The FBI has discovered Marc Chagall's Othello and Desdemona, stolen 30 years ago. It turned out that the painting of the great artist spent most of this time in a dusty attic in a box hastily knocked together from a door frame and plywood. The masterpiece was stolen from the Geller couple's home in New York back in the late 1980s. According to the BBC , the painting will soon be returned to the relatives of the rightful owners.

The destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill, armed with several dozen Tomagavka cruise missiles, joined the Mediterranean group of US Navy ships, the US 6th Fleet’s command said . The ship advanced to the region after the President of the United States Donald Trump promised to give a decisive answer to the chemical attack in the Syrian Duma allegedly happening on April 7. "The USS Winston S.

Sweden has opened the world's first road on which commercial and passenger vehicles with electric or powertrains can charge while driving, automatically connecting to an electrical grid built into the highway itself, The Local reports.

Five-time Olympic champion French biathleticist Marten Fourcade expressed the hope that Russian Yevgeny Ustyug will be deprived of the gold of the 2010 Games in the mass start if it turns out that the athlete is guilty of violation of anti-doping rules. In the mass start at the Olympics in Vancouver, Fourcade came to the finish line second. “I am a vice -champion of games in Vancouver, this has already become part of the story.

The prosecutor's office of Petrozavodsk, demanding nine years in prison for the head of the Karelian Memorial, Yuri Dmitriev , who eventually condemned the restrictions of freedom to 2.5 years, did not agree with the acquittal and appealed him. A complaint to the court was filed by the prosecutor of Petrozavodsk Elena Askerova.

On Sakhalin, the government is ready to issue a mortgage at 0% - this is a proposal for large families who want to build a house on the Far Eastern Hectare. According to Denis Kuzin, a representative of the agency for the development of human capital in the Far East, so far no one used the free mortgage, but she is interested. Kuzin, speaking at the media forum in Yuzhno -Sakhalinsk, said: "The authorities offer a unique product - large families can be built on a" hectare "at 0%.

In Moscow, police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the fall of a student at a prestigious university from the height of the fourth floor. According to the preliminary version, the girl was pushed out of the window by her classmate and boyfriend. A photo of the 21-year-old victim was posted on the social network Twitter by the Breaking Mash channel. A video recording made from the MGIMO window was also published there.

The Russian special services followed the ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter for at least five years before the attempt on them in Salisbury. This is stated in a letter to Mark Sedila, the British National Security Advisor, to the NATO Secretary General Jens Soltenberg. The full text of the message on April 13 was published on the website of the Government of Great Britain. Russian special services showed interest in the email account of Julia Sripal back in 2013, the letter said.

The media became known the details of the bill , which is planning to adopt the State Duma in response to US sanctions. In particular, it provides for the ban on the import of agricultural, alcohol and tobacco products produced in the United States and the countries that supported American sanctions against Russia, the First Vice Speaker of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov said on Friday .

In the UK, an investigation of the mysterious death of two people is being investigated, the causes of the deaths of which law enforcement agencies have no. At night on Friday, April 13, the police were called to the house in the city of Wererting (County Sasex), where they found the dead man and a woman. The Sussex police consider the incident as "inexplicable", reports the Daily Star . From which the man and the woman died, is unknown.

At a meeting on April 13, the Tagansky Court of Moscow satisfied the claim of Roskomnadzor to block the Telegram messenger in Russia due to failure to fulfill the duties of the organizer of information dissemination (ORI). Mediazona reports this. At the very beginning of the hearing, Judge Yulia Smolina refused to satisfy the request of Telegram lawyers, who were prohibited by the founder of the service Pavel Durov from participating in the process, to postpone the consideration of the case.

This week, the Swiss Frank, who has a reputation as a protective asset during the shocks in financial markets, demonstrated an unusual decline. Frank sank to the euro to the minimum level since January 2015. At the same time, the profitability of the two -year bonds of Switzerland on Thursday increased to a month of peak, while the rates of similar papers in Germany fell (an increase in the profitability of bonds indicates, recall, a decrease in their reliability).

The Kirov region police continue to investigate a cynical attack on a disabled person , filmed on video in Kirovo-Chepetsk. One of the accomplices in the crime actually turned out to be the offspring of a law enforcement officer, as previously reported on social networks.

The permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, Sarah Danius, is resigning. She did not give a reason, but the media linked it to a scandal about alleged harassment and information leakage. Coming out of a meeting of academy members to reporters, she did not disclose the reasons: “This is confidential. But this is the will of the academy, I carry it out.

On Friday, the draw for the semi-final pairs of the UEFA Europa League took place in Nyon, Switzerland. Based on its results, it became known that Atletico Madrid and Arsenal, as well as French Marseille and Swiss Salzburg, will compete for spots in the final. Atlético Madrid will play Arsenal in European competition for the first time in history, while Marseille and Salzburg met in the group stage. Then the Swiss won 1:0 at home and achieved a goalless draw in Marseille.