On April 22, the magistrate of precinct number 332 of the Babushkinsky district of Moscow will announce the verdict in the criminal case against Alexei Navalny, who is accused of slandering United Russia member Alexei Lisovenko, the head of the Babushkinsky municipal district. The case was opened under Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code (slander), which does not provide for imprisonment. Navalny faces a fine of 500 thousand to 5 million rubles or compulsory work for a period of 160 to 480 hours.

On April 22, at 14:00, the judge of the Butyrsky District Court of Moscow, Yuri Kovalevsky, will announce the verdict for radical publicist Boris Stomakhin. The prosecutor asked for 10 and a half years of general regime for him. In addition, he demanded that Stomakhin be banned from journalism for eight years, and that the circulation of his samizdat bulletin Radical Politics be destroyed. The publicist has been in prison since November 20, 2012.

Metro station Kropotkinskaya. Photo: Walks.ru In the car of the Moscow metro, the 27-year-old native of the Achkhoy-Martan district Chechnya shot four citizens of Belarus from the traumatic pistol. This is reported by Interfax with reference to police sources. The incident occurred at about one in the morning on Tuesday on the stage of the Culture Park - Kropotkinskaya. The Chechen opened fire during the brawl. Two Belarusians suffered from the shots.

Alexander Lukashenko. BelTA agency Alexander Lukashenko promised to strictly destroy “in the bud” of any call to the coup and turmoil or propaganda of violence, suppress radicalism and prevent provocation and clashes. According to BelTA, with such a statement the president of Belarus made, reading a message to the people and the National Assembly. Lukashenko said that he knows about the existence of those who do not support the current government and is critical of it.

Alexey Navalny. Photo by Evgenia Mikheeva/Brani.ru The magistrate of the site number 332 of the Babushkinsky district of Moscow Anna Nekryach found the leader of the Party of Progress Alexei Navalny guilty of slander, the policy said on Twitter. Navalny was fined 300 thousand rubles. The case under Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code (slander) was initiated at the request of the unicorn Alexei Lisovenko, the head of the Grandmother's municipal district.

115 years ago, on April 22, 1899, the Russian and American writer Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov was born. Until 1938, he wrote only in Russian (under the pseudonym Sirin), and then mainly in English. He said: “I am an American writer, born in Russia, educated in England, where I studied French literature before moving to Germany for fifteen years ... My head speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, my ear in French.

The delivery of Sergei Gordeev to the Basmanny Court. Photo by S. Kuznetsova/RIA "Novosti" Based on the results of a psychiatric examination, the decorater Sergey Gordeev, who killed two people, was recognized as insane. Specialists of the State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry named after Serbian discovered his progressive paranoid schizophrenia, Izvestia reports. The examination lasted for four weeks.

FB profile Leo Rubinstein: Screenshot The State Duma in the third reading adopted a law obliging bloggers with a daily audience of more than three thousand users to comply with a number of requirements, RIA Novosti reports.

Yuri Staroverov before considering an administrative arrest. Photo by Ilya Myaskovsky Judge of the Nizhny Novgorod District Court of Nizhny Novgorod Andrei Shutov sentenced the leader of the regional branch of another Russia, Yuri Staroverov, by three years with a three -year trial period. It is reported by Rosbalt.

Boris Stomakhin in the Butyro court. Frame "Grani-TV" The deputy chairman of the Butyrsky District Court of Moscow for criminal cases, Yuri Kovalevsky, sentenced the radical publicist Boris Stomakhin to six and a half years of strict regime. In addition, Stomakhin is forbidden to engage in journalism for five years. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces" from the courtroom. Thus, Stomakhin received a second real term for his publications.

Victoria Nuland with the leaders of the Ukrainian opposition. Photo from Facebook Arseniy Yatsenyuk Since 1991, when the USSR collapsed, the United States allocated $ 5 billion to Ukraine. Such a statement was made in an interview with CNN by US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. “This money was spent on supporting the aspirations of Ukrainians to have a strong, democratic government representing their interests,” she explained.

Andrey Bocharov. Photo: Volganet.ru The temporarily acting governor of the Volgograd region, Andrei Bocharov, suspended Olga Rodionov, Deputy Minister of Health of the region, according to the website of the regional government. She demanded that the chief physicians “in fulfillment of the order of the governor to ensure the participation of medical staff and doctors as spectators” at one of the events within the framework of the Year of Culture.

Simferopol airport. Photo: Wikipedia President Vladimir Putin signed an order according to which from June 1 a value of value added tax (VAT) during the implementation of services for the transportation of air passengers to the Crimean Federal District and in the opposite direction is being reset. This was reported by the Kremlin press service. Earlier, the Ministry of Transport turned to the government with such a proposal.

Yuri Staroverov before considering an administrative arrest. Photo by Ilya Myaskovsky On Tuesday, April 22, in the Nizhny Novgorod District Court of Nizhny Novgorod (38 Plotnichnoye per.), The last meeting in the case of the leader of the regional branch of another Russia, Yuri Old Beloverov, who was accused of attacking the ensign of riot police Igor Lebedev, will be held during the dispersal by the Police of the Nizhny Novgorod Civil rally on September 15, 2012.

Mustafa Dzhemilev. Photo: muftiyat.com.ua One of the leaders of the Crimean Tatar people, People's Deputy of Ukraine Mustafa Dzhemilev was banned from entering Crimea until 2019. This is reported on the Majlis website.