🇷🇺🇺🇸 The next round of negotiations between Russia and the United States will be held at the level of directors of departments of foreign policy agencies - Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov.

☕ Ottawa coffee shop changes name from 'Americano' to 'Canadiano'.

Owner Todd Simpson explained that the symbolic move was meant to "help with humor to highlight the seriousness of the situation."

🇷🇺🇺🇸 Communication between Putin and Trump is a dialogue between two outstanding presidents, "this is promising" - Peskov.

? Russian mobile operator Megafon will pay a fine of ₽1.2 million for not interrupting a suspicious call - due to the operator’s inaction, a St. Petersburg resident gave his savings to scammers.

Megafon was found guilty of not stopping traffic to its network when it received a call from scammers. Now the company will have to pay a large fine of ₽1.2 million. According to the law, operators must interrupt foreign calls from spoofed numbers.

However, when a suspicious caller from France called a resident of St. Petersburg, Megafon did nothing, and the pensioner became a victim of scammers.

The practice of bringing such cases arose quite recently - the prosecutor's office first filed a lawsuit against a mobile operator for not blocking calls from scammers at the end of June.

? The International Basketball Federation has extended the suspension of Russian and Belarusian teams until December 2024.

? April 26 in Russia:

? 1658 - Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, by his decree, ordered to call the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin, previously called Frolovskaya.

? 1795 - Russia annexed Courland.

? 1799 - The Battle of the Adda River began. The battle took place between Russian-Austrian troops under the command of A.V. Suvorov and the French army under the command of J.V. Moreau. The battle became the first major victory of the Allies during Suvorov's Italian campaign.

? 1828 - The Russian Empire declared war on the Ottoman Empire.

? 1863 - The opera “Cossack beyond the Danube” by Ukrainian composer Semyon Stepanovich Gulak-Artemovsky was first performed at the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater.

? 1926 - Stalin, in a letter to Kaganovich, criticized the nationalist policies of Khvylovy and Shumsky in Ukraine.

? 1936 - Personal ranks were introduced in the Soviet police.

? 1954 - The Supreme Soviet of the USSR approved the decree of its Presidium on the transfer of the Crimean region from the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR and made corresponding changes to the Constitution of the USSR.

? 1965 - May 9 (Victory Day) in the USSR again became a non-working day (in 1948-1964 it was a working day).

? 1983 - USSR leader Yu. V. Andropov invited an American girl, Samantha Smith, to the Soviet Union.

? 1986 - Accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, one of the largest man-made disasters in human history.

? 1991 - The Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR adopted the law “On the Rehabilitation of Repressed Peoples,” which provided for territorial rehabilitation.

? 2003 - After a 12-year break, a Russian expedition raised the tricolor in the central Arctic - at a station located on a drifting ice floe 150 km from the North Pole.

? Sand particles from the Sahara were recorded in the air in Moscow.

A dust plume from the African continent overtook central Russia today, particles of Saharan sand flew to Moscow.

?? The US House of Representatives adopted bills on assistance to Ukraine and confiscation of Russian assets in a procedural vote.