How the largest action has passed in defense of free Internet in Russian history For more than two weeks, Roskomnadzor has been trying to deprive Russian Telegram users. It is not yet possible to block the messenger, but many other services have arisen interruptions in the work. On April 30, Telegram users came to launch planes for a rally agreed with the authorities in Moscow.

More than 12 thousand people on a procession for free Internet called for the resignation of the head of Roskomnadzor. Photos Participants in a rally with posters were inspected especially carefully. Some young people were refused to let in due to bags with the inscription "Navalny". Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" In Moscow, the action in defense of the free Internet and the Telegram messenger, who is trying to block Roskomnadzor in Russia, agreed by the mayor's office.

The leader of the Armenian opposition Nikol Pashinyan at a press conference. April 24, 2018. Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" In Armenia, the extension of the prime minister was completed. The only candidate was the leader of the opposition Nikol Pashinyan, Interfax reports with reference to the press secretary of the Parliament of the Republic of Arsen Bababyan. The fact that Pashinyan was officially nominated for the post of prime minister became known on the morning of April 30.

US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said that Javelin man-portable anti-tank missile systems have been delivered to Ukraine, reports . Radio Liberty Nauert did not specify the number of complexes in question. Earlier it was reported that the Americans agreed to supply Ukraine with 37 installations and 210 missiles for them. In December 2017, the US State Department for the first time issued a license for the commercial supply of American lethal weapons to Ukraine.

May 3 in the cinemas of the country - "Sobibor" Konstantin Khabensky At the heart - the story of the only successful uprising of 1943 in one of the most fierce death camps - Sobibor in Poland. The initiator of the escape is a Soviet officer of Jewish descent Alexander Pechersky. Lieutenant Pechersk, who was captured and found in the death camp, in three weeks managed to plan the international uprising of prisoners from Western Europe and Poland.

In Tambov, the coordinator of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Diana Rudakova, was detained. “I was detained. It was epic. I sit in a taxi, three strangers grab my legs and arms, immediately take away my phone and things and stuff them into another car. All this without words,” she said on Twitter. Rudakova was taken to the police department in the Sovetsky district of Tambov.

The Moscow prosecutor’s office sent a policy to Alexei Navalny and his supporter Lyubov Sobol a warning about the negative consequences of the unauthorized action scheduled for May 5 in Moscow, Interfax reports . “The Moscow Government was not agreed upon by the organizer, alternative places of the event that they were not accepted were proposed,” the prosecutor’s office recalled.

In Russia, not a messenger Durov is prohibited, but a digital economy Photo: Alexander Tarasenkov / Interpress / TASS On the night of April 27, Roskomnadzor, in this case, acting in the FSB tool, as part of the war with Telegram, blocked part of the addresses of Yandex, VKontakte, Odnoklassniki, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo and even a small company belonging to the presidential adviser - German Klimenko.

On Sakharov Avenue in Moscow, an action was held against blocking the Telegram messenger, Roskomnadzor and censorship. She was agreed with the authorities, the organizer was the Libertarian Party of Russia. The founder of Telegram Pavel Durov supported the action. Since many took the aircraft at the entrance, they make them on the road after the framework.

In every second Russian shopping center violations of fire safety rules were revealed, said the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry Vladimir Puchkov, Interfax reports . According to him, the department, together with the prosecutor's office, checked almost all the country's shopping centers, as well as cinemas and places for mass recreation of children. Puchkov said that exercises would begin in shopping centers on May 1.

On the morning of April 30, two explosions occurred in Kabul. The victims of the attacks were 29 people, another 49 were injured. Among the victims are at least nine journalists. It is reported by the TV channel Tolo News. Kabul Police Chief Daoud Amin said the first explosion occurred around 8 a.m. local time in the Shashdarak area. A suicide bomber on a motorcycle detonated explosives.

Russians keep about $47bn (£34bn) in British offshore accounts. This is almost five times more than the amount that Russians keep in British bank accounts. This is reported by The Times with reference to a study by the organization Global Witness, which is engaged in the fight against corruption and human rights violations in countries that exploit natural resources. It is specified that most of the funds that are offshore (30 billion pounds) are registered in the British Virgin Islands.

The former head of the oil company TNK-BP, Robert Dudley, was tried to poison the Russian special services in 2008, Ilya Zaslavsky, a former employee of the company, said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph (the full text is published by SMH). According to him, they tried to “get rid of” Dudley and “150 other Western managers”. First, they tried to initiate a criminal case against the head of the company. “That was the first clue that Dudley needed to leave.

UPDATED the new head of the UK Home Office . has become The Minister for Local Communities, Sajid Javid, British Home Secretary Amber Rudd has resigned after being accused of plotting to expel migrants, reports . BBC News In her resignation, Rudd took full responsibility for what happened. She admitted to "inadvertently misleading" MPs about a plan with targets to expel migrants. British Prime Minister Theresa May accepted Rudd's resignation.

A number of media outlets ( Sky News Arabia and Al-Arabiya TV channels , SANA agency) reported a series of explosions that occurred on the night of April 30 near the Syrian government bases in Aleppo and Hama. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (based in London) told Al-Arabiya that 26 people were killed in the bombings, including Iranian soldiers. Sky News Arabia has other data: a source said that 40 people were killed, including 18 Iranian soldiers.