Sochi, TIK of the Central District. Counting votes in the elections on April 26. Observer Roman Udot finds the election of the election commission for certain actions with ballots.

George Bow. Photo Interfax The Moscow City Hall denied the right business party to hold a rally on May 1, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the leader of the organization of George Bovt. "On May 1, the party intended to hold a rally in Moscow under the slogan" Moscow - Open City. "The party received an unmotivated refusal ... We consider the refusal to be unlawful and expressed bewilderment about the strange position of the Moscow City Hall," Bovt said.

Moscow, April 28, 2007 Press conference of Solidarity leaders Boris Nemtsov and Garry Kasparov. Full video recording

Moscow, April 28, 2009. Press conference of leaders of the movement "Solidarity" in the hotel complex "Izmailovo". Short version: Boris Nemtsov on the election results

Jail. Photo by Newsprom The Federation Council on Wednesday rejected the law providing for the possibility of a "transaction with justice." According to Interfax, 26 senators voted for the adoption of the law, against 76, seven abstained. Senators supported the position of the Committee on Legal and Court issues, which recommended that the chamber reject this document due to the fact that a number of its provisions contradicts the constitution and has "technical errors".

RNDS activists. Photos of faces The Tver District Court of Moscow refused to satisfy the application for appeal to the refusal to register the Russian People's Democratic Union.

Putin driving. Photo from the site www.lenpravda.ru Russian officials are in no hurry to listen to the appeal of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and do not refuse to purchase expensive foreign cars, Vedomosti reports based on data analysis published on the official Zakupki.gov.ru portal. The publication notes that the purchases of representative cars are usually carried out in small batches or individually.

Alexander Ivanov. Photo from the site petrovka38.ru Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev appointed Alexander Ivanov the temporarily acting chief of the Main Directorate of Moscow, Interfax reports with reference to the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Since 2001, he served as the First Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of Moscow, the head of the criminal police.

Yukos. Photo by ar The decision to recover from Rosneft about 13 billion rubles in favor of Yukos Capital Sarl will be executed in the Netherlands. According to Kommersant, such a verdict was issued by Amsterdam's appeal, indicating that "the Russian court was not impartial and independent," refusing to execute it in Russia. The Netherlands became the first country in which the former managers of Yukos achieved the right to pay the recovery of Rosneft's assets.

Gun. Photo from the site komcity.ru The 38-year-old priest of the Alexandria Church of Rostov-on-Don Vladimir Rudinsky shot his 34-year-old wife and 8-year-old son, reports Life.ru. After that, the priest shot himself. “According to friends, Rudinsky has recently been in the deepest depression. It is possible that the cause of such an act was material problems,” the Rostov Prosecutor's Office said in the interdistrict investigative department.

Taking the camera of hidden observation. Photo from the site www.vesti.ru Employees of the patrol service, who took part in the detention of the shot people in the store of the head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the district of Tsaritsyno Denis Evsyukov, will be presented for awards. This newspaper Izvestia was informed by the commander of the patrol service of the Southern Administrative District of Moscow Vladimir Petrusenko.

NATO meeting. Photo from the site www.nato.int Russia and NATO restore relations at the political level. According to RIA Novosti, the first formal meeting of the Russia-NATO Council was opened in Brussels in South Ossetia. The meeting takes place at the level of ambassadors. Russia is represented by a permanent representative of NATO Dmitry Rogozin.

Strasbourg Court of Human Rights The lawyers of the defendants for three high-profile cases-about the murders of the journalist Paul Khlebnikov, the head of the Almaz-Antei defense holding Igor Klimov and the attempt on Anatoly Chubais-appealed to the European Court of Human Rights with a request to evaluate Russian legislation, which allows the excuses for the jurors on formal grounds, the Rosbalt agency reports.

Minibus accident. Photo from the site www.medcars.ru One person died, six were injured and delivered to hospitals as a result of an accident involving a minibus in St. Petersburg, Rosbalt reports. The accident occurred at about 7.00 in Pushkin in October Boulevard. According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in St. Petersburg, the Volkswagen car and the route Gazelle collided on the corner of the Oktyabrsky Boulevard and Orange Street.

Vladimir Pronin, former head of the Moscow Military District. Frame of the TV channel '' Russia '' The head of the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the police, the police general, the police colonel, Vladimir Pronin, fired on Tuesday. This was stated by the head of the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, police colonel Viktor Biryukov, RIA Novosti reports.