Austrian singer Conchita Wurst (real name Thomas Neuwirth) announced her positive HIV status. Conchita Wurst made a corresponding statement on her Instagram page. The singer noted that she learned about the diagnosis “many years ago,” but did not want to advertise it. She was forced to talk about her illness by a person close to her in the past, who threatened to spread this information. “I will not allow anyone to scare me and influence my life,” Wurst emphasized.

Art for gourmets We have great news for aesthetes and gourmets! Once a month, the team of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the culinary studio “Château de Wessel” will invite you on an intriguing journey through the world of contemporary art and gastronomy! The program includes a tour of the museum's best exhibitions and cooking dishes based on the exhibitions under the guidance of experienced chefs in a culinary studio.

State Duma deputy and singer Joseph Kobzon was admitted to one of the Moscow hospitals due to heart problems. Life reports that Joseph Kobzon was hospitalized after experiencing heart rhythm disturbances. Meanwhile, Kobzon’s assistant told REN TV that the parliamentarian is undergoing a routine examination.

State Duma deputy Sergei Vostretsov developed a bill on the mandatory placement of graduates in state-owned companies after studying. According to the bill of United Russia member Sergei Vostretsov, a citizen who has studied at a university at the expense of the budget will be required to “work according to his education and qualifications in a state institution.” At least 50% of the authorized share of this company must belong to the state.

On the morning of April 15, residents of the village of Kyiv in the TiNAO discovered the body of a man with bodily injuries in a forest belt. According to the Moscow city news agency, the deceased, whose body was found by local residents in the village of Kievsky in the TiNAO, turned out to be an unemployed man born in 1979. It is clarified that during the initial examination, bodily injuries were discovered on the corpse - a fracture of the lower jaw and a head wound.

On the night of April 16, a fire occurred in the boiler room of the Khleb LLC enterprise in Novokuznetsk. According to RIA Novosti , on the night of Monday, April 16, the shift supervisor at the Novokuznetsk bakery heard a loud bang, after which black acrid smoke and flames came out of the boiler room of the enterprise. When emergency workers arrived at the scene of the fire, they found a 61-year-old boiler room worker unconscious on the floor.

Photo: Shutterstock Sobesednik.ru suggests preparing a delicious and nutritious honey-based casserole today. What you will need: • cottage cheese – 500 g • milk – 50 g • eggs – 3 pcs. • oatmeal – 3–4 tbsp. l. • honey – to taste • vanillin – to taste How to cook: Beat the milk and cottage cheese with a mixer and add three egg yolks to them. Mix again. Add honey and vanillin to the resulting mass. Add 3-4 tablespoons of oatmeal.

The owners of the Kemerovo shopping center “Winter Cherry” have not allocated money for repairs to the fire safety system for two years. As Kommersant reports, citing a source close to the investigation, in the Kemerovo Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping center, where 64 people died due to a fire on March 25, they knew about the malfunction of the fire safety system for two years.

In 2018, having suffered from tick bites, about 1.6 thousand Russians turned to medical organizations throughout Russia. As reported on the Rospotrebnadzor website , as of April 13, 2018, in 55 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, about 1.6 thousand Russians, including 713 children, sought medical help due to tick bites. At the same time, the department emphasizes that these indicators turned out to be lower than the long-term average for Russia.

The head of the Ministry of Culture, Vladimir Medinsky, proposed giving discounts to families who take children to the theater.

In the west of Moscow, skeletal human remains were discovered that had lain in a forest belt for about a year. According to the Moscow city news agency, on Sunday, April 15, skeletal human remains were discovered in a forest belt near Veresaeva Street in the Mozhaisk district of the capital's closed joint-stock company. It is assumed that the death of the unknown occurred more than a year ago.

The famous military man and actor Ronald Lee Ermey, known for his participation in the film “Full Metal Jacket,” has died in the United States. His agent Bill Rogin announced this on the actor’s Twitter. The actor died on April 15 at the age of 75. “It is with deep sadness that I regret to inform you that R. Lee Ermey (“Gunny”) passed away this morning from complications of pneumonia.

The Bank of Russia has lifted the restriction on increasing the key rate. The head of the monetary policy department of the Central Bank, Igor Dmitriev, spoke about this on Monday, April 16, at the international banking forum “Treasury 2018”. “The restriction on the impossibility of raising the rate depending on the inflation forecast has already been lifted,” RIA Novosti quotes Dmitriev. Let us remind you that now the key rate is 7.25% per annum.

The Kremlin press service has created an ICQ group for journalists from the presidential pool. Sobesednik.ru previously wrote that Roskomnadzor began blocking Telegram. The fact that the Kremlin will begin communicating with journalists via ICQ, media representatives on Monday, April 16, was notified by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov in a group on Telegram, Dozhd reports.

Forecasters warned residents of the capital and region about the first thunderstorm of the year in the middle of this week. Earlier, Sobesednik.ru wrote that from Tuesday, April 17, in Moscow and the Moscow region the temperature is expected to drop to plus 12 degrees and rain showers, which will stop only by Friday. According to the Moscow city news agency, weather forecasters are also warning Muscovites about the beginning of a thunderstorm period.