Promotion in support of Oleg Sentsov. Photo: Ella Bayonet/Facebook In Kyiv, Ukrainian filmmakers held a protest campaign near the Russian Embassy demanding to free the film director Oleg Sentsov. This was reported in the community "Save Oleg Sentsov" on Facebook.

"Rosneft". Photo from the site www.dazzle.ru One of the largest exporters of Russian oil, Swiss Gunvor, can be put up for sale. The company, who previously owned by businessman Gennady Timchenko, is looking for buyers to his business. Negotiations go with several potential partners, but Rosneft is considered the main contender, Kommersant reports. Sources of the publication said that the company is planned to be sold entirely, among possible buyers - large oil concerns, including Rosneft.

Ilya Milstein As you know, the most transparent presidential elections are held in Russia, where the name of the winner is known at least six months before the people come to the urns. This process is much worse organized in the West. In Europe, for example, until they consider voices, the population is lost in guesses who will rule them there. And in America, sometimes even after the elections from people, they still hide the name of the national leader for a long time.

Vasily Livanov and Nikita Mikhalkov. Photo from the film set of the film '' The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson ''. Photo 221b.ru The working group at the Ministry of Culture has developed a draft order according to which an eight -hour working day will be provided for employees of the sphere of cinema and television and television, Izvestia reports.

A gas pipeline. Photo: press service "Gazprom" Gazprom and the Chinese National Oil and Gas Corporation CNPC in Shanghai signed a contract for the supply of Russian gas to China on the eastern route, RIA Novosti reports. The signing ceremony was attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Chinese Xi Jinping. An agreement on the contract was reached on Wednesday at 4 a.m. Chinese time, said the head of Gazprom Alexei Miller.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Photo: kmu.gov.ua In the current conditions, the possibility of bilateral negotiations between Ukraine and Russia is not considered. This was stated by Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk at a round table of national unity in Nikolaev, according to the official website of the head of government. Russia carried out military aggression on the territory of Ukraine, Yatsenyuk emphasized.

Dmitry Medvedev. Photo of the Kremlin press service To refuse the use of American gadgets, in particular iPhones, in connection with the aggravation of relations with the United States is ridiculous. This was in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. “What does our friction today with America and the iPhone have to do with it? Let's abandon any imported things, and what will we have? North Korea? This is not our way.

White House. Photo from Whitehouse.gov The United States has expanded the Magnitsky list, including 12 more Russians in it. The new list is published on the website of the American Ministry of Finance.

Oleg Tsarev’s house near Dnepropetrovsk after arson. Photo from the FB page of the deputy In the village of Old Kodaki, Dnipropetrovsk district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, unknown people set fire to the house of the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, the leader of the Southeast movement Oleg Tsarev. “Armed people arrived on two buses at 2 a.m. and threw the house with Molotov cocktails,” Tsarev wrote on his Facebook page.

Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia. Photo: Wikipedia Australia imposed new sanctions against Russia. This was reported by the country's foreign minister Julie Bishop. The list includes 38 citizens of Russia and Ukraine, guilty, according to the Australian authorities, in the destabilization of the situation in Ukraine, as well as 11 companies. The defendants in the list are prohibited from entering the country, and financial sanctions are also imposed against some of them.

Judge Alla Kudryashova. Photo: sverdlovsky.kst.sudrf.ru Judge of the Sverdlovsk District Court of Kostroma Alla Kudryashova delays the liberation of the paralyzed Vladimir Topekhin, who was sentenced to four years of general regime on charges of fraud. This was reported by an open news agency with reference to the lawyer of the convicted person Svetlana Sidorkin.

Ella Pamfilova. Photo: kremlin.ru The Criminal Executive Code must be systematically processed. This was stated by the Commissioner for Human Rights Ella Pamfilova at a meeting of the Federation Council, reports RAPSI. In her opinion, now the PEC is unbalanced, internally contradictory and unremarkable. The current state of the Russian criminal -executive system is one of the most acute issues, the Ombudsman believes.

Prince Charles. Photo: Royal.gov.uk The Prince of the Wales Charles, who is on a visit to Canada, compared Russian President Vladimir Putin with Adolf Hitler. It is reported by the Daily Mail. Commenting in a private conversation Russian policy against Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, Prince Wales remarked: "And now Putin does almost the same thing that Hitler did." Prince Charles said this phrase during a visit to the Canadian Museum of Immigration in Galifax.

Site screenshot 14ymedio.com The host of the popular Cuban Opposition Blog, Joani Sanchez, has created its own independent online publication, BBC reports . The site 14YMEDIO.com earned at 8:00 Cuban time (16:00 Moscow time). The Cuban authorities have not yet attempted to block the resource. 14ymedio has become the first independent Cuban media over the past fifty years. All Cuban media, including three national newspapers, are under tough government control.

Alexey and Oleg Navalny. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru The prosecutor's office appealed the decision of the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow to return to the supervisory authority of the criminal case against the leader of the Party of Progress Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg, reports RAPSI. The appeal representation of the prosecutor's office was received by the court.