Russia may introduce a simplified procedure for granting citizenship to Ukrainians living in the self-proclaimed Lugansk and Donetsk People's Republics after the second round of the presidential elections in Ukraine, sources told RBC. The draft decree of President Vladimir Putin has already been prepared. What is known?

The law on sovereign Runet will be accepted very soon. It can become a geopolitical problem for Russia Tomorrow, the State Duma will accept the law on the sovereign Runet in the third reading. It is customary to compare the Russian system of prohibitions on the Internet with the Chinese one, which has become a model for all countries that want to control the use of the network.

in Paris caught fire Notre Dame Cathedral . Social media users are posting videos from the scene showing the cathedral's spire and roof burning and thick layers of dark smoke rising. Fire departments evacuated people from nearby areas and started extinguishing, the mayor's office said. The cathedral itself is under restoration, so there were probably no people in it. The fire broke out around 20:00 Moscow time.

Gazprom's subsidiary Nord Stream 2 AG, which is building the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, has already submitted its third application for laying a pipe in Danish waters. Previous applications were rejected due to the fact that the regulator did not like the routes of the gas pipeline. The new route for the pipe will cost the company time and additional financial investments, but it will not allow strengthening Ukraine's position in the upcoming negotiations to extend the transit contract.

The Russian law on the sovereign Runet, which will pass its third reading on Tuesday, April 16, is not an isolated phenomenon or a Russian invention, but part of the bifurcation of the global Internet into two parts, writes Bloomberg. The front of the "new cold war" will lie precisely along the divide between the "Chinese" and "American" models, and for now Russia is on China's side. According to the Chinese model The essence of the Chinese Internet model is data sovereignty.

Tel Aviv University scientists are the first in the world print to 3D a tiny living heart from human tissue - including blood vessels. Prior to this, scientists printed either silicone 3D models of the heart, or individual functional tissues. It is planned that the organs created on the printer can be transplanted to rabbits and rats within a year, and within ten years - to humans.

will go on sale in Russia At the end of April, Andrey Movchan's book "Russia in the Post-Truth Era: Common Sense Against Informational Noise" . Movchan is one of the most sought-after and well-known Russian financiers, at the end of March he visited BellClub. Since 1997, Movchan has been the chief executive of Troika Dialog for six years, and recently had to defend the company's reputation after the publication of an OCCRP investigation in which journalists called Troika a Laundromat.

The prosecutor's office in Germany accused the former head of Volkswagen Martin Winterkorn and four other top managers of major fraud due to the "diesel scandal". Prosecutors believe Winterkorn has been aware of software installed in cars to bypass U.S. environmental tests since May 2014. What's more, six months later, Winterkorn authorized a software update that made it harder to uncover the hoax.

Most of the money in national projects—6.3 trillion rubles—will be spent on infrastructure construction. VEB also decided to learn how to build. Under the leadership of Igor Shuvalov, the state corporation wants to acquire its own construction capacity by purchasing large stakes in contractor companies from Arkady Rotenberg and a group of people associated with Colonel Zakharchenko. What's happened.

As found out Meduza , the new owner of the Sound Recording House, whose transfer by the Presidential Administration is now actively contested by eminent musicians and cultural figures, will be the daughter of business partner Vladimir Dyachenko. It was in the name of Dyachenko, wrote the Anti-Corruption Foundation, that Dmitry Medvedev placed orders in foreign online stores. The essence of the scandal .

The income of officials and even state defenses fall along with the income of ordinary Russians Vladimir Putin answers questions from Russians. Photo from the Kremlin website On Friday, federal officials published declarations of income for 2018 - all weekend journalists made up lists of the richest families, the richest wives and all that spirit. From year to year, this exercise brings less surprises.

There is almost no chance that Ukrainian presidential candidates Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelensky will hold the long-awaited debate. two hours On Sunday, April 14, Poroshenko waited for for Zelensky at Kiev's Olimpiysky stadium, although Zelensky said in advance that he did not agree to this date. Zelensky on Sunday night announced that he would not go to the debate because of the provocations allegedly being prepared against him, and demanded that they be held on Friday, April 19.

The Investigative Committee has resumed the investigation into former CEO of Rusnano Leonid Melamed, who is accused of embezzling more than 220 million rubles, Kommersant writes , citing lawyer Alexander Asnis, who represents the interests of Rusnano. Last time, his associate and head of the state corporation Anatoly Chubais, who acted as guarantor for Michael Calvey and Mikhail Abyzov this year, played a major role in Melamed's release. History of the issue.

Getting the prestigious American Fulbright scholarship in 2019 will become more difficult, The Bell found out. The changes will affect officials, as well as employees of state universities, which in Russia are much more than private ones. Problems may arise with other exchange programs. What's happened.