Nadezhda Savchenko was detained in the building of the Rada, reports on Thursday, March 2, RTVi . Before that, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine decided to lift her parliamentary immunity. Yuriy Lutsenko, Prosecutor General of Ukraine, asked to remove the immunity from Savchenko. According to him, she personally planned a terrorist attack in the building of the Ukrainian parliament. Lutsenko spoke at a meeting of parliament, where the issue of lifting immunity was decided.

The New Times recognized the political prospects of Putin sparring partner Meeting of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with ex-candidates for the post of President of the Russian Federation, Moscow, March 19, 2018 Photo: Kremlin.ru Before the presidential election, the Kremlin was preoccupied with the problem of finding new persons - they had to draw attention to the election campaign with an obvious outcome.

on his Facebook page. On Thursday, March 22, Renat Davletgildeev, a journalist for the Current Time TV channel, accused the leader of the LDPR party Vladimir Zhirinovsky of sexual harassment The incident that Davletgildeev told about happened in 2006, when he worked at Gazeta.ru and covered the Miss Russia contest.

Moscow Region Governor Andrey Vorobyov on Thursday, March 22, on his VKontakte page announced a halving of the load on the new section of the Yadrovo landfill in Volokolamsk. “Yesterday we had a difficult conversation with the residents of Volokolamsk. Next week we will close the old Yadrovo body and begin the active phase of its reclamation. Garbage has been brought here for almost 40 years, it is impossible to get rid of an unpleasant smell in one day.

The head of the Ministry of Finance, Anton Siluanov , told Russian President Vladimir Putin where the department would find funds to fulfill the tasks set by the head of state in his message to the Federal Assembly. According to Siluanov, the tax burden will not be increased. “We are talking about the fact that in general the tax burden will not be increased, we are saying that we will work precisely in terms of improving tax collection,” the minister said.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow did not consider the petition for parole of RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov convicted of extremism, Interfax reports on Thursday, March 22 . The press secretary of the court, Anastasia Dzyurko, told the agency that the court made such a decision due to the fact that the sentence was not carried out, and Sokolov himself was still in jail. The journalist was sentenced to three and a half years in a penal colony in 2017.

reports on Thursday, March 22 The Ministry of Justice has registered the “stolen” Progress Party of Alexei Navalny, RBC . The Ministry of Justice approved the renaming of the political strategist Andrei Bogdanov's "Civil Position" party into the Progress Party on March 19. Lawyer for the Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation Ivan Zhdanov told RBC that this was done to prevent them from registering. “We will have to use a different name.

The decision of the media to recall journalists who worked in the State Duma is based on emotions and does not meet the main goals of the press, Leonid Levin, chairman of the parliamentary committee on information policy, information technology and communications, said, Interfax reports . “Dozens of journalists work daily in the Duma. Their work deserves respect, and it is our duty to provide them with the most comfortable and safe conditions for their activities,” Levin said at the same time.

Deputy Chairman of the Board of SOGAZ Mikhail Putin may join the Board of PJSC Gazprom, follows from the message of the gas concern on the information disclosure tape, which Interfax drew attention to . From the message it is impossible to draw a direct conclusion about what position Mikhail Putin is mobilizing for. But as Interfax writes, at the moment only one vacancy in the board is known - the deputy chairman of the board for economic affairs.

Pavel Gusev, editor-in-chief of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper and head of the Union of Journalists of Moscow, refused to support colleagues who announced a boycott of the State Duma after MP Leonid Slutsky accused of harassment was acquitted by the ethics commission, according to the MK website on Thursday, March 22 .

Journalists denied their presence to the State Duma in connection with the decision of the ethics commission not to punish deputy Slutsky for harassing female reporters The RBC holding was the first to announce this, it was supported by Kommersant, Dozhd, Ekho Moskvy, etc. Both RBC's statement itself and the act of journalistic solidarity can cause nothing but satisfaction.

The editors of RBC announced that from March 21 they are recalling journalists working on the website, TV channel, newspaper and magazine covering the activities of the State Duma. This decision was taken as a sign of disagreement with the conclusion of the State Duma Commission on Ethics, which found no evidence of sexual harassment of Russian journalists by the head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs, Leonid Slutsky.

The US Congress has approved the final draft budget for fiscal year 2018, which expires in September.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich at a meeting with students of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics said that an increase in the income tax rate for individuals to 15% is not critical. “This number - the rate of 13% - is also not a fetish, it is no different from 14% and 15%, it is just one of the possible numbers.

Pavel Gusev, editor-in-chief of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper and head of the Union of Journalists of Moscow, refused to support colleagues who announced a boycott of the State Duma after MP Leonid Slutsky accused of harassment was acquitted by the ethics commission, according to the MK website on Thursday, March 22 .