Ferdinand Ostrop / AP / Scanpix / Leta Marcus Fruser at the Bundestag meeting, October 24, 2017 The Dossier Center, together with Der Spiegel magazine, ZDF (Germany), BBC Corporation (Great Britain) and La Repubblica (Italy), found out that the Russian authorities may have tried to intervene in the parliamentary elections in Germany in the fall of 2017.

Yulia Tymoshenko, who dropped out of the presidential race in Ukraine after the first round of elections, refused to debate two other candidates, Volodymyr Zelensky and Petro Poroshenko. This was announced on the air of the Ukrainian Radio NV by Dmitry Razumkov, a representative of Zelensky's headquarters. “She would be an independent arbiter. If she agreed, then almost 60% of the votes would be represented at the stadium.

A court in St. Petersburg arrested activist Andrei Zheksimbaev for nine days because of a "tombstone for Putin" that was erected near St. Isaac's Cathedral on April 3. This was reported to MBKh Media by human rights activist Dinar Idrisov. Zheksimbaev was found guilty of organizing the event without giving notice. Grigory Kudryavtsev, press secretary of the AgitRossiya movement, who had been detained with him the day before, was not yet taken to court.

Mladen Antonov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA The claim On April 5, Russia’s presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov was asked to comment on a Gallup report that showed one in five adult Russians would like to emigrate elsewhere. The figure was the highest recorded since 2007. Peskov responded as follows: “These surveys are carried out by various companies in various countries, and that figure is far from the highest.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The battle of two populisms. Navalny trade union against Putin's May Decrees On April 2, a text was released at Medusa about why the trade union of Alexei Navalny, created to verify the execution of the “May decrees” of Vladimir Putin, will not work. Navalny after that wrote that "he had not read such helplessly for a long time." At the same time, the opposition politician did not bring specific objections to the conclusions made in the article.

Kazan police have requested information about Muslim schoolgirls who wear hijabs. A lawyer from Tatarstan, Ruslan Nagiyev, wrote about this on Facebook with reference to an appeal from the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Kazan. Information about who the document was sent to is hidden, but the lawyer claims that the police request is addressed to teachers in Kazan. Maximum repost. KAZAN TEACHERS ARE ASKED TO REPORT TO THE POLICE ABOUT ISLAM GIRLS. At the same time, it's rude...

The Parliament of Abkhazia adopted a bill providing for the death penalty or life imprisonment with confiscation of property for the distribution of drugs on an especially large scale. The document also excludes the possibility of pardoning convicts under this article. The law will come into force on January 1, 2020. A moratorium on the death penalty has been in effect on the territory of Abkhazia since 1993.

Leda Garina, a co-founder of the St. Petersburg feminist coworking space Simona , wrote on Facebook that she had been called into a prosecutor’s office for questioning regarding “discrimination against men.” The local outlet Sobaka reported that prosecutors asked whether Garina could meet on April 4, but she declined to be questioned without a warrant.

The World Trade Organization refused to satisfy Ukraine's claim against Russia on the transit of Ukrainian goods through the territory of the Russian Federation. Ukraine tried to recognize Russia's decision to limit the transit of certain categories of goods to Kazakhstan as not complying with WTO standards - since 2016, they could enter the territory of the Russian Federation only through Belarus.

The European Commission suspects German automakers BMW, Daimler and Volkswagen of conspiring to curb competition in emissions-refining technologies. According to preliminary data from the investigation, in 2006-2014, companies, coordinating their actions, slowed down the introduction of technologies for cleaning emissions from cars with gasoline and diesel engines.

At a waste sorting plant in Tyumen, they sorted through 12 tons of waste to find a bag of money that was accidentally thrown away by a local family. journalists about this . told Viktor Zagidulin, head of one of the plant's workshops, According to him, a young married couple applied to the enterprise. The couple explained that they moved the mother to their place and sold her apartment, and kept the money from the sale at home, putting it in a bag.

The Russian federal Health Ministry is developing a bill that would prohibit publicly expressing encouragement for vaccine avoidance, TASS reported .

A Moscow judge ruled Friday that Twitter must pay a fine of 3,000 rubles ($45.90) for storing data about its Russian users outside Russia’s borders, Mediazona reported. A law requiring such data to be stored in Russia has been in effect since September 2015, and a wave of heightened enforcement one year later resulted in the blockage of LinkedIn within Russian borders.

The Alliance group released a previously not published clip for its main hit on the dawn of 1987. The video was uploaded to the UTUB keyboard player and author of the composition Oleg Parastaev. “Finally, it was possible to restore the first (!) Clip for the song“ At the Dawn ”! Very funny and naive, but, with pleasure, I share with you! March, it’s very cold, and even the rain went ... ”, he wrote in a commentary on the video.

The magistrate of Moscow's Tagansky District fined Twitter three thousand rubles for storing Russian users' data abroad, Mediazona reports. The fine was imposed under the administrative article on failure to provide information. Three thousand rubles is the lower limit of the fine under this article for legal entities. The protocol on Twitter was drawn up by Roskomnadzor. In December 2018, Roskomnadzor sent Twitter and Facebook a demand to store Russian users' data in the Russian Federation.