The Ministry of Justice of Russia. Photo: minjust.ru The Russian Ministry of Justice received the appeals of six citizens of Russia sentenced to imprisonment in Ukraine who want to serve his sentence at home. This was reported by RBC with reference to the response of the department. Based on these letters, Russian officials made a corresponding request to the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine.

Valerie Plame. Photo: Lawac.org Former CIA employee Valerie Plame called the letters fake letters shown in the announcement of the film "Russia-1" Operation "Trembling": a secret correspondence of the Navalny agent. " “I think the letter is fake,” Playm said in an interview with the Rain TV channel. She also said that she had never heard the names of Alexei Navalny and William Broud, mentioned in the announcement of the film.

Cigarettes. Photo from the site www.product.ru The State Duma was offered to limit the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products from 23:00 to 8:00. As Interfax reports , corresponding to the law "On the protection of the health of citizens from the influence of the surrounding tobacco smoke and the consequences of tobacco consumption" was introduced by deputy Dmitry Nosov.

155 years ago, on April 12, 1861, the American Civil War began with the bombardment of Fort Sumter in the seceded state of South Carolina. The war was fought by 20 free and 4 slave states of the North with 11 slave states of the South united in the Confederation. It ended in April 1865 with the surrender of the Confederacy and claimed the lives of more than 620 thousand people, becoming the bloodiest war in US history.

April 12 at 19:30 in the Zil Cultural Center (Metro Avtozavodskaya, Vostochny St., 4, building 1) Oleg Khlevnyuk will give a lecture "Stalin. What do we know today?" The entrance is free. You need to register .

The logo "Flibusta" In Russia, the Flibusta online Bibusta and Torrent Trekter Noname are blocked for life. The blocking of "Flibusta" Gazeta.ru said the general director of Azapi Maxim Ryabyko. According to him, the Moscow City Court made a decision on eternal lock in early April. “According to Flibuste last week, a decision was made on eternal blocking at Flibusta.net, and the first decision on the claim against the mirrors Flibusta.is and Flibusta.me is made.

Nadezhda Savchenko. Photo by Ilya Novikova. The consultation of doctors assessed the state of health of Nadezhda Savchenko as satisfactory. As TASS reports , the Federal Penitentiary Service of the FSIN reported this. "Based on the results of the inspection and clinical and instrumental studies, the medical consultation assessed Savchenko’s health as satisfactory, does not need emergency hospitalization," the press service of the department said.

Maxim Chekanov in OP "Tverskaya", 03/08/2016. Photo by Maria Dmitrieva In Podolsk, a civilian activist Maxim Chekanov is beaten. According to OVD-Info, on April 11 in the afternoon he stood at the stop and saw three men who looked at him for some time and discussed something. Then one of them called him by name. Then Chekanov began to ask questions about the "Kyiv junta" and call "Bandera scum".

SIZO-1 in Nalchik. Photo: 07.fsin.su In the Nalchik pre-trial detention center, the prisoners declared a hunger strike and inflicted cuts for themselves, the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Kabardino-Balkaria reports . Protesters complain of oppression by the head of the regime and his deputy department and demand their dismissal from office.

Maxim Panfilov. Photo by Dmitry Borko The Human Rights Center "Memorial" recognized the new marsh prisoner Maxim Panfilov as political prisoner. The corresponding application is published on the NGO website. The Memorial's Human Rights Assembly considered and considers the “May 6 case” completely unfinished and unreasonable.

Login of Roscosmos The Court of Great Instance of the city of Eurys in France issued a verdict in favor of Roscosmos in the case of the arrest of funds due to it at the request of one of the shareholders of Yukos, Vetran Petroleum. This was reported by the press service of the state corporation. We are talking about the money that was paid by the Arianespace company to the Russian side for the work carried out as part of the Soyuz program in the GCC. This is the second similar verdict.

Evgeny Petrin. Photo: bbc.com The FSB resumed the investigation in the "espionage" case against its former officer and ex-employee of the department of external church relations of the Russian Orthodox Church Evgeny Petrin. Such information was reported on his Facebook page by the lawyer of the accused Ivan Pavlov. “Most likely, the case is pushed,” the lawyer remarked.

Gennady Timchenko. Photo: ccifr.ru The Syrian authorities are interested in participating in the restoration of Palmyra and other settlements of the country of the Russian company Stroytransgaz, whose co -owner is billionaire Gennady Timchenko. This was stated by a member of the Federation Council Dmitry Sablin, RIA Novosti reports .

Ragim Magomedkasumov after detention. Hard video FSB In the city of Vsevolozhsk, the Leningrad region of the FSB and CPE, with the assistance of special forces, detained the 28-year-old Dagestan Ragim Magomedkasumov, whom the security forces call the “sleeping” saboteur of the Islamic State, sent to Russia after preparation in Syria before a special disposal. This was reported by 47news.ru with reference to the management of special services in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.

Emblem of the IMF The International Monetary Fund again worsened the forecast for the Russian economy for 2016. According to experts of the fund, the fall will be 1.8 percent of the GDP against a decrease by 1 percent in the previous forecast. This is stated in the new report of the IMF World Economic Outlook. In 2017, according to the IMF, Russia will nevertheless return to economic growth, but it will be lower than expected originally.