On January 24, 2019, the district court in Saratov placed local resident A. Alekseev under administrative arrest for five days under the new article of the Code of Administrative Offenses “Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity” (article 20.3.1). Alekseev was convicted for racist jokes on VKontakte, and also, under another administrative article, for publishing a song that was recognized as extremist.

The Kolomna City Court placed activist Vyacheslav Egorov, who organized rallies against the Volovichi landfill, under house arrest and has now become a defendant in a criminal case for repeated violations of the procedure for organizing a rally. This was reported by former State Duma deputy Gennady Gudkov.

The authorities of the Central African Republic reached a peace agreement with 14 armed groups at the talks in the capital of Sudan, Khartoum. This was reported by the UN mission in the Central African Republic. Details of the agreements have not yet been announced.

The Russian Defense Ministry has published a satellite image of a facility in Arizona where it says it launched a “program to expand and modernize production capacity” in 2017 to build intermediate- and shorter-range missiles banned by a U.S.-Russian treaty. The Ministry of Defense notes that the plant’s area has increased by 44% in two years, and the number of its employees should increase by almost two thousand people.

Anarchist Daniil Galkin, who was detained in Moscow on February 1, said that he and other activists were tortured after their detention. The Narodnaya Samooborona movement wrote about this on VK. According to Galkin, he was beaten in a car for two to three hours and a stun gun was used on him. It is not specified which agency's employees did this.

Joel Schectman / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Lauri Strogood at home in the USA September 27, 2018 Former US National Security Agency Lauri Stroud in 2014 went to work in a company that was engaged in computer hacking by order of the government of the United Arab Emirates - a regime known for its support for US policy in the Middle East and cruelty to the opposition.

Divisional General and Director of Strategic Planning of the Venezuelan Air Force Francisco Esteban Yanes Rodriguez published a video message in which he announced the recognition of Juan Guaido as the leader of Venezuela. According to the general, he does not recognize "the dictatorial power of Nicolás Maduro" and is ready to follow the orders of Guaidó. Rodriguez also said that 90% of the military does not support Maduro.

Former mayor of Tula Alisa Tolkacheva , who was on the international wanted list at the request of Russia, has been detained in Cyprus. The press attaché of the Russian embassy in Cyprus told RBC that there had been no court hearing on Tolkacheva's extradition yet. The Tulskie Novosti publication, citing the detainee herself, reports that the court "refused the Russian law enforcement agencies" because there is "no criminal prosecution" for the act she is accused of in the European Union.

Open Russia activist Anastasia Shevchenko, who is involved in the case of the work of an “undesirable organization”, will be released from house arrest for her daughter’s funeral. “Here the investigation acts like a human being and enters into the situation. Therefore, as in the case of the hospital, Anastasia will be released for the funeral, ”her lawyer Sergei Kovalevich told Interfax.

In St. Petersburg, a student at a school for children with disabilities who was diagnosed with a concussion explained that she was hit by a teacher. This was reported by Fontanka without specifying the source. According to the publication, an eight-year-old student of the first grade of school No. 13 needed the help of doctors. She was diagnosed with a bruised forehead, a concussion and a closed craniocerebral injury.

Galina Yuzefovich talks about the long -awaited new book of Alexei Salnikov In the Elena Shubina editorial office, the novel “Indirectly” by Alexei Salnikov, the author of the “Department” and “Petrovs in the GRUPP and around him” is released. For the "Petrov" Salnikov received the National Best Award and the prize of the jury of the Nose Award.

On Friday, law enforcement agencies searched several anarchist activists in Moscow. According to media reports, six people were detained, but human rights activists from OVD-Info are sure that there are more. Among those detained is Azat Miftakhov, a postgraduate student at the Moscow State University Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics; he is accused of making explosives.

Russia is suspending its participation in the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in a mirror response to the US decision . This was announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the ministers of foreign affairs and defense.

The Moscow Public Monitoring Commission asked the police to find out how Denis Chuprykov, a suspect in the theft of the Kuindzhi painting, got bruises and abrasions. The corresponding appeal was sent to the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, Oleg Baranov, by the responsible secretary of the Public Monitoring Commission, Ivan Melnikov.

Ultra -short reviews (140 characters!) On the main films of the week Every weekend at Medusa, ultra -short reviews come out - approximately 140 signs each - from the film critic of Anton Valley, which help to navigate in the box office.