A police officer was about to use a Taser while detaining 20-year-old African-American Dante Wright in a suburb of Minneapolis, but accidentally fired a gun at him. Brooklyn Center Police Chief Tim Gannon attributed Wright's death to an "accidental discharge," Associated Press reports. Police officers tried to detain Dante Wright on an outstanding warrant on April 11. They stopped Wright's car, and one of the officers grabbed the man, but he broke free and got back behind the wheel.

And tore off the plans of the half -million Russians gathered there on vacation Sedat Suna / EPA / Scanpix / Leta The Russian authorities limited the regular and charter air traffic with Turkey from April 15 to June 1, 2021 , Tatyana Golikova, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, said on April 12. Tour operators were recommended for this time to suspend the sale of tours to the country.

A district court in Russia’s Vladimir region has fined Anastasia Vasilieva, the director of the medical workers’ union “Alyans Vrachey” (Doctors’ Alliance), 180,000 rubles (about $2,325) for her involvement in a rally outside the prison where opposition politician Alexey Navalny is being held. Vasilieva was found guilty of violating the established order for a mass gathering near a penal colony (she was charged under article 20.2.2, section 3 of the Russian Administrative Code).

Meduza looked into Moscow’s Public Monitoring Commission and found rampant connections to the security business Moscow Public Monitoring Commission Moscow ONK members in a pre-trial detention center On April 6, the Russian Civic Chamber removed human rights activist Marina Litvinovich from Moscow’s Public Monitoring Commission (ONK), an organization tasked with overseeing the observance of prisoners’ rights.

Love Sobol returned to the process in the "apartment business". And immediately forced the police to make excuses. Reporting Christina Safonova Irina Buzhor / Kommersant Lyubov Sobol before the meeting on April 12 In the Perovsky District Court of Moscow, the consideration of the "apartment case" Lyubov Sobol continues. At the first meeting, the sable was removed to the end of the process due to the fact that she shot herself and the victims on the camera and refused to turn it off.

The National Intellectual Development Foundation (Innopraktika), which is headed by the alleged youngest daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Katerina Tikhonova , spent more than 785.9 million rubles in 2020. This follows from the foundation's report ( .pdf ), published on the Ministry of Justice portal on the activities of non-profit organizations. The fund spent the most — 223 million rubles — on paying the salaries of scientific teams and groups.

A month ago, this territory was given for development Anatoly Maltsev / EPA / Scanpix / Leta In St. Petersburg on April 12, a fire occurred in the Nevsky Manufactory building -a former weaving factory on the October Embankment, the premises of which are leased. The fire began on one of the upper floors of a five -story building, the Ministry of Emergencies received a signal about a fire at 12:35 Moscow time.

The Petushinsky District Court of the Vladimir Region fined Anastasia Vasilyeva, head of the Alliance of Doctors, 180,000 rubles for an action near IK-2 in Pokrov, where politician Alexei Navalny is serving his sentence. Vasilyeva was found guilty of violating the administrative article on the mass stay of citizens in the territories immediately adjacent to the colonies (part 3 of article 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation).

Russian asylum seeker deported from France handed over to Chechen police Amnesty International France Magomed Gadayev Facing deportation to Russia, Chechen asylum seeker Magomed Gadayev stabbed himself in the stomach at a migrant detention facility in France on Friday, April 9. Nevertheless, the French authorities put him on plane to Moscow.

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The operational headquarters for the fight against coronavirus decided to suspend flights to Turkey. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova. The ban will be in effect for a month and a half, from April 15 to June 1. All charter flights will be canceled, as well as regular flights, with the exception of two flights a week. A similar ban was imposed on flights to Tanzania for a month and a half.

Andrey Noskov / Wikimedia Commons Archpriest Alexei Uminsky April 7 - on the eighth day of the hunger strike, which Alexei Navalny continues in the colony, the Moscow priest Alexei Uminsky called on the authorities to show Christian mercy and allow a doctor to policy.

Russia pulled 40,000 troops to the eastern border of Ukraine. This was stated by the press secretary of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky Yulia Mendel. According to Kyiv, another 40,000 troops are in Crimea. Mendel also said that Zelensky sent a request for negotiations to Russian President Vladimir Putin, but the answer to it has not yet been received. “We very much hope that this is not a rejection of dialogue,” the spokeswoman said.

Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Enrichment of Uranus in Natanze. November 20, 2004 On April 11, at the key object of the nuclear program of Iran - the Uranus enrichment plant in the city of Natanz - there was a large -scale failure in the mains. The country's authorities announced that no one was injured as a result of the failure, and the leaks of dangerous substances occurred.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Ukraine wants to join NATO. But, firstly: now it is more difficult than ever. Secondly: it seems that Russia can attack one country of NATO, avoiding war with others President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky announced the country's desire to join NATO.