55 years ago, on May 28, 1961, the British newspaper The Observer published an article by London lawyer Peter Benenson "The Forgotten Prisoners". He protested that the Salazar regime sentenced two Portuguese students to 7 years in prison for raising a toast to freedom in a Lisbon cafe. This marked the beginning of the Appeal for Amnesty campaign, which called for the release of prisoners of conscience around the world.

Illustration from the site nsk.sledcom.ru The Investigative Committee has developed a memo for parents to prevent extremism. The document was published by the Novosibirsk Directorate of the TFR. "One of the features of modern Russia was the active destructive activity of numerous public formations, including various parties and social movements," the memo said.

Dollars. Photo: Myanmarbusinessnews.com Last week, foreign investors brought out a record of 196 million dollars from the Russian market of shares since August 2015. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to Emertfolio Fund Research data. In three weeks of intensive reduction of investment, Russian funds lost almost $ 350 million.

145 years ago, on May 28, 1871, after a week of bloody street fighting, the Paris Commune fell. The 130,000-strong government army massacred the Communards, captured with weapons in their hands. To some extent, it was provoked by the fact that the leadership of the Commune in recent days shot 63 hostages in Parisian prisons. During the week after May 28, at least 15,000 Communards were shot.

Vladimir Putin. Photo of the Kremlin press service The pardon of the Ukrainian pilot condemned in Russia Nadezhda Savchenko is not related to Minsk agreements. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin at a press conference following negotiations with the leadership of Greece, Interfax reports .

Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. Photo from the site abrval.ru The words of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev about pensions could be torn from context and incorrectly understood. This was stated by President Vladimir Putin at a press conference following negotiations with the leadership of Greece, the Kremlin press service reports . At the same time, Putin noted that he was not familiar with the statement of the prime minister.

Artem Chebotarev. Photo from a personal page The founder of the Free Ingria community on the STRTOSTO on the VKontakte social network, Artem Chebotarev, was released on the subscription of a lower -off wizard. He himself informed Rosbalt himself about this. On the eve of St. Petersburg, FSB officers detained Chebotarev . A criminal case has been instituted against him under part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred and enmity, humiliation of human dignity).

Yunarmeytsy. Photo: mil.ru Hundreds of training centers for the Unarmeans will be created in Russia. This was stated by Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu at the first rally of the Yunarmia Youth Military-patriotic movement, the press service of the military department reports . “We would like to, and we will do this, create hundreds of centers of patriotic education, hundreds of centers of the Unarmeans across the country,” said Shoigu.

Vitaly Mutko. Frame of Channel One A situation is possible in which Russian athletes will not participate in the Olympic Games in Brazil due to doping problems. This was stated by Minister of Sports of Russia Vitaly Mutko on the air of the Match-TV channel. “The worst scenario, I think that exists. I can’t deny it, since such statements from the President of the IOC are coming,” the minister said, commenting on the words of the head of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach.

On May 28, the Sakharov Center (Zemlyanoy Val, 57, building 6) will host another charity evening in support of political prisoners. Start at 17:00. Writer Viktor Shenderovich, bards Vladimir Turiyansky, Evgenia Lantsberg, Mikhail Kochetkov and others are expected. Organizers: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, May 6 Committee, Memorial Human Rights Center, Moscow Helsinki Group, For Human Rights, People's Freedom Party, December 5 Party and the Solidarity movement.

The emblem of the Olympics-2012 The International Olympic Committee notified the Russian Olympic Committee of the positive results of eight doping industry of Russian participants in the 2012 Olympiad in three sports. This was reported in the official statement of the OKR. So far, only samples "A" have been analyzed.

Russian sappers in Syria. Photo: mil.ru Russia has led out of Syria not all engineering units that conducted Marking in the Palmyra area. This is reported by Interfax with reference an informed source. "In Syria, there is a division of the International Minute Center of the Armed Forces of Russia, which is training Syrian sappers," the source said.