The court in Washington sentenced Maria Butin to be 18 months in prison on Friday arrested in the United States, TASS reports. “I believe that Butina should be sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment,” Judge Tanya Chatken, presiding in this process, noted.

US President Donald Trump said the Senate to stop the process of ratification of an international weapon trade treaty, which was signed at the end of the presidency of Barack Obama. “Today I proudly announce another historical step in order to protect your rights that the second amendment guarantees. Obama signed an international weapon trade agreement, and in recent days he sent a document for ratification to the Senate. This document violates your constitutional rights.

Only half of Russians (50 percent) know that on Easter, believers celebrate the resurrection of Christ, a third could not answer, which they celebrate on this day. The survey, the data of which are published on the VTsIOM website . According to the study, 50 percent of respondents know that the resurrection of Christ is celebrated on Easter.

The Yandex.Taxi service launched a driver’s call service in Moscow in the test mode, which can take the customer to the right place on his own car. This was reported by TJ in the press service of "Yandex.Taxi".

The Association of European Clubs (ESA) made the idea of ​​creating a new pyramidal system of football European cup tournaments, which involves a decrease and increase in class. In other words, qualifications in the Champions Football League can be replaced by a division system.

Ford engineers have created a prototype of shopping carts in a supermarket equipped with an obstacle collision system. Details about this project were published on the Ford blog . The need to create such a trolley in Ford thought due to the danger that a regular trolley from a supermarket, loaded with purchases, can represent. She can roll under a slope in the parking lot or arrange an "accident" right in the store due to the fault of playing children.

The Russian national team, made up of players no older than 18 years old, reached the semi-finals of the Junior World Hockey Championship. In the quarterfinal match of the tournament, which takes place in Sweden, the Russians defeated their peers from Belarus with a score of 6:0. Ilya Nikolaev, Arseniy Gritsyuk, Danil Gushchin, Rodion Amirov, Egor Chinakhov and Egor Spiridonov scored goals.

"Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the assessment of the effectiveness of regional managers. Governors are required to primarily ensure the high confidence of the local population to the president," writes the politician and head of the Council of Deputies of the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow on his Facebook page. “Interestingly, he even remembers that the governors are not his subordinates, but it seems like the leaders chosen by citizens?

In the evening of April 23, the inhabitants of Costa Rica watched a meteor. Eyewitnesses from different regions of the country talked about a bright outbreak in the sky, which was accompanied by a strange noise, reports StormNews with reference to the Diario Extra newspaper. The social networks immediately flooded the photos and videos of the flight of the celestial body, most of which turned out to be fakes. There were only a few real records from surveillance cameras.

Former world heavyweight champion according to the World Boxing Organization (WBO), American Shannon Briggs, said that he received an offer to fight with Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko, who retired in August 2017. “At three o’clock in the morning they called me and offered me a fight with Wladimir Klitschko,” Briggs, 47, told iFL TV . “I said I’m ready. I would be glad if the fight took place.

In the coastal waters in the south of England, there are a large number of huge Medus-Cornerots Rhizostoma Pulmo. They were seen near the shore in the counties of Dorset and Devon, including the resort city of Torki, which was very surprised by vacationers: usually they can be found in these places in early summer. ITV notes that these giants are almost harmless to humans. Cornerots are the largest jellyfish in British waters. They grow up to 90 cm across and weigh to 35 kg.

Oleg Kozlovsky, an employee of the Amnesty International human rights organization, filed a lawsuit against the MTS operator in connection with the hacking of his account in the Telegram messenger, which occurred three years ago. The submission in the Tverskaya District Court of Moscow demanding to recover 1 ruble of moral damage from MTS by Kozlovsky’s lawyer, lawyer of the Agora international human rights group Ilnur Sharapov, told Kommersant .

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow satisfied the lawsuit to protect the business reputation, which was filed by the Federal Security Service (FSB) to Novaya Gazeta due to an article on torture in Magnitogorsk. According to the correspondent of the newspaper from the courtroom, the judge ordered to remove two materials from the publication website, a page from the PDF version and publish a refutation.

A representative of mixed martial arts (MMA) Joyce Vera attacked a man on the beach of Prya Du Braga in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro, Daily Mirror reports. The athlete stated that the man depicted sexual intercourse in front of her, which caused a deep psychological trauma. The victim assures that he just went away to urinate and hit the girl in the eye. The police twisted the 26-year-old man for performing an “obscene action”, but after the testimony he was released.

President of Sri Lanka Maitripal Sirisen ordered an inspection of all residential buildings on the island after a series of explosions on April 21, TASS reports. "A large -scale search operation has begun. Each house in the country will be verified. Lists of permanent residents of each building will be compiled in order to exclude the possibility of living unknown people," the head of state, widespread by his press service, said.