Sergei Shargunov, a writer and State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, said that on April 21 his apartment was set on fire. “This happened the day after the vote in the first reading against the law on renovation,” Shargunov wrote on Facebook. The fire, according to Shargunov, entered the apartment from the balcony. “It was a miracle that my father survived. Things, paintings, burned icons. Firefighters managed to save two other rooms, ”he wrote.

In Macedonia, supporters of the nationalists broke into the parliament building after the party “Social Democratic Union of Macedonia” (SDSM) announced the election of an albanian deputy as a speaker. According to RFE/RL, before the protesters got into the building, they had clashes with the police. Inside, they broke into the hall where the press conference of the leader of the SDSM Zoran Zaev was going on, and beat him and several more deputies.

The Moscow Mayor's Office and representatives of the Russian opposition agreed to hold a rally on Sakharov Avenue on May 6. This was reported to RBC by one of the organizers of the event, former State Duma deputy Gennady Gudkov. Another organizer, Alexander Ryklin, told Interfax that the action would take the form of a procession along the avenue from Boulevard to the Garden Ring. “The theme of the rally is also May 6 five years ago ( clashes on Bolotnaya Square in 2012. — Approx.

At the Moscow office of Open Russia, a search was completed, which began around 16:00 Moscow time on April 27. This is reported by Mediazona with reference to the traffic coordinator Maria Baronova. According to Baronova, employees' laptops, "some documents" and about a hundred thousand leaflets prepared for the rally scheduled for April 29 were seized from the office. During searches, lawyers were not allowed into the premises.

Schoolgirl from Astrakhan - about how to look for information about repressed in the archives Photo: Corentin Le Gall / Alamy / Vida Press Each year, the Human Rights Society "Memorial" holds a competition for schoolchildren "Man in History". As part of the competition, students carry out independent research work on the history of Russia. In 2016, activists of the National Liberation Movement (NOD) and the “Eurasian Youth Union” attacked participants in the award ceremony.

Stanislav Zimovets, who was arrested in connection with the March 26 rallies, was kept in the Investigative Committee for days on end, and the appointed lawyer urged him to confess and agree to a special hearing of the case. This was told to Meduza by lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina, whom Zimovets turned to after he refused to be a defense attorney. “Investigative actions were carried out too quickly and intensively.

Lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina told Medusa what is happening with the “March 26 case” by Stanislav Zimovs. Photo: Personal page of Stanislav Zimovets in VKontakte On April 13, it became known that the Investigative Committee detained four people who are accused of applying violence against a representative of the authorities (Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). There is little information about each of the detainees.

Photo: Evgeny Feldman for the Navalny campaign on April 27, an unknown person doused the politician Alexei Navalny Zelenka. Navalny called an ambulance, which took him to the hospital. He was diagnosed with the “chemical burn of the right eye”.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who was splashed with green paint in his face near the office of the Anti-Corruption Foundation on April 27, was diagnosed with a chemical burn to his right eye. “Pretty nasty bullshit – it’s difficult to anesthetize, and the eye blazes with hellish fire, and it doesn’t even open,” he said on his website. He added that he did not stay in the hospital and was returning to the office.

Photo: AFP / Scanpix / Leta On April 27, the police in two counties in the south of Great Britain sent a letter to schools in which she warned about the dangers of the Gli Kit game, which supposedly pushes adolescents to suicide. Stories about the "blue whale" became popular among Russian schoolchildren at the end of 2016; The material of Novaya Gazeta about “death groups” on social networks played a large role in this.

Ivan Zhdanov, a lawyer with the Anti-Corruption Foundation, tweeted a picture allegedly showing the man who attacked Alexei Navalny. The image was taken from CCTV cameras in the Omega Plaza center, near which Navalny was doused with green paint, hitting his eye. The cameras outside the building, according to the center's guards, were not working at the time of the attack, reports , citing the head of Navalny's campaign headquarters, Leonid Volkov.

In recent years, Zelenka has become one of the main political tools: at different times, she was doused with writers, politicians, activists, members of the Public Chamber, and journalists. In 2017, there were more attacks using greens: in four months it was used at least eight times. Photo in the announcement: Sergey Fadeichv / TASS / Scanpix / Leta

Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, who left the cosmonaut corps at the end of April, published an appeal in Moskovsky Komsomolets calling for the dismissal of Yuri Lonchakov, head of the Cosmonaut Training Center (CTC). The appeal appeared in response to a comment published by Lonchakov on the CPC website in connection with the departure of several cosmonauts from the detachment, including Padalka.

A Russian travel agent, who is accused of fraud, was an American political expert in the current show of Channel One, Photo: Grigory Vinnikov Personal Page on Facebook “Journalist from the United States Greg Weiner,” which appears in the political current shows of the first and fifth channels, is actually businessman Grigory Vinnikov. This was announced on April 25 on his Facebook by American journalist Gennady Katsov.

Alexei Navalny was taken to the hospital after an unknown person splashed green paint in his face, hitting him in the eye. This was reported to Meduza by his press secretary, Kira Yarmysh. Navalny was attacked on his way to the Global Event Forum 2017, which is taking place at the World Trade Center in Moscow. The oppositionist was supposed to speak there.