Hello! This week our top story is an analysis of why strained relations between Russia and the U.S. appeared to ease , and what the two sides were trying to get out of an escalation. We also look at what might happen now top independent media outlet Meduza has been labelled a ‘foreign agent’ , and we profile secretive grocery store chain Svetofor that recently became Russia’s fastest growing retailer.

Joe Biden became the first sitting US president in 40 years to recognize the massacre and deportation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915 as genocide. He made such a statement on April 24, the day of remembrance of the victims of the genocide in Armenia. “Each year on this day, we commemorate the lives of all those who died during the Armenian genocide during the Ottoman Empire, and again pledge to prevent such atrocity from happening again.

The government has published a draft regulation that will regulate the implementation of the controversial law on educational activities, which restricts the dissemination of knowledge outside schools and universities. It follows from the draft that foreign agents and people with less than two years of experience in education will be prohibited from engaging in education. The definition of such activities even included educational articles or videos on the Internet.

The attending physicians of Alexei Navalny appealed to the workers of the medical unit of the colony where the oppositionist is sitting, and the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Alexander Petrovich Kalashnikov with a call to transfer the oppositionist to a multidisciplinary hospital in Moscow. The full text of the appeal was published in Novaya Gazeta.

Aeroflot offered customers who bought tickets to Cyprus, where quarantine was again introduced due to the worsening epidemiological situation, to return the money or change the date of departure. The carrier clarified that all passengers who bought tickets for Moscow-Larnaca/Paphos or St. Petersburg-Larnaca flights from April 26 to May 16 can either change the departure date or return the tickets and get the money back. Aeroflot will continue to operate one daily Moscow-Larnaca flight.

The owner of the Chelsea football club Roman Abramovich decided to withdraw from the never-created European Super League after a “call from the Kremlin”, according to Süddeutsche Zeitung, citing sources. The publication reports that on April 19, the Russian billionaire had a telephone conversation with a representative of the authorities, in which he was given to understand that the creation of the Super League was not in the interests of the Russian leadership.

In 2020, law enforcement officers committed the largest number of corruption crimes among Russian officials. Such data are contained in the report to the Federation Council of the Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov, which draws the attention of Interfax. Of the 10,879 officials convicted of corruption, 1,897 are law enforcement officers, which is 17.4%.

Russia may limit the import of Czech products, in particular beer, reported Kommersant , citing sources in the state structure of the Russian Federation. Such a measure is seen as Moscow's response to the expulsion of Russian diplomats from Prague.

U.S. sanctions imposed last week on Russia have already produced results close to Washington's expectations, , told Reuters. Duleep Singh, international economic adviser to the White House According to Singh, Washington expected to demonstrate that sanctions pressure would continue to increase if Russia did not respond to US claims. But so far, the White House is satisfied with the results.

The Bomborah publishing house was a business bestseller “No Filter. History of Instagram »Bloomberg journalist Sarah Feer. We publish the chapter, which tells about the beginning of the era of the influensers. After in June 2016, Instagram changed his tape using algorithmic ordering of posts, everyone who used the application for advertising purposes realized that they needed to revise the strategy.