The first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, Raul Castro, said that in the near future the authorities of the island state will develop a new project of the Constitution, reports Reuters . On April 19, Castro gave the post of chairman of the State Council of Cuba, who occupied his first deputy Miguel Diazu-Kanel over the past ten years. Castro also admitted that over time, Dias-Kanel will be able to lead the Communist Party of Cuba.

Oil continues to rise in price. On the one hand, analysts talk about the coincidence of a number of factors, on the other hand, the trend is quite stable, and the quantities have been achieved inspire optimism.

The Rostec State Corporation turned to the resident military-industrial complex of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin with a request to consider the bankruptcy issue of Kurganmashvoda, the only BMP manufacturer in the country (infantry fighting vehicles), RBC reports.

The official representative of the IC of the Russian Federation Svetlana Petrenko said that another criminal case of bribery was instituted against the ex-commander of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia Oleg Korshunov. Previously, he already became a defendant in the case of abuse of authority.

The British newspaper Telegraph published thorough material dedicated to the ideas of the French president Emmanuel Macron about the EU future. The author believes that these ideas can never be realized. The specificity of the publication is that, firstly, it supports the British conservatives, and secondly, it fundamentally advocates Britain’s separation from the EU. The article, in particular, contains a toss containing quotes from Macron's statements about Britain’s separation.

The American company SpaceX from the Cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral at 01:51 Moscow time launched the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which should bring the NASA Tess apparatus to the orbit to find the planets potentially suitable for life. The first step of the rocket was regularly separated and successfully landed on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean. After about an hour, the device reached a given orbit. Tess should explore 200 thousand stars in order to search for earthly planets near them.

The new US anti -Russian sanctions, most likely, will be not too difficult for the Russian economy; Perhaps Russian exporters will be able to benefit from them, analysts at Moody's rating agency believe. They also believe that sanctions will not lead to a change in the country's credit rating.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) begins a large-scale revision of its policy-including, as the director-administrator Kristin Lagarda stated, “regarding supervision, the program for assessing the financial sector, program conditions supported by the IMF, the tools of preferential lending, analyzing the stability of the debt situation and the development of potential”.

On April 18, a meeting was held in Roskomnadzor with representatives of the largest telecom operators. As informed sources told Kommersant , a further TEELGRAM blocking strategy was discussed, but no decisions were made. The press service of the department said that the topic of blocking the messenger was not raised at the meeting.

The administration of Russian President Vladimir Putin prepared for him two scenarios of the inauguration, one of them implies a ceremony in one of the central squares of Moscow. The sources told about this “ rain ”, the information was confirmed by the official representative of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov. The interlocutors of the publication suggested that Putin would not agree to the idea of ​​taking an oath in the open air, because the inauguration will take place in the Great Kremlin Palace.

The head of the Russian Ministry of Culture Vladimir Medinsky opened the 40th Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF). At the ceremony, the head of the Ministry of Culture said that domestic cinema was experiencing an “unprecedented rise”: in “This year” every second viewer in the country watched it. “There has never been such an indicator since the Soviet Union. This is the result of the work of our masters, their inspiration, producers, ” RIA Novosti quotes Medinsky.

On Wednesday, a meeting of the Executive Council of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCHO) was held on Wednesday. It was closed to the press, but it is obvious that no breakthrough happened. The main question, the answer to which everyone was expecting from the participants in the meeting - what kind of substance Serge and Julia Skripal were poisoned in Salisbury.

An employee of the Armenian Police press service Edgar Dzhanyan told Interfax that a hundred people were delivered to the police of the Armenian capital at 12:30 Moscow time. In Yerevan, the demonstration and mass acts of the opposition protest, opposing the appointment of Serge Sargsyan, continue to the post of Prime Minister of the Republic.

In the coming days, adverse weather will be established in the metropolitan region, Moscow 24 reports with reference to the appropriate forecast of the hydraulic system. Forecasters promise on April 21 and April 22 the strengthening of wind in most regions of the Central Federal District to 15–22 meters per second, and the Moscow region-rains with snow, and the thickness of the snow cover can reach 5-15 cm.

The shares of the company "Rusal" have risen in price during trading on the Hong Kong Exchange by 24.65%. According to 10:35 Moscow time, they cost 1.77 Hong Kong dollars (0.23 US dollars) apiece, and on the Moscow exchange rose in price to 23.49 rubles (+8.15%), Kommersant writes.