Alexander Bortnikov. Photo: kremlin.ru The customer of the terrorist attack in the metro of St. Petersburg "is practically installed". This was stated by the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, reports Interfax. “Almost installed. Yes, yes, it was installed,” said Bortnikov. “Everything that was officially presented indicates the preparations by terrorists of the act that occurred in the St. Petersburg metro.

Construction on the site of the demolished Assumption Church. Photo from FB page Marina Sakharov In Yekaterinburg, the Assumption Church of the Novo-Tikhvinsky Monastery was demolished, transferred to the local diocese in 2011. This was reported by "Heritage Guardians" with reference to the post of city -defender Marina Sakharov. The church, built in 1778-1782, was the oldest of the surviving in the city. In 1824 it was visited by Emperor Alexander I.

Alexander Shpakov. Photo with personal VK page The 39 -year -old carpenter from the Lyubertsy Alexander Shpakov near Moscow, the first arrested in the “March 26 case” on the anti -corruption action on Tverskaya - refuses to plead guilty. It is reported by Rain, whose correspondent communicated with Politzek in the capital's pre-trial detention center "Vodnik". Shpakov was detained on the night of March 27; On the 28th he was sent to a pre-trial detention center.

Collection of Jehovah's Witnesses. Photo: JW-russia.org The judge of the Supreme Court Yuri Ivanenko announced the management center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia with an extremist organization and banned it. It is reported by Credo. The decision was made at the suit of the Ministry of Justice. It can be appealed to the appeal collegium of the Armed Forces. At the same time, in terms of the termination of the management center, the decision is subject to immediate execution.

"Detention" of Akram Azimov in Moscow. Field shooting FSB Judge of the Basmann District Court of Moscow Elena Lenskaya arrested a 28-year-old citizen of Kyrgyzstan and Russia Akram Azimov, the tenth of the case of a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro, until June 3. This is reported by Interfax. Azimov himself at the meeting stated that he was not involved in the attack. The appointed lawyer also noted that there is no evidence in the case file indicating the validity of suspicion.

Vyacheslav Volodin. Photo: Er.ru The bill on the deprivation of Russian citizenship of persons convicted of charges of terrorism and extremism, introduced in the State Duma on Tuesday, was withdrawn from the lower house. This was reported by the BBC with reference to sources in the State Duma apparatus. “They came from Volodin and ordered to remove it urgently,” said one of the interlocutors of the radio station. On the website of the lower house, an empty page opens on the card card.

The defendants of the Tatar case "Tables Jamaat" on the announcement of the sentence. Shift video "Tatar-inform" The deputy chairman of the Naberezhnye Chelny City Court of Tataria Ayrat Idrisov sentenced nine defendants in the case of the organization "Tables Jamaat" for the real time in the colony of general regime. It is reported by Tatar-inform.

Tatyana Moskalkova. Photo: moscalkova.ru The Commissioner for Human Rights to Tatyana Moskalkova doubts the reliability of information about the persecution of gays in Chechnya. The Ombudsman announced this at a meeting with the deputies of the State Duma Committee on the Development of Civil Society, Public and Religious Associations, Interfax reports . “I have suspicions that this is a provocation, that this is a false denunciation,” Moskalkova said.

Boris Yakovlev. Frame of the video The FSB Office in the Pskov region charged the 44-year-old resident of the city Boris Yakovlev under part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for the implementation of extremist activities using the Internet). This was reported to the "Franes" by lawyer Dmitry Dinze, representing the interests of the musician. Yakovlev is known for the author’s songs that he publishes on his YouTube channel .

Flags of the DPR. Photo: tsn.ua The Kremlin intends to carry out the phased economic integration of Donbass with Russia and thus "completely separate" the region from Ukraine. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to sources close to the Russian leadership. According to sources, Vladimir Putin enjoys the uncertainty of the US position in Ukraine, but "buried hopes" to release from sanctions in the near future.

School in Lizunov. Photo: lizunovo-shool.ucoz.ru On part of the territory of the Aleksandrovsky district of the Vladimir region, where on the eve of the FSB special forces killed two migrants from Tajikistan, the regime of a counter -terrorist operation is valid. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to local residents, including an official of the district administration. The security forces say that four more visitors who lived in the same cottage with the dead are looking for.

Khmeimim air base in Syria. Photo: mil.ru The Syrian authorities relocated most of their combat aircraft closer to the Russian air base Khmeimim. It is reported by CNN with reference to two sources in the Pentagon. As sources suggest, this is done to protect yourself from a new possible blow from the United States. Damascus expects that the US military is unlikely to strike Syrian aviation in the immediate vicinity of Russian aircraft and air defense systems.

Russian Institute for Strategic Research. Photo: riss.ru Russia's actions to undermine the trust of Americans to the US Electoral System were based on documents developed by the Russian Institute for Strategic Research (RISI). This conclusion was reached by US intelligence services, Reuters reports citing former and current American officials. Two confidential reports by RISI, the American special services received at their disposal after the election on November 8.

Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo of the Kremlin press service Ramzan Kadyrov called the "provocative" articles published recently "about the Chechen Republic, about the people, about the events that we allegedly occur, the detentions." The head of Chechnya said this at a meeting with Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin press service reports . “Good, in quotation marks, people write about the fact that we have a republic - even to talk about it is inconvenient - they are delayed, they are killed.

Enver Mamutov with children. Source: krymsos.com The FSB for the annexed Crimea and Sevastopol presented the main person involved in the third (Bakhchisarai) case of Crimean Muslims Enver Mamutov Additional accusation - under part 1 of Article 30 - Article 278 of the Russian Criminal Code (preparation for violent seizure of power). This was announced on his FB page by the lawyer of the political prisoner Emil Kurbedinov.