The Moscow International Film Festival has withdrawn its screening of the film “Fans,” about far-right activists who killed gays. Snob about this The director of the film, Seva Galkin, told . According to Galkin, he applied for the festival and was invited to participate in the short film program: “I thought: 'A mistake? Someone's prank?' It turned out not. Everything is in all seriousness.

The Investigative Committee charged a Muscovite who attended a rally on January 23 in violation of coronavirus quarantine for “sanitary matters.” The lawyer of oppositionist Lyubov Sobol, Vladimir Voronin, spoke about this on Twitter. It became known when Sobol was brought a new charge today.

Correctional colony No. 3 in Vladimir. Photo: Sergey Ilnitsky / EPA / TASS Civil doctors who treated Alexei Navalny in the wild turned to a policy with a request to stop a hunger strike - Navalny has been holding it for 23 days, demanding that independent doctors allow him to a colony.

editor DOXA Vladimir Metelkin demanded that the director recusate the investigator who “demonstrates personal interest to him.” His statement is quoted by the magazine's editors.

The Lyubertsy City Court fined SMM Alexander Shepelev, editor of Navalny's headquarters, 2 thousand rubles under an article about. Mediazona journalist Olya Romashova reports this.

The Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg assigned street art artist Timofey Rada 39 hours of compulsory work under the article on. This was reported by the human rights project “Apology of Protest” with reference to lawyer Alexei Bushmakov. According to the police, on January 23, Radya participated in a rally in support of politician Alesei Navalny on a bicycle and did not respond to the order of the security forces to end the procession, clarifies Apology of Protest.

Czech Foreign Minister Jakub Kulganek announced at a press conference that the country would reduce the size of the staff of the Russian Embassy to the size of the Czech Embassy in Moscow. His words are quoted by Novinky.cz and Aktualne.cz . After the Czech Republic on April 17 accused the GRU of blowing up an ammunition depot in 2014, the countries have already mutually expelled a group of diplomats—the Czech Republic has 18 Russian diplomats , and Russia has 20 Czech diplomats .

Alexander Shepelev and police officer. Photo: Olya Romashova / Mediazon The SMM editor of the Moscow headquarters of Navalny Alexander Shepelev could not find all night-after a search of the "sanitary business" he was taken away in an unknown direction. Only in the morning it became known that they made a protocol on disobedience to the police - allegedly during the search, Shepelev threatened three employees with “service troubles”.

The Petushinsky District Court of the Vladimir Region arrested for nine days the editor-in-chief of the Dovod publication Ilya Kosygin, who worked at the protest near Navalny’s colony. This was reported on Kosygin’s telegram channel. According to the protocol , Kosygin “created obstacles to the movement of pedestrians and vehicles”, “taking part in a massive simultaneous presence of citizens, <...> the theme of which was “Action in support of A.N.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced the completion of inspections of troops in the Southern and Western military districts and ordered the return of the military. this . reports Interfax “I believe that the goals of the surprise inspection have been fully achieved. The troops demonstrated the ability to provide reliable defense of the country. In this regard, I have decided to complete verification activities in the Southern and Western military districts,” Shoigu said.

The State Duma adopted a bill that, in the event of multi-day voting, will allow election campaigning on the day before the election. This was reported on the website of the Lower House. Campaigning for multi-day voting must end “at zero o’clock local time on the first day of voting,” the initiative says. In the case of a one-day vote, the “day of silence” remains.

The Moscow garrison military court sentenced the former head of the FSB, Kirill Cherkalin, to seven years in a maximum security colony in cases of bribery and fraud. this A TASS correspondent reports from the courtroom. The prosecutor asked the security officer for 11 years in prison.

In Bryansk, a case was opened about a rally on January 23 in support of oppositionist Alexei Navalny. The press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported this to the Gorodskoy channel .

The Ministry of Internal Affairs admitted the use of force during the detention of SMM manager of Navalny’s Moscow headquarters, Alexander Shepelev. This is reported in the protocol, which is quoted by “Apology of Protest”.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs banned 122 foreigners from entering Russia for participating in uncoordinated rallies in Moscow, reported Dmitry Sergienko, head of the migration department of the Moscow Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. His words are quoted by Interfax.