In Japanese Osaka, Russian skaters Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Gallyamov won first place in an arbitrary program at the World Team Trophy team in the sports couples, receiving 151.59 points for rental. “It was nice to skate this program at the audience - at the World Cup in Stockholm we performed without them. With the audience, this is felt differently - we hear support, we see spectators with flags - this is an unforgettable feeling,” Mishina told reporters.

In Monte Carlo, Russian Andrei Rublev with a score of 6: 3, 7: 5 defeated the Norwegian Kasper Ruud in the semifinal match of the Masters series, whose prize fund is $ 2.5 million. On the court, the rivals spent 1 hour 20 minutes. In the decisive meeting of the competition, Rublev will play with Greek Stefanos Tsicipas. They played among themselves six times, each won three victories.

17-year-old Anna Shcherbakova took first place in the arbitrary program at the World Team Trophy World Cup in Japanese Osaka, gaining 160.58 points following the rental results. The second place was taken by Japanese Kaori Sakamoto (150.29 points), the third - the captain of the Russian team Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (146,23). “I was very proud when I heard that I would go here and I would be part of the Russian team.

In the UK, a farewell ceremony was held with the spouse of Queen Elizabeth II Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, who died on April 9 at the age of 99. The funeral was held in the Windsor castle in the circle of close relatives of the deceased and with the participation of more than 730 military personnel, the Air Force reports. The funeral of Prince Philip were ceremonial, like the funeral of Queen Mother Elizabeth, Princess Diana and former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

On the morning of April 17, three crew members of the International Space Station (ISS) safely returned to Earth. The live planting broadcast was carried out on the website of Roscosmos and the NASA website. The Ship "Union MS-17" was set off from the Search module "Search" of the Russian Segment of the ISS on April 17 on April 17 at 4 hours 34 minutes Moscow time, the Roskosmos said in a statement .

The FSB of Russia reported on the detention together with the KGB of Belarus of the conspirators who allegedly planned a military coup in Belarus on May 9 and the physical elimination of the President of the Republic Alexander Lukashenko.

The losses of Russian tour operators from the restriction of air traffic with Turkey amount to at least 5 billion rubles, Yuri Barzykin, vice-president of the Russian Union of Trade, told TASS. He specified that transit passengers flying through Istanbul were not taken into account in these calculations. Barzykin expressed the hope that these losses are compensated with the restoration of full aircraft with Turkey after June 1.

In Kyrgyzstan, clinical trials of the drug based on the poisonous plant "Issyk-Kul root" (Aconit Dzhungarsky, Aconitum Soongaricum) are held for the treatment of patients with coronavirus. The head of the country's Ministry of Health, Alymkadyr Beishenaliev, said that about 200 patients who carry the disease in mild form take “medicine” in hospitals under the supervision of doctors, and “none of them died”. Beishenaliev emphasized that the decoction must be taken hot.

In the American Ankasville, the Bellator 257 tournament was held, the main event of which was the battle of Russian Vadim Nemkov and American Phil Davis. The duel was held as part of the quarterfinals of the Grand Prix of the Polesholes and ended with the victory of Nemkov by the unanimous decision of the judges - 48:47, 48:47, 48:47. “The task was to work in the rack, interrupt it and defend myself from the struggle.

In the match of the Minsk Championship in hockey, among amateur teams, the unconditional leaders of the second Bastion and Shield League, in which the sons of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, met the unconditional leaders of the second league. The colors of the Bastion are protected by Victor and Nikolai, Dmitry is playing for the “shield”. All three took part in the match, which ended with the victory of the Bastion with a score of 2: 0.

At the Imola Avtodrome in Italy, the British pilot of the Mercedes team Lewis Hamilton became the winner of the qualification of the Grand Prix Emilia-Romani-the second stage of the World Cups in the Formula-1 car class. The best circle of the 36-year-old racer drove in 1 minute 14.411 seconds.

The fighter of the mixed -style fighter Hetag Pliev vs. Devin Guddeil, in which the athlete representing Canada nearly lost his finger, was recognized as failed. "The athletic commission recognized the battle as failed," the representative of the Pliev team told TASS . The fight took place on April 1 in the organization of Cage Fury in the United States.

On April 16, employees of the FSB detained the consul of the Consults of the General Consults of Ukraine Alexander Sosonyuk in St. Petersburg during a meeting with a Russian citizen "upon receipt of information of a closed nature contained in the databases of law enforcement agencies and the FSB of Russia," the special services website said.

The attending doctors of Alexei Navalny, with the consent of his relatives, partially revealed the results of a biochemical blood analysis of a policy made in the laboratory for convicted IK-3 UFSINs of the Vladimir region. From the document it follows that the level of potassium in Navalny's blood serum is 7.1 mmol/l. Since March 31, the politician holds a hunger strike in protest against the inappropriate of qualified doctors to him. “These figures are critical.

On April 17, the US National Directorate for Aeronautics and Space Studies (NASA) announced that two American astronauts will land on the moon for the first time in more than 50 years on the ship of the SpaceX space company. The cost of a contract for the development of a ship that will be used in this mission amounted to $ 2.89 billion. Details are reported on the NASA website .