Interview with Pavel Khodorkovsky in New York. Source: Infox.Ru

Strasbourg Court of Human Rights The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg fined Russia for 100 thousand euros for the death of a resident of Chechnya Valid Dzhabrailov in 2003, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the court of the court. Relatives of Valid Dzhabrailov repeatedly appealed to the Russian courts, but remained unhappy with the action of local investigative bodies and filed a lawsuit in the Strasbourg court.

Floodplain. Photo from the site www.tvnr.ru 1220 residents of Yakutia, including 283 children, over the past day, are evacuated from the settlements of the republic who have flooded due to flood on the rivers, Interfax reports with reference to the territorial administration of the Ministry of Emergencies. According to official figures, there are no victims. The most difficult situation was in the Khangalassky district of the republic, 946 residents of which are forced to leave their housing.

Arrest. Photo psychinaction.files.wordpress.com Law enforcement officers detained the head of the Department of the Federal Tax Service of Russia for the Republic of Mordovia Dmitry Kastirin, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Castorine is suspected of receiving a bribe. The press service did not specify when he was detained.

Alexander Zhukov. Photo from the site www.old.echo.msk.ru Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov was elected new president of the Russian Olympic Committee, RIA Novosti reports. The election of the head of the OKR took place on Thursday in Moscow at an extraordinary reporting Olympic Assembly and took place on a non-alternative basis. As president, Zhukov was replaced by Leonid Tyagachev.

Patrol ships of the South Korea fleet. Photo by ar The International Commission for the Investigation of the Causes of the Death of the South Korean Corvette "Chhonan" found the DPRK guilty in the incident proven. The results of the examination were published on Thursday, reports Reuters.

European Parliament. Photo by the Air Force Deputies of the European Parliament will be present as observers for promotions in support of the 31st article of the Constitution, which will be held on May 31 on Triumphal Square in Moscow. This was announced on the air of "Echo of Moscow" by one of the initiators of Strategy-31 Eduard Limonov. According to him, the specific names of the deputies are still unknown.

Vasily Lein. Photo from the site of the prosecutor's office NAO The first deputy prosecutor of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug Vasily Lein committed suicide, shooting himself from a hunting rifle. According to ITAR-TASS, the body of the deceased was found on Wednesday evening in a forest near Naryan-Mar. A suicide note was found in Lein's apartment. "At present, the inspection of the scene has been completed, relevant expert studies have been appointed.

Volgograd resident Tatyana Kolokoltseva asks the president to contribute to a fair investigation into the death of her seven-year-old son, who was shot to death by prosecutor Elena Ivanova. Details

Elena Kaluga The rape of which the art defender Ilya Trushevsky is accused is written everything that can be written about rape. Thanks to social networks, in which the face of society is reflected with ruthless clarity, we again have seen enough of this face. Nothing new - we remember all its cracks. Here are women who ask a tricky question: why did this victim drag home in the night to the accused?

Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Photo from Newsru.com Five paintings by outstanding masters, including one Picasso and one Matisse, are stolen on the night of Wednesday to Thursday from the Paris Museum of Modern Art. The cost of the stolen is estimated at 500 million euros, RIA Novosti reports. According to the France Info radio station, the robbers hacked the iron fence lock and cut glass in the window of the National Museum of Modern Art. It is not yet clear why the alarm did not work.

Chess figures. Photo from the site www.tatar-inform.ru In Moscow, there was a capture of the central house of the chess player. As Denis Bilunov, chairman of the Solidarity Executive Committee, told the faces.ru, “people in black costumes” came to the mansion on Gogolevsky Boulevard and, presenting paper with the signature of the adviser to President Arkady Dvorkovich, replaced the protection of the building.

The reactor in the Bushera. Photo from the Air Force website The nuclear power plant in the Bushera will be launched by August of this year. As RIAC News reports, this was stated by the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko. According to him, the UN UN resolution on Iran will not affect these plans. In turn, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed the hope that Iran will soon present the IAEA specific proposals for the exchange of low -enriched Uranus for fuel.

May 20, 2010. The climbers hang a banner on the bridge by the Balchug Hotel, where the ministerial meeting of the Helsinki commission is taking place. Photo report Details on the site "Greenpeace"

Boris Gryzlov. Photo from the site www.molgvardia.ru The Presnensky court of Moscow rejected the lawsuit of the journalist of the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper Alexander Minkin to the chairman of the State Duma, the head of the Parliamentary faction "United Russia" Boris Gryzlov on the protection of honor and dignity. As ITAR-TASS reports, the judge announced only the resolving part, the motivational will be ready only a few days later. Minkin said that he would appeal the court decision.