The DPRK soldiers at the border post with South Korea. Photo from the pentagon archive The United States and South Korea have developed plans for response to provocations by the DPRK, reports The New York Times. They intend to react more actively than in the recent past. However, the reaction will be a “limited”, designed to prevent escalation with a wide war. In accordance with the plan, South Korea should give an immediate but adequate response to any actions by Pyongyan.

Alexander Cherkasov. Photo by Varvara Pakhomenko The Memorial human rights center filed a complaint about the actions of the Moscow prosecutor’s office during a recent inspection of the organization to Zamoskvoretsky District Court of the capital. As reported on the website of the Center, the International Memorial Society also filed a lawsuit with a similar paper.

Protest in Hanover. Photo: D. Azarov/Kommersant German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the need to develop an active civil society in Russia and called for a chance to give a chance. Opening, together with President Vladimir Putin, the Hanover industrial fair, Merkel noted that only an open society can guarantee the well -being of the country, the German Wave reports .

Mikhail Beketov. Photo from the site hroniki.info In the 119th Hospital, Khimki died by the former editor-in-chief of the Khimkinskaya Pravda newspaper Eco-defender Mikhail Beketov. This was reported by RAPSI with reference to lawyer Stalin Gurevich. Beketov was 55 years old. He graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, worked in central editions, was a sob in Afghanistan and Chechnya. In 2007, he founded and headed the independent newspaper Khimkinskaya Pravda.

Roman Kopin. Photo: chukotka.org United Russia this week will send to its factions in regional parliaments and local branches recommendations on the application of the law, which gives the regions the right to abandon the direct elections of its head, Kommersant reports . The proposal to take this opportunity will receive three of the nine subjects, who will have elections on September 8: Dagestan, Ingushetia and Chukotka.

Konstantin Lebedev. Photo: Grani.ru A member of the Russian socialist movement Konstantin Lebedev said that a video of the conversation of Russian oppositionists with a deputy of the Georgian Parliament Givi Targamadze, demonstrated in the film "Anatomy of Protest - 2", was not falsified. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the lawyer Lebedeva Valery Lavrov. “Thus, Lebedev admitted that the people recorded on the film were really at that time in this place,” said Lavrov.

Vladimir Ashurkov. Photo from Twitter The Moscow City Court recognized the search a search in February by a member of the Coordinating Council of the opposition, the coordinator of the Rospili Corruption Fund Vladimir Ashurkov. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the lawyer Ashurkov Vadim Kobzev.

Logo OJSC "Slavyanka" The investigation was suspected by the director of the Krasnodar branch of Slavyanka Nikolai Sergeyev in fraud for 3 million rubles, the press service of the Prosecutor General’s Office reports . He overestimated the volume of water supply and sanitation for the branch of the Zhukovsky and Gagarin Air Force Academy in Krasnodar.

Margaret Thatcher. Photo: margaretthatcher.org The former prime minister of Margaret Thatcher died in the UK, reports Sky News with reference to the adviser Tetcher Lord Bell. According to him, 87-year-old Baroness "quietly died" early on the morning of April 8 as a result of a stroke. Bell promised that Tatcher's relatives and friends would in the near future make an official statement about this.

White House. Photo from Whitehouse.gov The US State Department can reduce the Magnitsky List, including only 15 names in it. According to Kommersant, such an opinion was expressed by sources in Congress. They believe that the White House does not want to aggravate relations with the Kremlin. According to the publication, members of Congress, leading human rights organizations of the United States and special services, were involved in the development of the final version of the black list.

Vladimir Putin at a rally in Luzhniki President Vladimir Putin, speaking in the Netherlands at a joint press conference with the prime minister of the country, Mark Rutte, thanked local LGBT activists, for the fact that they did not undress in front of him, as Femen’s activists did in Hanover. “Thank God that homosexuals did not share here,” Putin RIA Novosti reports.

Femen promotion in Hanover. Photo: Dapd On Monday activists of the Femen movement, they held an action in Hanover at a meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, a criminal case was opened. As reported on the website of the movement, activists are charged with Article 132 of the Criminal Code of Germany (public insult to the representative of the power of a foreign state).

Ivan Melnikov. Photo: kprf.ru A group of State Duma deputies from the Communist Party and Fair Russia, including Gennady Zyuganov and Sergey Mironov, appealed to the Constitutional Court with a request to check whether the protocol on the entry of Russia was legal to the WTO. According to RIA Novosti, citing the first deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party Ivan Melnikov, the Duma document sent a document on Thursday.

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo It seems that they have such a competition - perhaps with a passing goblet, which secretly, but in an atmosphere of festive fun, is awarded to the winner. Or they speak in turn, as in that joke: now you are a lard. I mean the authorities of a diverse level, regularly demonstrating something heartbreaking in terms of stupidity, vulgarity, ignorance, and tyranny.

Vladimir Putin and Angel Merkel. Photo of the Kremlin press service The money that was received by non-governmental organizations in Russia from abroad could be directed to the aid of problem countries, including Cyprus. President Vladimir Putin stated this at a joint press conference with the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, RIA Novosti reports. Merkel expressed concern about checks that the Russian authorities conduct at NPOs.