Alexey Laushkin. Source: Ohrana.ru The head of the Directorate of the Russian Guard in the Moscow Region, Major General of Police Alexei Laushkin, whose name appears in the case of police colonel Dmitry Zakharchenko, was dismissed from the special services. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Central District of the Russian Guard. The fact that Laushkin appears in the case of Zakharchenko became known earlier on Wednesday.

The weapon allegedly belonging to the "Ekazhevsky Jamaata". Life frame The prosecutor's office of Ingushetia approved the indictment in the case of the Ekazhevsky Jamaat. This was reported on the website of the department. The case was sent to the Nazran district court of the region. According to information on the court’s website, the materials entered there on Tuesday. Judge Alik Yaryzhev will be carried out.

At the Moscow oil refinery. Photo: mnpz.gazprom-neft.ru The Moscow prosecutor’s office began a check on the fact of exceeding the maximum permissible concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the outskirts of the southeast district of Kapotny, where the Moscow oil refinery is located. This is reported by Interfax. The prosecutor has not yet expressed accusations at the factory owned by Gazpromneft. The MNPZ itself assures that the excess concentrations at the enterprise are not recorded.

Alexander Protopopov. Photo: fsin.su Judge Syktyvkar City Court Komi Anatoly Ignatov sentenced the former head of the regional Federal Penitentiary Service and acting Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Lieutenant General of the Internal Service Alexander Protopopov by seven years of maximum regime in the failure case. This was reported on the website of the Prosecutor General.

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo Blocking ... popular social networks and search engines is a meaningless decision that will lead to discrediting power and legal nihilism ... far from the first and, apparently, not the last. However, there is no thin one without good. This decision will lead to unprecedented growth of computer literacy ... the population and to the fact that the inhabitants ...

Sergey Zheleznyak. Photo: Er.ru The deputy secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia, Sergei Zheleznyak, was not taken to the presidential administration for the post of deputy head of the internal policy department - the actual curator of the State Duma and the Council. This was reported by RBC with reference to four sources close to AP. It is claimed that the department of civil service and personnel AP checked the candidacy of the unicorns since the end of last year.

Teenagers are near the monument. Photo: murmansk.kp.ru The police began checking the actions of adolescents who showed the middle finger against the backdrop of the monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union Fedor Konovalov in the Kovdor of the Murmansk region and posted a photo on the Internet. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was reported that the photograph was supposedly taken on May 9.

One hundred years ago, on May 17, 1917, the prominent Russian Social Democrat Leon Trotsky, who actively supported the slogan of the defeat of his government in the world war, returned from America to Russia. En route to the Canadian port of Halifax, he was removed from the ship by the British authorities and placed in an internment camp. The British feared that Trotsky's arrival might destabilize the situation in Rossim.

Sergey Lavrov and Donald Trump. Photo: Foreign Ministry of Russia Disrupted by Donald Trump in an interview with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov Secret information was received by the United States from Israeli intelligence. This was reported by the ABC channel with reference to former and current American officials. Information was provided to the United States, provided that its source will remain classified, the interlocutors of the channel emphasize.

State Duma. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading a bill on the expansion of the list of an article, involving administrative supervision of convicts after liberation, according to the website of the lower house of parliament. Amendments to Article 173.1 of the Criminal Executive Code intend to establish administrative supervision of the convicts for serious and especially serious crimes of an extremist orientation and "terrorist" crimes.

At the Moscow rally against the demolition of five -story buildings. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru The Moscow City Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on additional guarantees to residents of five -story buildings demolished under the renovation program. 30 deputies voted for the document, four opposed. It is reported by RIA. On Wednesday, Kommersant wrote that the Moscow prosecutor’s office in its recall indicated mistakes in the bill.

VKontakte-Ukraine logo President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko must immediately cancel the decree on the blocking of Russian sites and take steps to protect freedom of speech and information in the country. This statement was made by the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch. Ukraine, human rights activists recalled, is a member of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

May 17 has been celebrated since 2005 as an international day of the struggle against homophobia, transfoby and bifobia. This year, the attention of the world community is focused on the persecution of gays in Chechnya.

The LGBT campaign on the International Fighting Homophobia, Bifobia and Transfobia has gathered more than 200 participants on the Marse Field. Activists, human rights activists and journalists performed at the rally, there were no provocations and fences, no one was detained by the police.

Michael Flynn. Photo: Ir.USMBASSY.GOV US President Donald Trump asked the FBI director James Komi, the investigation against the former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who is suspected of relations with Russia. It is reported by The New York Times. According to the newspaper, this happened in February during the meeting of Trump and Komi in the oval office of the White House.