According to the Czech Constitution, its president performs purely representative functions. But the 70-year-old Milos Zeman is not that. With his loud political statements, he won the laurels of an independent leader and one of the most consistent allies of Moscow in the European Union. Zeman is against sanctions. Zeman-sends invitations to a commemorative ceremony in honor of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

85 years ago, in 1930, the Gulag was created - the Office of the Camp of the OGPU of the USSR.

April 6, Monday The court decided to block the Children-404 group. The decision was made by the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg. Thus, in the near future, the support group for LGBT teenagers in the VKontakte social network will not be available in the territory of the Russian Federation.

How are political decisions in the country where the power is closed from society?

On April 2, the government published an import substitution plan in medical and pharmacological industries. These are more than 600 items, whose share of imports by 2020 should be reduced significantly - in many positions from almost 100 % to 10–20 %. How rational are the wishes of the Russian leadership and what will happen if foreign medical equipment and medicines are really replaced by Russian?

It is harder to develop agriculture at the equator than behind a polar circle The greenhouses in which fruits and vegetables grow, Iceland to minimize its dependence on foreign products is a dream that the government would like to realize almost all countries of the world, regardless of ideology and continent. It is not obvious only how to fulfill this dream.

On the fields of the “Summit of America” in Panama, the first meeting of the leaders of the United States and Cuba for almost six decades of frankly hostile relations was held, miraculously not overgrown with open military intervention of the United States. Cuban President Raul Castro and US President Barack Obama after the opening ceremony of the VII Summit of America.

1.5 trillion rubles - so many authorities are going to spend in 5 years to turn the Russian economy into a closed fortress On April 2, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation published its plans for import substitution in Russian industry. Until 2020, the economy should learn to fully or largely produce goods that are now purchased abroad. The plan covers 2059 projects in 19 industries and will cost about 1.5 trillion rubles, of which 235 billion rubles.

The Russian economy is closed by an iron curtain In mid -April, prayers will begin to read in Moscow temples to support import substitution. They were carried away by import substitution - the production of analogues of goods that are now bought abroad - and the Russian authorities.