The Facebook social network announced the appearance of a number of functions associated with voice communication of users. Some innovations will allow Facebook to compete with the Clubhouse social network, which recently survived the peak of popularity. The company said that this summer, Facebook will appear on SoundBits, designed to create short audioclies that users will be able to place on their pages.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation called on the Russians to refrain from participating in damaged actions announced by Navalny’s headquarters on April 21, and especially warned the Russians against participating in these events of their minor relatives. In addition, the ministry recalled the risk of coronavirus infection: "The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs calls on citizens to refrain from participating in inconsistent shares ...

Mikhail Pozharsky “About the situation of Navalny now, of course, everything is written by everything. However, it is important to indicate this: after the arrest and“ court ”in the sight of international attention, not only Navalny himself turned out to be, but the whole Russian penitentiary system. When an ordinary Vasya dies in Russian colonies - some mediazons and“ newspapers ”or“ Rus of the sitting ”can write about this.

On Tuesday night, April 20, in a three -story residential building on Novoselov Street in the village of Margusha in the Dalnekonstannovsky district of the Nizhny Novgorod region, a strong explosion thundered. As a result, there was a partial collapse of four apartments on the second and third floors, a fire broke out, the area of ​​which reached 1200 square meters. The structures of the building collapsed. In total, the house has 27 apartments in which 31 people live.

The number of scientists and highly qualified specialists leaving Russia has increased five times since 2012. This was stated by the chief scientist of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Nikolai Dolgushkin during the general meeting of the Academy. According to him, the number of specialists annually went abroad increased from 14 thousand in 2012 to almost 70 thousand people at present.

Montenegrin cancels all restrictions on visiting the country for citizens of Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and North Macedonia. This was announced on Twitter by the head of the Ministry of Finance of the country Miloenko Spaya. "We are pleased to inform you that for visiting Montenegro in the tourist season 2021, for citizens of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus, Ukraine and North Macedonia, all restrictive measures will be removed, including PCR testing," he wrote in Russian.

The frescoes with the devils that hold in their hands smartphones and laptops that appeared in the Nikolaev Monastery, reflect the spirit of the time in which Internet addiction spreads wider. Unusual frescoes with demons with laptops and smartphones in the paws appeared on the western wall of the temple of the male monastery, where images of mortal sins are placed. Sinners burn next to them in fire, their hands are constrained by chains. As stated by RIA "Nov.

The American ambassador to Russia John Sullivan will still fly to the United States this week, after which he will return to Moscow, the Axios publication, citing a representative of the State Department. Earlier, Axios wrote with reference to sources that Sullivan did not intend to leave Russia, despite the recommendations of the Foreign Ministry to go to Washington for consultations.

“The stronger the nuts are twisted in the country, the more difficult it is for sociologists and political workers to interpret the results of public opinion polls,” the political scientist writes on his Facebook page. "In a conversation with half the stars, people become less frank, they are all the lesserly divided by what they really think. Instead of honest answers, the survey listens to socially approved crap or simply get a turn from the gate.

In India, local crematoriums began to melt, without withstanding the number of corpses of those killed as a result of the coronavirus, the Al Jazeera channel reports, noting that the government underestimates the statistics of fatal outcomes from Covid-19. Gas and wood furnaces of the crematorium in the Western Indian state of Gujarat during the pandemic worked without breaks for so long that the metal units began to melt.

The head of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Alexander Dyukov was elected to the Executive Committee of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). The election took place during the UEFA Congress, which takes place in the Swiss Montrea. For the chairman of the board of Gazprom Neft, 50 delegates of the Congress of 55 voted.

Vadim Lukashevich "The Deputy Prime Minister, as I was expected, confirmed in" Vesti "plans to refuse the ISS after 2024. He spoke about the future Russian orbital service station (ROSS), according to which there is nothing yet, and if it is, it was not very soon. And in conclusion, he said absolute nonsense that the future Ross was suitable for the long -range space," the expert in the field of aviation writes and the other Cosmonautics on your Facebook page.

The actions of the police and ships on protests, as well as possible shocks due to the situation around Alexei Navalny, the Russians were most disturbed at the beginning of the year. This follows from the next "national index of anxiety", prepared by the company for the development of public relations (CROS). According to researchers, from January to March, a surge of negative statements was observed in social networks both to law enforcement officers and protesters.

The Federal Civil Aviation Department of the United States (FAA) called on the airline to show "extreme caution" during air flights near the border of Russia and Ukraine, referring to potential risks for flight safety.

The foreign intelligence service (SVR) of Russia opened a virtual reception in the darknet (the shadow segment of the Internet), through which everyone is invited to send important information to the department. The English -language message with the instructions for using this feedback channel appeared on the SVR website at the end of December 2020, but this was not officially reported, and the media drew attention to the existence of such a reception room only now.