
- Russians are unhappy with constant violations of personal rights and freedoms of citizens. More than half of all appeals (56.7%) to the Commissioner for Human Rights concerned this particular issue. The Russian Newspaper has published today the annual report of the Commissioner, which states where the rights of Russian citizens are especially often violated. According to the Commissioner for Human Rights, Vladimir Lukin, our main problem is that “we instantly turn any disagreement into an acute conflict. <...> with civilian, mutual hatred, a civil war begins, ”he notes. His interviews can be read here , and here - to study the report itself.
- The Supreme Court cannot decide what a rollback is and how to punish it for it. The day before, a draft resolution of the Plenum of the Armed Forces for corruption crimes was presented, which contains two possible options. The first assumes that an official concluding an agreement on the supply of goods in exchange for remuneration will be regarded as a bribe (Article 290 of the Criminal Code - from 3 to 15 years). The second proposes to consider the rollback with a bribe only if the goods are purchased at market value. If their price is higher, the crime should be qualified as a waste of entrusted funds (Article 160 of the Criminal Code - from 2 to 10 years). The discussion will last until May, write Vedomosti.
- The actual goal of mass inspections of non -profit organizations (NPOs) differs from the officially set out, Kommersant found out . The day before, the Prosecutor General said that she was looking for extremist organizations of nationalist and religious orientation. Putin confirmed this. However, at the disposal of the publication was a document talking about something else: the standard prosecutor’s office, which was launched into the regional department of the department, states that “special attention should be paid to the NGOs financed from foreign sources”, as well as “participating in the interests of foreign sources in political activities in the territory of the Russian Federation. <...> As a rule, these are human rights and religious, national-cultural and youth associations, funds, and so on, ”is explained there. That is, nevertheless, hunting is conducted on foreign agents.
- The state is returned to the "loot". The owner of the control package of shares of the 31st GPI-OJSC “31st State Project Institute of Special Construction” (the institute was bought by him from the alleged scammers for 100 million rubles) -returned it “voluntarily and free of charge”. It is expected that the head of the special construction Grigory Naginsky, whose family belongs to the remaining shares of the GPISS, will follow his example. It was with the illegal sale of the property of this institute that the investigation of the Listen Criminal case of Oboronservis began, reminds Kommersant. And Izvestia notes that the state began to earn in practice the Oboronservice: no one is going to return the money spent on the purchase of assets.
- Tele2 from VTB will try to repel: on the eve of the MTS and Vimpelsom company , they sent a letter to the Swedish Tele2 Swedish company to buy a Russian business company for $ 4–4.25 billion. And earlier, the Alpha Group investment unit sent Tele2 an official proposal for the purchase of Tele2 Russia for $ 3.6–4 billion on the evening in the evening of the evening VTB announced the purchase of Tele2 Russia from the Swedish Tele2 holding for $ 2.4 billion, the bank is also going to take the operator’s debt $ 1.15 billion.
-The spacecraft for the first time carried out a short flight scheme: the TMA-08M Union six hours after the start came up with the International Space Station (ISS). The ship made only four turns around the ground instead of the usual 30, which reduced the flight time by more than 8 times. Three astronauts were on the space side: Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin and American Christopher Cassidi.
-Facebook will not close: the site administration has already deleted information from the resource, because of which the social network could be blocked in Russia, a representative of Roskomnadzor said . Earlier it was reported that the FB was in the "black list".
- Knowed: Kadyrov began to Install the cats. First, the head of Chechnya on Instagram “taught the style” of Kandelaki and made Lukes in the elevator, then he received complaints from the population, after he chose from the subscribers of the minister, but now the “cat of the day from Ramzan Kadyrov”:
- And at this time in the world. The leader of the Democratic Party of Italy Pierre Bersani failed in an attempt to create a national government: the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the satirist Beppe Grillo do not allow him to form a viable cabinet. The Central Bank of Cyprus plans to extend rigid control over the movement of capital in the banks of the island state for a month.
The UN failed to accept the first international agreement in history governing trade in conventional weapons: the project was blocked by Iran, North Korea and Syria (Mexico proposed ignoring the position of these countries, but for some reason Russia did not like it).
The head of North Korea Kim Jong -un brought the missile units aimed at American military bases.
In Europe, they are preparing for the celebration of Catholic Easter: the new Pope Francis washed his legs to 12 young prisoners in the Roman prison, where he carried out a foresaw service on Clean Thursday, and the Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II, along with her husband, distributed great -abdic alms to the inhabitants of Oxford.
- What else to read this in the morning: an article in Vedomosti about how pensioners will help to build a tunnel near Sheremetyevo; Interview of the Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Communications of Alexei Volina “Izvestia” about “black lists”; Report "RBC Daily" about a meeting with Sergey Polonsky in a Cambodian prison; Tips on how to become a good official from Sergey Stepashin.