The VK company proposed creating a National Information Platform based on the Zen news aggregator, which will be required to be built into websites and applications of marketplaces, social networks, video services and other Internet platforms, the Kommersant newspaper reported on April 13, citing VK’s presentation. According to the publication, the corresponding bill is expected to be submitted to the State Duma for consideration in May.

More than one thousand directors, actors, producers and film and television industry professionals published an open letter on April 13 opposing the proposed Warner Bros. merger. Discovery with Paramount Skydance. According to the letter's authors, the deal would reduce industry jobs, increase costs and limit choice for viewers around the world. “What is particularly troubling is that this merger will reduce the number of major U.S. film studios to just four,” the letter said.

The outgoing Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, published a video message on Facebook on the evening of April 13 after the defeat of his Fidesz party in the Hungarian parliamentary elections. His words are quoted by 444.hu. Orbán said more than 2.25 million voters supported Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People's Party candidates in the April 12 elections. “In 2014, with the support of the same number of voters, we won a huge election victory.

Specialists from the Research Testing Institute of Military Medicine of the Ministry of Defense (GNIII VM MO) are testing ammunition and drugs on military volunteers, according to the “Project” investigation released on April 13. The Agency talks about it briefly. According to the Project, in 2015 the institute became the only institution of the Ministry of Defense that has the right to conduct research on humans.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested college student Konstantin Bodunov for 10 days under a protocol of petty hooliganism (Part 2 of Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), “Caution, Moscow” and “Mediazona” drew attention. Bodunov, as follows from the court decision and media publications, came to the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square on the afternoon of April 8.

What Western media and analysts write about the situation with the strait Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP / Scanpix / LETA Trump speaks to reporters outside Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. April 12, 2026 The US Navy has begun blockading the Strait of Hormuz, an important and almost unalternative sea route for energy supplies from the Middle East. In peacetime, a significant portion of the world's fuel passed through it.

Similar protests took place in the city five years ago On April 12, Chinese workers staged a protest in Komsomolsk-on-Amur . About 200 workers marched through the city streets, holding posters with requests for help addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Rosneft head Igor Sechin. Authorities in the Khabarovsk Territory said that the protest was staged by employees of the Petro-Hekhua company, which participated in the modernization of the Komsomolsk oil refinery.

US President Donald Trump has removed an artificially intelligent image in which he was depicted as Jesus Christ, The Guardian noted. We are talking about a picture published on April 12. The image shows Trump standing over a man's hospital bed, surrounded by a soldier, a nurse and a woman praying. Light emanates from Trump’s palms, one of which he places on the sick person’s forehead. The publication was criticized by Christians, including supporters of the US President.

Former senator from the Tula region Dmitry Savelyev was sentenced to 10 years in prison in a maximum security colony for the attempted murder of his former business partner Sergei Ionov, Mediazona reported on April 13. According to the prosecution, Savelyev decided to kill his business partner because of a conflict over a stake in the Optomonitoring company. At that moment, Ionov was serving time in a colony.

Hungary does not intend to continue blocking the allocation of a 90 billion loan from the EU to Ukraine, Peter Magyar, leader of the Tisza party that won the elections, said at a press conference, RBC-Ukraine reports. At the same time, Magyar emphasized that Hungarian money will not be used in this pan-European loan. A loan to Ukraine worth 90 billion euros was agreed upon by EU leaders (including former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban) in December 2025.

From the Museum of the History of the Gulag, which they decided to turn into a museum dedicated to the victims of the “genocide of the Soviet people,” most of the employees have quit or are in the process of dismissal, with the exception of the administrative and economic department, Vestka reported on April 13, citing a source.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for “insulting the feelings of believers” against an employee of a Moscow bar because of a hookah cooked on Easter cake.

Let's look into the issue with Ksenia Luchenko, author of the channel “Orthodoxy and Zombies” Oleg Varov / TASS / Profimedia Patriarch Kirill serves the liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on April 4. In the foreground are the Vladimir and Don icons taken from the Tretyakov Gallery On April 3, on the eve of Orthodox Easter, the Tretyakov Gallery donated the Vladimir and Don icons of the Mother of God - masterpieces of Byzantine and Old Russian art - to the Russian Orthodox Church.

The government commission approved amendments to the Criminal Code, which provide punishment for the illegal circulation of cryptocurrency in Russia, RBC reported on April 13, citing sources.

How Russian TV talks about Orban's defeat in the Hungarian elections. The shortest retelling Ekaterina Chesnokova / Sputnik / Profimedia Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on April 12, as a result of which the party of the current Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who had been in power for 16 years, was defeated. Peter Magyar will become the new prime minister of the country; his opposition party Tisza received a constitutional majority.