Pavel Sopot (left) and Eduard Tagiryanov. Photo: 2006.novayagazeta.ru In Moscow, operatives of the Investigative Committee, the Federal Penitentiary Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained businessman Pavel Sopot, the alleged customer of the murder of the new newspaper journalist Igor Domnikov in 2000. This was reported on the website of the TFR.

The head of the MSPI Elena Nemirovskaya and Adam Mikhnik. Photo: msps.su The Prosecutor General’s Office recognized the Moscow School of Political Studies as a foreign agent. This was reported by Izvestia with reference to a source in the supervisory department. As the audit showed, over the past winter, the MSPI received 12.8 million rubles from abroad, including 7.3 million from the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) and over 3 million from the Macarter Foundation.

Alexander Skobov. Photo by D. Borko The initiative of two deputies from the Communist Party of an amnesty accused in the swamp case, already supported by one deputy of the lawyer, may really reflect their own position of some deputies from both system parties. But it is equally likely that at the same time it is a wiring inspired by the Kremlin.

Vladislav Surkov. Photo: Government.rf Vladislav Surkov was removed from the post of Deputy Prime Minister - the head of the government apparatus. The corresponding decree was issued by President Vladimir Putin on May 8. As the document says, Surkov was dismissed of his own free will. The decree entered into force on the day of signing.

On Wednesday, May 8, in the "International Memorial" (Karetny Ryad, 5/10), the "Studio of New Music" quartet will perform. Start at 19:00. Vladimir Tarnopolsky , composer, teacher, artistic director of the ensemble "Studio of New Music": “This concert is dedicated to the“ memorial ”in recognition of its ethically uncompromising and noble educational activity, vital to our society today. The twentieth century left his great, bright and, at the same time, deeply tragic trace in Russia's music.

The People’s Assembly of Ingushetia. Photo: Parlamentri.ru The People’s Assembly of Ingushetia adopted a law on the rejection of direct elections of the head of the region, RIA Novosti reports. The highest official of the republic will be appointed by deputies on the proposal of the President of Russia. This decision was supported by 23 out of 24 deputies present at the meeting, one opposed. April 20 for the adoption of such a law was the congress of the people of Ingushetia.

Vladislav Surkov. Photo: Sk.ru Vladislav Surkov was dismissed in connection with accusations of financing the opposition, Forbes.ru reports with reference to sources in the government. The vice-president of the Skolkovo Foundation Alexei Beltyukov, accused of waste, during interrogation in the Investigative Committee pointed out to Surkov as a curator of Ilya Ponomarev. It was Surkov, according to Beltyukov, who authorized the payment of 750 thousand dollars for a lecture to the deputy.

Vladimir Abarinov Every year, as Victory Day is approaching, the discussion flashes about whether this holiday is needed by a military parade. So this time, writer Mikhail Weller and Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky argue .

The opening of the monument to Stalin in Yakutsk. Photo: Nikolai Borisov In Yakutsk, a monument to Joseph Stalin was opened by Victory Day, Russian Newspaper reports . A bronze bust on a granite pedestal 2.5 meters high is installed on the territory of Almazi Anabara. According to the portal News.ykt.ru, at the opening of the monument there were about 100 people, mainly of older age.

Mikhail Shapovalov with a seditious poster. Photo: ma-zaika.ru The court in Saratov sentenced the activist Mikhail Shapovalov to the day of the arrest for the poster Putin, Pidrahui the remaining freedom days! ". According to Freenews-Volga, an activist detained at the local action on May 6, spent a day under arrest and was released in the courtroom.

Boris Titov. Photo: Deloros.ru The Commissioner for Businessmen Boris Titov offers the State Duma to amnesty entrepreneurs convicted of economic crimes. According to Kommersant, in this case 110,924 people will be released from places of imprisonment, including Mikhail Khodorkovsky. An amnesty is supposed to be timed to the day of the entrepreneur, celebrated on May 26. The draft resolution of Titov can be introduced to the lower house next week.

Boris Berezovsky. Photo from Calguard.ca.gov Boris Berezovsky was buried in the Brookwood cemetery in the county of Surrey in the south of England. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". “The guests are leaving, no one says with reporters,” one of the eyewitnesses told the agency. Before the funeral of Berezovsky, they plunged in the cemetery church. What faith belongs to the church, is not specified.

The battered Denis Obzhikovsky before his death. Photo: Openinform.ru The College of Criminal Cases of the St. Petersburg City Court canceled the sentence to six former police officers, who in 2010 had a resident of the city Denis Oszhikovsky in 2010 before his death. This was reported by the open news agency with reference to the lawyer of the Agora Association Dmitry Dinze, representing the interests of Olga Zverekova, the girlfriend of the deceased.

In Moscow in Gorky Park, participants in the Gorky Group action were detained. As the OVD-Info reports, 12 people were detained in total, among them the activist of Solidarity Ilya Yashin, deputy of the Council of Deputies Zyuzino Konstantin Yankauskas, activists Alexei Davydov, Maxim Sannikov, Matvey Krylov, Maxim Chekanov, Ruslan Leviev, Alexander Makarov, Maxim Vinyarsky, Andrey Pinchuk, Vsevolod Chagaev and David Abramov. All the detainees were delivered to the Yakimanka police department.

Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Instagram.com/kadyrov_95 In Chechnya schools, each academic week will now begin with a line on which the hymns of Russia and the Chechen Republic should be performed. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to a source in the region’s Ministry of Education. As the official explained, such an instruction was given by the head of the republic, Ramzan Kadyrov at a meeting with the directors of schools held on Monday.