US Embassy in Russia. Photo: us-visas.info Among the American diplomats sent from Russia in response to the expulsion of employees of Russian representative offices from the United States, all employees of the political department of the embassy in Moscow, including the head of the department of Chris Robinson, fell. It is reported by Kommersant. Diplomats left Russia on Thursday. In total, the American embassy left 60 diplomatic officers.

Evgeny Kuyvashev. Photo: kremlin.ru The Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Yevgeny Kuyvashev signed the law on the abolition of direct elections of the mayor of Yekaterinburg, reports 66.ru. The document will enter into force on April 18. Now the new procedure for election of the mayor should be approved by the City Duma. If local deputies do not agree with the decision of the regional authorities, the City Duma may dissolve ahead of schedule.

Glasses with a video camera. Photo: aliexpress.com The Investigative Committee excited against the 38-year-old resident of Volgograd the case of the illegal circulation of special technical means for buying sunglasses with a built-in video camera, RIA Novosti reports . The name of the suspect is not called. Under article 138.1 of the Criminal Code (illegal purchase of special technical means), he faces up to four years in the colony.

225 years ago, on April 6, 1793, the French Convention created the Committee of Public Safety, in which Georges Danton played a leading role. This emergency measure was due to the defeat of the French armies in the war with Austria and Prussia. After the leader of the Jacobins, Maximilian Robespierre, was included in the Committee of Public Safety on July 27, and Danton was expelled from it, the committee became in fact the main body of power in revolutionary France.

Sergey Skripal The life of the former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal is out of danger, the BBC reports citing hospitals in Salisbury. According to them, the state of the Skripal is rapidly improving, the treatment prescribed to him gives good results. More than a week ago, Julia Skripal came to, poisoned with his father by a neuro-paralytic substance on March 4. Both fell into a coma and were in critical condition for a long time.

Vladimir Gorbenko in court. Photo: krymr.com The court in Kherson arrested the captain of the Russian Nord Russian vessel Vladimir Gorbenko with the possibility of release on bail, the Center for Journalistic Investigations reports . The sailor’s lawyer told Tassu that he had already made a deposit of 32,240 hryvnias (1355 dollars). Gorbenko is accused of violating the order of entry and exit from the temporarily occupied territory.

Zevri Abseites, Enver Mamuts and Remzi Memetes (from left to right). Photo: svoboda.org The Supreme Court of the annexed Crimea extended the arrest to the defendants of the First Bakhchisarai case “Hizb Ut-Tahrir” Zevri Absitov, Remzi Memetov, Rustem Abiltarova and Enver Mamutov until May 12. This was reported by the site "Crimea. Reals". At the beginning of the meeting, lawyer Emil Kurbedinov stated the discharge to the judge of the Supreme Court of Crimea Sergei Pogrebnyak.

Karen Pierce. Photo: un.org At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, convened at the initiative of Russia in connection with the Skripals case, the Russian Permanent Representative Vasily Nebenia accused the Western special services of Megaprovocation and the terrorist attack against Russian citizens. The meeting was broadcast on the UN website .

Stanislav Kalinichenko after beating by police. Photo from personal blog on Newkuzbass.ru The judge of the Kemerovo Regional Court Irina Bilograd sent the opposition blogger Stanislav Kalinichenko under the arrest of the opposition blogger, against whom, after beating, the police fabricated the case of an attack on a policeman. It is reported by "New Kuzbass." The blogger was sent to the pre-trial detention center-1 in the regional center.

Aslan Iritov. Shift video "Caucasian knot" The leader of the public organization "Free Aul", an armless disabled person of group I from Nalchik Aslan Iritov is accused of strangling the policeman "hands". This follows from the materials of the SKR in relation to the security forces who have beaten Iritov, the Committee against torture reports .

Institute of the Ministry of Defense in Shikhany. Photo: wikimapia.org The nervous paralytic poison of Novice, which was poisoned by the former GRU employee Segre Skripal along with his daughter, was produced in a military laboratory in the closed city of Shikhana of the Saratov region. It is reported by The Times with reference to the British intelligence report provided to the allies of London.

White House. Photo from Whitehouse.gov In the White House on Friday, they are going to announce the introduction of new sanctions against some Russian oligarchs for intervention in the 2016 presidential election. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal. The restrictions will be introduced against Russian businessmen belonging to the ruling elite, the publication says.

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo Theatrical laws suggest the traditional use of a firearm. In accordance with them, as everyone knows, the gun hanging on the stage should sooner or later shoot. And not that the exacting viewer will not understand why it hung there. And Anton Pavlovich will not praise a stupid playwright. The rules of legal proceedings on the Russian political scene are more complicated than theatrical ones.

Roskomnadzor filed a lawsuit in the Tagansky district court to block Telegram for refusing to provide the FSB with encryption keys to decode user messages, the censorship website said . The lawsuit was filed in connection with the identification of the special service of the Telegram by the Duties of the "Organizer of the Distribution of Information". According to the Code of Administrative proceedings, the CPN lawsuit may be considered in court up to three months.

Pak Kyn Hy. Photo: jlcxwb.co.kr The court in Seoul sentenced to 24 years in prison on charges of corruption of the former president of South Korea Pak Kyn Hee, Yonhap reports . The 66-year-old PAK was found guilty of 16 episodes of corruption crimes, including receiving bribes, extortion, as well as abuse of power. The prosecutor asked for the former head of state 30 years in prison. Pak herself was not present at the hearing.