Vladimir Putin. Photo by the presidential press service The Investigative Committee, initiating tax cases, must use the motivated judgment of the Federal Tax Service. President Vladimir Putin said this at a meeting with the head of the Federal Tax Service Mikhail Mishustin, RIA Novosti reports.

Colin Russell. Photo: Greenpeace.org The 29th of the 30 accused from the icebreaker Arctic Sunrisefilip Ball (Great Britain) left the St. Petersburg pre-trial detention center, according to Greenpeace Twitter. The only one who extended the arrest for three months is the radio operator Colin Russell from Australia. Protection has already appeliled. In relation to all other accused, the Petersburg courts decided to secure them . Two million rubles should be paid for each.

Alexander Podrabinek. Courtesy Photo Political prisoners - the pain of society, visible to its temporary well -being. Many people recognize this and try to fight political repression with all their means available to them. Rarely, someone will condemn such an activity except for some frostbitten citizen who considers hard labor to be useful for future writers. The power of the existence of political prisoners Rada. In a strategic sense, it is a threat to society, a method of terror.

Sergey Polonsky. Photo from his Twitter Businessman Sergei Polonsky, who is in the Cambodian prison, is not going to abandon Russian citizenship. This was reported by RAPSI with reference to the lawyer of the entrepreneur Alexander Karabanov. “I was talking to him yesterday, he didn’t bring this information to me. It is precisely about the abandonment of Russian citizenship that it remains, because in fact, the goal of Polonsky to date remains to return to Russia,” Karabanov said.

Konstantin Bogomolov. Photo from a personal page on Facebook Director Konstantin Bogomolov announced his departure from the Moscow Art Theater named after Chekhov. The director himself reported this on his Facebook page. Earlier, Bogomolov reported his intentions to leave the theater due to the requirements of the leadership to make changes to the performance of the Karamazov Brothers, the premiere shows of which were scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.

Semyon Aria. Photo Jewish.ru The famous lawyer, Honored Lawyer of the RSFSR Semyon Aria died in Moscow at the 91st year of life, RAPSI said on Monday the first vice-president of the lawyer chamber of the Moscow Region (APMO) Yuri Borovkov. "Semyon Lvovich was sick, but despite this continued to work. A few days ago his condition worsened, he was placed in the hospital, in intensive care. He was gone yesterday," Borovkov said.

Flags of Azerbaijan and EU Azerbaijan does not intend to become an associated member of the European Union. According to Interfax, this said in an interview with one of the local television channels, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Novruz Mamedov. According to him, Baku suggested that the EU signed a partnership agreement. “Such an agreement will reflect the level of bilateral cooperation and ensure mutual respect and equal rights of the parties,” said Mamedov.

Bomzh in the Moscow metro. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The Moscow Social Protection Department prepared a package of bills that are aimed at combating vagrancy and should help the homeless return to normal life, Kommersant reports. First of all, as notes the publication, the authors of laws propose to consolidate the concept of “vagrancy” and “homeless citizen” in the legislation.

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo It turns out that not only the Americans listened to the Angels Merkel's mobile phone. Together with them, Russians, Chinese, North Koreans, and British were engaged in this important and useful espionage activity. In general, in the tube of Frau Chancerer, some crush was observed. And how not to spy if everything is nearby? The embassies with their parabolic antennas are located right in the Berlin government quarter: buy equipment, plant people and listen.

Sochi-2014. Fragment of the poster from the site fr.rsf.org The Russian authorities tried to buy a documentary from the creators about corruption during the construction of Olympic facilities in Sochi. The producer Simone Baumann offered 600 thousand pounds in order to prevent the show, reports The Daily Telegraph. According to Baumann, she refused three times to the Russian authorities trying to redeem the tape.

Dmitry Peskov. Frame of the Rain In the country's leadership, it is not customary to dispute the decisions of President Vladimir Putin after they are already approved, to argue is permissible in the process of their development. The press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov said this in an interview with The New Times magazine.

Vladimir Putin and Pope Francis. Photo of the Kremlin press service Russian President Putin came to the audience with the Pope Francis almost an hour later than the intended time. It is reported by "Moscow Komsomolets". The Italian Corriere Della Sera publishes a photo report under the heading "Putin arrived (late) for an audience with dad", but the newspaper does not give any details. According to the Kremlin press service, the audience lasted 35 minutes.

The demolition place of the Sokolov-Sibiryakovs in Voznesensky Lane. Photo @fronde_tv Five city defenders and the correspondent of the "faces" Andrei Novichkov were detained at the place of demolition of the outbuilding of the Sokolov-Sibiryakov estate in Voznesensky Lane of Moscow. This was announced by Novichkov himself.

Gomophobic picket at the State Duma. Photo by Yu. Timofeeva/Grani.ru Most Russian citizens speak positively about recent repressive laws. This is evidenced by the results of the survey conducted by the sociologists, the Vedomosti reports . The law on the prohibition of propaganda of “non -traditional sexual orientation” approves 68 percent of the respondents, only 7 supporters of the law on the protection of the feelings of believers are 55 percent, the opponents - 9.

Prayer standing for faith and against abortion. Photo: Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru President Vladimir Putin signed a government law that makes amending a number of legislative acts on the protection of the health of citizens, in particular, a ban on abortion advertising is established, RIA Novosti reports. “In the Federal Law“ On Advertising ”, a list of services whose advertising is not allowed is supplemented by medical services for artificial termination of pregnancy.