In different cities of Russia, there was a malfunction in the Vendista contactless payment system, which is used by small and medium-sized businesses for contactless payments. Terminals of this system are, in particular, used in shops, cafes and restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, gas stations and parking lots.

In Moscow, dozens of people came to the presidential administration reception office to submit appeals against the blocking of instant messengers and the shutdown of mobile Internet. The Dawn party announced a mass submission of appeals at the end of March. Politicians Boris Nadezhdin and Yulia Galyamina, among others, came to the reception office of the President of the Russian Federation.

The Office of Rospotrebnadzor for the Republic of Dagestan announced the start of emergency vaccination against viral hepatitis A in areas affected by floods. “In emergency zones, due to recent floods and the risk of an outbreak of infections, emergency immunization has begun for epidemic indications against viral hepatitis A. The measure is aimed at protecting the population,” said the press service of the Rospotrebnadzor department for Dagestan.

Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan said that his country will leave the Collective Security Treaty Organization ( CSTO ) and the Eurasian Economic Union ( EAEU ) if Russia increases prices for gas supplied to the republic. “If they make such a decision, Armenia will make its decision and finally leave the CSTO, the EAEU,” Simonyan said at a briefing for journalists on Saturday, April 4 (quoted by Interfax).

The crew of the Artemis 2 mission shared the first images from their journey to the Moon. The astronauts captured images of the Earth (and, of course, its satellite), as well as each other On the evening of Friday, April 3, at 19:49 US East Coast time (April 4 at 02:49 Moscow time), the Orion spacecraft successfully completed an acceleration maneuver to enter the trajectory to the Moon. On Monday, April 6, the crew will conduct a six-hour observation session of the lunar surface.

US President Donald Trump promised that in two days “all hell will fall on Iran.” “Remember when I gave Iran ten days to make a deal or open the Strait of Hormuz? Time is running out - in 48 hours hell will fall on them,” the US President wrote on his social network Truth. On April 3, The Wall Street Journal reported , citing sources, that an attempt to conclude a ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran through the mediation of Pakistan had failed.

Iran will allow ships carrying humanitarian and vital supplies bound for Iranian ports through the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian agency Tasnim reported this, publishing a photo of the corresponding document. The document states that ships heading to Iranian ports, including those currently in the Gulf of Oman, must coordinate with authorities and follow established protocols for passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

The OTS TV channel, owned by the government of the Novosibirsk region, released a video with “grateful farmers” who talk about how they received compensation for destroyed livestock. The video, in particular, can be viewed on the OTS page on the VKontakte social network. The names of the people appearing in the frame are not named; only the names of settlements are indicated - Kozikha, Novoklyuchi, Chernokurya, Gnedukhino.

Bucha, Yablonskaya street. Four years ago, dozens of civilians were found killed here. Photo report by Meduza about how the memory of those terrible events was preserved Bucha is now a small cozy city, very close to the bustling Kyiv, where real spring will soon begin. However, this is not entirely true: it is enough to talk with those who do not forget why Bucha went down in history, and especially with those who experienced the terrible events of the spring of 2022.

1501st day. As a result of a Russian drone strike on a market in Nikopol, 5 people were killed and 19 were injured. Ukrainian drones attacked Taganrog and Tolyatti Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters every day because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us your thoughts about the war. What feelings are you experiencing?

Update: The German Ministry of Defense has promised to clarify the legal regulations regarding permission from the Bundeswehr for men to leave the country, writes Deutsche Welle. “We will clarify through administrative regulations that the permit is considered issued when military service is voluntary,” a department spokesman tells the dpa agency.

The finance ministers of Germany, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Austria called on the European Commission to introduce a tax on windfall profits of energy companies amid rising global fuel prices. Energy companies that have made windfall profits, Reuters quoted finance ministers as saying, must “do their part to ease the impact of rising prices on the general public.” The appeal, notes Reuters, does not indicate a specific tax rate that is proposed to be levied on the profits of energy companies.

The US military on Friday, April 3, lost two aircraft participating in the war with Iran. In addition to the downed F-15 fighter , which was previously known, an A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft crashed in the Strait of Hormuz, The New York Times and CNN write. The A-10 pilot was rescued, two government sources told the publication, without disclosing other details. CNN's sources added that the A-10 pilot was able to maneuver the plane out of Iranian airspace before successfully ejecting.

“I Can Fall” by Natalia Krupenina is a rare book about war that does not leave the reader with a feeling of hopelessness. Critic Lisa Birger explains why it's worth reading “I Can Fall” is the third book by writer Natalia Krupenina and the first teenage book by the Meduza publishing house. It tells the story of a seventeen-year-old girl who, after a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, begins to volunteer in an organization that evacuates refugees from a war zone.

Iran is unlikely to open the Strait of Hormuz to shipping traffic in the near future, since control over it is Tehran's only real lever of influence over the United States. American intelligence services came to these conclusions, writes Reuters, citing several informed sources. Iranian authorities, according to American intelligence, will block the movement of tankers through the Strait of Hormuz in order to maintain high world energy prices and, thus, put pressure on US President Donald Trump.