More than 60 human rights organizations around the world condemned the blocking of the Telegram messenger by Roskomnadzor. The organizations called on the country's authorities to end the blockade and stop attacks on internet freedom in general. The open letter, signed by human rights organizations, is posted on the website of the British organization Article 19.

For talk about technological breakthroughs, the authorities modernize the technology of searching for enemies of the country and replenishes their list Crimean bridge, May 15, 2018 Photo: Kremlin.ru The permanent President of Russia Vladimir Putin rode on Kamaz on the freshly discovered Kerch bridge. By the way, it’s good that they opened: the wars will end, and the bridge will remain.

Business opposed the introduction of responsibility for the implementation of sanctions Large Russian companies are categorically against the introduction of criminal liability for the implementation of sanctions. Today, the RSPP held a meeting at which they discussed the relevant draft law.

Head and one of the founders of Theatre.doc. playwright and director Elena Gremina died suddenly in a hospital in Moscow. It is reported by MBH Media with reference to Gremina's relatives. The cause of death was kidney and heart failure. The information was confirmed in the theater. Journalist and human rights activist Zoya Svetova writes about the death of the playwright on Facebook. “Lena Gremina died in the hospital this morning. Genius, great. Darling. It's impossible to understand.

As a result of voting for the President of the Russian Federation, about 60 lawsuits on violations were filed with the courts, seven decisions were made, said Ella Pamfilova, head of the Central Election Commission. According to Interfax , lawsuits were filed in Dagestan, Chechnya, Kaliningrad, Lipetsk regions, Primorsky Territory, Moscow and other regions. 20 lawsuits were filed at the initiative of the election commissions.

The Cossacks punished those who beat protesters in Moscow with whips during the “He is not our tsar” rally on May 5. radio stations Business FM were told about this by the Cossack blogger Vasily Yashchikov. According to him, the Cossack community held a special meeting and an internal investigation. “It is clear that there were provocateurs. But, nevertheless, we punished those who fought back with whips ... With a whip, we got to know the next time, ”he said.

Nikita Belykh's sentence is a warning to those who have gone beyond the red flags of the corridors of the authorities today Nikita white photos: ntv.ru "Why are you so fat?" - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin just agreed on the post of governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev confirmed the government's plans to create special administrative zones in Vladivostok and Kaliningrad with offshore features. “Very soon we plan to create special areas with a special legal status and tax regime in the Primorsky Territory and the Kaliningrad Region - on the Russky and Oktyabrsky Islands,” he said at a legal forum in St. Petersburg. The prime minister's words are quoted by Vedomosti .

In Moscow, a member of the expert council of United Russia, Yuri Kotler, died. His body was found in an apartment in a building on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street. According to TASS , citing a law enforcement source, Kotler was found with a gunshot wound to the head. According to preliminary data, we can talk about suicide. Yuri Kotler is a former journalist who worked for RIA Novosti, Time and The New York Times.

Director Oleg Sentsov, sentenced to 20 years in prison, went on an indefinite hunger strike, demanding the release of all Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. “I, Oleg Sentsov, a citizen of Ukraine, illegally convicted by a Russian court and currently in a colony in the city of Labytnangi, have been declaring an indefinite hunger strike since May 14, 2018.

The Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine estimates the country's losses from the construction of the Kerch Bridge at UAH 0.5 billion (about 1 billion 189 million rubles) per year, said the head of the department Volodymyr Omelyan. “We tentatively estimate losses at half a billion hryvnias a year - these are direct losses from the fact that the tonnage of ships was reduced when calling at our two ports on the Sea of ​​Azov,” Interfax-Ukraine quotes Omelyan .

A member of the Supreme Council of United Russia, Yuri Kotler, died in Moscow. His body was found in an apartment in a building on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street. According to TASS , citing a law enforcement source, Kotler was found with a gunshot wound to the head. According to preliminary data, we can talk about suicide. Yuri Kotler is a former journalist who worked for RIA Novosti, Time and The New York Times.

On the morning of May 16, traffic was opened on the road part of the Crimean bridge. As reported on the Crimean Bridge portal , residents of more than 20 cities of Crimea and Kuban were the first to pass through the new route through the Kerch Strait. The highway opened at 5:30 Moscow time. The flow of cars from Kerch and Taman met at the shipping arch. Drivers greeted each other with long horns. Many decided to cross the Crimean bridge from Kerch to Taman and back.

The opening of the bridge across the Kerch Strait will have a negative impact on people and the peninsula, said US State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert. “The bridge represents not only an attempt to further strengthen Russia and seize Crimea, but will also create problems for shipping.

Investors staged the biggest sale of Apple securities in 10 years. In the first three months of 2018, the number of company shares in their portfolios decreased by 153 million. According to Bloomberg , institutional investors have not treated the company with such skepticism since 2008, when the publication began tracking these data. It's also the biggest sell-off among S&P 500 stocks in the first quarter of the year.