Singer Prince was hospitalized last week due to an overdose of drugs. It is reported by TMZ with reference to anonymous sources. The American performer felt bad on April 15 after a concert in Atlanta. His plane made an emergency landing in Illinois less than an hour before arrival at the destination. When the doctors advised the prince to stay in the hospital, his accompaniment refused, as they did not give a personal ward as a singer.

The American authorities decided to lift the ban on imports in the United States of Cuban coffee and textile products of local independent manufacturers, according to a message published on the website of the State Department. The permission to import Cuban coffee and textiles received “persons in the jurisdiction of the United States”, the report of the American foreign policy is said in a statement.

The Russian government increased the size of the collection from foreign trucks for travel through the territory of the Russian Federation from 60 to 120 thousand rubles a year. This is stated in the message on the website of the Cabinet. In addition, the government included Latvia and Lithuania in the list of countries that should pay fees. The size of the daily payment for travel has also increased: from 385 to 850 rubles. These fees apply to trucks weighing from 3.5 to 12 tons inclusive.

The series “Game of Thrones”, the most successful HBO project, continued for season 7, reports Entertainment Weekly with reference to the press service of the channel. Fans are worried about the main question of the number of episodes in the season. There is an assumption that in the seventh season 7 episodes will be shot, and six in the eighth. A change in the number of episodes is not something unusual, as a rule, HBO does not announce their number at all.

In Kommersant, the title article is called “Passed by the Federal Air Transport Agency” and dedicated to Dmitry Pristrovskov, who, according to the publication, was appointed head of the Federal Property Management Agency. The article on the permutations in the Ministry of Defense is called “Timur Ivanov took a step forward from the“ defense building ””: the general director of Ovenstroy Timur Ivanov can become Deputy Sergei Shoigu.

The resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on the introduction of the sanctions “Savchenko List” testifies to double standards, the Commissioner of the Russian Foreign Ministry on the issues of human rights, democracy and the rule of law Konstantin Dolgov wrote on his page on the social network.

The United States calls for Russia to cancel the decision on the Crimean Tatar Majlis, the representative of the American State Department John Kirby said in a statement . The statement notes that Majlis has long been a representative body of the "traditionally unpromected and historically oppressed Crimean Tatar population." According to the State Department, the Russian Federation cannot apply Russian legislation to the activities of the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine.

The first power unit of the Bilibinsky nuclear power plant will be stopped in December 2018, the remaining three - in December 2021. This was announced by the director of the nuclear power plant Konstantin Kholopov during the first day of informing in the current year, held on April 19, 2016, the press service of the Bilibinsky nuclear power plant reports.

The Office of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Moscow opened a criminal case under the article “Entertainment for Murder”. As reported on the website of the department, this afternoon, at one of the apartment buildings on Lobachevsky Street, unknown people fired several shots at a 44-year-old man. He was taken to the hospital in serious condition.

The federal highway R-21 “Kola” began to collapse in the area of ​​the 1524th kilometer, near the village of Pechenga in the Murmansk region, Flashnord reports with reference to eyewitnesses. According to them, now one of the two lanes of the highway on the indicated kilometer has completely collapsed. Voids formed under the second, and she, as the representative of the regional traffic police department suggested, will also collapse until the end of today.

The General Director of the Megafon Cellular operator Ivan Tavrin leaves the post, RNS reports with reference to three sources aware of the situation in the company. According to them, the terms of personnel permutations are still unknown. The press service of Megafon refused to comment on information about the alleged care of Tavrin.

The organizers of Eurovision removed Romania from participation in this competition due to debts, according to the project website. It is reported that the Romanian television corporation (TVR) owed 16 million Swiss francs to the organizers of Eurovision, which corresponds to about 14.5 million euros. At the song competition, Romania was supposed to be presented by the 33-year-old performer Ovidiu Anton.

More than 70% of the participants in the survey conducted by VTsIOM were satisfied with how Russian President Vladimir Putin answered questions during the “direct line”. Putin's answers were satisfied with 76% of respondents. Another 17% of respondents said they were rather not satisfied with them. Most of all, the survey participants were remembered about bad roads, answers to children's questions and a question related to the situation at the Shikotansky fish factory.

The Russian government agreed on the amount of a one-time payment from maternity capital, which from July 1, 2016 increases from the current 20 thousand rubles to 25 thousand rubles, TASS reports with reference to the Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets.

Romania was excluded from among the participants of the annual Eurovision Support contest, which will be held in May in Sweden. The reason for the exclusion was the non -payment of debts to the organizer of Eurovision for the European Broadcasting Union (EUS) of the Romanian broadcasting company TVR.