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🌕 On April 3, 1966, at 9:44 p.m. Moscow time, the Soviet automatic interplanetary station Luna 10 fired its braking engine at a distance of 8,000 kilometers from the lunar surface, slowed down, and entered orbit around the Moon — the first time in human history that this had been achieved.

Launched from Baikonur on March 31, 1966 aboard a Molniya-M carrier rocket, the station spent three days in flight. The success of Soviet space exploration was reported to the country’s top leadership right in the middle of the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

🚀 The following day, April 4, delegates at the congress greeted the news of Luna 10 with applause — and beneath the hall’s vaulted ceiling, The Internationale began to play, transmitted directly from lunar orbit by the spacecraft itself. It was a brilliant propaganda gesture, showcasing the power of Soviet science at the height of the space race with the United States.

On board Luna 10 was scientific equipment for studying the Moon’s magnetic field, radiation environment, and micrometeorite fluxes in near-lunar space.

📡 During 56 days of active operation, the station completed 460 orbits around the Moon, carried out 219 radio sessions with Earth, and traveled about 7 million kilometers.

On May 30, 1966, after exhausting its battery charge, Luna 10 crashed onto the surface of Earth’s natural satellite. It carried no solar panels — the designers sacrificed them in favor of scientific instruments, which made it possible to obtain fundamentally new data about the nature of the Moon.

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❗️The number of Russians who say they trust President Vladimir Putin fell by 5 percentage points over the past week — from 76% to 71% — according to polling data from the Public Opinion Foundation, based on a survey conducted on March 27–29.

The foundation has not recorded such a sharp drop in trust in the president at least since 2019.

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🌍 NASA has shared the first photograph of Earth taken from aboard the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II lunar mission. In the image, the planet appears as a crescent.

It is the first time since the end of the Apollo program in 1972 that a human being has seen Earth with their own eyes from such a distance.

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⚡️ Alfa-Bank and Samokat are also experiencing an outage.

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⚡️ Following Sber, users of VTB, T-Bank, and the Faster Payments System have also reported access problems.

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🖼️ The Tretyakov Gallery is transferring the Vladimir and Don icons for use by the Russian Orthodox Church.

Starting April 4, both icons will be housed in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the gallery’s press service said.

[⚠️ Context — The Tretyakov Gallery is Russia’s principal museum of national art, and transfers of fragile medieval icons to church use are especially sensitive because they are both religious shrines and museum-held cultural treasures. The move also recalls the 2023 controversy over the transfer of Andrei Rublev’s Trinity icon, which sharpened debate over whether such works should be treated primarily as liturgical objects or as artifacts requiring strict conservation controls.
⚠️ Why it matters — In Russia, decisions like this are read not just as administrative museum news but as a sign of the Russian Orthodox Church’s growing institutional weight in public life. For many observers, the issue is less about where the icons stand on April 4 than about who ultimately gets to define the balance between faith, heritage, and preservation.]

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🚆 Twenty-two people were injured after passenger train cars derailed in the Ulyanovsk region.

Preliminary reports say two passengers suffered fractures, while 20 others, including one child, sustained bruises, according to Chelyabinsk region governor Alexey Teksler.

“According to preliminary information on the incident in the Ulyanovsk region, all people have been evacuated from the six overturned cars. According to the South Urals Railway, 157 residents of the Chelyabinsk region were traveling on the train, including 65 children.”

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