The St. Petersburg hockey club SKA expects from the city authorities to allocate land for the construction of a new ice arena for 20 thousand spectators. This was stated by President of Armytsev and the chairman of the board of directors of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) Gennady Timchenko. “We want to build a twenty -thousand -thousandth stadium in St. Petersburg so that more than our fans, fans can come to be chewed.

The 17th International Exhibition of the Auto Shanghai automobile industry began on Wednesday, April 19, its work in Shanghai - the largest city in China and the world in terms of population. This large -scale international event takes place every two years, alternating with a car dealership in Beijing. On April 19-20, journalists visit the exhibition.

Following the publication of the video interrogation, Zaura Dadaev, during which he tells how Boris Nemtsov fired, a video of the testimony of one of the accomplices of the crime, the defendant Anzor Gubashev, appeared at the place of the murder of March 19, 2015. Material with small abbreviations was published by the New Gazeta .

In Penza, employees of the organization who called himself an international medical clinic, whose patients were forced to take large loans, were detained, the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reports. The police took up the so -called clinic after numerous complaints received by law enforcement agencies. Clinic patients became mainly women over 50 years old, they were invited to undergo free diagnostics.

The Facebook administration blocked the official page of the Russian Embassy in Slovakia, retaining a fake account created on the social network by unknown attackers, TASS reports with reference to the representative of the Russian Embassy in Slovakia, Nikolai Levshnunov. “Our Administration was temporarily blocked in Facebook, which works mainly in the Slovak language. It is possible to completely remove it. We don’t know what reason,” Levshunov emphasized.

The Russian authorities have prepared a bill prohibiting the use of information systems and programs on the territory of Russia that allow users to circumvent sites with prohibited content. This was written by the newspaper "Vedomosti" with reference to several sources. As an unnamed federal official told the publication, the bill was developed by Roskomnadzor, and the initiative of its creation belongs to the council.

The Moscow Spartak was supposed to be punished in the first half of the match of the 23rd round of the Russian Football Championship with the St. Petersburg Zenit (2: 1). This was stated by the plenipotentiary of the Department of Judgment and Inspecting the Russian Football Union for Media Interaction Leonid Kaloshin.

Producer Alexander Rodnyansky explained why Andrei Zvyagintsev’s film “Little Directorate”, which included in the main competition of the 70th Cannes Film Festival, was shot without state support, TASS reports. “We did not seek state support, we were aware that this is not the film with which we had to go to the Film Foundation,” Rodnyansky said at a press conference in TASS, explaining that the fund supports projects with great commercial potential.

Investigators of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Omsk Region completed a preliminary investigation of a criminal case instituted against a 46-year-old resident of the Tomsk region, who previously served in a special forces and fought in Afghanistan. The man is accused of a series of impudent robbery attacks on gas stations. Crimes were committed in several regions of the Russian Federation.

“The most interesting thing was in the current speech of Medvedev is the information that there is an icebreaker Viktor Chernomyrdin in Russia. Everything else is an ordinary silent shame with a timid issue from the Communist Party of Corruption,” the politician on Facebook writes, sharing the impressions of the prime minister before the deputies. "The harsh rebuke from the Duet Medvedev -Volodin - and again about Syria, patriotism, amateur sport, planned numbers and other urgent topics.

One of the co-founders of the newspaper New Petersburg, journalist Nikolai Andrushchenko died in the hospital at the 74th year of his life, Interfax reports citing lawyer Konstantin Kuzminykh. “I was just informed that Andrushchenko had died in the hospital without leaving the coma after the attack,” the defender said on Wednesday, March 19. The journalist was beaten by unknown on March 9. Ambulance delivered him to the Mariinsky Hospital of St. Petersburg in a coma.

In the village of Bialyok, the Tomsk Region, the Catholic Church of the 1908 building burned down, RIA Tomsk reports with reference to Yuri Sevostyanov, the head of the Pudovsky rural settlement, which includes Bialystok. A message about a fire on Central Velostok Street was received by the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies at 04:16 April 19. The first unit arrived at 04:25, the fire was liquidated at 06:55.

On Wednesday, April 19, the chairman of the Russian government Dmitry Medvedev made an annual report to the deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation. After the performance, the parliamentarians turned to the Prime Minister with their questions .

The son of a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the LDPR Valery Selezneva Roman Seleznev, who was in prison in the United States in anticipation of a sentence in the case of cyber abdominalism , suddenly changed tactics and pleaded guilty, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the accused himself, addressed to the Court of Seattle, who must pass the sentence on April 21. The trial of the Russian began at the end of 2015.

At the F8 developer conference in San Jose, California, the social network Facebook presented a beta version of the Facebook Spaces social network, which can be used by owners of Oculus virtual reality glasses, writes The Verge . Facebook Spaces allows users of Oculus glasses and Touch controllers to communicate in virtual reality, in which their emotion-capable avatars are created based on their profile photo. Moreover, their appearance can be further customized.