On April 5, the State Kremlin Palace posted on the government procurement website lots for a corporate party in honor of the fifth anniversary of the Rosseti company. The event itself took place on April 4. Novaya Gazeta drew attention to the lots. In particular, lots were posted retroactively for the production of invitation forms and envelopes (145 thousand rubles), as well as photo zones for corporate events (566 thousand rubles).

The member of the territorial election commission (TIK) of the Demsky district of Ufa with the right of deliberate voice Stanislav Chaichenko said to the FSB that the head of the district, Sergei Plotnikov, offered him a bribe of 4.5 million rubles for silence about violations of the presidential election. A copy of Chaucichenko’s statement to the FSB is at the disposal of “rain”. In March, Chaucichenko recorded two videos to the head of the Central Election Commission Elle Pamfilova.

Elena Bogatova, the mother of Ilya Shakursky's defendant in the Penza case, said that the investigator offered her to give an interview to the NTV channel, promising that her son would "be credited in court." This was reported to Mediazona by the Parents' Network Committee, created by the relatives of the accused in the Penza case. Bogatova said the interview was offered on April 10.

‘Defrauded co-investors’ are one of Russia's biggest protest movements, but that hasn't helped Mitya Aleshkovsky / TASS Defrauded co-investors rally at Pushkin Square in Moscow. November 28, 2010 According to various estimates, there are somewhere between 40,000 and more than 100,000 “defrauded co-investors” in Russia — people who paid money for new apartments, but were never able to move in because construction on these homes never finished.

At the appeal in the case of Alexei Ulyukaev, Igor Sechin testified. Reporting Sasha Sulim Sergey Ilnitsky / EPA / Scanpix / Leta On April 12, the Moscow City Court examined an appeal to Alexei Ulyukaev - the former Minister of Economic Development in December, in December eight years for extorting a bribe from the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo said that "a couple of hundred" Russians were killed in Syria a few weeks ago. “A few weeks ago, the Russians met a worthy opponent. A couple of hundred Russians were killed,” Pompeo said at a Senate hearing on his nomination for US Secretary of State. Pompeo cited this as an example of the US administration's efforts to contain Russia, along with the expulsion of 60 diplomats .

Kirill Kallinikov / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta VPN, Tor and anonymizers It is convenient. In almost all ordinary browsers there are extensions or built-in functions of anonymizer-through them you can use the Telegram web version. And there is a Tor browser. There are many paid and free VPN services for phones. What is the catch. When using VPN on the phone, all traffic will go through an additional server.

Sergey Konkov / TASS / Vida Press For the first time, Roskomnadzor blocked the Zello application a year ago. In April 2017, the blocking began due to the fact that Zello (like many other applications for communication and social networks) refused to implement the Federal Law “On Information, Information Technology and Information” adopted as part of the “Spring Package” .

In Estonia, Mikhail Petrov, a Russian citizen, was convicted for cooperation with the FSB, who in June 2017 asked for political asylum there in connection with possible persecution by the Russian special services. Petrov was sentenced to five years in prison. According to the Estonian authorities, he has cooperated with the FSB since the 1990s, passing data on “buildings, workers, vehicles and persons” to the agency that had contacts with the Estonian security police.

April 12. Sechin in court and Navalny's rally before Putin's inauguration Main The Moscow City Court examined the appeal of the former Minister of Economic Development of Russia Alexei Ulyukaev. Igor Sechin came to the meeting. “For me, this was a matter of honor,” said the head of Rosneft, who had previously ignored four summons to the court. The term was left to Ulyukaev as the same - eight years of strict regime.

On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human being to visit outer space. His near-earth orbit around the world and the satellites sent to distant planets inspired millions of people and demonstrated some of the greatest achievements of Soviet science. To celebrate the anniversary of Gagarin’s flight (what is now known as Cosmonautics Day), Meduza collects several illustrations about the Soviet space program published in the 1960s and 70s by the satirical magazine Krokodil .

On April 12, the Moscow City Court changed the verdict to the former head of the Ministry of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev only in terms of the ban on holding public positions. Ulyukaeva was sentenced in December 2017, accusing Igor Sechin’s head of Rosneft of Rosneft of Rosneft of extortion. The former minister calls the matter fabricated. Photo in the announcement: Alexey Kudenko / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta

The Moscow City Court upheld the term of imprisonment of Alexei Ulyukaev, who was sentenced to eight years in a strict regime colony in the case of a bribe. This is reported by a Meduza correspondent from the courtroom. The judges decided to exclude from the sentence the prohibition to hold public office. The rest of the sentence was left unchanged. Ulyukaev's defense intends to appeal against the decision of the Moscow City Court.

Jordan Strauss / Invision / Ap / Scanpix / Leta On April 11, the singer and actress Mayraia Carey told People that she lived with a mental disorder for many years, not receiving treatment Carey became famous in the early 1990s, to date, she had already received five Grammy awards. In 2001, she was hospitalized with a nervous breakdown and physical depletion, after which they diagnosed the “bipolar disorder of the second type” .

The Russian news media quietly prepares the public for nuclear war The situation in Syria has grown tense. Human rights activists say the Syrian government used chemical weapons to kill dozens of civilians, which could mean new Western sanctions against the Assad regime’s sponsors in Moscow. Russia, meanwhile, accuses Israel of bombing Syrian airbases, and the United States is contemplating a missile strike at targets in Syria that could provoke an armed response from Russian troops in the area.