The world community rose to defend the head of the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan The world community rose to defend the head of the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan In Kazakhstan, a scandal continues around the prosecution of the head of the Union of Journalists of the Republic of Seitkaza Mataev in embezzlement of state funds and tax evasion. Deputies of the European Parliament and international journalistic organizations have been in defense of Mataev.

Report from the scene of the communal-ethnic conflict in the Tula region Report from the scene of the communal-ethnic conflict in the Tula region On Thursday, an emergency happened in the village of Plekhanovo, Tula Region. The day before, someone called the gas service and said that the gypsies, who live compactly here, are again illegally making tie-ins into the gas pipe. Water got into the pipe through one of these tie-ins.

The Ministry of Justice has included the National Democratic Institute of International Relations in the list of foreign and international non-governmental organizations that are undesirable in Russia, the reports . official website of the department Earlier, the Prosecutor General's Office declared undesirable an organization headed by former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

More than 40 people are included in the list prepared by Ukraine of persons involved in the case of pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, reports . Interfax-Ukraine The list will include the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, and Russia's first deputy foreign minister, Vladimir Titov. The head of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic, Igor Plotnitsky, may also fall under sanctions.

Myslo.ru photo report about gas, bottles and batons Myslo.ru photo report about gas, bottles and batons About 500 security forces, including OMON, dog handlers, internal troops and SOBR, on the morning of March 17, pacified the inhabitants of the gypsy village of Plekhanovo in the Tula region. They acted tough.

In the village of Plekhanovo, Tula region, illegal tie-ins to the gas pipeline were dismantled, reports . Interfax According to the agency, a 200-meter section of the gas distribution main was dismantled. “Only on this segment, five illegal taps into the system were discovered. Home-made gas consumption networks stretched from each tie-in to the houses of local residents, through which, in fact, stolen gas was supplied to several dozen households, ”Gazprom Gas Distribution Tula said.

How the Russian became the official language of the forbidden IS, who leads the propaganda machine of terrorists and how the Russian regions become the "provinces of the Islamic state" Photo: "New Gazeta" Interview of the author of the report on the North Caucasian underground in Syria Ekaterina Sokiryanskaya Photo: TASS This week, the International Crisis group (ICG) released a report: “Jihad for export? North Caucasus underground and Syria.

The image of the Chechen leadership caused irreparable damage The image of the Chechen leadership caused irreparable damage In one week they attacked and beat six journalists (including foreign), one Ingush driver, two Russian human rights activists; Three offices of the consolidated mobile group of the “Committee on Prevention of Torture” (one in Ingushetia, two in Chechnya, including the apartment of the Chechen human rights activist Natalia Estemirova) were produced.

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has renamed 152 settlements, the corresponding document is published on the website of the Parliament. The city of Ordzhonikidze in the Dnipropetrovsk region was returned the name Pokrov. Basically, towns and villages in different regions of Ukraine have been renamed. Earlier Thursday, was dismantled Ukraine's largest monument to Vladimir Lenin in Zaporozhye. The monument was erected in 1964, its height was 19.8 meters.

A court in the Tula region arrested three participants in a protest action in the Roma village of Plekhanovo for three days, the reports . official website of the regional prosecutor's office Another detainee was fined 500 rubles.

Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich recommended that Gazprom and Tatneft suspend fuel supplies from Russia to Belarus, RBC reports with reference to the minutes of the meeting of the government commission on the fuel and energy complex (FEC). According to RBC, the commission meeting took place in February.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) granted the request of the organization "Legal Initiative" to apply urgent measures to the seriously ill convict Amur Khakulov. The court ordered the Russian government to immediately provide medical assistance to Khakulov. The day before, Justice Initiative sent a request to the court for the urgent application of interim measures against Amur Khakulov, who was convicted in the case of an attack on the power structures of Nalchik in October 2005.

Roskomnadzor has found a technical possibility to block mobile applications, reports . the Moskva agency The agency tested the blocking of mobile applications with illegal content. “This possibility has been tested, at the moment we state that we are ready to block pirated servers (mobile applications - ed. ) if they continue to function after the injunction,” the agency quotes Vadim Subbotin, a representative of Roskomnadzor.

In St. Petersburg, a media scandal is flared up-five publications immediately received a lawsuit from the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions In St. Petersburg, a media scandal is flared up-five publications immediately received a lawsuit from the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions Alexander Zapesotsky.

Estonia plans to install a wall on the border with Russia by 2018, Interfax reports . “The infrastructure must be ready for the 100th anniversary of the Estonian state so that we can give the Estonian people and the Estonian state the most perfect border in the world,” said Interior Minister Hanno Pevkur. These measures, Pevkur notes, will help prevent illegal border crossings, cross-border crime, and improve Estonia's internal security.