The Edwin Hubble space telescope turned 30 years old: on April 24, 1990, the STS-31 shuttle began with the apparatus on board and brought it to the calculated orbit the next day. By the 30th anniversary of the telescope, NASA published a new picture: Hubble captured the NGC 2014 and NGC 2020 nebula in a large Magellanic cloud (Galaxy-satellite of the Milky Way).

Doctors at a St. Petersburg medical center have been under quarantine for two weeks with hundreds of coronavirus patients in their care Petr Kovalev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA In mid-April, St. Petersburg saw a spike in coronavirus cases — all because of one local trauma center According to official statistics, St. Petersburg had 424 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on April 17. A day earlier, there were just 154.

The Yaroslavl region is reopening businesses and allowing people to leave their homes, rising number of coronavirus cases be damned Andrey Strunin for Meduza The Yaroslavl region is one of the few places left in Russia (along with the Tver and Tula regions and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug) where the local authorities’ containment measures against the spread of coronavirus haven’t gone beyond verbal recommendations to self-isolate.

Gabriel Grigorov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The main thing from the forecast of the Central Bank The Central Bank of Russia was the first to release the consequences of the economic crisis associated with the coronavirus epidemic.

Another 41 people diagnosed with COVID-19 died in Moscow, the operational headquarters reports. Interfax notes that this is a "record" number. Updated. In a week, the number of deaths among patients with COVID-19 has doubled, the agency adds, citing headquarters data. Until April 16, up to 14 deaths per day were recorded in Moscow, from April 17 - more than 20 per day, on April 22, 27 people died, and on April 23 - 37 cases .

Those who fell ill with COVID-19 after recovery continue to assess their condition as serious, said Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor. It is reported by Interfax. According to Popova, recovery from the disease is long and difficult. She noted that in general, it will be possible to return to the previous living conditions only if people develop immunity to a new infection.

Coronavirus can kill 1% of the population. In the Nenets district, the only patient recovered. Waiting for Putin's speech Good evening, This is Meduza's mailing list about the coronavirus during the pandemic. It comes out on weekdays instead of Evening Medusa. If this letter was sent to you by someone you know and you have not yet subscribed to the mailing list, subscribe here . Pulse Russia recorded 5849 new cases of coronavirus .

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Vedomosti journalists are fighting for the publication. We are discussing what is happening with the former editor of the newspaper Tatyana Lysova For more than a month, the conflict has been going on between the acting editor -in -chief of the Vedomosti newspaper Andrei Shmarov and the journalists of the publication, one of the most authoritative media of Russia.

The Russian economy is losing about one hundred billion rubles a day due to restrictions during the epidemic, said the head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Maxim Reshetnikov on the Russia 1 TV channel. The official is quoted by Interfax. According to Reshetnikov, the anti-crisis support measures for business and the economy approved by the government are “freezing measures”.

Russia's public health authority, Rospotrebnadzor , has come up with a plan that will allow beauty salons, dry cleaners, laundromats, non-food stores and auto repair shops to resume work “in the next few days,” Vedomosti reports. The newspaper cites a government representative as its source. The decision of whether or not to open these establishments up again — in the midst of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic — will reportedly be left up to the regional authorities.

Why Russian politics today lack American militants of the 80s After the two issues of The Naked Pravda about the coronavirus (about how the Muscovites on self-isolation and how quarantine distorts the judicial system ), the chief editor of the international version of Medusa Kevin Rotrok decided to distract from the news about the pandemia and recorded the episode about his beloved childhood film-the 1984 Red Dawn, the most indicative of the indicative indicative Hollywood "cranberries" of the

Sandy Huffker / Getty Images The United States continues to remain an unconditional leader in the number of Coronavirus infected with the Coronavirus and the Covid-19 disease that he had caused: as of April 24, Jones Hopkins register 869 172 cases of the disease under 49,963 dead.

Presnensky Court of Moscow arrested former State Duma deputy Denis Volchek. Volchek was arrested for two months, until June 22. The case in which Volchek is being held was initiated under an article on attempted fraud. According to investigators, the former deputy and his accomplice, businessman Zurab Pliev, received 8 million rubles from a businessman for not bringing him to criminal responsibility. Volchek, 49, was a State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party from 2007 to 2016.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin has asked Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to send senior medical students to work in coronavirus hospitals. “These guys are motivated, they already have good enough knowledge. They chose this profession. They will get to see real medicine in practice once again, gain knowledge, and, it seems to me, provide some much-needed help in this situation,” Sobyanin said , during a meeting of the COVID-19 coordinating council.

The confessor of the monastery called any disease punishment for godless Maxim Chernogolov / Holy-Elisavetinsky Monastery Grand Monday (first day of the passionate week) in the Holy-Elisavetinsky Monastery of Minsk, April 13, 2020 The Holy-Elisavetinsky Convent is the only active Orthodox monastery in Minsk. It is located on the outskirts of the city, next to a psychiatric hospital. The monastery founded in 1996 Archpriest Andrei Lemeshonok, who nourished the patients of the hospital.