Oppositionists and authorities are preparing for protests , which, at the call of Alexei Navalny, will take place on Saturday. Activists are trying to reach an agreement at the last moment, and the authorities are conducting searches in Navalny's Moscow headquarters, confiscating campaign materials and threatening to violently disperse the crowd (at least in St. Petersburg). Today, the Moscow City Court refused to release Alexei Navalny from arrest. His chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, is also sitting . For those who are going to go to the rallies, we have prepared a video instruction .
In the Vladimir region, a bus stalled at a railway crossing and a passenger train crashed into it . The collision killed at least 16 people.
Roskomnadzor has created a department to combat anonymizers . It will also study "violators who try to bypass the locks and break the logic of the locking system."
Our correspondent Ivan Golunov canceled the tender for 2.2 billion rubles . He came to the public hearings and asked why officials used to order twice as many works for the same amount. Officials could not answer anything, and then it turned out that the tender had already been cancelled.
A year ago, in October 2016, 20-year-old Maxim Yurchenko was killed in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. A local resident Alexander Vasiliev was convicted for his murder. When Yurchenko's parents were given their son's belongings, it turned out that among them was the killer's phone number. Correspondence was found in it, from which it follows that the killer was not alone , but the accomplices did not suffer any punishment. According to the parents of the victim, the fact is that the relatives of one of them work in the FSB. After this story got into the press, the investigator was fired, and the case began to be investigated again.
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