A relatively short analysis On April 20, the price of one of the brands of oil became negative, first taking inflation into account, and then in reality: investors were ready to pay extra if their oil would be taken away, since there would simply be no place to store it after delivery. However, this time this news has only an indirect relation to Russia.

Residents of Rostov-on-Don held a virtual rally against self-isolation restrictions on April 20 , using the “Conversations” tool on the mobile apps Yandex.Maps and Yandex.Navigator. During the virtual rally, locals dropped pins near the regional government building and wrote messages about the impact of self-isolation orders, ranging from lost jobs to ineligibility for social assistance.

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the detection of coronavirus in cadets of the Kirov Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg, Interfax reports. First, the coronavirus was found in cadets of the faculty for training doctors for foreign armies (the number of those infected at the faculty is not specified). Later, COVID-19 was confirmed in another 55 cadets from other faculties. According to the Ministry of Defense, the infected are isolated, the disease is asymptomatic.

Vladimir Gerdo / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Moscow City Clinical Hospital No. 52 A resident of Moscow’s Marfino district died on a bench near the entrance of her home on April 18, within an hour of being discharged from the hospital, according to the news agency TASS . According to the TV channel REN and the Telegram channel Baza , the woman’s name was Elena Chuklova. She was just 48 years old. Elena Chuklova was admitted to the Moscow City Clinical Hospital No.

On April 20, the cost of Texas oil WTI at exchange trading for the first time in history became negative. This means that manufacturers will pay customers to take oil. At the opening of the bidding, the WTI barrel with delivery in May cost more than $ 17, but later the price began to fall and dropped first to zero, and then significantly lower. By the end of the auction on the New York commodity exchange, the WTI price dropped by almost 300% -to -37.6 dollars per barrel.

The Chamber for Patent Disputes of Rospatent canceled the registration of the Yandex.Afisha trademark for most categories of goods and services for which Yandex registered it. TASS writes about this with reference to the conclusion of Rospatent. The registration was canceled following a complaint from Rambler Group. According to the conclusion, Yandex registered the trademark “Yandex.Afisha” in August 2019, while Rambler Group structures have owned the trademark “poster” since 2001.

Over the past 24 hours, 29 people with coronavirus infection have died in Moscow. The total death toll in the city rose from 204 to 233. As TASS writes with reference to the Moscow operational headquarters, among the dead are patients from 31 to 94 years old. Most of them had concomitant diseases, including hypertension, pyelonephritis, and diabetes mellitus. As of the morning of April 20, in total more than 47 thousand cases of coronavirus were recorded in Russia, 405 infected people died.

US President Donald Trump will nominate Julie Fisher for the post of Ambassador to Belarus. The White House reports this. Fischer currently works in the US State Department's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs. She previously served as Deputy Chief of Mission for the United States to NATO and also worked at the American embassies in Russia and Georgia. Now Fischer's candidacy must be approved by the US Senate. If confirmed, she will become the first US ambassador to Belarus since 2008.

Updated : The price of WTI crude for May delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange has gone negative for the first time in history (meaning producers are paying buyers to take the oil). By the end of trading in New York, the price of WTI had fallen by almost 300% to -$37.60 per barrel. The price of WTI crude oil fell below one dollar per barrel for the first time in history, according to trading data on the ICE exchange in London.

Fredrik Sandberg / TT News Agency / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On April 18, the chief epidemiologist of Sweden Anders Tegnell said in an interview with the Swedish media that the incidence of coronavirus in the country reached the plateau and the situation is generally stable.

Human rights activists, politicians, scientists and cultural figures have asked the Investigative Committee to grant state protection to Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina because of threats from Ramzan Kadyrov. They also ask to open a criminal case against the head of Chechnya. Their appeal is quoted by Novaya Gazeta and Interfax .

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White leader Benny Gantz signed an agreement to form a government coalition. About this writes the publication "Yediot Ahronot". As part of the agreement, the parties agreed on a rotation as prime minister: Netanyahu will hold this position for the next 18 months, then Gantz will replace him. The center-right Likud and the center-left Kahol Lavan are the main political opponents in Israel.

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On April 20, residents of Rostov-on-Don staged a virtual rally against the self-isolation regime. To do this, they used the "Chatterbox" function in the mobile version of Yandex.Maps and Yandex.Navigator, which allows you to put a dot on the map and write a comment on it. Rostov residents put dots near the regional government building and wrote that due to the advisory nature of self-isolation, those who lost their jobs do not receive social assistance.

In the Jewish Autonomous Region (JAO), the number of confirmed COVID-19 diagnoses doubled per day, from 22 to 43 cases. This was reported on the website of the regional government. “Such a significant increase is due to an outbreak of the disease in a correctional facility of the UFSIN system,” the report said. According to the Acting Deputy Prime Minister of the EAO Valery Zhukov, 23 residents of the region have been confirmed to have coronavirus.