Russia announced the expulsion of the Ukrainian consul in St. Petersburg Alexander Sosonyuk, detained the day before due to suspicion of obtaining closed information. This was reported by the Russian Foreign Ministry. The Russian Foreign Ministry recommended that Sosonyuk leave the country for 72 hours, starting on April 19.

The Kyrgyz doctors treat patients with the Issyk-Kul root by the Cornavirus, or the Aconitum Soongaricum Aconitum)-a very poisonous grassy plant, Interfax reports . “In hospitals, under the supervision of doctors, about 200 patients with coronavirus take the Issyk-Kul root. We give it to the patients who carry the disease in mild form, none of them died, ”explained the head of the Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan Alymkadir Beishenaliev.

The losses of Russian tour operators from the restriction of air traffic with Turkey amount to at least 5 billion rubles. This was announced by the vice-president of the Russian Union of Trade of Trade, Yuri Barzykin. “Different figures are called - from 5 billion rubles and above. But the transit passengers who flew through Istanbul, ”Barzykin, said. He expressed the hope that these losses are compensated with the restoration of full air traffic with Turkey after June 1.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of the Czech Republic Yang Gamachek abandoned a visit to Moscow, where he was going to discuss the possibilities of supplying the Russian anticoronavirus vaccine "Sputnik V" to the Czech Republic, Deutsche Welle reports . The reason for the cancellation of the visit is the need for the presence of Gamachek at a government meeting in Prague, the politician in his microblog on Twitter said.

Ukraine sends the senior diplomat of the Russian Embassy in Kyiv in response to the incident with the consul of Ukraine in St. Petersburg. This was reported in the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. According to the department’s message, he “must leave the territory of Ukraine within 72 hours, starting on April 19”. In Kyiv, the detention in St. Petersburg of the Ukrainian diplomat was also called unlawful.

“President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said that a group of people who were preparing an attempt on him and his children had been detained were involved in the US intelligence services. “We detained the group, they showed how everyone planned it ... Then we clearly discovered the work of foreign intelligence services, most likely the CIA, the FBI - I don’t know which of the Americans worked there.

More than 70 writers, actors and film directors wrote an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking him to allow doctors to visit Alexei Navalny. The signatories include J.K. Rowling, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jude Law, Stephen Fry, David Duchovny, J.J. Abrams and Svetlana Alexievich. The letter was published by Le Monde. The Insider quotes the entire text of the letter.

In Barnaul, the police detained civil activist Viktor Rau. He told OVD-Info that he was walking on the Square of Soviets in Barnaul and photographed a single picket for the resignation of Putin and for freedom of political prisoners. The police approached the picketer and recorded his passport data. An hour later, a group of police officers came to take RAU himself in the "Zheleznodorozhny" department.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk arrested the journalist Nikolai Salnikov, who participated in the preparation of the investigation of the connections of local officials with crime. He was sent to a pre -trial detention center until June 16, 2021. It is reported by Taiga.info. Together with Salnikov, the court arrested a businessman and ex-candidate in mayor of the city of Sergei Pronichev.

The detained Ukrainian consul in St. Petersburg, Alexander Sosonyuk, was released, said Oleg Nikolenko, a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. It is reported by Interfax. “Russian law enforcement officers detained an employee of the Consulate General of Ukraine in St. Petersburg for several hours. Now he is in the Ukrainian dipling. The circumstances of the detention are clarified.

In Tula, Yaroslavl and Izhevsk, the courts arrested the followers of Jehovah's Witnesses accused under the article on an extremist organization, Mediazon reports . In Izhevsk, after a series of searches, 35-year-old Maxim Derenddyaev and 38-year-old Alexander Kutin was sent to a pre-trial detention center. The security forces carried out similar actions in Tula and Yaroslavl.

Rosturism proposed to make paid flights from Turkey for Russians who remained in the country after restricting flights. This was announced by the chairman of the Public Council under the department Dmitry Davydenko in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper. “While there are no export flights, I see one opportunity for stuck tourists - a return through third countries. The state in this situation should provide export flights. I think they should be organized on a paid basis.

In Vladimir, two journalists of “important stories” were detained during the shooting of a report on torture in local colonies, the publication reports. We are talking about Ekaterina Arenina and the operator of the publication. The reason for the detention was the shooting of a regimen institution - the building of a correctional colony of maximum regime No. 3. At the same time, the shooting did not conduct inside, but outside.

The FSB detained Alexander Sosonyuk in St. Petersburg. He is suspected of obtaining closed information from the databases of law enforcement agencies and the FSB. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Center for Public Relations (COOs) of the FSB. Sosonyuk was detained on April 16 at a meeting with a citizen of Russia, who, according to the department, told him “information of a closed nature contained in the databases of law enforcement agencies and the FSB”.

The appeal of Alexei Navalny against a “united verdict” of February 20, which was appointed a fine on charges of slander for a veteran and two and a half years of a colony in the Yves Rocher case, will be considered by Natalya Kuryshev’s deputy chairman of the Moscow Court. She was appointed President Vladimir Putin for this post four days before the case of Navalny went to court. The Russian BBC service drew attention to this.