Telegram users in Russia on the evening of April 16 began writing in channel comments and chats that the blocked messenger had been working without a VPN for several hours, Important Stories reported. What this is connected with is unknown. In particular, Ksenia Boletskaya, director of industry relations at Yandex, reported this: “It’s strange, but my cart is now working without a VPN, it even loads videos.” Channel “Before everyone else.

The US State Department has published the text of a temporary ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon, which is expected to come into force on the night of April 17 and will remain in force for ten days.

Alex Wong/Getty Images US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, during a Christian service at the Pentagon on April 15, read a prayer that, according to him, American pilots say before search and rescue operations. Hegseth said the prayer is based on a passage from the Book of Ezekiel, part of the Old Testament. However, social network users noticed that it resembles the speech of the hero Samuel L. Jackson in the film “Pulp Fiction,” Newsweek and The Guardian write.

The Grinex crypto exchange announced that it would suspend operations amid a large-scale cyber attack “with signs of the participation of foreign intelligence services,” the platform’s Telegram channel reported on April 16. As a result of the hack, the report states, funds of Russian users worth more than a billion rubles were stolen from the exchange’s crypto wallets. The exchange published the addresses of the wallets that were attacked.

In a conversation with Ksenia Sobchak, he admitted that he missed his former friends who left because of the war. Unexpectedly they answered him On April 13, Ksenia Sobchak released an interview with TV presenter Anton Krasovsky. He is known as a person who moved from a liberal environment to a conservative one. He was a recognizable journalist for glossy publications, but then became an aggressive war propagandist - he was fired from RT for his call to “drown” and “burn” Ukrainian children.

US President Donald Trump announced on April 16 that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to a ceasefire. The corresponding regime for a period of 10 days will come into force on the night of April 17, the US President said. “I have just had fruitful conversations with the respected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. The two leaders agreed that to achieve peace between their countries, they would formally declare a 10-day truce,” Trump said.

In instructions on the support website, Samsung showed how to isolate applications using the example of the Russian national instant messenger Max. Attention to the publication “How to install applications or instant messengers in the Knox Folder on Samsung Galaxy?” The Hedgehog telegram channel was one of the first to pay attention , although the instructions were published at the end of March.

The governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced that he was going on vacation. He posted a corresponding message on his telegram channel. Gladkov said he would be absent for two weeks. He promised that “operational information about current events” will continue to appear on his social media pages, where he regularly posts announcements about the missile danger and reports on the consequences of shelling by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Russian courts have begun to apply amendments adopted in 2025 recognizing the use of VPNs as an aggravating circumstance in the commission of crimes, the publication “Verstka” claims. Journalists found the first two such criminal cases. Thus, on December 19, 2025, the Novomoskovsky District Court of the Tula Region sentenced a local resident to a year and eight months in a general regime colony in a case of illegal acquisition of drugs on a large scale.

Travelers had to wait hours for security checks; some missed their flights Igor Soban / PIXSELL / Scanpix / LETA Queue for border control at Zagreb International Airport, Croatia. April 10, 2026 Listen to the audio version of this text on Radio Medusa After the full launch of the European Entry Exit System (EES), a new border control system for non-EU citizens, airports in 15 European countries reported serious delays and long queues at border control, the Financial Times writes.

British electronic band Massive Attack and American singer and actor Tom Waits have released a joint single called “Boots on the Ground.” The song “Boots on the Ground” has political overtones: it is dedicated to the history of the protest movement in the United States over the past six years.

One policeman was killed and three were injured while detaining a criminal in the Orenburg region, the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. The suspect fled and is being sought. According to telegram channels Shot, Baza and “112”, police tried to detain a criminal who is on the federal wanted list in the village of Akkermanovka. When the suspect saw the police, he opened fire on them. The Ministry of Health reported that the three wounded policemen were in stable and serious condition.

The “Paper” edition is being disassembled Shuttersrock Foreign SIM cards have become sharply popular in Russia: all because they can be used to bypass blocking. Russians buy physical and electronic SIM cards from Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia, Uzbekistan and EU countries in order to use Telegram, Instagram and other blocked resources without obstacles. However, this method does not always help.

A Meduza source in one of the media outlets loyal to the Russian government reported that the political bloc of the presidential administration received an “urgent request” “not to develop the topic of Boni’s appeal.” The only exception, he said, is the reaction of officials to an appeal recorded by a blogger to the President of the Russian Federation, which caused a great resonance.

Investigators charged the editor-in-chief of the Sapa telegram channel, Alina Dzhikaeva, with giving a bribe (points “a”, “b” of part 4 of article 291 of the Criminal Code). This was reported to TASS by the press service of the Moscow department of the Investigative Committee. The Investigative Committee stated that Dzhikaeva did not admit guilt.