The G7 group of countries issued two statements concerning Russia. They condemned the use of chemical weapons in Syria and the poisoning of former GRU officer Sergei Skripal. The United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Great Britain have condemned the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian city of Douma, Vedomosti reports. The G7 countries "fully supported" the bombing of Syrian chemical weapons facilities on April 14.

Lawyers of the international human rights group "Agora" have opened a hotline for blocking, said its chairman Pavel Chikov. Agora is launching legal support to help owners of websites, servers, data centers, online services that have encountered technical problems due to the activity of Roskomnadzor. If you have received a notification from Roskomnadzor, you are threatened with blocking or are already being blocked, write, we will try to help, ”Chikov wrote in his telegram channel .

US President Donald Trump has said he does not yet intend to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia for supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. According to The Washington Post , the issue of sanctions is being seriously considered, but no final decision has yet been made. Earlier, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley announced that new sanctions against Russia would be announced on April 16.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe demanded a thorough investigation into the death of Maksim Borodin, correspondent for the Yekaterinburg RIA Novyi Den, who died after falling from the fifth floor. “The death of journalist Maxim Borodin in Russia causes serious concern. I urge the authorities to conduct a prompt and thorough investigation,” said OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir.

In a year, Russia will send a small landing module to the Moon, which will allow evaluating the technical solutions embedded in large spacecraft created as part of the satellite exploration program, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said. In an interview with RBC TV channel , Rogozin said that in 2022, 2023 and after 2025, stations operating in the orbit of the Moon will also be built.

A day later, with the way Roskomnadzor began the Telegram block -precondeously in Russia, the founder of the messenge “Thanks for the support and devotion of Telegram - together we managed to survive the first 24 hours of blocking. As shown by the last day, in their war with progress, the supervisory authorities of Russia are ready to block millions of IP addresses of cloud hosting, without reckoning with the losses of extraneous projects.

Roskomnadzor sends notifications about upcoming blocking to proxy server owners. The grounds cited are calls for mass unrest and extremist activity, says Pavel Chikov, head of the human rights group Agora. Roskomnadzor also began blocking Amazon’s IP addresses, as Telegram decided to use them to bypass the blocking of the service. Telegram used approximately 9 thousand of its own IP addresses, but Roskomnadzor sent them to be blocked.

The head of Armenia Sergey Sargsyan, who led 10 years, decided to maintain power as the prime minister, changing the form of government in the country. On the day of the premiere elections, mass protests began Photo: Twitter Former President of Armenia Serge Sargsyan Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org On Monday morning, protests began in the capital of Armenia Yerevan.

Member of the Armenian Parliament Nikol Pashinyan said that a "revolutionary situation" has been created in the country. In the country, people opposed the nomination of ex-president Serzh Sargsyan to the post of prime minister. “Protest actions, strikes are taking place all over the republic, streets are being blocked. A revolutionary situation was established in Armenia.

The Armenian parliament voted for the candidacy of the leader of the ruling Republican Party, former President Serzh Sargsyan for the post of prime minister of the republic. According to Interfax , 76 deputies voted for Sargsyan's candidacy, 17 voted against. Parliament voted for Sargsyan, despite the massive protests that have swept Yerevan in recent days.

On April 17, Roskomnadzor sent notifications to the App Store and Google Play stores demanding that the Telegram application be removed. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the department, earlier the head of the RKN, Alexander Zharov, spoke about the intention to send such a request. On April 16, Roskomnadzor notified the owners of proxy servers about the upcoming blocking.

Updated: By 14:42 on April 17, the number of blocked IP addresses increased to 15.8 million. Since the beginning of the blocking of the Telegram messenger in Russia, Roskomnadzor has blocked more than 4.6 million IP addresses, activists have calculated. already in the registry As early as 10:00, there were less than a million blocked addresses, and by 13:59 , 4,626,109 addresses were . It includes segments of cloud services Amazon and Google.

Investigators are investigating the circumstances of the death of businessman Valery Pshenichny, who was found dead in a St. Petersburg pre-trial detention center in February this year. As Novaya Gazeta writes , the check is being carried out by the central apparatus of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia. Defendant in the case of embezzlement of 100 million rubles. while designing the Varshavyanka submarine, Valery Pshenichny was found dead in a St.

The Russian military found a laboratory for the production of chemical weapons in the Syrian city of Douma. It belonged to the militants. “During the inspection of the city of Duma, a chemical laboratory and a warehouse of chemicals were discovered,” Alexander Rodionov, a representative of the Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces in Syria, said on the Rossiya 24 TV channel, Interfax reports .

The 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Journalism went to The New York Times and The Washington Post. The jury evaluated a series of their materials about the connections of members of the Donald Trump team and Russian officials during the US election campaign. The articles of journalists covered the topic tirelessly in the interests of society, the organizers of the award explain.