real platform.

About 2,000 Moscow residents who left their homes “without a good reason” were fined in one day, April 14. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the head of the Main Control Department of Moscow, Yevgeny Danchikov.

Novaya Gazeta, at the request of Roskomnadzor, blocked the material of Elena Milashina about the coronavirus in Chechnya. This was reported to Interfax by the editor-in-chief of Novaya Dmitry Muratov. “Roskomnadzor does not write that something is recognized as fake, they write that they have an order from the Prosecutor General’s Office so that we hide Elena Milashina’s material about the fight against coronavirus in Chechnya,” he said.

How Muscovites lived the first day with digital passes Sergey Fadeichev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Since April 15, in Moscow and the Moscow Region, the capacity began to operate. Propes with a QR code, necessary for traveling or for personal purposes, can be issued on the website mos.ru, through SMS or by phone, download it to your phone or print. Police, the Russian Guard and the Ministry of Emergencies have the right to check them.

The major Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta has deleted an article that described a chaotic and harsh COVID-19 response in Chechnya. An archived version of the article can still be found in Russian here . The newspaper complied with an order from the national media and censorship agency Roskomnadzor to have the article removed within 24 hours. Roskomnadzor, in turn, was asked to address the piece with Novaya Gazeta by Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office.

Four anonymous sources have told the business newspaper RBC that after extensive speculation about the fate of Russia’s 75th-anniversary Victory Day parade, Vladimir Putin has ultimately decided to postpone the celebration to a later date. Three of the sources are close to the Putin administration; one is familiar with Defense Department operations. If the information they provided to RBC journalists is correct, an announcement delaying the parade may be made later this week.

In a nursing home in the city of Vyazma, Smolensk region, one of the guests with a coronavirus infection died. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the regional administration. The man was 74 years old.

COVID-19 is spreading faster in Russia's Murmansk region than in St. Petersburg thanks to 200 cases on a single construction site. Officials are buying ankle bracelets to track those infected. Lev Fedoseyev / TASS / Vida Press The construction site for Novatek’s shipyard in the Murmansk region. July 1, 2019 The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the Murmansk region doubled on April 14 from 131 to 268 people, according to the regional task force for fighting the novel coronavirus.

Instructions "Medusa" Remove the coating if it is Now the closed beauty salons publish detailed instructions so that customers can shoot gel polish and shellac on their own. Say right away, doing this at home not very correctly: the American Academy of Dermatology recommends that in this case, to the master who will remove the coating. But since there are no options, you can use such an instruction.

Electronic passes for trips around Moscow will be checked through a Troika card or a social card, according to the telegram channel of the Moscow Department of Transport. The same applies to the Strelka card near Moscow. The automatic mode of checking passes will be introduced in stages, the terms were not announced in the department.

RIA Novosti responded to Meduza's publication about a fake about putting British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on a ventilator. In its Telegram channel, the agency wrote that it did not consider the news to be fake. RIA Novosti noted that it was the only one that called the hospitalization an emergency, while "all the media just continued to quote the absolutely false official version that Johnson was hospitalized only" for tests "". “The main thing is that our news was essentially confirmed .

German Chancellor Angela Merkel at a press conference presented the concept of the country's exit from the lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The concept was developed by the federal government together with the regional authorities. Non-food stores with an area of ​​up to 800 square meters can reopen, subject to the necessary sanitary measures. Schools will begin to gradually open from May 4 - classes will first resume in the final grades, then in the younger ones.

Moscow has canceled four planned tenders for the supply of granite curbs worth a total of 13 billion rubles, Meduza was told by the mayor's office. Procurement is in the schedule of the State Budgetary Institution "Roads", the relevant tenders have been announced, but have not yet been held. Amendment. Initially, the news reported the cancellation of five purchases worth 16 billion rubles.

The number of coronavirus cases detected in Russia that cause no changes to the carrier’s health is on the rise, federal public health chief Anna Popova said in an interview with Channel One . According to Popova, in early March, only 10 percent of those who tested positive for COVID-19 did not experience symptoms. Now, following expanded testing, that figure is almost 30 percent on a nationwide scale. In some regions, more than a third of confirmed cases do not carry symptoms.

The Moscow mayor's office "temporarily abandoned" the purchase of landscaping for 13 billion rubles, according to the website of the city administration. According to the vice-mayor for property relations Vladimir Yefimov, which are given in the message, we are talking about the purchase, "which was planned back in December." Efimov did not say what kind of tender he was talking about.