Pavel Chikov. Photo from a personal page on Facebook The head of the Agora Association Pavel Chikov appealed to the Constitutional Court with a request to protect the organization from the pressure of the Tataria Prosecutor's Office. This was reported by an open news agency. “Given that this pressure and violation of the rights of the Agora association occurred in connection with the appeal to the Constitutional Court of Russia (with a complaint against the law on“ foreign agents.

Clock on the Spasskaya Tower of the Kremlin. Photo: Wikipedia The State Duma approved in the first reading a bill on the transition to a constant winter time. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". 436 deputies voted for the adoption of the document, one refrained. In addition, it was decided to reduce the period of preparation of amendments to the second reading of the bill from the usual one month to two weeks.

Michael McFol. Photo: m-mcfaul.livejournal.com Michael McFolu, the former US Assistance in Russia was refused to issue an entry visa to Iran, reports ITAR-TASS. “I planned to go to Iran this week to participate in the conference, but today I learned that I was refused a visa issuing,” McFol said on Twitter.

A car of militants killed in the KBR. Photo: nac.gov.ru In Kabardino-Balkaria, the leader of the gang and three militants were killed, the press service of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee reports . There are no victims among the civilian population and losses among law enforcement personnel.

Vyacheslav Ponomarev. Hard video from the YouTube channel Slavgorod.com.ua "The commander of the DPR militia" Igor Girkin personally gave the order to arrest the self -proclaimed mayor of Slavyansk Vyacheslav Ponomarev. This was reported by UNN with reference to a source at the headquarters of the anti -terrorism center.

Naum Kleiman. Frame of Channel One The Ministry of Culture denied information about the dismissal of the director of the Museum of the Cinema Naum Kleiman, Interfax reports. The department does not deny the authenticity of the telegram received by him with a notification of termination of the contract. However, it is a pure formality, the press service explained. Such notifications are received by all contractors.

A gas pipeline. Photo: press service "Gazprom" Negotiations on the solution of controversial gas issues in Brussels in Ukraine-Russia-Es-Es have ended without specific results, UNIAN reports . They lasted more than seven and a half hours, but it was not possible to coordinate the mechanism of price formation. During the negotiations, the parties discussed various aspects of gas prices, said the Commissioner for Energy Gunther Ettinger.

Alexey Mitrofanov. Photo: Grani.ru The State Duma, on the proposal of the Prosecutor General’s Office, deprived of the reference of Alexei Mitrofanov deputy inviolability. This is reported by Interfax. For such a decision, 431 deputy voted, another refrained. There were no votes against it. Now the TFR has the opportunity to bring Mitrofanov to criminal liability. The Prosecutor General’s Office contributed its performance on May 20 .

Bombardier CRJ aircraft. Photo: Belavia.by The attempt to hijack the Bombardier CRJ aircraft, Belavia, who was following the Kutaisi -Minsk route, has been prevented. This was reported by the press service of the State Security Committee of Belarus. On board the aircraft were 32 passengers, including one child, and four crew members.

Elena Mizulina. Photo: spravedlivo.ru The number of signatures under appeal to the Ministry of Health with a request to check the mental health of the State Duma deputy Elena Mizulina reached 90 thousand. The petition was published on the website "Russian Public Initiative" in July last year. For mandatory consideration, the petition should collect 100 thousand signatures.

Petro Poroshenko. Photo from the website of the President of Ukraine President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko instructed to create a humanitarian corridor for the civilian population, which wants to leave the area of ​​the power operation. This was reported by the press service of the head of state.

Lugansk airport. Photo: Airport.lg.ua At night, militants from mortars fired at the airfield in Kramatorsk, according to the head of the Information Resistance group Dmitry Tymchuk. Ukrainian troops responded fire. “As a result, two mortars of militants and one engineering machine of the EMR loot, used by terrorists, were destroyed. There are no losses among the security forces. According to preliminary data, about 40 militants were destroyed,” Tymchuk notes.

Rocket Proton-M. Photo from the website of Roscosmos The fourth department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case under part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code ("intentional destruction or damage to other people's property, which entailed the death of a person or other grave consequences") on the fact of the incident in the GKNPC named after Khrunichev, which supplies the "proton-m", the Izvestia reports. The case was instituted on the basis of the materials of the FSB.

Fleet exercises. Frame NTV The major exercises of the Baltic Navy, the Airborne Forces and the Air Force began in the Kaliningrad region under the leadership of the commander of the Western Military District forces in response to the teachings of NATO, which launched in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, ITAR-TASS reported with reference to the statement of the Ministry of Defense.

Photo: MoscowBookFest.ru The Memorial announced the boycott of the IX Moscow International Open Book Festival in protest against the illegal ban by the Ministry of Culture of two performances originally included in its program. The Memorial does not consider it permissible to violate the constitutional norm on censorship, removes its program from the festival and transfers it to other sites, ”the statement of the human rights organization said .