Detention of the defender of the square. Hard video On Wednesday evening and on Thursday night, 83 people, including 7 minors, were detained on the city of Yekaterinburg against the construction of a temple in the center of Yekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg for freedom said in the movement. At the same time, according to the Ministry of Public Security of the Sverdlovsk Region, 33 people were detained. Journalists 66.ru counted 59 detainees.

Ramzan Kadyrov and Abuse Vismuradov. Photo: "Chechnya today" The United States imposed sanctions on the "Law of Magnitsky" against the Chechen special detachment of the Russian Guard "Terek", the commander of the detachment of Abuse Vizmuradov, the former deputy commander of the Kadyrovsky battalion "North" Ruslan Geremeyev, the former head of the Karelian IK-7 Sergey Kossiev and two other Russians associated with the death of the Hermitage Capital Foundation Lawyer Sergey Magnitsky.

Igor Kolomoisky. Frame of the TV channel "2+2" The Ukrainian oligarch Igor Kolomoisky returned to his homeland. According to Thebabel, he flew from Israel on Thursday night. Kolomoisky said that he did not know what would do in Ukraine. Since June 2017, the oligarch lived in Switzerland and Israel. Kolomoisky announced his return in advance. "Yes, I will return to the country, but not earlier than the official release of the results of the presidential election," he said in late April.

The promotion of the residence of Patriarch Kirill. Photo: Telegram channel "Resistance" In Moscow, at the residence of Patriarch Kirill in Pure Lane, members of the People’s Resistance Association held a rally of solidarity with the inhabitants of Yekaterinburg, protesting against the construction of the temple in the city center. This was reported in the telegram channel ANS. Activists hung a banner on the fence of the residence with the inscription "Sorry for the ECB".

Alexander Vysokinsky. Hard video The construction of the Temple of St. Catherine in the center of Yekaterinburg was stopped until the results of a survey of citizens. This was stated by the mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexander Vysokinsky, RIA Novosti reports . The representative of the Saint Catherine Foundation, who was the initiator of the project, also confirmed that the work was suspended.

MosoLdom. Frame of Channel One The son of a deputy of the People’s Assembly of Ingushetia from United Russia, Zakriy Mamilov, was arrested in the case of terrorism. This was announced by the deputy himself to Interfax. In the fall of 2018, the deputy, together with another 13 parliamentarians , signed an application for falsification of voting for the law on border demarcation with Chechnya.

Project RMK in Yekaterinburg: Fragment The Kremlin denies that the construction of the Cathedral of St. Catherine is part of the large -scale plan for the development of the center of Yekaterinburg. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told RBC that he personally contacted the "company of the planned developer." "The information that the temple is only an integral part of a large development plan and that buildings and centers are provided there are not true.

The FSB building on Lubyanskaya Square. Photo: Grani.ru The investigation charged a bribe in the amount of 850 thousand dollars to the head of the 2nd department of the Office K to the Economic Security Service of the FSB Kirill Cherkalin, Interfax reports with reference to the case materials announced in the Moscow District Military Court.

65 years ago, on May 16, 1954, an uprising of political prisoners began in the 3rd camp department of the Steppe camp in the village of Kengir, located in the central part of Kazakhstan (now the village is located within the city of Zhezkazgan). This uprising is described in detail by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago. More than 5,000 prisoners took part in the uprising.

The victory of Vladimir Zelensky. Frame TSN The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine appointed the inauguration of the elected president Vladimir Zelensky on May 20, UNIAN reports . For this date, 315 deputies voted with the necessary 226 votes. The ceremony will begin at 10 in the morning in the Rada meetings. Earlier, 7 draft decisions on the date of inauguration were registered: they proposed 17, 19, 20, 26 and 28, as well as June 1.

Vladimir Putin. Photo: kremlin.ru Vladimir Putin proposed a survey of residents of the Yekaterinburg microdistrict, where it is planned to build the temple of St. Catherine, TASS reports . "Everyone has the right to their own opinion, and if we are talking about the inhabitants of this microdistrict, then, of course, this opinion should be taken into account," Putin said.

Vitaly Portnikov When the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin warned that the consequence of the decisions that are now being made in the European Council may be the undermining of the Minsk agreements, many regarded his statement as an emotional reaction of a politician who could not convince his colleagues not to vote for his decision that had not arranged for his.