John Kerry and Vladimir Putin in Sochi. Photo: kremlin.ru US Secretary of State John Kerry, who met on Tuesday with Vladimir Putin, brought the Russian leader greetings from Barack Obama. According to TASS, this was stated by Putin's assistant Yuri Ushakov. The meeting took place in Sochi, in the residence of Putin "Bocharov stream", and took more than four hours. She was preceded by Curry's negotiations with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov.

Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Photo: rada.gov.ua The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a law on the legal regime of martial law. This was reported by UNIAN. The document was supported by 254 deputies of 322 registered in the session hall. In late February, the National Security and Defense Council made the initiative to develop the law.

The action "Freedom" on the Small Stable Bridge. Photo from FB page Vadim F. Lurie The activist artist Pyotr Pavlensky intends to abandon the application of an amnesty to him to the 70th anniversary of Victory. This was stated by his lawyer Dmitry Dinze, reports TASS. The artist is charged with part 2 of Article 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism), which provides for up to three years of the colony, for the “Freedom” campaign on the small stable bridge.

Irina Yarovaya. Frame of Russia-1 The chairmen of the Duma Security Committee and Education Unicorn Irina Yarovaya and Vyacheslav Nikonov introduced a bill to the State Duma on the introduction of basic school textbooks on mathematics, history, Russian language and literature. The document is published in the basis of the legislative initiatives of the lower house.

Sergey Loshkarev. Shield of video messages The judge of the Novocherkassk City Court of the Rostov Region Viktor Shilin sentenced the Cossack and ecological activist Sergei Loshkarev to two years in a sentence of a fabricated charges of storing a pistol and cartridges for it. This was announced on Tuesday by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to Leonid Novikov, the lawyer of Politzek. Loshkarev was found guilty under Part 1 of Article 222 of the Criminal Code (illegal turnover of weapons).

Threw portraits of front -line soldiers. Photo from the blog of Andrei Malgin The Interregional Movement "Immortal Regiment" appealed to the Prosecutor General and Prosecutor's Office of Moscow with a request to give a legal assessment of photographs posted on the Internet, in which discarded posters with portraits of front -line soldiers are visible. This is reported by Interfax. “We sent appeals to the prosecutor’s office, since we consider such actions offensive to veterans.

Ilya Yashin at the presentation of the report "Putin. War." Photo: Grani.ru The associates of the RPR-Parnas party Boris Nemtsov completed the work on the report “Putin. War”. The text is published on the website of Open Russia. It refers to the actions of Russia with the annexation of Crimea and the participation of the Russian military in hostilities in Ukraine. "I came up with what to do. We must write a report" Putin.

Igor Sechin. Photo: Government.rf Surgutneftegaz can purchase 19.5 percent of Rosneft shares, which are planned to be put up for sale, Bloomberg reports. The company, which has been led by Vladimir Bogdanov for the past 30 years, has accumulated about $ 34 billion in the form of money and their equivalents, the agency’s calculations based on the company's data.

Judge Alesya Orekhova. Photo: rospozor.ru Judge of the Tver District Court of Moscow Ales Orekhova arrested civil activists Olga Terekhina and Vera Lavreshina for 15 and 5 days, respectively, for participation in a disagreed group picket in support of Nadezhda Savchenko, which was the day before the FSB building on Lubyanka. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces" from the courtroom.

Schoolman at the computer. Photo: Minobrnauki.rf The Internet providers and media companies opposed the Ideas for preliminary filtration of content on the network to protect children from harmful information proposed by the safe Internet league. It is reported by Kommersant. Chairman of the Media Communication Union Sergei Petrov asked letters to the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov and the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Leonid Levin.

On May 8, the police conducted a search in the Gallery "S. Arart", where the exhibition "We won!" Was opened. In the investigative actions, the operative of the 6th department of the Moscow CPE Alexei Obnoy participated.

Logo of the Foundation "Dynasty" "Club of July 1", uniting several dozen academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, turned to the head of the Ministry of Justice Alexander Konovalov with a protest against the plans of the department to include in the register of "foreign agents" the Dmitry Zimin Foundation "Dynastia", engaged in the financing of fundamental research. An open letter to Konovalov is published on the website of the public control commission.

Alexander Belov (Potkin). Photo by E. Mikheeva/Grani.ru Member of the political council of the ethnopolitical association "Russians" Alexander Belov (Potkin), concluded in a pre -trial detention center on charges of laundering money and extremism, filed a complaint about illegal arrest in the ECHR. This was reported by "Vedomosti" with reference to the lawyer "Agora" Irina Khrunova, who represents the interests of Politzek.

Nadezhda Savchenko in the Basmanny Court, 05/06/2015. Frame of the faces Ukrainian pilot, deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Nadezhda Savchenko stopped a hunger strike. This was stated by the head of the Presidential Council of Human Rights Mikhail Fedotov, who visited it at the medical unit "Sailor Silence", according to the SPC website. “She stopped the hunger strike just after she returned from the hospital. She is preparing for court, meeting with investigators, studying materials,” Fedotov said.

Protest rally near the RAS building. Photo by the border.ru Since May 12, the international company Springer closes access to scientific publications for Russian universities and research institutes. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the head of the representative office of the company in Russia and the CIS countries Matthias Aicher. The reason was the non -payment of subscription for 2014 in the amount of 890 thousand euros.