Photo: Shutterstock Sobesednik.ru suggests preparing a lenten dish, which can be a light dinner or a side dish for main courses. What you will need: - 500 g beets - 200 g champignons - 100 g fresh prunes - 4 cloves of garlic - 1 onion - 20 g fresh parsley - salt, pepper (to taste) - cumin, basil, cardamom and cloves (to taste and desire) - 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil How to cook: Peel the beets and grate them using a medium grater (preferably into strips). Pre-soak the prunes for 20 minutes.

Photo: Photo: Global Look Press Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Alexander Belavin talks about why young scientists are fleeing Russia and how the Unified State Exam discourages people from thinking.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) responded to Russia's request to investigate the Skripal case. According to RIA Novosti , on Wednesday, April 4, Russia received from the OPCW the answers it requested last week to questions about the poisoning of ex-GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Britain. It is clarified that in total the data sent by the OPCW technical secretariat contains answers to 13 questions.

Photo: imagebroker/Giuseppe Graziano/Global Look Press A gene that causes the body to remove cholesterol may prevent heart disease, a study has found. Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death in Russia , which indicates the need to develop a new strategy for the prevention of these ailments. American researchers have taken this one step closer after discovering a gene that is involved in removing excess cholesterol from blood vessels.

Almost 800 houses were flooded due to the largest flood in the Volgograd region in eight years. According to OTR , the Ministry of Emergency Situations has introduced a state of emergency in the Frolovsky district of the Volgograd region due to the largest flood in the last eight years. It is noted that this is the third municipality since the beginning of the week where they had to declare a state of emergency due to flooding.

Photo: The whole Strizhenov family assembled // Photo: Anatoly Lomokhov A Sobesednik.ru correspondent spoke with Ekaterina Strizhenova on the occasion of her recently celebrated anniversary. Who will say that Ekaterina Strizhenova is fifty?! I can’t believe it because she looks great and never leaves the TV screen. The incredibly busy host of the “Time Will Tell” program managed to get out with her husband, the famous director and producer Alexander Strizhenov, to Istanbul before her birthday.

Build a robot savior If you think that robots replacing people are our future, then this is not entirely true. Because in a sense, this is already the past. At least, this is what the new quest from “Claustrophobia” called “Robot Factory” is about. The doors will open hospitably in front of you, and... something will go wrong. Because the old, outdated robot butler broke down. Like many of the other electronic inhabitants of this room.

On Wednesday, April 4, searches began in the private house of the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Kemerovo Region. Interfax reports about the searches of Alexander Mamontov, citing an informed source. “Investigative actions are being carried out at Mamontov’s house, related, among other things, to the investigation of the criminal case opened on the fact of a fire in the Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping center,” the agency’s source said.

Scientists at the British laboratory Porton Down were unable to determine the country of origin of the Novichok substance. Sobesednik.ru previously wrote that the meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump broke down due to the “Skripal case.” The head of the British laboratory at Porton Down, Harry Aitkenhead, told Sky News that scientists were unable to determine the country of origin of the Novichok substance that poisoned Sergei and Yulia Skripal.

Photo: US Consulate employees in St. Petersburg remove the flag: the institution closed on March 31 // Photo: Global Look Press About 30 countries expelled Russian diplomats, and several recalled their ambassadors for consultations. What's next? Russia's response was not entirely mirror-image. Thus, more British diplomats are expelled from London than Russian ones. They explain: so that there is an equal number in the embassies. Also, slightly more Americans are being expelled.

The family of a girl from Volokolamsk who threatened the governor of the Moscow region spoke about an invitation to visit the Netherlands. Earlier , Sobesednik.ru wrote that the governor of the Moscow region, Andrei Vorobyov, said that the authorities of the Moscow region paid for a ten-year-old “girl in pink”, who became famous after a video from a rally in Volokolamsk, and her family on an excursion to a waste processing plant in the Netherlands.

The British delegation at the OPCW meeting criticized Russia's proposal to participate in the investigation of the Skripal case.

The authorities of the Moscow region paid for an excursion to the Netherlands for a ten-year-old girl from Volokolamsk. Sobesednik.ru previously wrote that the organizer of the rally in Volokolamsk, Artem Lyubimov, was arrested for 15 days.

Anna Netrebko promised to deal with the London Prince Edward Theater, from where she was kicked out before the start of the performance. As the opera diva herself wrote on Instagram , she, along with her husband Yusif Eyvazov and son Thiago, were kicked out of the Prince Edward Theater in London before the start of the play “Aladdin”. According to Netrebko, the reason for the incident was that tickets for the seats occupied by the spouses were sold twice.

In the center of Moscow, an unknown person, introducing herself as the witch Agrippina, defrauded a pensioner of more than 500 thousand rubles. The Moscow agency reported this on Wednesday, April 4, with reference to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow. It is specified that the incident occurred on April 2 on Tverskaya Street in the Tverskoy district of the Central Administrative District of Moscow.