The United States has imposed sanctions against 29 individuals and 40 companies from Russia. This was reported on the website of the US Treasury. Among those sanctioned were Deputy Finance Minister Vladimir Kolychev and three representatives of the leadership of the Central Bank - First Deputy Chairman Ksenia Yudaeva, Deputy Chairman Mikhail Alekseev and Advisor to the Head of the Central Bank Alexei Simanovsky.

Germany until the end of 2022 will completely abandon the purchase of Russian oil. This was stated by Foreign Minister Annalena Burbock. Burbock said that by the summer the consumption of Russian oil in Germany will be reduced by half, and by the end of the year it will be “at zero”. By the end of the summer, the country will also completely abandon Russian coal.

All episodes of the TV show “One Hundred to One” aired on “Russia 1” were removed from YouTube after its host Alexander Gurevich spoke out against the war. Gurevich published his statement in the comments under one of the episodes of “One Hundred to One” on the show’s official YouTube channel a month ago, but journalists only paid attention to it now.

The Chinese payment system UnionPay is afraid to cooperate with large Russian banks that have come under blocking sanctions. RBC writes about this, citing sources. We are talking, in particular, about Sberbank, Alfa-Bank, Otkritie, VTB and Promsvyazbank. Three sources told RBC that these banks would not be able to issue UnionPay cards, two more said that the Chinese company had put the negotiations on hold without explanation.

“What does it mean to be missing? Is my son dead? Mothers of conscripts from the sunken cruiser Moskva told how they are looking for their children Hello, THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) IS CREATED AND (OR) DISTRIBUTED BY A FOREIGN MASS MEDIA PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT AND (OR) A RUSSIAN LEGAL ENTITY PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT This is the Meduza mailing list, where we talk about the main events related to the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has replaced the commander of the 76th Guards Airborne Assault Division, stationed in Pskov. Instead of Major General Sergei Chubarykin, Colonel Denis Shishov was appointed commander. The corresponding decree was signed on April 18. Prior to his appointment to Pskov, Shishov commanded the 11th Airborne Assault Brigade from Ulan-Ude. During the war in Ukraine, he commanded a brigade unit that crossed the Dnieper near Kakhovka in the Kherson region.

Desperate to convince citizens the war won't change their daily lives, the Russian authorities are flooding the airwaves with “positive” news stories Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS A Matreshka food truck on Moscow's Pushkin Square, right across from the spot where McDonald's used to be The war in Ukraine has been going on for two months, the list of sanctions against Russia continues to grow, and the Russian authorities are still trying to convince the world (and themselves) that the war won’t have

Meduza talks to mothers of conscripts who served aboard the sunken Russian warship Moskva Nikita Yefremenko. Tatyana Yefremenko’s personal archive It’s been a week since the sinking of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva. The Ukrainian side reported that it struck the Black Sea Fleet’s flagship with two Neptune anti-ship cruise missiles on April 13.

The Moscow "Stanislavsky Electrotheatre" canceled the play "Garden" with the participation of actress Yulia Aug. This was reported on the website of the theater. The report emphasizes that the April 20 show has been canceled "due to technical reasons." At the same time, tickets for the same performance on May 25 and 26 can still be bought. The performance was canceled a few hours after Yulia Aug was criticized in his telegram by United Russia deputy Alexander Khinshtein.

The Golden Mask award in 2022 was received by director Dmitry Krymov and actor Yevgeny Tsyganov. The award ceremony was held online. According to Fontanka, Tsyganov received the award for Krymov, who is in the United States. He said that Krymov asked to give his award to Dmitry Muratov. Tsyganov's words are quoted by the publication Business Online. Here's the thing. Dmitry Anatolyevich [Krymov] couldn't come to Russia for obvious reasons. We talked to him the day before yesterday.

The psychoneurological boarding school in Borodianka was two weeks under Russian occupation. We talked with its director Marina Ganitskaya Facebook page page page Borodyanka is a small village near Kiev, not far from Buchi . From the first days of the war, he also fell under the occupation by the Russian military, who left him only in early April. The local neuropsychiatric boarding school was also captured then - soldiers from Chechnya entered there.

As Medusa found out, the authorities are trying to convince the Russians that their life will not change because of the war, the simplest way-with the help of "positive" news Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS Food-track Matreshka on Pushkinskaya Square opposite the premises on Pushkinskaya Square, which was occupied by McDonaldʼs before the war The war in Ukraine has been going on for almost two months, sanctions against Russia are expanding - and the Russian authorities continue to convince the world

The last remaining Ukrainian troops in Mariupol call on world leaders to help them — and civilians — escape Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The Azovstal metalworks plant in Mariupol.

The Russian authorities are developing a bill that will allow the extension of the compulsory license mechanism to films, series and music, the copyright holders of which have announced their withdrawal from Russia. Vedomosti writes about this, citing two sources. At what stage is the work on the bill, is not specified.

The Oktyabrsky Court of St. Petersburg sentenced former regional legislative assembly deputy Maxim Reznik to five months in a penal colony, Mediazona reports. Reznik was found guilty of illegally acquiring drugs without the intent to sell. According to the court, he purchased 18.2 grams of marijuana from an unidentified seller for personal use, which he illegally stored.