Nikolai Sentsov. Photo: Openrussia.org The defendant in the case of the Baltic Vanguard of Russian Resistance Nikolai Sentsov, on March 13 he transferred a stroke to the pre-trial detention center-1 in Kalinigrad. The message about this on the 16th appeared in the VK-Plik of the regional committee of public self-defense. The lawyer of 46-year-old Sentsov Maria Bonzler learned about his illness only a few days after the stroke, when she came to meet with Politzek in jail.

Daria Polyudova on Manezhnaya, 03/18/2018. Photo by Alexander Mommy The leader of the left -wing resistance movement Daria Polyudova was detained on the Manezhnaya Square of Moscow with the poster "Elections - boycott. Putin - thief!". This was announced on his FB page by a civil activist Alexander Mommy. Polyudova stood for a short time with a poster, after which the oppositionist Valery Kuzmenkov, who accompanied her, noticed that the police were approaching them.

Ella Pamfilova. Photo: cikrf.ru The site of the Central Election Commission on the day of the presidential election was subjected to DDOS attacks with IP addresses from 15 countries. As TASS reports , the chairman of the commission Ella Pamfilova stated this. The attack, according to the official, lasted from 2 in the morning to 5 in the morning in Moscow; In the eastern regions of Russia at this time, a vote was already taking place. The peak of the load on the server came at 2:20.

Vladimir Putin at the polling station, 03/18/2018. Frame "Vesti" In Russia on Sunday, presidential elections are held. Polling stations in each of the regions work from 8 to 20 hours local time. In the eastern regions of the country - in Chukotka and Kamchatka - voting began at 23 hours Saturday in Moscow and by 11 am Moscow time ended on Sunday. In Moscow, on March 18, 3620 polling stations opened, of which 175 in places of temporary stay of citizens, including 11 in jail.

One hundred years ago, on March 18, 1918, the Council of People's Commissars adopted a resolution "On the closure of Moscow bourgeois newspapers." It ordered "to instruct the Commissariat of Justice to get in touch with the Moscow Soviet of Deputies and comrade Dzerzhinsky and take measures for the immediate closure of bourgeois newspapers with the betrayal of editors and publishers to a revolutionary court and the application of the most severe punishments to them." The resolution was adopted

Boris Johnson. Photo: gov.uk Over the past 10 years, the Russian authorities secretly produced the nerve gas "Novice", which was poisoned by the ex-GRU officer Sergey Skripal, and also accumulated reserves of this substance. This was stated by the British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, reports Reuters. According to Johnson, Moscow also conducted work on the study of the use of neuro-paralytic substances for murders.

Boris Johnson. Photo: gov.uk The closure of the British Council and the General Consulate of Great Britain in St. Petersburg Russia punished only its own citizens, depriving them of the opportunity to learn English and seek visas. This was announced in his column in The Sun by the British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson. The minister called the measures taken by Moscow "trifling." “Today, Russia was on its own, in isolation,” Johnson concluded.

Alexander Kolchenko in the Kopeysk colony 03/16/2018. Photo: FB page Tatyana Schur The IK-6 administration in Kopeisk, the suburbs of Chelyabinsk, on March 8 sent the Crimean prisoner Alexander Kolchenko, who is serving a 10-year term in the fabricated case of terrorism, for 13 days in a schizo. The human rights activist Tatyana Schur wrote about this on her FB page.

Sergey Skripal's car. Photo: Theguardian.com Former GRU employee Sergei Skripal could be poisoned by neuro-paralytic poison through the ventilation of his BMW car, ABC News reports with reference to unnamed British intelligence sources. According to the interlocutors of the TV channel, British intelligence believes that the poison in the form of powdered dust circulated in the ventilation system of the Skripal machine.

At the Russian Embassy in Kyiv, 03/18/2018. Photo: Pravda.com.ua In Ukraine, security forces and activists of nationalist organizations blocked the entrance to Russian diplomatic missions to prevent Russian citizens from vote in the presidential election. It is reported by Ukrainian Pravda. In Kyiv, a plot of airflot avenue at the Russian Embassy is blocked. The building is cordoned off by police and the National Guard.

Ksenia Sobchak and Alexey Navalny. Source: vg-saveliev.livejournal.com Ksenia Sobchak for nomination by a presidential candidate "promised a lot of money." Such a statement in a personal conversation with Sobchak on the air "Navalny.live" made Alexei Navalny, explaining that she herself had previously recognized him in this. “You are lying in every word,” said Navalny.