Swedish pop group ABBA have decided to reunite and have recorded two new songs for the first time since 1982. This is stated in the official instagram of the group. “We all four felt that after almost 35 years, it would be fun to join forces again and go into the studio. So we did. And it was like time stopped, and we only left for a short weekend, ”the musicians wrote. One of the songs, titled "I Still Have Faith In You", will be featured in an NBC film to be shown by the BBC in December.

The Main Police Department of St. Petersburg demanded that the CEO of Dozhd, Natalia Sindeeva, provide "information about the actual location" of the editor-in-chief of the TV channel, Roman Badanin, in the United States. This was reported by Open Media, citing a source close to the channel. The Bell This information was confirmed to by the editor-in-chief of Dozhd, Alexandra Perepelova.

Why do we not know anything about the fate of most criminal cases and sentences to those who, according to special services, prepared and carried out terrorist acts Photo: RIA Novosti High -ranking ranks from the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and NAC (National Anti -Terrorism Committee) regularly report on what effective measures against terrorism are taken by their departments. They talk about prevented terrorist attacks and arrested militants.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russian names on world maps are being replaced by foreign ones, and urged not to condone the "distortion of geographical truth," reports . TASS “Today we are faced with a situation where Russian names, which were given in the past centuries and decades by our researchers and travelers, are gradually being squeezed out of the world maps,” the president said.

The governor of the Kaliningrad region, Anton Alikhanov, dismissed the recently appointed adviser on construction and housing and communal services, Leonid Simunin. Earlier, the publication "New Kaliningrad" reported that Simunin was associated with the "Combat Organization of Russian Nationalists" (BORN). The governor emphasized that Simunin was appointed by the government apparatus.

Businessman Oleg Deripaska agreed to leave the board of directors of the En + group of companies and is ready to reduce his stake in it below 50%. It is reported by Interfax with reference to the company's statement. The decision was made after a series of discussions with the chairman of the board of directors of the company, independent director Lord Greg Barker. Now the businessman owns 66% of the company.

The Artpodgotovka movement was included in the list of non-profit organizations whose activities are prohibited in Russia due to extremism. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Justice of Russia. The movement was recognized as extremist based on the decision of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court of October 26, 2017, which entered into force after an appeal in the Supreme Court of Russia on February 28, 2018.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow left the former general director of Gogol-Center Alexei Malobrodsky, who is a defendant in the case of the theft of budget funds allocated by the Seventh Studio by the Ministry of Culture. “The investigation petition is unreasonable and is not subject to satisfaction,” the judge said.

Activists of the Patriotic movement “Putin’s squads” held a performance, during which they defiantly burned a portrait of the creator of Telegram Pavel Durov and the messenger logo. The video recording of the promotion is published in the YouTube channel of the movement. The pensioners, standing in a circle, and holding printed papers in their hands, demanded to “close, destroy” the messenger in Russia so that it “does not exist” at all.

The Moscow Mayor's Office warned law enforcement agencies that it had not agreed on a rally on May 5, which means that any attempts to arrange it would be illegal. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the head of the capital's department of regional security, Vladimir Chernikov. According to Chernikov, the city administration offered the opposition three alternative routes for the rally, but the organizers rejected them, which was seen as a refusal to hold the agreed-upon event.

In Mizhi County, China's Shaanxi Province, a man attacked schoolchildren with a knife, as a result of which seven children were killed and another 12 to 19 were injured, reports . AFP The attack occurred when the students of one of the local schools were returning home after school. The exact age of the children is not specified. It is only known that they were in high school. In China, it is attended by children aged 12–15. According to the BBC, the police detained the suspect.

Photo Photo: Reuters In the photo: the first personal meeting of the leaders of the DPRK and South Korea. The relations of the two countries have remained extremely tense all 65 years since the signing of the truce, and recently, when North Korea, led by young Kim Jong -un, began to conduct nuclear tests, approached a critical point. However, on the eve of the Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, warlike rhetoric was replaced by peaceful.

Governor of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov appointed Leonid Simunin to the post of adviser on construction and housing and communal services. This was reported by the publication "New Kaliningrad". From the biography provided by the government press service, it follows that Simunin was born in 1981, defended his PhD in sociology and worked as chairman of the board of directors of the Moscow company Remzhilservice.

The FSB reported that she detained people who prepared a series of terrorist attacks in Moscow and the region. The service statement says that we are talking about four members of the “sleeping cell” recognized by the terrorist and prohibited organization of the Islamic State. According to the security forces, the cell members arrived from the New Urengoy (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug).

In Krasnoturinsk and Severouralsk, Rusala employees ask the oligarch to accept the conditions of the United States and abandon the asset The Theological Aluminum Plant. Photo: Ivan Zhilin There is a sequel Deripaska left the board of directors of the EN+ group of companies In early April, the US Department of Finance has published on its website a list of 26 individuals and 15 companies in respect of which Washington imposes sanctions.