On May 16, Vladimir Putin's decree was promulgated, according to which the Federal Security Service is now vested with the right to seize land plots and real estate located on them for state needs.

The campaign against Navalny, for which pop singers, video bloggers and oligarchs united, creates the only thing that the opposition policy needs is attention. Something happens to Navalny. Rather, this: something happens to Navalny constantly, and often this is something doubtful. Navalny either treats the eye, then forgets about it. He receives a passport in a day - and later admits that for the sake of this he wrote to the presidential administration, and there kindly went to meet.

On May 18, the new cabinet of ministers of France, selected by the new president, gathered for the first meeting. He is already showing himself to be a cunning and perspicacious politician The new cabinet was headed by Edouard Philippe, the mayor of Le Havre, a representative of the main opposition force, the right-wing Republican Party, which built the entire election campaign on arguments about the need to alternate left and right in power.

On May 18, one of the richest people in Russia (fifth place in the Russian Forbes with a fortune of $ 15.2 billion) Alisher Usmanov ended his 12-minute video message to the opposition leader with this phrase. This was his response to the FBK film “He is not Dimon to you”, which was watched by 21 million people on the Internet.

NT, together with the children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" continues to collect money for helping sick children Andryusha is the long -awaited son: there are two daughters in the family besides him. The boy was born with congenital pneumonia, quickly recovered and came home to his sisters. But a month later he again got into intensive care: he began to suffocate, stopped eating, weakened. Andryusha was connected to the apparatus of the artificial cultivation of the lungs (IVL).

On May 16, Ukraine introduced a ban on the use of Russian social networks, search engines, mail servers, antiviruses and other software. And the next day in Strasbourg, an EU legislative act on a visa-free regime for Ukrainian citizens was signed, which will come into force on June 11.

Questions: Evgenia Albats How does the bill, which so far have only the first reading in the State Duma, correlate with the law already adopted by Moscow legislators? Listen how to adopt a law on additional guarantees in the implementation of the renovation of the housing stock, if the federal law under which this renovation will have to occur is not a law, but only a bill, and it is not known in what form it will be adopted in the second reading, then in the third?

The opening of the next headquarters of the presidential campaign of Alexei Navalny in Vladivostok met the local authorities extremely harshly even by Russian standards: a real hunt is being held for supporters of the opposition policy.

May 16, Tuesday The Tver District Court of Moscow fined the coordinator of the Open Russia movement Maria Baronova for 20 thousand rubles. For the organization of the protest campaign “Tired”: on April 29, its participants arranged a procession on a route that was not agreed with the city authorities. According to the organizers, 400 people participated in the action. Judge Alesa Orekhova found Baronova guilty under Art.

February ended in May, spring came to Russia late, and not only flowers bloomed, but also the Russians who took the fashion to protest.

In March 2017, NT published an interview with independent journalist Pavel Nikulin with a man who introduced himself as his Islamic name - Isa.

Donald Trump has been holding the president’s post for four months, but in the world about his policy, bewilderment is still reigning. No one really knows what to expect from the new leader of the leading world power. If you believe the March survey, which the American research center Pew Research conducted among 585 political scientists in Europe and America, Trump's presidency almost none of them inspires optimism.

May 19 in the concert hall named after P.I.

“What have you done for culture today?” - this was the traditional question that the literary critic and book publisher Stanislav Lesnevsky asked his sister - a businessman, the creator of the REN TV channel and the founder of The New Times magazine (in the 2007 version) Irena Lesnevskaya.

Dossier Alex Wating, a professor of Harvard Law School, specializes in complex trials at the national and international level. From 2010 to 2013, he oversaw current investigations and trials at the office of the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in the Hague. He occupied the posts of a senior prosecutor in the International Tribunal in the former Yugoslavia, the Federal Prosecutor in the United States.