Minchenko Consulting experts predict an increase in non-political protests in Russia. Protests of deceived equity holders, actions caused by man-made accidents and emergencies, as well as environmental rallies are becoming more and more acute, experts write in the report “Sources and Risks of Protest Activity in 2018”. The environmental theme stands out in particular, as it affects the health of children and has an emotional component.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, proposed extending the presidential term for Vladimir Putin. “Now Putin has no alternative,” Interfax reports Kadyrov’s words . At the same time, the head of Chechnya believes that there is no need to ask the Russian president himself whether he wants to stay. “I believe that we can decide to extend the terms of office of the head of state, not limited to two. Why can China, Germany can, but we can’t?” Kadyrov said.

State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin and faction leaders introduced a bill on Russia's response to US sanctions. The bill will be considered on April 16 at the council of the State Duma with the participation of representatives of all factions. After consideration by the council, the document will be sent to the regions, discussed with experts and considered at the next meeting of parliament, Kommersant reports .

A court in Pattaya charged Alexander Kirillov (Alex Leslie) and Anastasia Vashukevich (Nastya Rybka) with providing sex services. Six more people were also charged, RBC reports . They chose a measure of restraint in the form of detention.

Ocean warfares of war threaten us with smart missiles, but we can’t intimidate us. The evidence of Russian fearlessness was collected by The New Times Photo: Flickr / Lestudio1 - 2018 Full schismatum There is such a fashionable technique for creating demotivators, which are equally willingly used by both cheers-patriots and slanderers-Pyatokonniki: a photo of a compatriot who does something crazy, risky and ridiculous is taken.

"I will reveal a terrible secret - Sergey Sobyanin will win" Yesterday, Ilya Yashin, following Dmitry Gudkov, announced his desire to take part in the mayor's campaign. We expect Sergey Mitrokhin and Julia Galyamin. But already in a part -time I heard and read everyone. I will reveal a terrible secret - Sergey Sobyanin will win. The second terrible secret is to repeat the result of Alexei Navalny to anyone. The Kremlin tried once - he is still crash.

The “Archival Drama” by the historian Lev Simkin “He was hanged on Victory Square” - a study of the biography and personality of the executioner Babyeu Yar and the Riga ghetto Friedrich Ekkelna, one of those who stood at the sources of Jewish genocide. This is a story about how the Holocaust began. With the kind permission of Corpus, we publish (in reduction) one of the chapters of the book that has just passed out of the press “On May 5, 1941, I was called to Himmler.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin has not yet got acquainted with the essence of the State Duma's proposed response to US sanctions. At the same time, he is confident that they will not harm national interests. “In any case, of course, it can be safely assumed that any measures that will be taken will not be to the detriment of Russian national interests,” Peskov was quoted as saying by Interfax .

The Federation Council Commission for the Protection of State Sovereignty accused 12 media outlets of interfering in the past presidential elections in Russia. The list includes Current Time, BBC Russian Service, Deutsche Welle, RFI, Krym.Realii, Kavkaz.Realii, Idel.Realii, Sibir.Realii and Voice of America, writes RBC .

The editor-in-chief of Oblastnaya Gazeta, Dmitry Polyanin, was beaten with rebar in Yekaterinburg. The attack took place on the evening of Thursday, April 12, according to the publication's website . According to Polyanin, he was attacked from behind at the entrance. He noted that in terms of execution, the beating completely coincides with the episodes described in an article previously published in Regional Newspaper, which tells about the “communal wars” in Yekaterinburg.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow decided to block the Telegram messenger in Russia for refusing to provide the FSB with encryption keys Photo: Dadaviz On June 28, 2017, Roskomnadzor included Telegram in the register of information distribution organizers. This gave the FSB reason to demand encryption keys from the management of the company. They did not do this in Telegram. On October 16, for the refusal to provide the keys to Telegram, 300 thousand rubles were fined.

The GRU followed its former operative Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia for at least five years before the assassination attempt. British National Security Adviser Mark Sedwill said this in a letter to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. The letter was published by The Guardian . Also in the letter, Sedwill suggested that the Novichok nerve agent used to poison the Skripals was developed in a laboratory in Shikhany, Saratov Oblast.

The share of the active Internet audience at the end of the winter of 2017-2018 amounted to 63.8% of all Russians, which is estimated at 74.7 million people in absolute terms. The largest number of active users is in the Northwestern Federal District, and the least in the Volga Federal District. The experts of the Public Opinion Foundation presented the report “Internet in Russia: Penetration Dynamics. Winter 2017-2018”.

The transport and combat helicopter Ka-29 fell on April 12 in the evening into the Baltic Sea during test flights, two pilots of the manufacturer were killed. “April 12, 2018, at about 23:30 Moscow time, during night test flights in the Baltic Sea, a Ka-29 helicopter crashed. The crew of two test pilots of the enterprise - the manufacturer of the helicopter - died, ” TASS reports the press service of the Baltic Fleet.

The CNBC TV channel, citing a government source, spoke about eight Syrian facilities that could become the target of US airstrikes. Among those targets are a research center, two military airfields and a facility allegedly involved in the production of chemical weapons, CNBC reports . The exact location of these objects is not called.