The government, reflecting four days, announced the abolition of charter flights to Turkey until June 1. The official reason is a really observed sharp increase in the incidence of COVID-19 in Turkey. But the question of the ban on flights began to be discussed on the eve of the meeting of Recep Erdogan with Vladimir Zelensky against the backdrop of a sharp exacerbation in the Donbass.

A new ban on flights to Turkey will cost 600 thousand tourists, and tour operators - up to € 400 million losses The government, reflecting four days, announced the abolition of charter flights to Turkey until June 1. The official reason is a really observed sharp increase in the incidence of COVID-19 in Turkey. But the question of the ban on flights began to be discussed on the eve of the meeting of Recep Erdogan with Vladimir Zelensky against the backdrop of a sharp exacerbation in the Donbass.

The Ukrainian authorities said that Russia has pulled about 40,000 troops to the border, and the same number are in Crimea. Volodymyr Zelensky's spokeswoman, Yulia Mendel, told Reuters on Monday that Ukrainian authorities estimate Russia has deployed more than 40,000 troops on Ukraine's eastern border and more than 40,000 in Crimea. Of these, about 50,000 soldiers arrived at the scene recently.

Russia has officially suspended flights to Turkey and Tanzania from April 15 to June 1. The ban on flights applies to both regular and charter flights, said head of the operational headquarters Tatyana Golikova. The exception to the restriction of air traffic with Turkey will affect two flights per week in the direction of Istanbul-Moscow and export flights.

The Russian authorities are considering the possibility of restricting flights to Turkey for a month and a half - until early June, Forbes and RBC learned. One option is to keep regular flights to Istanbul only. Russian officials are discussing the option to suspend air traffic with Turkey from April 15 to June 1 - according to one of the options, planes will fly regularly only to Istanbul, according to another option, air traffic will be completely closed, Forbes .

Rosneft for the first time commented on the interest of the security forces in the editor-in-chief of Important Stories Roman Anin.

There has been a major glitch in Google services - users around the world cannot create new files in Google Docs and use the Google Drive cloud service, writes The Verge. When trying to create new documents in Google Docs and Google Sheets, users get an error message - the service asks to reload the page or return to it after a few minutes. The Google Services Status Dashboard reports crashes in Google Drive, Google Slides, and Google Classrooms.

Microsoft announced the purchase of speech recognition service Nuance Communications for $16 billion, which means a premium of 23% to the current capitalization. This is the largest acquisition of the corporation since the acquisition of LinkedIn in 2016 for $26 billion, writes CNBC. The Nuance deal is another sign that Microsoft is determined to grow through acquisitions. Last month, Microsoft completed its $7.6 billion purchase of game company Zenimax.

The Russian marketplace Wildberries has launched in the US. This is the 14th country after Germany, France and others where the online retailer operates. Today, Wildberries officially announced its entry into the US market. Sales in the US will be available through the company's website and apps, and shipping will be through logistics partners. The retailer offers about 5.5 million items from 40.5 thousand brands. America is the 14th country where Wildberries are present.

In St. Petersburg, a major fire in the building of the Neva Manufactory on the banks of the Neva - the fire was assigned the highest rank of complexity, and a firefighter has already died while extinguishing it. As first reported by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in St. Petersburg, were on fire two upper floors in a large industrial building. By 14.30 Moscow time, the roof and interior floors of the manufactory collapsed on all floors.

The Russian government approved the denunciation of the tax agreement with the Netherlands. This country is the only one of those with whom the Ministry of Finance negotiated that refused to increase the dividend tax for Russians. The resolution on breaking the tax agreement between Russia and the Netherlands and introducing the law to the State Duma was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The document has been in force since 1996.

Russia's second Internet retailer Ozon intends to obtain a banking license and lend to sellers on its platform, said in an interview with the Financial Times.

The editor-in-chief of "Important stories" Roman Anin was left in the status of a witness after the second interrogation in the Investigative Committee, reports . the publication itself Interrogation in the UK took place today at 11.00 Moscow time. An hour and a half later, the journalist was released from the department - Anin remained in the status of a witness in the case of violation of privacy. On April 9, FSB officers came to Roman Anin's house with a search that lasted about seven hours.

The Kremlin declined to comment on The New York Times' report about Russia's likely underreporting of coronavirus deaths, but questioned its methodology. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointed out the possible incompatibility of the data. “I don’t know how they are guided by Rosstat, but Rosstat does not provide us with data on the United States and other countries.

X5 Retail Group acquired the foodtech company A Lot of Salmon, founded by people from Norilsk Nickel and Yandex and operating on the dark kitchen system. Negotiations have been going on since the end of 2020, the deal was closed at the end of March 2021.