The winners of the Golden Mask theater award for the 2019-2020 season have been announced in Moscow. The awards ceremony was held at the Zaryadye Concert Hall. Among the winners: Best dramatic performance of a large form - "The Tale of the Last Angel" by Andrei Moguchy (Moscow Theater of Nations); The best dramatic performance of a small form - "Pinocchio.

Rospotrebnadzor fined Angara Airlines 20,000 rubles for a more than six-hour delay of a regular Chita-Chara flight in November 2020. This was reported by the East Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office. The delay allowed by the airline's management violated the rights of 43 passengers to timely provision of air transport services, the prosecutor's office reported.

Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko have ended in the Kremlin. This is reported by the Belarusian agency BelTA. The meeting lasted three hours and 55 minutes. What Putin and Lukashenko discussed has not yet been reported. Updated . As told RIA Novosti, Putin and Lukashenko discussed cooperation in the economy, in particular, in the fields of energy and medicine.

The Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF) refused to screen the short gay drama “Fans” . The director of the film, Seva Galkin, told Snob and Open Media about this. According to the director, he applied for the MIFF “for fun” and was surprised that his film was included in the short film program. But on April 21, a representative of the festival, who was involved in the selection of Russian short films, contacted him.

Photos from across Russia during the rallies in support of Alexey Navalny on April 21 Kirill Kukhmar / TASS Protesters at the rally in Novosibirsk On April 21, thousands of people in cities across Russia took to the streets in a show of solidarity with opposition politician Alexey Navalny, who has been on a prison hunger strike since March 31. Compared to the police response at the pro-Navalny protests earlier this year, the April 21st demonstrations saw relatively fewer arrests.

The government approved the draft law on "golden visas" for foreign investors, which was developed by the Ministry of Economic Development. This was announced by the head of the department Maxim Reshetnikov, RBC reports. The bill simplifies the conditions for obtaining a residence permit (residence permit) in Russia for investors and their relatives. For them, it is proposed to cancel the stage of obtaining a temporary residence permit.

Photographer Evgeny Feldman’s snapshots from Moscow’s Navalny solidarity protests Moscow’s protest in support of jailed opposition politician Alexey Navalny was supposed to take place near the Kremlin, on Manezhnaya Square. But on the morning of April 21, the security forces cut off access to the area. Shortly before the start of the rally, the organizers suggested that the protesters move in two columns coming from Pushkin Square and the Arbat.

The attending physicians of Alexei Navalny wrote an appeal in which they asked him to immediately stop the hunger strike in the colony. The text of the appeal was published by Mediazona. “If the hunger strike continues even for a minimum time, unfortunately, we will soon have no one to treat. Our main task is to keep our patient alive and healthy,” the doctors write.

Former soloist of the Scottish pop group Bay City Rollers Forest McCuan died at the age of 65, reports BBC with reference to the musician’s family. FIN COSTELLO / REDFERNS / GETTY IMAGES “Leslie died suddenly in his house on Tuesday, April 20,” the musician said in a statement on Twitter. The Bay City Rollers group was created in the 1960s and gained fame in the 1970s. Its most popular compositions are “BYE BYE BABY” and “Give A Little Love” .

Vladimir Metelkin, editor of the student magazine Doxa, who is accused in the case of involving teenagers in protests, filed a motion to challenge investigator Ekaterina Zhizhmanova. A copy of the motion was published by Doxa. According to Metelkin, Zhizhmanova told him that she found him “sexy” (an audio recording of her words was published on the Doxa Telegram channel). In addition, during the investigation, she touched his shoulder with her hand and came close to him during conversations.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The All -Russian action in support of Navalny became the success or failure of the opposition? And what to do next? On April 21, in many cities of Russia, shares were held in support of Alexei Navalny. Before the start of the rallies, more than 463 thousand people registered on the Freedom Navalny website. Supporters of Navalny created this page to mobilize half a million Russians for protests.

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Alexey Navalny’s private doctors are urging him to end his prison hunger strike following confirmation that he was taken to a “civilian hospital in Vladimir” for an examination on Tuesday, April 20. According to Navalny’s chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, this took place “as soon as” the opposition politician’s associates announced the planned time and date of the nationwide solidarity rallies, which took place on April 21 (the announcement was made on April 18).

The court sentenced the former FSB Lieutenant Colonel to the seven years of the colony, but never found out where he got six billion rubles Ivan Vodopyanov / Kommersant Kirill Cherkalin - in Avtosak On April 22, the military garrison court sentenced the former head of the banking department of the FSB department of Lieutenant Colonel Kirill Cherkalin, accused of fraud and bribery. The court sentenced him to seven years in a maximum security colony.

At a rally in St. Petersburg, more than 800 people were harshly detained. They continued to beat them in the police department, including by electric shockers Dmitry Lovetsky / AP / Scanpix / Leta On April 21, shares of solidarity with Alexei Navalny were held throughout Russia, who has been holding a hunger strike in the colony on March 31. Almost 1900 participants were detained at rallies, more than 800 of which are in St. Petersburg.