In Moscow, on the evening of March 17, activist Alla Frolova, the organizer of rallies against the reform of the Moscow healthcare system in 2014, was attacked. It is reported by "OVD-Info". According to the victim, two unidentified men approached her on the street near her house and sprayed pepper spray in her face. At the same time, the attackers shouted “Remember!” to her, the newspaper reports. Frolova is currently feeling fine. What this attack could be connected with, she does not know.

The human rights ombudsman in Chechnya, Nurdi Nukhazhiev, called the attack on human rights activist Igor Kalyapin in Grozny "an extremely unpleasant incident" and called on Chechen youth "not to act like this again." “Whoever he is, a guest is an inviolable person for us. This is the tradition that makes us Chechens. […] If we do not preserve our traditions, then all our sacrifices will be in vain,” reads a statement on the Ombudsman’s official website.

Alexey Rogozin, the son of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, has been appointed to the position of deputy director of the property department of the Ministry of Defense. RBC reports this with reference to a source close to the leadership of the department. According to Izvestia, Rogozin will return to work at the Ministry of Defense on Monday, March 21. He himself confirmed to the publication that he was moving to another job, but refused further comments.

In Nizhny Novgorod, a criminal case has been opened under the article “fraud” against the widow of a serviceman killed in Chechnya, Natalya Semak, who received a survivor’s pension. This was reported by the Mother's Right Foundation, which provides legal assistance to women. The case was opened on March 4 by the military investigative department of the Russian Investigative Committee for the Nizhny Novgorod garrison. The resolution to initiate the case states that “in November 2011, Semak N.V.

Alphabet (owner of Google) put up for sale the company Boston Dynamics, known as a developer of humanoid and canine robots. Information about the sale of Boston Dynamics to Bloomberg was confirmed by two sources close to Alphabet. Among possible buyers, they named Toyota Research Institute and Amazon.com Inc. There is no official confirmation of this information yet.

The President of the European Parliament Martin Schulz said that not all the defendants in the “Savchenko list”, proposed by Ukraine to the European Union, will be declared persona non grata. Answering a journalist's question whether Vladimir Putin, who heads the list, will be declared persona non grata, Schultz said: “Not all names from the list will be declared persona non grata.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow arrested until May 10 the manager of the company "BaltStroy" Alexander Kochenov, a suspect in the case of embezzlement in the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. According to TASS, during the meeting, Kochenov said that he had cancer. The defense presented medical documents to the court and petitioned for house arrest.

Andrey Kozenko - about an organization that is constantly attacked in Chechnya Photo: Dmitry Korotaev / Kommersant in the office of the "Committee on Prevention of Torture" On the evening of March 16, unknown people attacked the Grozny Center on Igor Kalyapin, the head of the human rights “Committee on the Prevention of torture” and a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said that one of the participants in the attack on human rights activist Igor Kalyapin near a hotel in Grozny hit the Ukrainian consul. Klimkin wrote about this on his Twitter.

What does the People’s militia of Crimea do in "peacetime" Photo: Alexey Pavlishak / TASS / Scanpix One of the symbols of the “Russian spring” of 2014 in Crimea became people in camouflage and with St. George ribbons, with batons and shields in their hands. On the eve of the attachment of the peninsula to Russia, they took over the functions of law enforcement agencies. “Crimean self-defense” still exists-now this is the People’s militia of Crimea.

Leonardo DiCaprio posted on his Instagram a photo of the Oscar received from fans from Yakutia. The actor thanked the people of the region, in particular the women who donated their jewelry to create the figurine. The Yakut "Oscar" is a one and a half kilogram silver figurine holding a gold ritual vessel choron in its hands . “As [the creators of the figurine] wrote in their letter, Yakutia is one of the coldest inhabited places in the world.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution on the renaming of 152 settlements as part of decommunization. The name Pokrov was returned to the city of Ordzhonikidze. All other settlements in the resolution are towns and villages. In Ukraine, since May 2015, a law has been in force that prohibits the promotion of Soviet and Nazi symbols. In accordance with the law, in particular, the Soviet names of settlements should be changed.

a letter to Donald Trump , wrote group , founder of the Humans of New York Brandon Stanton that became the most shared post in Facebook history. At the time of this post, it has been shared over a million times. The post received about two million likes. In his address to presidential candidate Brandon Stanton, he criticized him for promoting racist ideas.

Three gypsies detained in the village of Plekhanovo, Tula region, were sent under arrest for three days for disobeying police officers. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the regional prosecutor's office. Another detainee was fined 500 rubles. The conflict in the village of Plekhanovo began on March 16, when about a hundred Roma took to the streets to protest against the disconnection of their houses from the gas.

What is known about the Chechen Ombudsman, who is constantly criticizing the opposition Photo: Nicodemus hood / Photoxpress Nurdi Nukhazhiev has been working on the Chechen Commissioner for Human Rights for Ten years. During this time, he became one of the main defenders of the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov in the media. In March 2016, Nuhazhiev went on the offensive-he demanded that Ilya Yashin and journalist Elena Milashin start criminal cases for politics.