Photo: Pavel Markin 30 years ago, on October 19, 1986, in Leningrad on Vladimir Square, a rally was held against the demolition of house No. 1 on Zagorodnoye Prospekt - "Delvig's House", one of the few buildings in the city of the beginning of the 19th century. Thus, the beginning of the urban protection movement in Leningrad was laid. The then -formed group "Salvation" was able to defend a house intended for demolition as part of the construction of the Dostoevskaya metro station.

Boris Johnson. Photo: gov.uk The head of the British Foreign Ministry Boris Johnson called on the Russian authorities to immediately free the Crimean prisoners of Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko. The minister’s statement quotes the British Parliament website. "We are really concerned about the number of Ukrainian citizens who protested against the accession of Crimea and received long prison terms, including Sentsov and Kolchenko.

Ilya Milstein The British National Westminster Bank blocked all Rashi Tuei accounts . The publicist Maxim Sokolov exposed the intrigues of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation and Kudrin, who planned to "reduce budget subsidies" for patriotic state news agencies. These two messages, set nearby, cause reasonable anxiety in any caring Russian. And immediately you can’t even understand which of these two news yesterday’s more worried.

Alexander Skobov. Courtesy Photo In her speech at the Free Russia forum in Vilnius, Masha Hessen pointed to two fundamental mistakes made by Western elites in the development of a Putin regime. The first error: Western leaders and most experts believe that Putin’s behavior is “reactive”, that is, his actions are determined by the current situation and are primarily a response to the behavior of the West. In fact, Putin’s policy follows primarily from his own ideas about the world.

The building of the presidential administration. Photo: Wikipedia The presidential administration is expected to reorganize - part of its departments is supposed to be merged with others. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to sources in the Kremlin and close to the old square.

White House. Photo: Wikipedia The Ministry of Finance prepared a bill on the abolition of the mandatory annual indexation of the salaries of state employees by the amount of inflation. It is reported by RBC. It is proposed to determine the increase in salaries annually the budget by the budget without taking into account inflation. The document affects federal and regional officials, judges, military, police, fsinists, as well as assistants to deputies of the State Duma and senators.

50 years ago, on October 19, 1956, the USSR and Japan adopted a joint declaration, which ended the state of war and restored diplomatic relations between the two countries. It also recorded the consent of the USSR to the transfer of Japan after the conclusion of a peace treaty of the Kuril Islands of Habomai and Shikotan. However, a peace treaty between Russia and Japan has not yet been signed due to Moscow's refusal to transfer the disputed islands.

Alexey Pichugin with his mother. Photo from the family archive Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the mother of the mother of former Yukos employee Alexei Pichugin to Vladimir Putin with a request to pardon her son. According to TASS, according to Peskov, he knows that "the appeal was published in one of the newspapers." “I can’t say so far (as in the Kremlin they relate to such a petition. - Ed),” Peskov said.

Vitaly Mutko. Photo: minsport.gov.ru Vladimir Putin transferred the Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko to the post of Deputy Prime Minister. The corresponding decree is published on the Kremlin website. By another decree, Putin was appointed head of the Ministry of Sports Pavel Kolobkov, Deputy Mutko in the Ministry. A few hours earlier, Putin approved the candidates of Mutko and Kolobkov for new posts. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev introduced them to the head of state.

Prague. Photo Greenwich-tour.ru In Prague, a Russian citizen was detained, suspected of committing hacker attacks on goals located in the United States. As stated in the message on the website of the police department of the Czech Republic, the detention was possible thanks to the cooperation of the country's criminal police with the FBI. The name of the detainee is not yet called.

Vitaly Mutko. Photo: minsport.gov.ru Vladimir Putin approved the candidacy of the current head of the Ministry of Sports Vitaly Mutko for the post of Deputy Prime Minister - curator of sports, tourism and youth policy. This is reported by Interfax. The candidacy of Mutko was presented to the head of state by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. To the post of new head of the Ministry of Sports, Medvedev proposed Pavel Kolobkov, the current deputy Mutko. Putin agreed with this candidate.

The queue for early voting in Barvikha, 04/19/2016. Photo: @litvinenko_aa1 The Moscow authorities are discussing the possibility of transferring municipal elections, which should take place on a single voting day in September 2017, for an earlier term. According to RBC, two sources close to the presidential administration, and an interlocutor close to the capital's city hall, told about this.

Maternity hospital. Photo from the site www.vrn.kp.ru Until 2019, the government will three times reduce the costs of the program for the protection of the mother and child. According to RBC, this follows from the explanatory note to the budget. Already in 2017, the program budget will be cut from the planned 4.7 billion rubles to 2.1 billion.

Hadia Halaf Abbas. Photo: Tasnimnews.com The regime of the Syrian dictator Bashar al -Assad considers the annexation of Crimea to Russia to be lawful. It is reported by Sputnik with reference to the speaker of the People’s Council of Syria (Marionate Parliament of Assad) Hadia Hadia Halaf Abbas. "As a result of the events that unfolded after the collapse of the Soviet Union to date, Crimea returned to its roots after the free will of its inhabitants in a referendum," Abbas said.

State Duma. Photos of faces Compensation in connection with the early termination of powers for deputies of the State Duma of the past convocation, which did not fall into the new composition of the lower house, will amount to about 460 million rubles. It is reported by RBC.