Soon after the Iraqi court sentenced two Russians to a life sentence for participating in the Islamic State, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation reported that from 50 to 70 citizens of the Russian Federation and more than 100 children are currently containing in the prison of the Baghdad criminal court, Interfax reports.

“The new Chairman of the State Council of Cuba, Miguel Diaz-Canel, stated the need to continue the revolution that the Castro brothers started in his country. It’s funny that this 57-year-old dude was born when these brothers were already in full swing in the revolution, incinerating enemies, but were never able to to end this matter - old age has set in suddenly,” the journalist writes on Facebook .

The high court of London ruled that the Luna yacht 115 meters long, which Russian billionaire Farhad Akhmedov bought in 2014 from the owner of Chelsea Roman Abramovich for almost $ 492 million, should be transferred to Tatyana Akhmedova. A businessman has been breeding with her for four years. In his verdict, Judge Charles Haddon-Cave noted that Akhmedov tried to hide that he owns a super-yield.

US President Donald Trump during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the Mar-A-Liags estate in Palm Beach (Florida) said that Washington would impose new sanctions against Russia when she "really deserves them." The broadcast of negotiations of the two leaders was conducted on the White House website . Trump also emphasized that no one takes a more stringent position against Russia than he is.

Real Madrid, thanks to another goal from Cristiano Ronaldo, managed to avoid defeat in the home match of the 33rd round of the Spanish Championship against Athletic Bilbao. His heel kick brought the team a draw - 1:1. Ronaldo responded to Basque forward Iñaki Williams's scoring strike at the start of the match at the end of the second half, heeling the ball into the goal after Luka Modric's shot.

Italian police and carabinieri, as well as members of the Anti-Mafia Investigation Department (DIA), carried out an operation codenamed Anno Zero in the Sicilian province of Trapani, aimed against Cosa Nostra. As a result, dozens of people associated with organized crime were detained, reports PartannaLive . The raid on the mafiosi took place in the cities of Castelvetrano, Campobello di Mazara and Partanna. A total of 22 people were arrested.

Russia cannot yet fully abandon original drugs and medical devices that are produced abroad. This was stated on Thursday, April 19, Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Veronika Skvortsova after inspecting the exhibition of Russian manufacturers of medical equipment and goods organized by the Ministry of Transport.

On April 18, Roskomnadzor held a meeting with representatives of the largest telecom operators, the main topic of which was the blocking of the Telegram messenger in Russia, the Kommersant newspaper writes, citing three sources in the industry.

“The fate of those who, in the 30s, fled for repressions, believing that this would help, did not teach the Mifologist Medinsky nothing. His subordinates from Gosculti sent him to court on silver -silver paper that, they say, for the accused and continue to sit under arrests,” the publicist writes in the “live magazine” . “This is not your business, Medinsky services. They could stand aside with their invented“ damage ”, not to interfere with the arrested mud.

“Officials and deputies are not going to abandon the telegram. Someone bashfully hides their eyes:“ I just check how there are blocking. ”Someone openly explains that no one forbidden to communicate in the messenger. True, not one of the Dumans or members of the government bashfully remembers that the blocking is on the“ Yarova Law ”-and who, it was interesting to recall it,” writes,-writes it. on Facebok .

The Proton-M launch vehicle with a military satellite was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The TASS agency reports this with reference to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The rocket launch took place on the night of Thursday, April 19, at 01:12 Moscow time and was successful. At 01:22, the head part of the Proton-M, as part of the Briz-M upper stage with the spacecraft, separated from the third stage of the launch vehicle as normal, the Ministry of Defense reported.

For the fifteenth time, the Russian edition of Forbes magazine has published a rating of 200 richest businessmen of Russia. Over the past two years, the number of Russian dollar billionaires has increased by 29 people. If in 2016 there were 77 of them, then in 2018 the list includes 106 businessmen with a fortune of $ 1 billion or more, follows from the rating. In the first place is the chairman of the board of directors of NLMK Vladimir Lisin, whose condition is estimated at $ 19.1 billion.

The Krasnoyarsk “Yenisei” football players promised to hold an erotic photo shoot if they win gold medals at the Russian Championship this season, the official Twitter of the Siberian team reports. “If we win the Russian championship, then the whole team will hold an erotic photo shoot with a cup and medals,” the message says. If we win the Russian championship, the whole team will have an erotic photo shoot with a cup and medals!

The Control and Disciplinary Committee (CDC) of the Russian Football Union (RFU) will consider the behavior of Moscow Spartak fans at the Russian Cup semi-final match against Tosno from the Leningrad Region, the Championship portal claims. According to the source, during the penalty shoot-out, monkey hooting was heard from the red-and-white stands at Tosno midfielder Nuno Roshi when he scored the decisive goal and ran up to the host stands.

It is possible that the Russian authorities will abandon such an indicator as the consumer basket. The poor will be taken into account not by the person’s income in a living minimum or not, but according to other principles. This, as the Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes, told at a meeting of the General Council of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia (FNPR) the head of the Ministry of Labor Maxim Topilin.