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April 12. Sechin in court and Navalny's rally before Putin's inauguration

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The Moscow City Court examined the appeal of the former Minister of Economic Development of Russia Alexei Ulyukaev. Igor Sechin came to the meeting. “For me, this was a matter of honor,” said the head of Rosneft, who had previously ignored four summons to the court. The term was left to Ulyukaev as the same - eight years of strict regime.

Alexey Navalny announced the conduct of rallies and processions on May 5 - before the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, which was scheduled for May 7. Six years ago, on the eve of Putin’s inauguration, an action took place in Moscow, which turned into a “swamp business” - the main political process of recent years.

"Maybe soon, or maybe - no!" - said Donald Trump about a missile blow to Syria. According to the US president, he never said when the bombing could begin. Angela Merkel said that Germany would not take part in a military operation.

In Russia, the Internet is limited again

Roskomnadzor asked the court to immediately block Telegram . Such a decision can be made tomorrow. Pavel Durov forbade lawyers to participate in the hearing, so as not to give the case a legal look.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the regulation of social networks. They will be obliged to open representative offices in Russia, identify users by mobile phone number and delete false information at the request of Roskomnadzor.

The State Duma has not limited itself to this bill today. The law on blocking sites containing information that defines honor, dignity and business reputation has been finally adopted . You can read about it in detail here .

The new film by Kirill Serebrennikov will be shown in Cannes

The film "Summer" Kirill Serebrennikov was included in the main competition of the Cannes Film Festival. The director began to shoot a picture that talks about the Leningrad rock scene of the early 1980s, at the end of July 2017. On August 22, he was detained on suspicion of embezzlement of budget funds. Serebrennikov is under house arrest.

The film critic "Medusa" Anton Dolin spoke in detail about the program of the Cannes festival. In the competition with the film by Serebrennikov, the painting “Three Persons” of the Iranian director Jafar Panahi will compete (he lived for several years under house arrest and still cannot travel abroad) and “Snow -Sneys' ashes” Jia Zhanke (many of his films are prohibited in China for political motives).

How to dig Moscow

The program "My street", according to the authorities of the capital, will never end. This means that in the summer the city is again dug, albeit with a smaller scale than a year ago. A relatively modest scale of work is due to the fact that in June - July the World Cup will be held, and in September the elections of the Moscow Mayor will be held. The Special Corps of Medusa Ivan Golunov found out the details of the improvement program , which will cost at least 46.5 billion rubles.

Dmitry Tomilov