Dmiriy Mezentsev. Photo: Irkobl.ru The governor of the Irkutsk region Dmitry Mezentsev resigned of his own free will, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Kremlin press service. President Vladimir Putin accepted the resignation of Mezentsev and appointed Sergei Eroshchenko, temporarily acting head of the Irkutsk region.

Olga Kostina. Frame of Channel One The new chairman of the Presidential Council for Human Rights and the Development of Civil Society Institutes Olga Kostina, a member of the Public Chamber and the head of the Human Rights Movement "Resistance", reports New Gazeta with reference to its sources. “It is inclined to think that since such information has appeared, it means that there is some kind of hardware struggle,” Kostina herself commented on this information.

Vitaly Portnikov. Photo from the site www.day.ua A year ago, Kazakhstani oil industry workers began a protest, after eight months, which ended with pogroms in the city and the execution of participants in the strike. They did not talk about what happened in Zhanaozen while the strike was going on- and they remembered for a short while when the Internet was full of reports from the “tamed” city.

Igor Kholmansky. Frame 1 channel Vladimir Putin suggested that the head of the Nizhny Tagil Uralvagonzavod Igor Kholmanskoy become his envoy in the Ural Federal District.

Far-right activists at the actions of LGBT activists in Petrovsky Park on May 17, 2012. Shooting Peter-TV .

Vladimir Abarinov "Obama is friend, but the truth is more expensive." Under such a sparkling heading, Russian Newspaper published an interview with US Minister Eric Holder, who was taken from him by the deputy general director of ITAR-TASS Mikhail Gusman. This text makes a strange impression, starting with the title.

Fire in a warehouse of ammunition. Channel One Frame, Archive In Primorye in the warehouse of the Ministry of Defense, a fire occurred on Friday. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the representative of the information department of the Ministry of Emergencies, one person suffered as a result of a fire. "According to preliminary data, a mild wound in the leg received one soldier," the agency’s interlocutor said. On the tanned warehouse, 100 mm shells were stored.

May 17, 2012. Photographed by Andrey Novichkov.

The attack of homophobes in St. Petersburg. Short Peter.Tv In St. Petersburg, nationalists and football fans fired from traumatic pistols of representatives of sex minorities and beat migrant workers in front of the police, Peter.TV reports. Several dozen LGBT activists gathered in the Petrovsky Park, who protested against homophobia and xenophobia. During the action, about a hundred aggressive young people appeared in the park.

Gay parade on the old Arbat. Frame Grani-TV The Moscow authorities again refused the defenders of the rights of sexual minorities to conduct a gay parade on May 27, Interfax reports. "The Moscow authorities banned the gay parade for the seventh year in a row," said the organizer of the action Nikolai Alekseev. The event was supposed to take place in the form of a procession along Myasnitskaya Street from the entrance to the building of a fang -backboard to Lubyanskaya Square.

Constitutional Court. Photo: Russian look The Constitutional Court ruled that the inconsistency of the number of participants in the mass campaign for the declared should not be the basis for prosecution of its organizers, RIA Novosti reports.

Boris Berezovsky. Photo from the site Daily Mail The Prosecutor General’s Office confirmed the presence of signs of extremism in the open letter of Boris Berezovsky, published on the website of the Echo of Moscow radio station. According to Interfax, such an answer received at his request Uneneros Sergey Zheleznyak.

Zhamal Gemuev. Photo from the site kp.ru In Kabardino-Balkaria, the body of the head of the city administration of Tyrnyau Zhamala Gemuev was discovered. As reported on the website of the Republican Investigation Department, the body of Gemuev with firearms was found in the Opel car, parked on the road between the villages of Bedyk and Zhankhoteco in the Elbrus district. Five caliber caliber nine millimeters were found near the car. The car is not fired.

Poetic readings at the monument to Mandelstam. Photo by Vitaly Lamichev About a hundred people gathered for literary readings at the monument to Osip Mandelstam in Moscow near the Khiva-Gorod metro station, Interfax reports. 15 poets performed, including the test pensioner of the Baikonur Cosmodrome from Rostov. Several dozen people listened to verses, - the Russian Air Force service reports. Near the site of the action several police officers are on duty, there are three police buses nearby.

Sergey Udaltsov and Alexey Navalny. Grani.ru collage The international human rights organization Amnesty International recognized the Russian oppositionists Alexei Navalny and Sergey Udaltsov as prisoners of conscience. According to Interfax, this was announced by the head of the Russian branch of Amnesty International Sergey Nikitin.