Former GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury with the BZ substance. This was reported by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, citing data from a Swiss center that examined samples taken by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), RIA Novosti reports .

In Moscow, police detained an elderly man who came to a reception at the reception of the President of Russia, Gayane Amrakhova, a participant in the civil movement for human rights, told OVD-Info. According to the activist, the police were called by an employee named Serbina. She did not specify the reason for the detention, but noted that a man of 80 years of age was detained by eight law enforcement officers.

Protests against landfills took place in Volokolamsk, Balashikha, Dmitrov, Klin, Kolomna, Krasnoarmeysk, Sergiev Posad, Serpukhov and Shatura. Two actions took place in Volokolamsk - at the monument to heroic sappers and at the Yadrovo waste disposal site. According to estimates Interfax , about 500 people attended each rally. The first action, as reported by RBC, was attended by the head of the administration of the governor of the Moscow region, Mikhail Kuznetsov.

A light aircraft crashed in the Lipetsk region, according to the Telegram channel of the Investigative Committee. According to preliminary data, two people died. The official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region, Natalya Maslakova , told RIA Novosti that the plane crashed near the village of Sharshki, Usman district. According to a TASS source in the emergency services, we are talking about a Zlin-142 aircraft , on board which were a pilot and a passenger.

In Kostroma, the magistrate of court district No. 30, Anna Magdalinskaya, sentenced the coordinator of the local headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny, Alexander Zykov, to 15 days of arrest for violating discipline rules while serving compulsory labor. about this The activist himself wrote on Facebook. According to him, on April 11, the magistrate of judicial district No. 6 already arrested him for two days for this violation.

After a rally against the Yadrovo landfill in Volokolamsk, the car of Left Front activists was stopped by traffic police officers. As traffic coordinator Sergei Udaltsov writes on Twitter, traffic police officers claim that the driver is under the influence of drugs. In a conversation with OVD-Info, Udaltsov clarified that Vladislav Kharitonov, Ilya Getman, Rodion Kabanadze, Vadim Vasev and Alexander Vasiliev were detained.

The investigation found that fire safety inspections in the Kemerovo Zimnyaya Vishnya shopping center were obstructed by “high-ranking officials,” said the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, TASS reports . Bastrykin did not specify who exactly he was talking about, but noted that the investigation has a document at its disposal prohibiting an inspection in 2016.

In Serpukhov, criminal investigation officers detained Left Bloc activist Stanislav Kiryushkin, according to the movement’s telegram channel. The activist was taken to the Serpukhovskoye municipal department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Left Bloc associates the detention with a coordinated rally against the Lesnaya solid waste landfill, scheduled for 12:00. Kiryushkin took an “active part” in organizing this action, the Left Bloc reported.