The coalition “Progressive Bulgaria”, created by the country’s former president Rumen Radev, can count on 39.6% of the votes in the early parliamentary elections, according to data from the sociological agency “Trend” at 20:00, cited by the publication “Blitz” on April 19.

Iran has no plans to send a delegation to Pakistan for talks with the United States while the United States continues its blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported , citing negotiators. According to Tasnim, after the first round of talks in Islamabad, the parties exchanged messages through a Pakistani mediator.

Eight children died in a shooting in Shreveport, Louisiana, NBC News reports, citing police. The incident occurred on the morning of April 19. Police responded to a call following reports of a domestic dispute. At the scene, they discovered that the shooting had occurred in two houses in the city. One of the victims took refuge in a third house next door. A total of ten people were injured as a result of the shooting. Eight children aged from one to 14 years died.

In St. Petersburg, the Soviet and Russian artist, writer, and Mitkov ideologist Vladimir Shinkarev died at the age of 72, artists Olga Tobreluts and Dmitry Shagin reported. Vladimir Shinkarev / Facebook Shinkarev is one of the founders of the creative group “Mitki”. With his book “Mitki”, in which he described a typical Mitka - a good-natured, carefree drunkard from Leningrad - the art movement of the same name began. In 2008, Shinkarev announced a break with the group.

Courts in Russia began to fine residents of the country for publications with three sixes, considering them propaganda of the International Satanism Movement , which has been declared “extremist” in the country, RIA Novosti reports. The state agency studied court rulings and came to the conclusion that the courts began to mention the number 666 among the international symbols of Satanists. The courts also include an inverted Christian cross, a pentagram and an image of Baphomet as such.

A US delegation will arrive in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on April 20 for talks with Iranian representatives, US President Donald Trump said. According to him, Washington is offering Tehran a “fair and reasonable deal.” “I hope they accept it, because if not, the US will destroy every power plant and every bridge in Iran. Stop playing nice!” - he added.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs called this behavior “shameful” Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA At the scene of the shooting in Kyiv, April 18, 2026 After the shooting that occurred in the Goloseevsky district of Kyiv on April 18, a video filmed by eyewitnesses went viral on social networks. In the recording, two police officers, a man and a woman, run away after hearing shots, leaving civilians, including a child, at the scene.

Its author, Natalia Ginzburg, wrote this book in 1952 after she herself experienced a dictatorship. Now it has been published in Russian in a first-class translation All Our Yesterdays is a novel by Italian writer Natalia Ginzburg, first published in 1952. Some time ago, Ginzburg began to be republished in the West - and the most fashionable modern writers called her an icon of women's literature, which they themselves look up to.

1516th day. In Russia, at the request of the military registration and enlistment office, a real estate transaction was blocked for the first time. Ukraine hits drone production in Taganrog ASTRA Fire at the Atlant Aero plant caused by an APU strike. April 19, 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.

Update. Estonia will not allow the use of its airspace for the flight of Robert Fico's plane to Russia, the country's Foreign Ministry reported . The authorities of Latvia and Lithuania will not allow the plane of Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico to use their airspace to fly to Moscow and participate in the military parade on the occasion of May 9, Fico himself said. “Lithuania and Latvia have already informed us that they will not allow us to fly through their territory on the way to Moscow...

In Tomsk, the Square in memory of the victims of political repression was closed, and the memorial to the victims of Bolshevik terror, the Stone of Sorrow, and other national memorial stones were dismantled, eyewitnesses told NeMoskva Speaks. According to the publication’s interlocutors, on the morning of April 19, the square was fenced off, first the monuments were removed from there, and then the benches began to be dismantled.

Interview with Dmitry Apanskevich, a man who devoted his entire professional life to the study of these arthropods Patrick Pleul / picture alliance / Getty Images Most people are afraid of ticks (with good reason) and try to stay away from them. But biologist Dmitry Apanaskevich knows that they contain a lot of interesting and impressive things. He has been studying these arthropods since the 1990s and now works at the US National Tick Collection, which belongs to the Smithsonian Institution.

Blogger Victoria Bonya published on her Instagram a video generated by artificial intelligence, in which she, in the guise of a superheroine, fights with propagandist Vladimir Solovyov, blogger Artemy Lebedev and State Duma deputy Vitaly Milonov. In the video, Bonya, in the guise of Spider-Man, covers Solovyov’s mouth with a web, ties up Lebedev, who shout insults, and knocks Milonov down. “I’ve had enough,” Bonya says in the video.

We ourselves did not expect that we would release such a gallery Austin Bell In 2017, American photographer Austin Bell came to Hong Kong for the first time, and what impressed him most was... the basketball courts! Or rather, their design and bright colors, which were completely different from the monotonous asphalt boxes in the USA. Bell returned two years later to create Shooting Hoops .

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Igor Klimenko, ordered an official investigation into the actions of police officers during the terrorist attack in Kyiv, which resulted in the death of six people. Shortly after the shooting in the Goloseevsky district of Kyiv, a video of the actions of two police officers during the incident went viral on social networks.