The second round of elections of the President of Ukraine will be held on Sunday, April 21. Sociological surveys predict the confident victory of the artistic director of the Kvartal-95 Studio Vladimir Zelensky. The gap is somewhat different in polls of various sociological services, but in any case it is large enough for Zelensky to feel confident. On the live air of the 1+1 channel last Thursday, April 11, Poroshenko called Zelensky on the debate on April 14.

Ecuador President Lenin Moreno said that the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange tried to organize espionage surveillance from the country's embassy in London. It is reported by The Guardian . The leader of Ecuador believes that Assange tried to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries and used the embassy as a “spying center”. “Such activity violates the conditions for the provision of asylum, and our decision is not arbitrarily, but is based on international law,” Moro said.

The Novosibirsk District Council released from the pre -trial detention center under house arrest the deputy director of the National Medical Research Center named after Academician Meshalkin Professor Yevgeny Kudshalov. It is reported by Interfax . Thus, the court granted the application of the investigation, which asked to transfer Kushalov under house arrest until June 15. Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences is accused of fraud and money laundering.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that the meeting of Russian and North Korean leaders Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un has been undergoing preparations. His words are given by RIA Novosti . According to him, it is not yet known when and in which place the meeting will take place. “As soon as there is complete clarity on the deadlines for this meeting, the venue, we will inform you,” Peskov said.

The Bombor publishing house has published the book “Unreliable Cosmic Stories. Backdown of space projects. " In it, the famous space journalist Nancy Atkinson gathered in her book Revelation of more than 35 NASA engineers and scientists. They are waiting for you: the first journey to Pluto in history, the study of Mars along with the Curiosity Markout, the secrets of the cosmos, revealed with the help of the Hubble telescope, new scientific finds and plans for conquering the solar system.

The prosecutor's office of the German Braunschweig charged Martin Wintercorn to the former Volkswagen chapter in the Diesel Gate case. It is reported by Reuters . He is suspected of fraud, abuse of trust and violation of laws on bona fide competition. The investigation established that, being at the post, Wintercorn did not report manipulations with tests for harmful emissions to the authorities and consumers, and also did not stop this practice.

The Senator from Karachay-Cherkessia, Rauf Arashukov, sent a declaration of income to the Council of Karachay-Cherkessia. This was announced by his lawyer Anna Stavitskaya, Interfax reports. According to her, the documents were submitted within the deadline established by law. The lawyer said that Arashukov asked the upper house to send him a 2-NDFL certificate to fill out the declaration.

The persecution of Soviet power to the Russian Church was such that it was not to say about their faith, but even silently follow it as a feat. The new martyrs and confessors, glorified in the face of the saints did not come: believed, prayed and meekly went to their Calvarys. “Polit.ru” recalls those who gave their lives for faith and by whose prayers the Russian Church is alive - even if almost nothing came to us besides the name.

The technique of reconstructing appearance on the skull was first used to recreate the appearance of an ancient dog. At the initiative of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh and Historic Environment Scotland, forensic medicine experts used their methods in working with the skull of a dog who lived 4,500 years ago in the Orkney Islands. According to excavations, domestic dogs appeared on the Orkney Islands already in the Neolithic era.

Upon completion of the presidential elections in Ukraine, the second round of which is scheduled for April 21, the Russian authorities can establish a simplified procedure for providing Russian citizenship Ukrainians living in the territory of self -proclaimed Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics.

The White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders commented on the statement of US President Donald Trump about his “love for WikiLeaks”. The billionaire made this statement even before the victory in the elections in 2016, during the election campaign. “It is obvious that the president was joking,” Fox News explained Sanders on the air of the Fox News TV channel.

Since April 15, 20 Russian regions switched to digital television broadcasting, reminds RBC . The final transition of the whole country to the "figure" is scheduled for early June 2019. С сегодняшнего дня цифровое вещание начинает работать в Москве, Подмосковье, на Ставрополье, в ЯНАО, Мордовии, Чувашии, Калмыкии, Удмуртии, Кабардино-Балкарии, Карачаево-Черкесии, на Сахалине, а также в Амурской, Кемеровской, Ивановской, Курганской, Костромской, Кировской, Липецкой, Тюменской и Novgorod regions.

The chief military prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios fled from the country. This was reported by Zvezda with reference to Ukrainian journalist Vasily Krutchak. The journalist noted that President Petro Poroshenko "will catch up with him not even because of the drain of information about the pigs, but because of the video with his son." According to Krutchak, he himself learned about the escape of Matios from his environment.

The Swedish actress Bibi Andersson died at the age of 83. This is reported by Goteborgs-Posten . The death of the actress was confirmed by her family, as well as a friend, director Kristina Lofson. The cause of death is not yet called. Bibi Andresson became known after participating in the films of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. She starred in 11 ribbons, including the “Seventh Seal”, “Strawberry Polyana”, “Face”, “Person”.

The cost of the Russian project of the Air satellite system, an analogue of the British OneWeb, increased from 299 to 533.6 billion rubles. About this writes RBC . As noted in Roskosmos, this amount provides for the business plan "Ether" and its technical and economic justification, which was specified in the third quarter of 2018. They did not explain the increased cost of the project in the state corporations. All funds are planned to be attracted from extrabudgetary sources.