The State Duma in the second reading adopted a bill banning educational activities without the approval of the authorities . In the event of the final adoption of the law, the document will consolidate the very concept of "educational activity" and give the government the authority to fully control this area. The bill will also ban educational activities aimed at inciting hatred, including the use of "inaccurate information about the historical, national, religious and cultural traditions of peoples."
A court in Turkey has delivered a verdict in the 2016 murder case of Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov . Five defendants were acquitted, five defendants in the case received life sentences (two of them under the article on terrorism), nine people were sentenced to terms ranging from five to 15 years in prison. The prosecutor's office insisted on a separate consideration of the cases of nine accused who are wanted, one of them is the head of the Fethullahist terrorist group (FETO) Fethullah Gülen.
The Russian Direct Investment Fund and the Swiss company Adienne Pharma & Biotech have signed an agreement on the production of the Russian coronavirus vaccine Sputnik V in Italy . Thus, Italy will become the first country in the European Union to start producing the Russian vaccine. Local production should start in June at the Adienne site, it is planned that about 10 million doses of the drug will be produced by the end of the year.
The Simonovsky Court of Moscow sentenced Ivan Knyazev, an ex-policeman who shot a girl in the leg with a traumatic pistol, to three years probation . Knyazev was found guilty of hooliganism with the use of violence (part 1 of article 213 of the Criminal Code). He was also deprived of the right to hold positions in law enforcement agencies for a period of three years.
Roszdravnadzor began the inspection after the publication of Novaya Gazeta and reports of a shortage of personal protective equipment in the Morozov city hospital in the Leningrad region (Morozov Vsevolozhskaya KMB). In December last year, the junior nurse of the infectious diseases department of the Morozov city hospital, Marina Korchaga, recorded a video message to the “direct line” of President Vladimir Putin, where she said that doctors do not have enough PPE. In January, she was fired after two reprimands.
In Penza, Vitaly Vyunov, who was detained on suspicion of extortion, who spoke about beatings and threats in the building of the “E” center, reported pressure from other arrested pre-trial detention centers and police officers . The lawyer filed an application with the UK for state protection for him and his client. This happened after the lawyer visited Vyunov in the detention center. The detainee told the human rights activist that the prisoners threatened him with physical violence at the direction of the operatives.
Joachim Loew will step down as head coach of the German national football team after the European Championship in summer 2021 . The coach himself asked to terminate the contract, which was valid until the 2022 World Cup. The German Football Association granted his request. Joachim Loew has led the German national team since 2006. Under him, the German national team became the world champion in 2014 and won the Confederations Cup in 2017.