The Supreme Court of Russia satisfied the appeal of the Rosbalt news agency, whose Mosgorsud certificate of registration of the media previously recognized as invalid on the complaint of Roskomnadzor. Thus, the department was denied the recall of the license from Rosbalt.

The Crimean theme has split the Russian society into two not equal parts. A powerful wave of disinfecting swept through Facebook, scandals in decent families, and in one of the Research Institute, as I told me, a peaceful dispute in the scientific laboratory ended with a mass media.

One of the main theses of Putin’s speech yesterday was the assertion that, thanks to the seizure of power on the peninsula, certain “self -defense forces” managed to avoid bloodshed: “If the local Self -Defense Forces of Crimea did not take control in time, there could also be victims. And thank God that this did not happen! Not a single armed clash occurred in the Crimea and there were no human sacrifices ...

One of the most important sources of optimism in recent years has been lost: the decline in racist street violence that has continued since 2009 has clearly stopped. The number of hate-motivated murders has exceeded the figures for 2012, and the statistics will continue to grow throughout this year. The past year has seen a marked uptick in ethnic violence, obvious even to casual observers.