Foreign Ministry of France. Photo: Wikipedia Paris demanded explanations from Moscow regarding the inspections of NGOs in Russia. According to RIA Novosti, the representative of the French Foreign Ministry Philip Lallo made such a statement. The concern of the European country caused, in particular, the checks of the French NPOs operating in Russia.

Council of the Federation. Photo from the site www.rbsys.ru The Kremlin and the Government announced the need to significantly process the bill on volunteering prepared by the Federation Council, which involves the formation of the Unified State Register of Volunteers. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to documents available to the publication. The government’s review was signed by Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov. As the document says, a number of senators are not justified.

Dmitry Medvedev. Hard of news Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev spoke in support of direct elections of the heads of regions. This was reported by the site "United Russia". “This also applies to the Caucasus,” the prime minister said, adding that in some Caucasian regions, "election procedures in their pure form have not yet been used." Medvedev made a reservation that he did not object to the law that allows the subjects of the Federation to abandon direct elections of the heads of regions.

Alexander Podrabinek. Courtesy Photo The story told by the New Gazeta about the rebellious officers of the FSB is doubly good. Firstly, it once again gives a visual idea of ​​the degree of corruption of law enforcement agencies. Secondly, it inspires optimism in those who could be distinguished by a visual idea of ​​the degree of corruption of law enforcement agencies into despair. There is nothing special in the facts of corruption themselves.

Pavel Chikov, head of the Agora Association. Photos of Radio "Freedom" The Human Rights Association "Agora" published a standard complaint about the decisions of the courts of fines to the rallies participants, as well as the instructions for filling out and filing it. This was reported by an open news agency.

Alexey Pichugin. Photo from the family archive Russia will revise the first sentence to the former Yukos employee Alexei Pichugin in accordance with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Justice. In addition, Russia will pay Pichugin 9500 euros as compensation for moral damage. Pichugin headed the Economic Department of Safety Service "Yukos".

Denis Lutskievich. Photo by D. Borko March 27 at 10:15:15 Moscow City Court will consider the appeal of the extension of the arrest "Swamp Prisoner" by Denis Lutskevich.

Alexey Mitrofanov. Photo from the site Alexeymitrofanov.ru The head of the Duma Media Committee Alexei Mitrofanov proposed to significantly increase the size of the fines that the media must pay for violations, Interfax reports. According to Mitrofanov, fines should be from 15 thousand to 45 million rubles. As Mitrofanov explained, a large amount of the fine will allow you to abandon a measure such as a review of a license from the publication. “Not to recall anything, only with money.

William Brauder, photo from the site www.harbus.org The British HSBC Holdings closes the Hermitage Capital Management Foundation in Russia, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the head of the Foundation, William Brauder, HSBC Holdings was fully adopted to close the fund. “He was too small for a viable enterprise,” Browner said. The businessman founded the Fund together with billionaire Edmund Safra in 1996, having accumulated $ 4 billion in Russia in nine years, Bloomberg himself told Bloomberg.

Denis Lutskievich in court. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru The college of the Moscow City Court, under the chairmanship of Larisa Polyakova, recognized the extension of Denis Lutkevich to the “swamp prison” by June 9, Rosuznik reports . The petition of the lawyer Dmitry Dinze to change his client’s preventive measure for bail or house arrest was not satisfied. Politzek himself participated in a meeting on video communication from a pre -trial detention center.

Gay Flag. Photo from the site www.gay.ru On the day of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Amsterdam in the city of Visales, rainbow flags of the LGBT community, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to the Netherlands Volkskrant. "Amsterdam seeks to be an open and tolerant city, where everyone can be the one who is it," the city of the Council of the Central District of the city says. The authorities of the Central District urge the rest of the Amsterdam areas will join their action.

Moscow city defenders are trying to save the "old man of Bolkonsky" on Vozdvizhenka. On Tuesday, the picketers met writers who appeared at the Gorky Prize. Lyudmila Putin performed at the solemn event . It is she who patrones the center of interpersonal communications - the customer of the reconstruction of the old house described in the Tolstoy novel. At the same time in Nizhny Novgorod, civil activists protect the old mansion on Ilyinka from demolition.

Pavel Gusev. Frame of the NTV channel The editor -in -chief of the Moscow Komsomolets Pavel Gusev unanimously re -elected by the chairman of the Moscow Union of Journalists, Interfax reports. This decision was made at the congress of the Union. Earlier, the first secretary of the Moscow Union of Moscow, Lyudmila Shcherbina, said that only his congress can make a decision to resign Gusev, but other members of the Union Presidium support the editor -in -chief of MK.

Maxim Kuzmin. Photo from Facebook The Texas edition of Odessa American published the results of the opening of the body of Maxim Kuzmin, an adopted by the American family of a child from Russia, which died in January 2013. The results of the examination were transferred to the publication by local authorities. Experts found more than 30 abrasions, scratches and bruises on the boy’s body.

The door of the office "For human rights". Photo by D. Zizkova/Grani.ru A number of Russian NPOs filed lawsuits against the Prosecutor General in connection with sudden unregulated checks of their activities that have been going on for the past few weeks. This was reported by "Echo of Moscow" with reference to the head of the Human Rights Association "Agora" Pavel Chikov. Chikov expects that in this way NGOs will be able to put an end to these checks.