The US Space Agency (NASA) and the European Space Agency have developed a plan according to which in 2031 it will be possible to deliver samples of Martian rock to Earth for the first time. writes about it Nature . The Perseverance rover, which NASA expects to send in July 2020, is responsible for the first part of the plan. The device will collect 30 samples of Martian soil and rocks. In 2026, they plan to send another device to Mars, which will sit next to the Perseverance in 2028.

Until today, Moscow police were stopping journalists from getting to work even though they were supposed to have the same free travel rights as public servants Sergey Kiselyov / Moskva news agency Moscow’s permit system for traveling the city by car or public transit amid the COVID-19 pandemic is gradually shifting from chaos into order. Still, the digital passes, which became mandatory on April 15, continue to pose significant problems and suffer from regular glitches.

The deadline for filing income and property declarations has been extended until August 1, 2020, the corresponding decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin is published on the Kremlin website. This also applies to the heads of “federal state institutions”, the document specifies. Usually declarations are submitted until April 30 inclusive.

Worldwide, 150,948 people have died from the coronavirus. Such data is provided by Johns Hopkins University, which tracks COVID-19 statistics in real time. More than a hundred thousand deaths occur in five countries - the United States (34.5 thousand), Italy (22.7 thousand), Spain (19.6 thousand), France (18.7 thousand) and the UK (14.6 thousand). In Russia, 273 people died from the consequences of coronavirus infection.

The Andrey Rylkov Foundation (ARF), which helps drug addicts, temporarily restricted access to the site after a report by the Russia 24 TV channel, where the authors of publications about the problems of drug users were called "sowers of evil." FAR President Anna Sarang told Mediazona about this. The authors of the report claim that FAR “receives money from Soros” and promotes the use of psychoactive substances.

April 17. We calculated how many people can die from coronavirus in Russia. How threatened by infected. New data on China Good evening, This is the newsletter of the "Medusa" about the coronavirus. She comes out on weekdays instead of the "evening jellyfish." If one of your friends sent this letter to you and you have not yet been subscribed to the newsletter, subscribe here . Pulse In Russia, 4070 new cases of coronavirus infection were revealed per day (in total - 32 008 cases).

Facebook added a “care reaction” to reactions to user posts: a hugging heart emoji. The Verge writes about this. The company hopes that this response will help people feel better connected to each other during the epidemic. The new reaction will be available on the desktop version of the social network and in the mobile application starting next week. Another “caring reaction” will be added to the messenger - an animated beating heart. We are launching “caring like”.

Quarantine can be removed in June - but only if now it is tightened The world accustomed to plan the future is difficult to experience total uncertainty: everyone wants to know when and how the epidemic will end. The answer to this question can only be given with the help of complex models, into which you have to enter not completely proven initial data.

Russian Railways has canceled 76 additional long-distance trains scheduled for the summer season, the company said in a statement on its website. Also canceled are 53 additional trains scheduled for the May holidays. The cancellation is related to the COVID-19 epidemic in Russia. We are talking about domestic directions. Schedule changes can be found here . Also on the website of the Russian Railways published the procedure for returning tickets.

How quarantine changes Russian justice The chief editor of the international version of Medusa Kevin Rotrok in the English-language podcast The Naked Pravda, together with human rights defenders, scientists and journalists, finds out how attempts by the authorities to stop the distribution of coronavirus in Russia affected the judicial system-they complicated the work of protection and opened up opportunities to make the decisions necessary for prosecutors.

The service for issuing such passes appeared on the city hall’s website - and then disappear Sergey Kiselev / Agency "Moscow" Muscovites are gradually being mastered with a system of digital passes that earned in the city on Wednesday April 15 due to an epidemic of coronavirus, but problems and failures remain.

Two hundred patriotic highway ads from a ‘Slavic’ real estate company have flooded Moscow and the suburbs Residents of Moscow and its suburbs woke up this week to a massive ad buy that featured billboards like “RUSSIA’s TIME has come as the SAFEST PLACE on Earth,” “GOD, may You keep RUSSIA and the President!” and “The RUSSIANS are COMING—goodbye, Hollywood!” The latter slogan rhymes in Russian.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that the situation with the coronavirus in the city is under the control of the authorities, and there is no shortage of beds for patients in the city. It is reported by Interfax. “Currently, 13,000 hospital beds are already accepting patients in combat mode.

Head of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov signed a decree on restricting entry into the territory of the republic. This was reported on the official website of the government of Karelia. From April 22, entry into the republic from neighboring regions will be carried out through five checkpoints on different routes. Other routes will be closed to traffic. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian Guard will control the entrance.

Two specialists in the rocket and space industry with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 have died. This is reported by TASS with reference to the deputy head of Roskosmos Oleg Frolov. “Two specialists - 62 and 68 years old - died in hospitals, an employee of another enterprise who was on the list with suspected coronavirus disease died due to bilateral pneumonia at the age of 58,” Frolov said. The number of employees of Roskosmos with a coronavirus infection has grown to 42 people, he added.