The next introduction of Vladimir Putin into power passed according to a reduced scenario, with a minimization of public activity before and after the ceremony. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is quickly reassigned.

Dmitry Medvedev, nominated by Russian President Vladimir Putin for the post of Prime Minister, proposed Anton Siluanov as a candidate for the post of First Deputy Prime Minister. Medvedev said this at a meeting with deputies of the United Russia faction in the State Duma, TASS reports .

The Human Rights Council under the President of Russia will turn to law enforcement agencies to establish why the Cossacks participated in maintaining order at the May 5 protests. “The presence of Cossacks and Nodovites at the actions aggravated the situation and led to the scenes of violence that took place there. It is important to understand why they ended up there and who these people were, ”said Mikhail Fedotov, head of the council, to Interfax .

Dmitry Medvedev, who will continue to head the government, said who will be his deputies. Golikov and Gordeev return to the White House.

The Central Cossack Army made an official statement about the participation of the Cossacks in the protest action "He is not our king." By beating the rally participants with whips, they expressed their civil position. “Several Cossacks of the Central Cossack Army came to the Moscow Spring concert, where a group with a Cossack repertoire was scheduled to enter.

The Investigative Committee again asks the Basmanny Court to transfer the former director of the Gogol Center Alexei Malobrodsky from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest. According to Dozhd , the court will consider a new petition from the investigation on May 10. Earlier, the Basmanny Court had already rejected a similar request. The prosecutor's office opposed the release of Malobrodsky. Malobrodsky has been in custody since June 2017.

Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted Dmitry Medvedev's candidacy to the State Duma to obtain consent to the appointment as Prime Minister. “In accordance with paragraph “a” of Article 83 and Article 111 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the President nominated Dmitry Medvedev to obtain the consent of the State Duma to appoint him Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation,” the Kremlin said in a statement .

The first deputy head of the presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko, may receive another department for the development of e-democracy. As Kommersant writes , in addition to the departments for domestic policy and public projects in the new presidential administration, Sergei Kiriyenko may be subordinated to the department for the use of information technologies and the development of electronic democracy.

The May action of Navalny “He is not a king” was distinguished by emphasized by brutal accelerations, mass detentions and large fines Moscow, May 5, 2018 Photo: Twitter / Maxim Lee with Vasily Sigarev The price of the right to rallies and demonstrations According to the OVD-Info, as of 12 hours in Moscow on May 7, during the campaign “he is not a king” in 27 cities of Russia, 1,600 people were detained, most of all-where the most mass shares were held: in Moscow (719 detainees), St.

The Levada Center studied the opinions of Russians regarding the achievements and failures of Vladimir Putin as president of the country. The main claims are related to social issues, the respondents put the return of Russia's status as a great power as a plus. The results of the survey are cited by RBC .

Russian helicopter Ka-52 crashed in Syria, both pilots died. TASS reports that the helicopter was carrying out a planned flight over the eastern regions of Syria. The bodies of the dead pilots were delivered to the home airfield. According to preliminary information, a technical malfunction could have been the cause of the incident, the Defense Ministry said. fighter jet crashed in Syria after taking off from the Khmeimim air base On May 3, a Russian Su-30SM . Both pilots were killed.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow did not accept the documents from the police departments, which were drawn up for the participants in the protest action “He is not our tsar”. Today, May 7, dozens of detainees from different police departments were brought to the courthouse in paddy wagons, OVD-Info reports . But the court did not accept the documents for consideration, so the people were taken back to the police department.

Six policemen are accused of murder and torture of detainees. According to the investigation, in 2010-2016, employees of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs “with the use of physical violence, incl. using electric current, "forced the detainees to confess to possession of weapons, encroachment on the lives of police officers, robberies and other crimes," the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said in the telegram channel .

23 journalists were detained or injured while working at the May 5 rallies. Detentions and attempts to interfere with the work of journalists took place throughout the country at the actions “He is not our king”. In at least 10 out of 23 cases, journalists were injured or faced aggressive police behavior precisely because of their status, according to the Independent Trade Union of Journalists. Most violations of the rights of journalists were recorded in Moscow (10) and St. Petersburg (5).

Two days before Putin's inauguration at peaceful protest, which took place in fifty cities of the country, more than 1,600 people were detained