Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Emmanuel Macron leads in the presidential election in France. According to the data on the morning of April 11 after processing 97% of the ballots , 27.6% of voters voted for it. Its main rival - the leader of the National Front right party Marine Le Pen - is gaining 23.41% of the vote. Thus, they go to the second round, which will take place on April 24th. In total, 12 candidates participated in the elections.

Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer will arrive in Moscow on Monday, April 11, for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to BBC News, citing a representative of the chancellor, the purpose of the visit is to promote negotiations to end the war in Ukraine. According to BBC News, Nehammer notified "Berlin, Brussels and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky" of his visit.

Borodyanka is another city near Kyiv, which was occupied and destroyed by Russian troops. Here is the story of his head George Erko Alexey Furman / Getty images rescuers get the bodies from under the rubble in the residential building of the Russian Army in Borodyanka. April 9, 2022 Borodyanka is a small village of urban type in the Kyiv region, on the right bank of the Dnieper.

The Zaigraevsky District Court of Buryatia fined 64-year-old coach of the sports school in the village of Onkhoy Valery Yakovlev three times for “discrediting” the Russian armed forces (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). Evidence in the case - recordings from video cameras and a dictaphone - was provided to the police and the court by the school, the publication "People of Baikal" reports.

In the Manege there is a large exhibition-Bayopic Viktor Tsoi. We talked with her curator “Victor Tsoi. Hero path " Since January 15 , Victor Tsoi has been in the arena. The hero’s path ” is the first biographical exhibition about the leaders of the“ Kino ”group with its painting and graphics, rare archival records, beloved vinyl and video cassettes, as well as personal things, many of which were stored with close musician.

Julian Lennon, the son of one of the founders of the Beatles group John Lennon, first performed the song of Imagine's father. He published a video with his performance on social networks, supporting the Stand Up for Ukraine campaign. In the signature to the video, Lennon, the younger, called the war in Ukraine an unimaginable tragedy, to which, according to him, he had to respond in the most significant way. “I always said that Imagine will sing only in the event of the end of the world.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine would not have happened if Kyiv had been a member of NATO, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. He stated this in an interview with The Associated Press. “If we were in NATO, then this war would not have happened. Or it would turn out differently. we would have a shoulder of close neighbors, we could fight together. But I am sure that there would be no war," he said.

In response to mounting casualties, the Russian armed forces are trying to increase troop levels with personnel retired from military service since 2012. This is reported by the British Ministry of Defense with reference to intelligence data. Russia's military buildup efforts also include recruiting efforts in unrecognized Transnistria, the agency said. Russia did not comment on these statements.

Dagestan is a record holder for the number of soldiers' coffins from Ukraine. This is what they think about it in the republic itself. Reporting Vladimir Sevrinovsky Vladimir Sevrinovsky Khadizhit, aunt of the deceased Mahmud Channanov, holds his school and sports letters Dagestan is one of the Russian regions where young men not only do not try to avoid urgent service, but even pay bribes to get there.

In France, voting has begun in the first round of the presidential election, in which 48.7 million voters are to vote, reports BFM TV. Polling stations opened at 8:00 local time (9:00 Moscow time), most of them will close at 19:00 (20:00 Moscow time). However, in Paris, Lille, Bordeaux and Toulouse, voters will be able to vote until 20:00 (21:00 Moscow time). Voting in the French overseas territories took place the previous day, 9 April.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, Tatyana Moskalkova, confirmed in her Telegram channel that on the evening of April 9, another exchange of prisoners took place between Moscow and Kiev. According to the Ombudsman, four employees of Rosatom and several servicemen were handed over to Russia, the exact number of which Moskalkova did not name. Employees of Rosatom should have been exchanged during the previous exchange, the Russian side said earlier .

Sberbank will reduce rates on consumer loans by two percentage points from April 10, the bank said in a statement. Now the minimum rate for all categories of borrowers will be 19.9%. "We continue to closely monitor the economic situation and promptly respond to all changes. The Central Bank has lowered the key rate, which means that we now have the opportunity to offer clients new, more favorable terms for loans," said Sergey Shirokov, Director of Sberbank's Borrow and Save Division.

Graves in the yards and gardens. The ruins of the beard. Zaporizhzhya sowing in body armor On the forty-fifth day of the war, the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson came to Kyiv suddenly, without an announcement, held negotiations with Vladimir Zelensky and walked around Kyiv. According to the BBC, Russia entrusted the command of the “special operation” in Ukraine General Alexander Dawns, who commanded Russian troops in Syria.

The government of Ukraine has approved a complete trade embargo against Russia. This was announced by the representative of the Cabinet of Ministers in the Verkhovna Rada Taras Melnichuk. “A trade embargo against the Russian Federation has been introduced. It is forbidden to import goods from the Russian Federation into the customs territory of Ukraine,” Melnychuk wrote in his Telegram channel.

Against the backdrop of the long-term consequences of Russia's military actions in Ukraine, NATO has embarked on a process of "fundamental transformation." Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the alliance, stated this in an interview with The Telegraph. “What we see now is a new reality, a new norm of European security. Therefore, we have now asked our military commanders to provide options for what we call a reset, a longer-term adaptation of NATO,” Stoltenberg said.