Vladimir Akimenkov. Photo by Evgenia Mikheeva/Brani.ru On May 16, at 10:30, the Moscow City Court will consider the appeal about the extension of the arrest of the "swamp prison" by Vladimir Akimenkov, suffering from innate eye disease. Lawyer - Dmitry Agranovsky. Facebook event page

Kremlin. Photos of faces On the territory of the Moscow Kremlin, a helicopter platform was prepared to ensure the flights of the president. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the press secretary of Vladimir Putin Dmitry Peskov. Peskov assured that the use of helicopters would not damage the Kremlin monuments: they are equipped with vibration sensors who will collect information about the impact of heavy equipment on them.

Gerard Depardieu visiting Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Instagram.com/kadyrov_95 French actor Gerard Depardieu will not play the role of the first president of Chechnya Akhmat Kadyrov. This newspaper Izvestia was announced by the director of the State Film Fund of Russia Nikolai Borodachev. According to him, in the film "The Heart of the Father", whose shooting is planned to be carried out in Chechnya, we will not talk about the father of the current head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov.

Dmitry Kratov. Photo from the television company Peak The acquittal to the ex-deputy of the head of the capital "Butyrka" Dmitry Kratov, who was accused of negligence in connection with the death of the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital, Sergei Magnitsky, was upheld by the decision of the Moscow City Court, Interfax reports. Thus, the court rejected the complaint of Magnitsky’s mother to the verdict of the Tver court, who justified Kratov at the end of last year.

Skolkovo. Photo: rg.ru State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev, after interrogation, which lasted about four hours, remained in the status of a witness in a criminal case regarding the payments of the Skolkovo Foundation, Interfax reports. "My status is not changed, I am still in the status of a witness," the deputy said. Meanwhile, Ponomarev did not disclose the contents of the conversation with the investigator, as he gave a signal of non -disclosure.

LGBT action "Day of Silence". Photo by L. Barkova/Grani.ru The administration of the Khimki near Moscow refused to conduct a gay parade, Interfax reports with reference to the organizer of the action Nikolai Alekseev. The authorities motivated their decision by the fact that the parade could violate the life of the townspeople, and also does not reflect the moral needs of the population.

Akain Scott. Photo by the Department of Police of New Orleans The US police arrested 19-year-old Akain Scott, suspected of shooting at a parade in New Orleans, RIA Novosti reports. In addition to Scott, two more suspects are wanted. The official representative of the city of the city of Rami Braden said that the police expect to detain them in the near future. Scott was arrested in the Little-Woods area in the eastern part of the city. There are no other details of the arrest.

Grigory Kochnev with children. Photo: kp.ru The death of the driver Grigory Kochnev, who died in December last year on the ring road of St. Petersburg from blows with a knife in the heart, was recognized as suicide. The criminal case on the fact of the investigation is closed, according to the website of the regional investigative department of the TFR.

Rustem Adagamov. Photo from Facebook In the Moscow apartments of the member of the coordination council of the opposition Rustem Adagamov and his civil wife are searches. As Adagamov himself said on Twitter, in the morning a search was held in the apartment that his wife rents. A clean hard drive in the package and the book of the ABC of Protest were seized there - a photo album with pictures of posters at demonstrations in Moscow.

Vladimir Akimenkov in court 03/01/2013. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The college of the Moscow City Court canceled the last extension of the term of the “Swamp prison” by Vladimir Akimenkov, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky. If the decision of the board is not appealed by the investigation or the prosecutor's office, on June 10, Akimenkov will be released before the trial on the merits.

UN headquarters in New York The UN General Assembly by a majority vote adopted a resolution on Syria, RIA Novosti reports. The document was supported by 107 states, 12, including Russia, abstained against, 59 countries. The draft resolution was prepared by Qatar and a number of other Arab countries. The adopted resolution notes the recognition of the national coalition of the Syrian revolutionary and opposition forces as the legal representative of the people of Syria.

New buildings. Photo from Nezevay.ru The new person involved appeared in the criminal case about the criminal group that stole 150 apartments at the Ministry of Defense. He became an official of the military ministry Stanislav Balyukin, one of the participants in the fraud, who caused the state damage in the amount of 1 billion rubles, the Izvestia newspaper reports.

Leonid Gozman. Photos of faces The Council of the Duma instructed the three Duma committees to verify the statements of the director of the humanitarian projects of RUSNANO OJSC Leonid Goman and make his proposals to the chamber. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the first vice-speaker of the State Duma of communist Ivan Melnikov. "The Council of the Duma instructed the Committee on the Information Policy on Defense and Security to check the statements of Mr.

Aerodrome. Photo: geocaching.su A criminal case has been opened against two former officials of the representative office of the Russian Ministry of Defense in St. Petersburg, the press service of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office reports . At the conclusion of the state contract, they caused the state damage in the amount of over a billion rubles.

Gerard Depardieu visiting Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Instagram.com/kadyrov_95 The French actor Gerard Depardieu, who received Russian citizenship, will play in two films, the shooting of which will be held in Chechnya. In one of the films, called "Father's Heart", he will act as the father of the current head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, RIA Novosti reports, referring to the French newspaper Le Monde.