US Congress. Photo: Wikipedia About 40 American senators supported the draft resolution entered in the upper house, which provides for an international operation to ensure freedom of navigation in the Black Sea. It is reported by The Hill. The document was introduced by Republican Ron Johnson and Democrat Dick Durbin.

Eden Bekirov at the trial of the arrest. Frame video Nazim Sheikhmambetov The FSB in the annexed Crimea and Sevastopol presented the arrested Crimean Tatar activist Edem Bekirov accusations of storing cartridges and TNT. This was announced on Wednesday evening by the "New Gazeta" with reference to the lawyer "Agora" Alexei Ladin, who defends the Politzeck.

Olga Zelenina after release from the pre -trial detention center. Photo by Natalia Demina The collegium of the jury of the Bryansk regional court in the fabricated case of an attempt to import in Russia 42 tons of an unpeeled confectionery poppy fully justified the agronomist Olga Zelenin, the head of the chemical and analytical laboratory of the Penza Research Institute of Agriculture.

Vladimir Putin. Photo: kremlin.ru Vladimir Putin with a new decree canceled a number of restrictions on the provision of political asylum in Russia, according to the Kremlin website. As Kommersant clarifies , certain norms of presidential decrees have been canceled, which regulated the provision of the status of a political entrusted since 1997.

Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Photo: rada.gov.ua The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine obliged the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate to change the name, indicating in it belonging to Russia. It is reported by Ukrainian Pravda. The draft law was submitted to the Rada back in October 2016.

Vitaly Portnikov Whenever Russian leaders, in exchange for maintaining the Lukashenkovsky regime pants, are trying to eliminate the Belarusian sovereignty, the Old Man recalls Belarus. He holds secret meetings with households and associates, makes angry statements, in a word - is defended by Belarusian statehood as soon as he can. Because it turns out that the Lukashenko regime has no other protection. Yes, and this protection looks unconvincing.

Oleg Deripaska. Photo: deripaska.ru The Rusal shares on the Hong Kong Exchange after opening the auction rose 25 percent in connection with the lifting of sanctions from the company, reports The Bell. Subsequently, growth was adjusted - by 9:30 Moscow time, growth was 13.8 percent, capitalization - about $ 4.9 billion. On the Moscow Exchange, the price of the Rusal Promotion by 10:01 rose to 33 rubles, that is, by 25 percent, Interfax reports .

Ali Bariev. Source: "Crimean solidarity" The judge of the Basmann District Court of Moscow Evgeny Nikolaev extended the founder of Krymopt to Resul Vellyaev and the general director of this company Ali Bariyev, the terms of maintenance in the pre -trial detention center for another 3 months, and only until 11 months from the date of detention, until March 25, 2019. This was reported at the FB page of the Vellyaev support group.

Headquarters of Energoatoma. Source: atomic-energy.ru The Ukrainian state -owned company "Energoatom" secretly extended the contract for the supply of nuclear fuel for the country's nuclear power plant with the Russian company TVEL. It is reported by the "Mirror of the Week". As stated in the publication, the transaction took place after Kiev made a fundamental decision to withdraw from an agreement on friendship with Russia .

Screenshot of the site "Quantum" after hacking The Digital Revolution Haker Group has published documents, which are allegedly taken from a hacked server associated with the FSB of the FSUE of the Kwant Research Institute. According to the BBC, we are talking about the documents of monitoring systems of the media and social networks. On December 19, hackers published four documents with a volume of more than 300 pages.

Rage of the telephone book of the KGB of the Latvian SSR, 1988. Source: kgb.arhivi.lv The National Archive of Latvia published in the public domain of the KGB agents, called in the country "CHC bags". It is reported by DELFI.LV. The cards are filled with hand, in most cases in Russian. The alphabetical cardboard of agents has 10,612 cards. It includes both the agents acting as of the late 1980s and the former.

Alexey Korotkov performs with the last word. Photo: znak.com The judge of the Ural District Military Court (Yekaterinburg) Igor Klyuchikov sentenced the person involved in the case of the Tyumen "FSB gang" Alexei Korotkov to 24 years of strict regime with a fine of 500 thousand rubles and deprivation of the title of reserve lieutenant. It is reported by Znak.com.

Supreme Court of Russia. Photo: vsrf.ru The Supreme Court introduced a bill to the State Duma on the introduction of the concept of criminal offense and the corresponding amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure. The document card is published on the website of the lower house. Interfax reported the bill on May 22 .

Alexander Bastrykin. Photo: Sledcom.ru The leader of the Tambov-Malyshevsky criminal group Gennady Petrov in 2007 lobbied for the appointment of Alexander Bastrykin to the post of chairman of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor General’s Office through the current head of the FSB economic security service Sergei Korolev.