A few hours after the Tagansky court of Moscow appointed the Roskomnadzor’s claim to block Telegram on April 13, the head of the Agora international human rights group, which represents the interests of Telegram in the courts, Pavel Chikov said that the founder of the service Pavel Durov forbade his lawyers to participate in the trial.

World oil prices are reduced on the monthly OPEC report and continue to win back the data of the US Treasury on the growth of reserves in the country, Prime agency reports with reference to trading data. Prices remain in the area of ​​three -year maximums. As of 16:20 in Moscow, the cost of June futures on the North Sea oil mixture of Brent brand fell by 0.35%, up to 71.81 dollars per barrel, the price of Maywater futures grew by 0.4% - up to 66.47 dollars per barrel.

The founder and head of the Facebook social network, Mark Zuckerberg, said his personal data was at the disposal of the British analytical company Cambridge Analytica among the data of 87 million other Facebook users. About this, according to The Verge , Tsuckerberg spoke during the hearing in the US Senate. The head of Facebook answered the question of whether his own data came to the developers of third -party applications, but did not bring the details of the leakage of this information.

The co -chair of the unregistered party "Other Russia" Alexander Averin was detained in the Rostov region. He was placed in the police department in the Matveevo-Kurgan district. The party consider the incident a provocation of law enforcement agencies. The chairman of the "other Russia" Eduard Limonov told RBC that Averin was detained in the Rostov region a few days ago. “This happened a couple of days ago. Today he didn’t call from his number.

Impostings appeared in the Russian regions who pretend to be employees of the Ministry of Emergencies and extort money for the provision of allegedly compulsory fire safety services. Their requirements may seem plausible to the Russians against the backdrop of large-scale inspections of the security of shopping and entertainment centers undertaken after the tragedy in Kemerovo, when 64 people died as a result of the fire.

Workers carrying out the reconstruction of a department store in the center of the American city of Minneapolis (Minnesota) discovered the mummified remains of a monkey. According to the AP, the mummy was found last week in an air duct on the seventh floor of the building. A spokeswoman for the shopping complex, Kaylin Rogers, said management does not know where the monkey came from in the building or how it got into the air duct.

The President of the International Biathlon Union (IBU) Anders Besserberg said that police searches at the IBU headquarters and corruption suspicions of him are related to blood passports of Russian biathlonists. We are talking about these athletes who performed at the 2017 World Cup in Hochfilzen allegedly with prohibited drugs in the body.

Gleb Kuznetsov “For me in the Surkov article , the most amazing thing is a fixation at the“ state ”and“ ideological ”level of the existence of the so -called east. As a kind of“ opposition ”to the West, and really existing. Fixation as a given of a very useful and profitable one and a half years ago, but very harmful and already experienced by everyone today myth,” the political scientist writes on his Facebook page. "T.N.

The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading the law on blocking information on the Internet defaming the honor, dignity and business reputation of a citizen or legal entity, RIA Novosti reports. We are talking about the bill , which was submitted to the Duma in early April by a group of deputies, led by the head of the Committee on Security and Combating Corruption by Vasily Piskarev.

On April 12, the London publishing house Biteback Publishing published a book by the former head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, “The Treacherous Rut.” In it, he describes the events that took place in the USSR and Russia at the end of the 20th - beginning of the 21st centuries, in which he took a direct part.

Germany will not join the military operation and possible airstrikes on the positions of the Syrian government of Bashar al -Assad in response to the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Duma (East Guta). This was announced by the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, reports Reuters. After negotiations in Berlin, with his Danish colleague Lars Larske Rasmussen, the head of the German government emphasized that her country would not participate in possible hostilities against the Assad regime.

Three-time Olympic champion Vladislav Tretyak was elected to the post of president of the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF) for the fourth time. The uncontested elections on Thursday in Moscow at the meeting of the FHR reporting and election conference ended unanimously. Vladislav Tretyak, 65, who has held this post for three consecutive terms since 2006, was re-elected for the next four years.

The Pope Francis announced the receipt of the total amount of documents regarding the investigation of pedophilia accusations against Chilean clergy.

Chelyabinsk police detained a man suspected of brutally killing a dog. The attacker killed the purebred animal and then skinned it in a forested area on the river bank. According to the detainee, he was going to sell the dog meat to shawarma dealers, writes Access . N. Kostenko is suspected of killing a Siberian Husky dog, reports the Typical Chelyabinsk group on the VKontakte social network. The police began an investigation.

The former politician gives his version of events on Facebook , preceding the recent meeting of Dmitry Medvedev and Vladimir Putin. This version explains the prime minister’s words about the "absolutely stable" economy. “Dim, get up, why have you been dug up?!