Boris Stomakhin in court, 04/17/2014. Photo by Vera Lavreshina The judge of the Ostankino District Court of Moscow Larisa Shokurova, having examined on Wednesday the representation of the Butyrsky interdistrict prosecutor Yevgeny Nepomnya, recognized six articles by the radical publicist Boris Stomakhin as extremist. Information about this is contained in the case file on the court website.

Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow. Frame of Channel One Judge of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow Yana Shemyakina did not allow representatives of the Public Verdict Foundation - director Natalia Tubin and lawyer Elena Pershakova - to the next meeting on the complaint of NGOs to register the “foreign agent” prosecutor’s office. This was reported on the fund's website. The process, interrupted the day before at 23:00, was supposed to resume on Thursday at 9 am.

Femen Promot "Kill Putin." Photo: Femen.org The activist Femen, working under the pseudonym Bafi, held the action "Kill Putin" in the Paris Museum of Grévin ("Kill Putin"). This was reported on the website of the group. Having undressed to the waist, Bafi fell a wax figure of the Russian leader and sparkled it with a sharpened stick, which was called an aspen stake in a report on the action.

Maxim Martsinkevich in Cuba. Photo: vk.com/restrukt Nationalist Maxim Martsinkevich (Tesak), arrested on charges of extremism, removed the hunger strike, which he held 67 days - from March 28. This was reported by Interfax with reference to Alexei Mikhalchik, a lawyer of Politzek. During the hunger strike, the lawyer added, Tesak lost 43 kilograms of weight. The Nationalist made his decision at a meeting to extend him the arrest, held on Thursday in the Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow.

Georgy Poltavchenko. Photo: gov.spb.ru Vladimir Putin accepted the early resignation of the governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko, the Kremlin press service reports. Poltavchenko explained his request to the intention to run again to this post in early elections in September. At a meeting with Putin, which took place the day before, Poltavchenko said that he would like to personally participate in the implementation of the city development strategy until 2030.

Tatyana Stetsura and Nadezhda Nizovkin. Photo from the site www.infpol.ru The Soviet District Court of Ulan-Ude began a new consideration of the case under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred or enmity), opened against the polyactivists Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatyana Stetsura. Stetsura reported this in her LiveJournal.

The main office of VTB in the tower "Federation". Photo: TheConCept.ru The second largest Russian Bank of VTB, its VTB24 subsidiary and other group banks will refuse to serve American taxpayers - both citizens and companies, Izvestia reports.

Meeting of Vladimir Putin and David Cameron 06/05/2014. Photo: kremlin.ru British Prime Minister David Cameron and Vladimir Putin began a planned meeting in Paris without handshake. This is reported by Interfax. The negotiations of Cameron and Putin were devoted to measures to resolve the situation in Ukraine. As ITAR-TASS reports with reference to Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov, at the end of negotiations, two leaders still exchanged handshake.

Anna Sharogradskaya. Photo from a personal page on Facebook In the St. Petersburg airport, Pulkovo, before departure in the United States, was detained by the director of the regional press institute Anna Sharogradskaya. This was reported by an open news agency with reference to lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov, representing the interests of the IRP.

Slavyansk. Photo "News Donbass" Five cities of the Donetsk region - Druzhkovka, Dzerzhinsk, Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk - were left without water, Interfax reports. The cause of the accident was battles near the cities, during which the water system and power lines were damaged. Local utilities emphasize that restoration work will begin only after the completion of active hostilities in the region.

Evgenia Vasiliev. Frame of the Rain TV channel The investigation in the case of the former head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense Evgenia Vasilyeva was completed. This was reported on the website of the TFR. In total, 12 episodes qualified under Articles 159 (fraud), 174.1 (laundering of money), 201 (abuse of powers) and 286 Criminal Code (exceeding official powers) were imputed.

Sergey Mokhnatkin in the Tver Court. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru On June 5, at 11:00 in the Tver District Court of Moscow, a criminal case against civil activist Sergei Mokhnatkin, who is charged with an attack on police officers, will continue. The end of the prosecution witnesses and the beginning of the interrogation of witnesses from the defense is expected to end. At the previous meeting, the witnesses were confused in the testimony.

The Bible of Gutenberg. Photo from the website of the US Congress library Three former FSB officers were convicted of abduction of the Gutenberg Bible, Interfax reports with reference to a source in the Moscow District Military Court. Colonel Sergei Vedishchev, Major Mikhail Lepkov and Captain Viktor Pochka was found guilty of the abduction of the Bible of Gutenberg from Moscow State University in 2009. The accused wanted to sell her for 40 million rubles.

The crash of a fighter in the United States. Photo @ecfa3788 The US Navy fighter collapsed into two residential buildings in the city in the south of California, the CBS website reports. The incident occurred at 16:20 local time. The Harrier AV-8B fighter crashed in the city of Imperial, located at the American-Mexican border about 120 kilometers east of San Diego. It is reported that after the crash of the aircraft, at least two houses lit up.

Alexander Skobov When the gang, which has settled in the Kremlin,, which was smeared with blood and mud of two Chechen wars, announces the opening of a criminal case against the Ukrainian military for "crimes against peaceful citizens", this cannot cause anything but disgust. It is also obvious that the elegant phrase "double standards" here is completely inappropriate. The degree of hypocrisy and cynicism is different.