Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks via videoconference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron. The Kremlin reports. Macron's press service reported that the leaders of Germany and France drew Putin's attention to the need to respect the rights and "preserve the health" of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. They were given "relevant explanations of the objective circumstances of the case" of Navalny, according to the Kremlin's website.

Four activists of the youth movement "Spring" in St. Petersburg staged a rally against the blocking of Twitter in Russia, which was announced by Roskomnadzor. This was reported on the page of "Spring" in "Vkontakte". Today we organized an action against the planned blocking of Twitter. The basis was a popular meme - the logo of Roskomnadzor, stylized as a Nazi flag. Activists wearing balaclavas and robes marched along Shaumyan Avenue.

Maxim Trudolyubov explains why authoritarianism isn’t afraid of jokes and memes Alexey Druzhinin / Pool / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Vladimir Putin’s “candid” photo ops in “informal settings” are hard to take seriously . It’s even more difficult to believe that the president’s entourage doesn’t understand this — it’s almost as if they’re deliberately dreaming up meme-able news stories. Why do they do it? Mocking the authorities, after all, is one of the anti-Kremlin opposition’s prized weapons.

Users of Samsung smartphones began to complain on social networks that after updating the operating system, they now have the Yandex.Browser, Yandex.Disk and Yandex.Maps applications that cannot be deleted. Kommersant writes about this. Samsung explained this by requiring the mandatory pre-installation of Russian applications on phones, tablets, computers and smart TVs. It will come into force on April 1.

The Fifth Channel published two parts of the television test “Keepers” on Utube, shot in the first of the three parts of the “Lord of the Rings” of the English writer John Ronald Ruela Tolkien. Fifth channel Russia Keepers | Part 1 | Television praises based on the story of D. R.R. Tolkien Fifth channel Russia Keepers | Part 2 | Television praises based on the story of D. R.R. Tolkien The television attitude was shot at the Leningrad Television studio in 1991.

YouTube will begin testing several new interfaces that do not display the number of dislikes on other people's videos. A message about this appeared on the official Twitter of the social network. YouTube's blog post states that this will be an experiment involving a small group of users. In which countries it will be held and how many users will participate in it is not specified.

In the cottage village of Veshki near Mytishchi, a house caught fire, the owner of which, 61-year-old Vladimir Bardanov, opened fire on police officers on the afternoon of March 30. It is reported by RBC. The publication notes that the fire started after shelling from a grenade launcher, which, as previously reported , the security forces used in an attempt to storm the house.

How a design firm executive was found dead and tortured in prison after being charged with defrauding the Russian military In early 2018, police officers in St. Petersburg charged three suspects with fraud, claiming that their I.T. firm overcharged for the development of 3D models for Russia’s Project 636 “Varshavyanka” submarine. State officials say the design experts pocketed roughly 100 million rubles ($1.3 million) in a 400-million-ruble ($5.3-million) deal.

Updated : A Volkswagen spokesman told The Wall Street Journal that the news about renaming Volkswagen of America was both an April Fool's joke and a marketing ploy to draw attention to the company's electric vehicles. Volkswagen of America, the American division of the German automaker Volkswagen, will officially change its name to Voltswagen of America in May. This was reported on the automaker's website.

The Paris Court of Appeal overturned the decision to pay compensation to the Ukrainian Oschadbank for the seizure of its property in Crimea when the peninsula became part of Russia. This is reported by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation. The decision to pay compensation in 2018 was made by international arbitration in Paris. The amount of compensation was 1.3 billion dollars.

Why Putin allows himself to be laughed at. The Ministry of Health and Rospotrebnadzor argued about the third wave of the pandemic. A book by a Russian author has been nominated for Booker for the third time in history Good evening, This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the important news of the day. Let's start today's letter with a riddle. The US Strategic Command (the agency responsible for nuclear weapons) posted this tweet: ";l;gmlxzssaw". What was it? WiFi password?

In Yaroslavl, an unidentified person poured green paint over Dmitry Nizovtsev, a journalist and host of the Navalny Headquarters YouTube channel, and his cameraman Anton Lebedinsky. Nizovtsev told MBKh Media about this. According to Nizovtsev, he and Lebedinsky came to Yaroslavl to shoot. We were in a cafe near the station, stayed for a while, an unknown person came in.

Vasily Smirnov in the Leningrad Region at the Pella shipbuilding plant overturned the fishing trawler under construction. Its hold is partially flooded, the ship lay on board. According to RIA Novosti, at the time of the accident, 80 people were on the trawler. 78 of them are evacuated. Two people disappeared after overturning the trawler, later they were found dead.

Andrew Cowie / Shutterstock / Vida Press The player of Ronaldo, who played for the Brazilian national team in the nineties and zero, appeared in public with a terrible haircut in 2002: a semicircular bangs were on a shaved head. In an interview with Sports Illustrated, 19 years later, Ronaldo remembered this haircut - and said that she was terrible. “I apologize to all the mothers whose children made the same haircut,” the football player said.

Incidence rates in Russia suggest that a third wave of coronavirus may be starting in the country. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Health Tatyana Semenova. Unfortunately, the second wave of coronavirus infection also captured the beginning of 2021, and now, unfortunately, the incidence rates and the course of diseases allow us to talk about the third wave of coronavirus infection.