On May 16, the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation conducted special -expression dedicated to the upcoming elections to the State Duma, which were representatives of public organizations designed to ensure control over the voting progress.

On May 19, it became known that several figures of varying degrees of influence were withdrawn from the primaries of United Russia - from billionaire Mikhail Slipenchuk and former Chelyabinsk governor Mikhail Yurevich to deputy and journalist Alexander Khinshtein And before that, on May 18, a few days before the voting day, scheduled for May 22, the organizers of the primaries, as if casually, announced a change in the rules of the game: it turned out that the results of the entire procedure

On May 17, the head of the Ministry of Finance, Anton Siluanov, said in an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel that working Russians should take care of themselves in order to receive a decent pension The Ministry of Finance, together with the Bank of Russia, prepared proposals for "revitalizing the funded element of the pension system." First of all, we are talking about voluntary pension savings on special accounts in banks or in pension funds.

On May 17, Assistant Presidential Assistance to the President of the Russian Federation Yuri Ushakov said that at the end of the year Vladimir Putin’s visit to Japan may take place The visit was planned for 2014, but the Ukrainian crisis and sanctions that followed from Russia, which Japan joined, prevented. A sharp warming in relations with Tokyo occurred on May 6, when the Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Putin.

In an attempt to find a way out of the impasse, in which the Minsk agreements were, assistant to the US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland held another round of negotiations with Ukraine who oversaw the President of the Russian Federation Vladislav Surkov. On the one hand, the implementation of Minsk-2 is the main condition for lifting sanctions from Russia.

The life of a Russian today is a movement from one plate with the inscription “prohibited” to another sign with the same inscription. The boundaries of the permissible and how these boundaries narrowed in a week, - studied The New Times Professional verdict Once a year, the inhabitants of Russia have a worthy reason to speculate who loves us in Europe and who is not. This is the Eurovision Musical Competition.

*“Chronicle of current events”-a typewritten human rights information ballot, distributed in Samizdat in 1968-1983 “The usual practice of transit and escorting prisoners in the Moscow City Court - mandatory beating with batons, torture by a electric shocker, and bullying overcontaining. Even if the prisoner passes through this court in transit. I learned about this by chance from Peter Pavlensky when he handed me a speech to the award of Vaclav Gavel.

On May 16, New Gazeta published an investigation into Galina Mursalieva “Death Group” about teenage suicides. The article caused an unprecedented public outcry: is there a mysterious sect on the network, the purpose of which is to bring schoolchildren to suicide? Or is the publication part of the next plan of the authorities to introduce new restrictions on the Internet? Or maybe these are just teenagers and their games on social networks, which adults do not understand?

On May 19, the Russia-ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) forum began in Sochi, which was opened by President Putin. Delegations of the Sultanate of Brunei, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines arrived The ASEAN Summit in Sochi is a godsend for those who like to discuss the exciting and tantalizing mysteries of geopolitics and its wunderkind little sister, geoeconomics.

“The Kremlin Network in France” is the name of the new book of the French Slavist and historian Sesil Wessie*. The author informs compatriots: the Kremlin does not skimp on lobbying efforts in France Cecil Wessier, March 2016 In Russian, the name of your book is “Kremlin’s Network” sounds menacing. Why? The word "network" in French, and English - Reseau, Network - has a sociological shade and means rather "like -minded people". In this case, “Friends of the Kremlin”.

Against whom legislative initiatives are actually directed, designed to limit the right to travel outside the Russian Federation 25 years ago, citizens of the USSR received the right to travel abroad. Now some categories of Russians can lose it There was a time when the State Duma of the sixth convocation adopted laws that limit the rights and freedoms of citizens (or even punitive), exclusively from love for children.

At the end of this week, President Vladimir Putin will be expected to pay a two -day visit to Greece, during which, different sources say, will visit the Holy Mount Athos. Meanwhile, from there, from Greece, unpleasant news came to the official Moscow: on distant approaches to the same grief, at the airport in Thessaloniki, the Greek border guards slowed down one of the main Kremlin ideologists, Alexander Dugin, who was heading to Athos to “cover” the presidential visit.

Greece, where Vladimir Putin is going on a visit, is considered one of the most loyal to Russia of the European Union, where “on our side” is both right and left. Is it really so - The New Times found out on the spot The Ilias Kasidiaris, one of the leaders of the ultra -right party "Golden Dawn", is.