Yuri Lutskevich. Photo: tsn.ua President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych signed a decree on the pardon of six convicts, including the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuri Lutsenko and ex-Minister of Environmental Protection Georgy Filipchuk. This was reported on the official website of Yanukovych.

In Moscow, the support campaign for "swamp prisoners" started. On April 6, a rally was held in the Novopushkinsky Square . Starting from April 7, every day is dedicated to one of 27 accused. The culmination of the campaign should be a large -scale action on the anniversary of events on Bolotnaya. April 7th was dedicated to Artem Savelov. Activists told about it metro passengers and passers -by. The video message in support of Artem was recorded by former deputy Gennady Gudkov.

95 years ago, on April 7, 1918, at the general meeting of the Union of Artists, held at the Petrograd Academy of Arts under the slogan “All to Protection of Art”, a resolution was adopted, which stated that art should be regardless of the political construction of the country.

A rally against the reconstruction of Leninsky Prospekt. Photo by L. Barkova/Grani.ru On Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow, a rally was held against a plan for its reconstruction. According to the Grani.ru correspondent, about 300 people took part in the action, including the activists of Yabloko, the Left Front, and the RPR-Parnas. At the rally, signatures were collected against reconstruction. The next protest rally is scheduled for April 21 in the Novopushkinsky Square.

A large construction of skyscrapers in Moscow City is published as advertising is in full swing. At the entrance from the Presnenskaya embankment to the Greater City, it makes it clear to any passing that the construction is not stopped - a large number of workers and construction equipment are visible.

Logo "Memorial" The prosecutor's office began an audit of the Murom branch of the Memorial Society in the Vladimir Region. “In Murom, the prosecutors came to the Memorial department. All employees of 75-80 years old. They demanded the theses of speaking at a rally in memory of the repressed ones,” said the head of the Human Rights Association Pavel Chikov with reference to the chairman of the Ryazan Memorial Andrei Blinishov. Inspections are also carried out in the Moscow and St.

Anastasia (Aurora) Bryazgin. Photo from a personal page on Facebook In relation to the feminists of Anastasia (Aurora) Bryazgina, detained on March 8 at the protest in Moscow, a criminal case was opened under Article 318 (the use of violence against a representative of the authorities), Interfax reports.

Sergey "Spider" Troitsky. Photo: korroziametallla.ru The ex-candidate for the mayors of Zhukovsky, the leader of the Rock Group "Corrosion of Metal" Sergey "Pauk" Troitsky admitted that his headquarters was engaged in buying votes. “We paid five thousand people two thousand rubles,” Troitsky said in an interview with the BBC. “In total, 30 thousand people participated in the elections.

Harry Kasparov at a rally. Photo by Nicky Maksimyuk/Grani.ru The chess player and politician Harry Kasparov will no longer participate in the leadership of the Solidarity movement. This was reported on Twitter by his associate Ilya Yashin with the 4th Congress of Movement in Moscow. “As far as I understand, he (Kasparov. - Ed.) Decided to emigrate from Russia,” writes Yashin. Kasparov did not participate in the congress. He denied Yashin’s statement on the Kasparov.ru website.