Alexey Kudrin at a meeting of the Duma faction of unicorn, 05/15/2018. Photo: duma.gov.ru The State Duma approved the candidacy of Alexei Kudrin to the post of chairman of the Accounts Chamber. It is reported by "Medusa". In support of Kudrin, 264 deputies voted. 43 opposed the same. The proposal to head the Accounts Chamber received curl from United Russia . On May 14, it became known that he accepted the proposal . The day before, Vladimir Putin introduced Kudrin’s candidacy to the State Duma.

Winged rocket. Photo Reuters. In Russia, from November 2017 to February 2018, four unsuccessful tests of a new cruise missile with a nuclear installation were carried out, CNBC reports with reference to sources familiar with American intelligence reports on the Russian weapons program. According to the channel, the largest distance that the rocket flew before crashes - 22 miles (about 35.4 kilometers).

Osher Krichevsky. Photo: vomske.ru The Omsk Regional Court refused to return a residence permit in Russia to the chief rabbi of Siberia, an Israeli citizen Oser Krichevsky, Omsk here reports . The decision of the management of the migration of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs on the cancellation of the residence permit is recognized as legal. The rabbi has the right to file an appeal against a court decision in the Supreme Court.

Evgeny Roizman. Hard video from a personal YouTube channel The mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Roizman announced a resignation, reports E1.ru. At a meeting of the City Duma, the mayor announced the addition of authority after it was proposed to add on the agenda the question of canceling direct elections of the mayor. As a result, the agenda was rejected by a majority vote. “Changes to the charter (on the abolition of direct elections.

The protest of the "Workers' Association" in Kaluga. Photo: 7x7-journal.ru The Supreme Court canceled the decision according to which the interregional trade union "The Workers' Association" is subject to liquidation as a "foreign agent". This was reported by the Confederation of Labor of Russia, one of the members of which is the MPI. The reasons for the decision of the aircraft in the publication are not explained.

Kira Yar and Ruslan Shadadinov. Photo: @shavedDinov In Moscow, the police detained at the exit from the house of the former press secretary of the presidential campaign Alexei Navalny Ruslan Shavedininov, the OVD-Info reports . The opposition was delivered to the Police Department of Tverskaya. A press secretary of Navalny Kira Yarmysh arrived as a defender. There she was detained, Yarmysh said on Twitter.

Oleg Sentsov and Alexander Kolchenko at the announcement of the sentence. Photo by Igor Khoroshilova/Grani.ru The Crimean prisoner Alexander Kolchenko, who was serving a term of IK-6 in Kopeisk near Chelyabinsk, announced his readiness to support a hunger strike, which Oleg Sentsov, convicted with him, announced in the Yamal IK-8 in Labytnangi. This was reported by Radio Liberty with reference to Svetlana Sidorkin, lawyer Kolchenko.

Dmitry Borisov is announcing the sentence. Photo: Grani.ru Activist of the “14%” movement Dmitry Borisov, convicted by the year of the general regime in the “March 26 case”, was transferred from the capital's pre-trial detention center-2 Butyrka to the colony. This was reported by the OVD-Info with reference to the relatives of Politzek. Presumably Borisov is being taken to IK-4 in the city of Alekseevka of the Belgorod region.

Vyacheslav Shatrovsky. Source: FB page "OVD-info" In the debate of the parties in the case of the builder Vyacheslav Shatrovsky, who was accused of attacking the senior sergeant of the 2nd Operestskoman Ministry of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, Maxim Pavlov during the capital's protest campaign on November 5 of last year, the prosecutor Alexander Pastukhov requested three years of general regime for the defendant.

Victor Baldin. Source: Openrussia.org The Yekaterinburg oppositionist Viktor Baldin, arrested for 15 days on charges of participating in the local campaign on May 5, announced a dry hunger strike in the special receiver. This was reported by the OVD-Info. The reason, the MBH-Media reports , was the refusal of the administration of the special receiver to deliver the opposition to the Sverdlovsk Regional Court to hearings on his appeal against arrest.

State Duma. Frame NTV The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading the law on counter -sanctions against the United States and the countries that supported American anti -Russian measures. The corresponding is placed in the card of the bill on the website of the lower house. In the final edition of the document, six "measures of influence (opposition) on unfriendly actions" were transferred, which the government has the right to introduce by decision of the president.

Donald Trump and Kim Jong -un US President Donald Trump is ready to refuse to meet with the North Korean dictator Kim Jong -un, scheduled for June 12. This was announced in an interview with Fox News Vice President Michael Pence, reports Reuters. “Of course, without question,” Pence answered when he was asked if the president was ready to cancel negotiations. “It will be a big mistake for Kim Jong -un to think that you can play with Donald Trump,” the vice president added.

Supreme Court of Russia. Photo: vsrf.ru The Supreme Court introduced a bill to the State Duma on the introduction of a criminal offense into the Criminal Code. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the chairman of the Armed Forces Vyacheslav Lebedev. “The initiative,” Lebedev explained, “will reduce the number of corpus delicti for which the imprisonment is provided.

Server Mustafaev in the FSB car at the court, 05/22/2018. Photo: "Crimean solidarity" The Kiev District Court of Simferopol, controlled by Russia, arrested the co-founder and one of the coordinators of the "Crimean solidarity" of the server Mustafaev for a period until June 9 in the second Bakhchisarai case "Hizb Ut-Tahrir". This was reported by the activist’s colleagues, without specifying the name of the judge. The hearings were held closed. According to Crimea.

Igor Shuvalov. Photo: government.ru It was decided to appoint the former First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov as chairman of Vnesheconombank. It is reported by Reuters with reference to three unnamed sources. Appointment to the post of chairman of the VEB is carried out by a presidential decree. However, none of the interlocutors of the agency could answer whether Vladimir Putin already signed the corresponding document. Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov refused comment.