Deputy of the Moscow City Duma Sergei Mitrokhin was detained during a single picket near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on Petrovka, 38. He went out with a picket in support of the arrested Ilya Azar and other picketers detained the day before, who also came out to support Azar. But he could not stand with the poster for even a minute, said .

The decline in GDP in April, which was non-working due to the fight against coronavirus, amounted to 12% in annual terms. This was reported by the Ministry of Economic Development in the "Picture of business activity" for the last month.

Members of precinct and territorial election commissions in Moscow and St. Petersburg began to be warned about the voting on amendments to the Constitution on July 8. This was reported to Open Media in two PECs and one TEC in the northern capital. The chairman of the PEC of one of the districts of Moscow also informed his colleagues about a possible vote on July 8. Now the main scheduled voting date is July 8, a Kremlin official confirmed to OM.

In Moscow, the police detained the municipal deputy Yulia Galyamina. Having gone to the picket near Petrovka, 38, she did not even have time to unfold the banner. According to OVD-Info, in addition to her, municipal deputies Andrey Morev, Elena Filina, Sergey Tsukasov, Elena Rusakova were detained. Detentions continue. Earlier today, MHD deputy Sergei Mitrokhin was detained . The day before , several journalists and activists were detained .

There are over 90 days of delay in 4.5 million loans taken from MFIs, which is more than 40% of their total number. Experts predict an increase in the share of such problem loans to 50%, RBC reports . According to the Equifax credit bureau, as of May 1, the total overdue debt on microloans increased to 51.3 billion rubles (34.3% of the total portfolio). As of April 1, such delays accounted for 32.1% of the portfolio, and as of March 1, 30.5%.

At least four participants of one-man pickets in support of journalist Ilya Azar, who was arrested for 15 days, were detained in St. Petersburg near the Gostiny Dvor metro station. The day before, on May 28, 9 people were detained during single pickets in St. Petersburg. According to the Vesna movement , these were activists of the movement, as well as representatives of the Libertarian Party of Russia in St. Petersburg.

President Vladimir Putin signed the Decree “On holding military parades and artillery salutes to mark the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War…”, in which he declared June 24 a non-working day with the preservation of wages for workers.

Commissioner for Children's Rights Anna Kuznetsova proposes to change the system of financing hospitals, in which the amount of funds allocated is inversely proportional to the number of abortions. “The clinic should be interested in saving the child, and not in providing abortion services,” says Kuznetsova in her annual report. In addition, Kuznetsova advocates limiting the sale of "abortable drugs" in pharmacies.

A petition demanding the release of journalist Ilya Azar, who received 15 days for a solitary picket, was signed by more than 25,000 people. It was launched on Change.org by Novaya Gazeta. The publication believes that “the authorities have declared war on journalists,” since the arrest of Azar was followed by the detention of other media representatives who went to single-person pickets in his support.

69% of Russians prefer the usual "paper" voting to electronic, showed a survey by VTsIOM and the Center for Political Conjuncture. Voting via the Internet is chosen by 23% of respondents, and 2% are ready to vote by mail, Vedomosti reports . 49% of respondents do not approve of the introduction of electronic voting in elections, 46% approve.

The deal to sell 100% of Business News Media, the publisher of the Vedomosti newspaper, has been closed; the founder of FederalPress, Ivan Eremin, and the publisher of the Versia newspaper, Konstantin Zyatkov, have become the new owners of the company. This was reported to Interfax by BNM General Director Gleb Prozorov. about the possible sale of BNM to Eremin and Zyatkov . wrote Earlier , Vedomosti itself

UPD: Tatyana Felgenhauer and Alexander Plyushchev were released from the department without a protocol being drawn up. The head of the Khamovniki police department apologized to reporters, said . Felgenhauer *** To today's series of single pickets near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow, Echo of Moscow hosts Tatyana Felgenhauer and Alexander Plushev came not as participants, but as journalists, but they were detained anyway.

After a series of interrupted single pickets, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow issued a warning "about the inadmissibility of violating the requirements of the law and holding public events during the period of high alert." “In connection with the calls to participate in unauthorized public events in the center of Moscow that are spreading on the Internet, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the city of Moscow

Over the past day, 8,572 new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Russia, 232 people have died. In total, 387,623 cases of coronavirus have been detected in Russia to date. For the entire period, 4,374 deaths were recorded, 159,257 people recovered. New cases: 🔸 Moscow — 2 332 🔸 Moscow region — 773 🔸 St.

US President Donald Trump signed a document that could lead to a weakening of the law protecting Internet platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. It comes just days after Twitter flagged the American leader's remarks as inaccurate. “In a country that has long valued freedom of expression, we cannot allow a limited number of online platforms to manually select the speech that Americans can access and transmit online. This practice is fundamentally un-American and anti-democratic.