A new criminal case has been opened against a member of the art group “Voina” Oleg Vorotnikov (aka Vor) under the articles “Hooliganism based on political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity, or based on hatred or enmity in relation to any social groups”, “Public insult of a government official during the performance of his official duties or in connection with their performance” and “Use of violence not dangerous to life or health, or the threat of violence against a

On April 15, the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court upheld the supervisory appeal of lawyers Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev against one of the numerous decisions to extend the arrest of their clients.

On the one hand, it is gratifying that this decision took place and the Supreme Court agreed with the defense, since, in my opinion, it was clear to all sensible people that the extension of detention for people engaged in business activities was illegal after the president personally initiated amendments to the Criminal Procedure Code.

Under such a rather strange, in my opinion, the motto took place on April 12, a meeting of the expert seminar in the Synodal Information Department of the Russian Praise Church. It was possible to ask with the same success: why poetry (history, algebra, instrumentation, even economy as such) there is no place in modern media. The media do not deal with abstract categories, they are engaged in everyday turnover, what is here and now, it seems to be a common truth.

In the Kremlin Ivan Ivanovich Medvedev April 15, 2011 Anton Oresh The TV channels did not know what to do with this news for the whole day. And not because it is “not news”, but precisely because it was news - and they did not know how to be with it. The interview of Medvedev Chinese television was very frank. We realized that he wants to be president again and that he has even conceptual discrepancies with senior comrade Vladimir. And how to inform Russian viewers about this?

The annual Assembly of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (Swap) is an extremely useful event. Firstly, because it is almost the only expert platform in the country where carriers of fundamentally different views perform. Secondly, the choice of the topic of discussion very accurately demonstrates a change in the main trends in Russian foreign and domestic policy.

So, the best party of all time, United Russia, being on the verge of a nervous breakdown, finally announced its preferences for the upcoming presidential elections.