Levitan’s painting “Summer landscape. Pashnya ”was not stolen, but sold. This was reported by RBC with reference to the general director of the auction house "Littlefond" Sergey Burmistrov. “The picture is not stolen, and according to the contract stored in our country, it belongs legally to its current owner. The picture is currently in the hands of the legal owner, since it is he who, in the case of some proceedings, will have to participate in this.

The head of the Innopractics Foundation Katerina Tikhonov, who is considered the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, on May 24 will defend the dissertation for the title of candidate of physical and mathematical sciences. At the announcement on the website of Moscow State University, “Open Media” drew attention .

The writer Dmitry Bykov spoke about his condition for the first time after hospitalization. According to him, rumors on this topic, "as usual, are greatly exaggerated." The writer thanked the doctors and everyone who supported him. Recall, on April 16, Dmitry Bykov was urgently hospitalized in one of the hospitals of Ufa. After consultation with the participation of freelance doctors of the Ministry of Health, it was decided to transport Bykov to Moscow.

The Sevastopol Garrison Military Court refused to satisfy the claim of the sailors of the Black Sea Fleet, who tried to achieve the payment of business trips for campaigns in Syria, where they carried out special tasks in 2016-2018. It is reported by Kommersant. As a justification, the court brought the order of the Ministry of Defense from 2011, according to which campaigns on ships are not considered business trips. The collective lawsuit was filed by members of the crew of three ships.

Activists of “unlimited protest” established two “tombstones of Vladimir Putin” in Yekaterinburg. One is at the city hall, the second - near the metro station "Square of 1905", according to the group of "unlimited protest" in Yekaterinburg. On the evening of April 21, the police detained activist Mikhail Klyukin because of the installation of the "tombstone". According to the OVD-Info, after the conversation he was released from the police, issuing the summons on April 23.

In the election of the President of Ukraine, following the processing of more than 88% of the protocols, presidential candidate Vladimir Zelensky gained 73.21% of the vote. More than 12 million voters voted for it, follows from the data of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine. The current president Petro Poroshenko gained 24.46%, more than 4 million people voted for him.

The picture of Isaac Levitan worth more than 2 million rubles was stolen from an expert in Moscow, law enforcement agencies are being verified. This was reported by Interfax with reference to an informed source. Director of the Scientific Organization "Research Independent Expertise named after P.M. Tretyakov ”filed an application with the police. He said that unknown persons fraudulently took possession of Levitan’s painting “Summer landscape. Pashnya ”(1880–1890).

Freedom on the Novoyeaz They say that the deputies only prohibit everything, but this is a completely false view. A ban is just where a person is free, because he says: this is impossible, and everything else is as you want. What is the right? This is the biggest lack of freedom. I can tell you that the more rights we have, the less we are free, because the right, unlike the prohibition, is when you must act and only in the way it is written in the law ...

Explosions, on the day of Catholic Easter, who killed almost 300 people in churches and hotels of Sri Lanka, arranged seven suicide bombers. This was written by the Associated Press agency with reference to the government expert Sri Lanka Aryananda Veling. According to him, these conclusions were made on the basis of an analysis of fragments of bodies found at the site of terrorist attacks. Earlier, the police detained 24 suspects.

Twenty-four people were detained on Sri Lanka in connection with the explosions that occurred in the country on the day of Catholic Easter. This was told by CNN by the police representative Ruvan Gunasekara. He noted that, in particular, two men were detained at the city of Dambulla. Previously reported 13 detainees. Police officers also managed to arrest a driver who, supposedly, transported the attackers in his van.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will announce that Japan, South Korea, Türkiye, India and China will no longer be able to import Iranian oil without falling under American sanctions. It is reported by Associated Press with reference to three unnamed American officials. Earlier with respect to these five countries there were exceptions. On May 2, the period of special conditions expires, they will no longer extend them.

At the ShiES station in the Arkhangelsk region, police seated by wagons of environmental activists, in one of whom a man was locked. About this writes the publication "Such things." The police did not check if there was someone inside. Later, when law enforcement officers opened the seals, a man fell out of the trailer, who became ill. It is assumed that he began to choke, because the stove was heated in the house. Now he is hospitalized.

A marvelous act of creation The emergence of the Universe from nothing remains an unsolved miracle ... no matter how they explain and no matter how this wonderful divine act of creation is described, many scientists will never describe all the proudly considering themselves to be the secrets of being and did not find God in them.

The governor of the Nikolaev region of Ukraine Alexei Savchenko wrote a resignation statement. This was reported by the publication "Ukrainian News" with reference to the representative of his administration. Earlier on April 22, the head of the Lviv regional administration, Oleg Sintka, who held this post since December 2014, announced a resignation .

The Basmanny Court elected household arrest as a preventive measure for the ex-president and chairman of the Board of Yugra Bank Alexei Nefedov and Dmitry Shilyaev. It is reported by RIA Novosti. Earlier, in the case of the theft of Ugra, 7.5 billion rubles for house arrest was sent by the main owner of the bank, Alexei Khotin, until July 18. Recall that the Central Bank withdrew the banking license at Ugra in July 2017.