French actress Nathalie Baye has died at the age of 77, Le Monde reports, citing Agence France-Presse. Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty Images Natalie Bai. October 2022 Bai's family said she died at her home in Paris, adding that the actress had been diagnosed with Lewy body dementia . The actress starred in more than 90 films, working with major French directors and won the French national Cesar film award four times.

Six people were killed and 15 were injured. The shooter was killed Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Police officers near the body of one of those killed in Kyiv. April 18, 2026 In the Goloseevsky district of Kiev on the evening of April 18, a criminal opened fire on passers-by and then barricaded himself in a supermarket. Six people were killed and ten were injured. The shooter was killed by special forces soldiers who stormed the supermarket.

Tatyana Frolova - about her friend, artist Andrei Akuzin, who committed suicide in a pre-trial detention center Archive of Andrey Akuzin On April 10, theater director Tatyana Frolova spoke on her Facebook about the death of her friend, artist Andrei Akuzin. He hanged himself in pre-trial detention center No. 3 of Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

It was its employees who tried to poison Navalny, and now they also oversee the Russian Internet The second service of the FSB (Service for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Combating Terrorism), whose employees were involved in the poisoning of oppositionists Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza , is responsible for the doping program in Russian sports, The Insider found out.

In the Goloseevsky district of Kyiv, the criminal opened fire on people. UNIAN writes with reference to eyewitness video that the criminal, dressed in civilian clothes, shot at random passers-by. Ukrainian telegram channels reported that a man about 60 years old armed with a machine gun locked himself in a Walmart supermarket and took several people hostage.

Finland became the first country to reduce its participation at the Venice Biennale after Russia announced its own project for the first time since the start of a full-scale war with Ukraine. This, writes ARTnews, was announced by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Finland.

All car sharing operators in Moscow have introduced technology to check the condition of drivers before the trip, said the head of the city department of transport Maxim Liksutov. Before renting a car, writes the telegram channel of the Moscow Department of Transport, the system may offer the user to take a short cognitive test, which is a mini-game on reaction speed. For example, drivers are asked to quickly put numbers in order or select pictures that depict certain objects.

1515th day. Ukrainian drones again attack the Russian oil industry Vantor / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Fire at the Tuapse oil refinery attacked by drones on April 16, 2026 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: Axios, citing sources, writes that three merchant ships came under fire, at least one of them was damaged. No people were reported injured. Two merchant ships reported being fired upon while attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz, Reuters reported, citing three shipping and security sources. It is not yet clear what damage was caused by the shelling. Iran announced on the morning of April 18 that it was again closing the Strait of Hormuz to the passage of ships.

Iranian authorities have announced that the Strait of Hormuz is again “under the strict management and control” of the country’s armed forces, the Associated Press reports. Iran's Joint Forces Command warned in a statement that it would prevent shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz as long as the United States blocks Iranian ports. President Donald Trump announced yesterday that the United States will continue to block Iranian ports.

A suspect in the murder of a policeman was detained in the Orenburg region, TASS reports citing the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. According to the Investigative Committee, the shooting at police on April 16, as a result of which one Interior Ministry officer was killed and three were injured, was opened by private Sergei Basalaev, who was on the federal wanted list.

Mikhail Voskresensky / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / Profimedia After the flood, debris remains on the streets. Volunteers and local residents clean them up. April 11, 2026 Hundreds of people came to help the residents of Dagestan affected by the flood. Some came to the republic as volunteers, others collected humanitarian aid in their regions and sent it to the affected cities and villages, while others housed Dagestanis left homeless in their homes.

A US State Department delegation visited Cuba on April 10 for the first time since President Barack Obama visited the island in 2016, Axios writes. During the visit, which was not officially announced, US officials held a series of meetings with senior Cuban officials. They were attended, among others, by Raul Rodriguez Castro, the grandson of Cuban leader Raul Castro.

Critic Lisa Birger recommends eight young adult books that help teenagers (and not only!) survive difficult experiences: from war and PTSD to sexualized violence and death This spring, the publishing house Meduza published its first book for teenagers - Natalia Krupenina’s novel “I Can Fall.” It's about a high school girl who becomes a volunteer in an organization that helps transport refugees from war zones.

The United States allowed supplies of Russian oil and petroleum products if they were loaded onto ships before April 17. The corresponding license was published by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury (OFAC). The permit will be valid until May 16. The previous license, allowing the supply of Russian oil already loaded on tankers, was valid from March 12 to April 11. The US has eased sanctions on US Russian oil amid a sharp rise in global energy prices.