Both Russians and Ukrainians will benefit from common citizenship, "we will be stronger and more successful," said Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I have said many times that Ukrainians and Russians are fraternal peoples. Moreover, in general, I believe that this is one people, in fact, with its own cultural, linguistic, historical characteristics, but in essence - one people. If we have common citizenship, both Russians and Ukrainians will only benefit from this, ” TASS quotes Putin .

The assessment of the work of governors will influence the distribution of the annual 20 billion rubles to the regions, but they will not punish people for failing to meet new performance indicators, Economics Minister Maxim Oreshkin said. “The system is designed to reward, not punish. Those who are at the top of the list will receive a large share of the 20 billion rubles. In the case of investments, for example, these are the amounts that are needed there and can change something.

At the end of 2018, Russia was not among the top five countries in terms of spending on defense, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Russia spent $61.4 billion on defense last year, down 3.5% from a year earlier. “Russia is not in the top five for the first time since 2006. The countries with the highest spending were the United States, China, Saudi Arabia, India and France, which together accounted for 60% of all world military spending .

The Rosneft company delivers oil to the system of main pipelines that fully complies with GOST, which is also confirmed by the studies of Transneft. “More than 150 arbitration samples have been tested in accredited laboratories. The results of the studies confirmed the full compliance of the oil of the companies of the Rosneft group with the requirements of GOST, ”said a representative of Rosneft, Interfax reports .

Dud's film is important precisely because it moves away from the crafty "balanced" approach and shows the tragedy of people and the people Yuri Dudya's film about Kolyma has become one of the most significant cultural and historical events of this year. And this despite the fact that it did not say anything previously unknown. All the plots presented in the film have long been studied by both historians and enthusiasts from the Memorial Society.

Over the past year, the Federal Penitentiary Service refused to accept about 200 detainees under investigation in the pre-trial detention center in Moscow and the Moscow Region who received serious injuries during investigative actions carried out by employees of other law enforcement agencies.

Channel One attracted the international company Group-IB, which specializes in preventing cyberattacks and conducting complex digital investigations, to investigate the voting in the final of the children's show Voice. The company is a partner of Interpol. The results of the voting on the show will be checked, as “during the final of the sixth season of the project“ Voice. Children "the operator of the vote noted some anomalies," TASS explained in the press service of the TV channel.

The Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Pavel Rebrovsky, accused in the “New Greatness” case, to two and a half years in a general regime colony. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to Svetlana Astrakhantseva, executive director of the Moscow Helsinki Group. In early April, Rebrovsky entered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation. He was found guilty of creating an extremist community.

The Ministry of Justice refused to register the Open Russia organization. The decision in the department was justified by a violation of the procedure for processing documents, Interfax reports . “A previously registered public association with the same name carries out its activities within the same territory; the submitted constituent documents contain false information,” the press service of the ministry explained.

Reflections on the correspondence dispute between Putin and Zelensky about passports - publicist Igor Yakovenko The dialogue between Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky took place. Correspondence, but quite complete. Putin, while in China, announced that he would distribute Russian passports not only to residents of the "DNR" and "LNR", but to all citizens of Ukraine. “We do not only provide people who live in the “LPR” and “DPR” with this method of obtaining our citizenship.

The authorities puts the “Immortal Regiment” to himself and Stalin to the service, turning him into the Kremlin Regiment - NT Columonist Andrey Kolesnikov Andrey Kolesnikov. The founders and heads of the Immortal Regiment organization opposed the emergence of portraits of Stalin during the event this year. This contradicts the charter of the organization, according to which the "Immortal Regiment" "cannot be an image venue.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs asks for access to the data of Russians with mental disorders, patients with alcoholism and drug addiction. With the corresponding letter, the department in March turned to Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, Kommersant writes .

A column of Russian motorcyclists was denied permission to cross the Georgian border at the Upper Lars checkpoint. The founder of the Conflict Intelligence Team, Ruslan Leviev, wrote about this on his Twitter, DW reports . According to the official refusal, the bikers were not allowed in because they did not provide information about their identity and the purpose of the trip, or provided false information about this.

Presidential decree puts an end to the entire party system of Russia The main criterion for evaluating the quality of the governor's work is now trust in the central government. The trust is not of the governor himself, of course (this has not yet come to this), but of the population of the region. This is one of the latest presidential decrees. And since power in Russia today is concentrated, in fact, in the hands of one person, we are talking about trust in this key person.

For the construction of the Central Ring Road (TsKAD), it is necessary to allocate an additional 20 billion rubles from the budget, the Accounts Chamber found out. This is required due to violation of construction deadlines, RBC writes with reference to the auditors' report. Those sections of the Central Ring Road, which were originally planned to be commissioned in 2014-2018, will not be completed until the fourth quarter of 2020 and the second quarter of 2021.