On the evening of April 24, law enforcement officers came to the chairman of the Civil Society movement, libertarian Mikhail Svetov. According to Svetov on Twitter, the police said they had a search warrant. According to Svetov , the police were looking for witnesses among his neighbors, but everyone refused. Novaya Gazeta, citing lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov, reports that the search at Svetov’s house may be related criminal case of indecent acts with a minor.

The government has prepared a draft resolution regulating educational activities. The very concept of "educational activity" and the need for its control by the state are enshrined in a law signed by the President of the Russian Federation in early April. Now the government has developed the rules by which such activities should be carried out.

Karen Minasyan / AFP / Scanpix / Leta torch march in memory of the 106th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Yerevan, April 23, 2021 What happened On April 24, on the day of the 106th anniversary of the beginning of the mass extermination of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire (in modern Turkey), US President Joseph Biden officially recognized these events with genocide .

The attending physicians of politician Alexei Navalny published the results of examinations carried out after he was sent to a colony. The medical records published by doctors in Novaya Gazeta were provided by Navalny's lawyers and relatives with his permission. Having studied the results of the examination, the doctors, in particular, indicated that they had not been able to fully explain why Navalny was experiencing pain, burning and numbness in the limbs and lower back.

Lukashenko spoke about the scenarios of an attempt prepared for him Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Alexander Lukashenko said that those who were preparing an attempt on him considered three scenarios. He told reporters on April 24 during a visit to the Polesie State Radiation and Ecological Reserve, BelTA reports. Initially, according to Lukashenko, the conspirators planned to kill him during the parade in honor of the Victory Day on May 9 (he did not specify which year).

US President Joseph Biden recognized the genocide in the Ottoman Empire, the corresponding statement was published on the website of the White House. The statement is timed to the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide, which is celebrated annually on April 24. "The American people honor all those Armenians who died in the genocide that began today 106 years ago," the statement said. “We honor their history. We see this pain. We confirm the story.

NASA / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta spacecraft Crew Dragon-2, launched by SpaceX, Ilona Mask, was attached to the ISS. The ship was delivered to the station by NASA Astronauts Megan MacArthur and Shein Kimbro, the astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA) of Thomas Sand and the astronaut of the Japanese Aerospace Studies Agency (JAXA) Akihiko Hoside.

Scott Olson / Getty Images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta demonstrators react to a jury court, which found a former policeman guilty of the murder of George Floyd. Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 20, 2021 On April 20, 2021, the jury recognized the former police officer from Minneapolis Derek Shovin guilty of the murder of African American George Floyd.

Update: The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Trans-Baikal Territory confirmed the death of two people "during the conflict" that occurred in one of the hunting farms, reports RIA Novosti . One of the dead is the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Yevgeny Shikhov. The name of the second is not called.

Alexander Lukashenko said that he would sign a decree on the transfer of presidential powers in Belarus to the Security Council in case of an emergency. “Tell me, if there is no president tomorrow, do you guarantee that everything will be fine? No. Therefore, in this case, I will sign a decree in the coming days on how power will be built in Belarus. The President was shot dead - tomorrow the Security Council will be empowered," BelTA quotes Lukashenka's statement.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Putin's message did not live up to expectations, and he himself turned into Allan Chumak. All -Russian protests were also unconvincing. And what's next? On April 21, shares were held in Russian cities in support of Alexei Navalny, who is in the colony. On April 23, on his behalf on Instagram, a post appeared that on the eve of the rallies he was still examined by several civilian doctors, whose opinion he trusts.

The Russian Embassy in Belarus on its Twitter commented on the message of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielus Landsbergis about the expulsion of Russian diplomats from the Baltic countries with obscene hashtag #SMALLLDCENERGY. An approximate censorship analogue of this expression will be "arrogance that hides self -doubt." Remote's screenshot Soon after the publication, the tweet with the hashtag was deleted.

Spoiler: We don't know for sure, but the situation is still alarming Valery Sharifulin / TASS President Vladimir Putin, at the suggestion of Rospotrebnadzor, made four days between the May holidays in non -working - now the Russians were invited to relax from May 1 to 10.

The number of residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions who received Russian citizenship in a simplified manner may increase by almost 500,000 people by the end of 2021. This was announced in an interview with TASS by Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs, Eurasian Integration and Relations with Compatriots Viktor Vodolatsky. “Today, 538 thousand people are citizens of the Russian Federation living in the territory of Donbass,” Vodolatsky said.

Your browser does not support the audio element. Spies, student journalists, and life behind bars: A blowup in Moscow’s relations with Prague, the felony case against ‘Doxa,’ and conditions in Russian prisons A lot has happened this month. On the world stage, Russia’s relations with the Czech Republic started unraveling on April 17, when officials in Prague accused Russian military intelligence agents of destroying ammunition depots seven years ago in explosions that killed two people.