The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova said that there are no Russians among the dead and wounded explosions in hotels and churches in Sri Lanka. “At that moment, there are no Russian citizens among the dead and injured, but the embassy continues to verify this information.

Timur Khaliullin Timur Khaliullin is an organist, soloist of the Belgorod Philharmonic. In addition to the organ, he plays on the harpsichord and on the Carillion. Timur is sure that an organ is a modern tool on which you can play almost any music of different times and styles. Thanks to Timur Haliullin in the Belgorod organ hall, you can hear Queen and Deep Purple.

The publishing house “New Literary Review” published a book of philologist and translator Olga Makarova “The Female Question” in the life and work of A. S. Suvorin. ” The book sheds a new light on the discussion of female emancipation, which was conducted in Russia in the second half of the 19th century.

On Saturday in Moscow, the conference "Forced digitization of personality or human freedom" was held. The main topic for discussion was the Federal Law “On Individual Accounting in the Compulsory Pension Insurance System”.

The Cathedral of the Parisian Mother of God, which suffered from the fire, was almost completely saved from the risk of destruction, said Frank Rester Minister of Culture. “Notre Dame is currently almost saved from destruction ... There was a vault. There are several more unstable places in it, and therefore the team of the Ministry of Culture, together with enterprises, work to remove construction garbage, which is still on the vault, and gradually cover it with tarpaulin.

The Ukrainian police received 179 statements about violations during the elections of the President of Ukraine as of 11 hours on April 21, the press service of the National Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. “These are statements related to illegal campaigning, the facts of the removal of ballots and their photography,” RIA Novosti quoted the deputy head of the National Police Alexander Fatevich.

The police of Yekaterinburg detained an unlimited protest activist Mikhail Klyukin for the installation of two symbolic "tombstones" with portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin on city streets. Klyukin was taken from his own apartment and delivered to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. One “tombstone” was installed near the building of the Yekaterinburg City Hall, it was written: “The art object was installed by activists of“ unlimited protest ”.

Within the framework of the All -Russian Ecological Forum “Clean Country”, representatives of United Russia proposed to check tariffs for the treatment of solid communal waste. The EP believes that they can be economically unfounded, reports " the day before .

In Sri Lanka, on the morning of April 21, explosions occurred in the country's largest city, Colombo, which some media call the capital. Luxury hotels, the Church of St. Antonio and three other Catholic churches outside the city were attacked. This was reported by Reuters . “The Prime Minister is on his way from Bentota. The emergency meeting took place a few minutes ago. Rescue operations are underway. Please remain calm and do not leave the premises.

The first data on the results of the surveys conducted among voters at the exit from the sections after voting in the second round of the presidential election appeared on the website of the Ukrainian National Eccithpol. According to these data, the showman Vladimir Zelensky, representing his political party “The Servant of the People”, is gaining 73.5% of the vote, and the current president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko is 25%.

The only polling station that did not open on time in Ukraine began work, RIA Novosti reports. “The polling station No. 140379 is open. On the morning of April 21, the plot in the village of Lebedinsky in the Donetsk region became the only one throughout Ukraine that did not open. There are several reasons for this. Still, the main thing - the site is at point blank range to the demarcation line ...

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev sent a telegram with condolences to Prime Minister Sri Lanka Ranilu Vikramasinghe in connection with numerous victims of explosions, according to the website of the Russian government. “On behalf of the Government of the Russian Federation and from myself, I personally express deep condolences in connection with numerous victims as a result of a series of terrorist acts on Sri Lanka,” the report said.

Writer Dmitry Bykov came into consciousness, Interfax reports with reference to the chairman of the editorial board of Novaya Gazeta Dmitry Muratov. “Good, beautiful news: he came into consciousness, this time, and the second is translated on independent breathing, breathing independently,” Muratov said and added that Dmitry Bykov “reacts to the treatment of doctors and loved ones”.

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At least 42 people died as a result of explosions in churches and hotels of Sri Lanka during Easter celebration, Agency France-Presse reports with reference to local police.