US President Joe Biden fulfilled his election promise and officially recognized the mass killings of ethnic Armenians organized and committed at the beginning of the 20th century in the Ottoman Empire by genocide. He made this historical statement on the day when the 106th anniversary of the Armenian genocide is celebrated.

A large-scale study conducted among 73 thousand patients with confirmed COVID-19 and almost 5 million not painful patients from the control group showed that many suffering from coronavirus and after the disease continue to experience health problems and have a significant risk of dying. The study, which today is considered the largest study of the Covid-19 after the acute stage of the disease, sheds more light on the long effects of coronavirus, known as "Long Covid".

In Moscow, CSKA basketball players won with a score of 78:67 Turkish "Fenerbahce" in the second match of the quarter-final series of the playoff Euroleague. The most productive player of the meeting was Marco Gudurich from Fenerbahce, who scored 27 points, and Daniel Haeckett (14) demonstrated sniper qualities of the army club. “The second half turned out to be not very good and spectacular, but it was a real battle, and we respected the game and fans.

The heads of the Helsinki Commission of the United States - Democrat Senator Ben Cardin, Republican Senator Roger Wieker and Congressman Joe Wilson - called the presidential administration Joe Biden more actively acting in support of the Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny.

In Izhevsk, a part of the sheathing broke off the club on the Clubnaya street from the balcony of house 44 and collapsed on two girls passing below. The girls went to the store located on the ground floor of a residential building. At the time of the collapse, they managed to jump away from the pieces falling from above. It accidentally hit the video.

In Krasnogorsk near Moscow, the dynamo’s hockey players with a score of 7: 5 defeated the Yaroslavl Loko in the fifth match of the final series of the playoffs of the Youth Hockey League and became owners of honorary trophy. In the middle of the second period, the advantage of Dynamo reached four goals (5: 1), but the guests intercepted the initiative and almost transferred the game to overtime, providing Muscovites with the nervous end of the match.

The legendary former football player Ryan Giggs was removed from the post of head coach of the Wales national team at the upcoming European Championship, the official website of the Wales Football Association reports. The mentor of the national team at the tournament will be Robert Page. On Friday, the police put forward the accusations of Home violence against Giggz, as well as in case of bodily harm and beats against two girls.

The American Federal Commission for Communications (FCC) ordered to mark all video and audio materials made by order or for the money of a foreign state or political parties of foreign states broadcast on American radio and television. As stated in the published document , such video and audio materials should have the appropriate marking.

The Crew Dragon piloted spacecraft by the American SpaceX company with a crew of four, launched on April 23 with the help of a Falcon 9 launch vehicle, successfully attached to the International Space Station (ISS) a day after the start. This is the second regular flight to the SPACEX ship, which became the first American piloted ship running to the ISS after the completion of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, and the first piloted spacecraft created by a private company in history.

The Russian authorities consider the possibility of input asymmetric sanctions in response to the expulsion of diplomats . Against the Czech Republic, economic sanctions may be imposed that restrict, in particular, the import of goods. Such measures can also affect the supply of beer - now about 10 Czech brands are imported to Russia.

In the Swiss Basel, the Russian gymnast Nikita Nagorny won the gold medal of the European Championship in the all -around, gaining 88.032 points in the program. The second place was taken by another Russian David Belyavsky (85,864), the third was the Ukrainian Ilya Kovtun (84,864). “It was not important for me how I broke away from my rivals. It was more important that David and I took the first two places on the pedestal,” Nikita said to the journalists.

In Yaroslavl, the vandals set fire to the grave of the deceased player Lokomotiv. Representatives of the hockey team turned to the Department of Territorial Security. The KHL club was complained by relatives of Ivan Tkachenko, who died with a team in a plane crash on September 7, 2011 . - A memorial plaque appeared in Yaroslavl in memory of Ivan Tkachenko "We looked at the records and found that the act of vandalism actually took place.

Rescuers discovered fragments of the KRI NANGGALA-402 Indonesian submarine that missed this week, Indonesia's Navy said. The submarine with 53 crew members on board was declared sank after 72 hours of searches. “Given the evidence we discovered, we move from the phase when the submarine was considered the missing one, to the phase when it is considered the sank,” said Admiral Yudo Margono, chief of staff of the Indonesia Navy.

The outstanding Soviet intelligence officer Zinaida Batraeva died in Moscow at the 99th year of her life. The death of Batraeva was confirmed in the press bureaus of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. "Zinaida Nikolaevna Batraeva and her husband Boris Nikodimovich Batraev left a vivid mark in the history of our foreign intelligence. It was a couple of beautiful operational employees, very bright and kind people," said RIA Novosti Press Bureau Sergey Ivanov.

A funny incident occurred during the women's athletics relay race 4x200 m at regional competitions in the UTA. When the athletes who fled at the last stage reached the finish line, the number of applicants for victory was replenished with a new participant. Goldendudl (designer breed of dogs, a cross between a poodle and a golden retriever) jumped from the rostrum onto the path, rushed behind the leader and, under the applause of the audience, was the first to cross the finish line.