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Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Green Oppositionist, Sustainable Premier Alexei Ponomarev and Evgeny Berg are discussing an attack on Alexei Navalny, searches in the Open Russia office, Dmitry Medvedev’s controversy with sociologists, the British version of the Blue Whales and the departure of four pilots from the cosmonauts detachment.

Interview with Alexei Popogreb and Mikhail syringe, the creators of the series "Optimists" Photo: "Russia 1" On April 28, “Optimists” end on the Russia 1 television channel - a series of Soviet diplomats from the Thaw times. The project was written back in 2010, but only now came out, when real diplomats became the heroes of the daily agenda.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow registered a complaint against the inaction of the head of the RF Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, in connection with Novaya Gazeta's articles on crimes against gays in Chechnya. This was reported to RBC by the press service of the court. The complaint was filed by Novaya Gazeta lawyer Andrey Sabinin.

In August 2017, US residents will be able to observe a complete sunny eclipse - for the first time since 1979. The shadow from the moon covering the sun will pass through the territory of 14 states from the western coast of the country to the eastern. In honor of a rare event, the US postal service will release stamps that depict a solar eclipse. And if you press a finger to the brand, the moon will appear on it.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has appealed against the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to pay opposition leader Alexei Navalny compensation of 63,000 euros for detentions at protests in 2012-2014. “On April 26 ... a petition was sent to the European Court of Human Rights by the authorities of the Russian Federation to transfer the Navalny v. Russia case to the Grand Chamber,” Interfax quotes the press service of the Ministry of Justice.

The editor-in-chief of the Dozhd TV channel Roman Badanin will temporarily stop working in September 2017 and go to study at Stanford University. This was reported by the Vedomosti newspaper. Dozhd CEO Natalya Sindeeva said that Badanin will retain his position. It is unknown who will manage the channel instead. "Roma and I will make all management decisions by the end of the summer," Sindeeva said. Badanin declined to comment to Vedomosti. He did not answer Meduza’s call.

Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov / TASS Julia Galyamin (left) for promotions against five -story buildings again, April 26, 2017 On April 20, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on the “renovation of territories” in Moscow: the city authorities are going to resettle 1.6 million inhabitants from old houses to new ones. Many Muscovites criticize a bill that actually deprives owners of the opportunity to protect their property in court.

Photo: Tony Gentile / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta In mid -April, the German magazine Der Spiegel said that the Portuguese striker of Real Madrid Cristiano Ronaldo, one of the most popular football players in the world, paid 375 thousand dollars from the United States in 2010, accusing him of rape. This is not the first such thing-in 2005, Ronaldo was arrested in England on suspicion of raping a woman in a London hotel; The charges were later removed.

Lev Gankin - about how Damon Albarn has returned to the future Photo: Gorillaz / YouTube On April 28, “Humanz” was released - the new album of the Damon Albarn project Gorillaz, recorded after a seven -year pause in the group’s activities. And immediately on a large scope: there are two dozen tracks, and among the accomplices-both young hip-hop talents like Vince Steaples, and well-deserved pop veterans like singer Grace Jones.

The court sentenced Mahmud Velitov, imam of Moscow's Yardyam mosque, to three years in prison for publicly justifying terrorism. It is reported by the RF IC.

In the Irkutsk region, where natural fires continue, the village of Bubnovka burned down, in which there were more than 80 houses. This is reported by the government of the region. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, 59 houses burned down as a result of the fire, 29 remained intact. More than 400 people lived in the village, none of them were injured.

The torture prevention committee asked the SK to check the forensic medical expert, who, in his conclusion in the criminal case of an attack on the policeman, wrote that the victim received the cut wound of the “fifth inter-backing gap” on his hand-that is, an anatomical zone between the fifth and sixth fingers. The criminal case was instituted against a resident of the village of Druzhny Nizhny Novgorod region Andrei Palace.

The Vedomosti newspaper on April 27 reported that the State Duma would instruct you at all in six social networks - VKontakte, Facebook, Twitter, Odnoklassniki, Instagram and Telegram. The publication noted that the accounts should have a “light and modern design”, as well as the content that readers. On the same day, pages appeared or updated in five social networks, and a channel in Telegram was also created.

Lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina talks about the arrest of Stanislav Zimovetz in the March 26 protests Photo: Stanislav Zimovets’s social media account on VKontakte On April 13, it became known that Russia’s Investigative Committee had detained four people accused of using violence against police officials (Article 318 of the Criminal Code). There is not much information about the detainees.