Russian photographer Sergey Ponomarev won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in the Breaking News Photography category, according to the award's website. The Russian photographer, as well as his colleagues Mauricio Lima, Tyler Hicks and Daniel Etter, received the award for their joint project on the refugee crisis in Europe. The project tells how migrants during 2015 tried to cross the Mediterranean Sea to get to Europe.

The Golos Association was issued a record fine for violating the law on NGO agents. It amounted to 1.2 million rubles. The organization was fined for not labeling it as a “foreign agent.” There have never been such large fines on these grounds, RBC writes , citing the chairman of the movement’s council, Grigory Melkonyants. He said that Golos was fined according to three Roskomnadzor protocols.

To measure the President of Kachinsky as a Gordian knot of Polish contradictions To measure the President of Kachinsky as a Gordian knot of Polish contradictions The brother of the Polish President Yaroslav Kachinski at mourning events / EPA. By the sixth anniversary of the disaster near Smolensk, a plane with the Polish leadership on board in Poland began to be prepared long until April 10.

The Ministry of North Caucasus Affairs supported the idea of ​​the mayor of Grozny and the head of Dagestan to place the image of the Grozny mosque named after Akhmat Kadyrov "Heart of Chechnya" on a banknote of 200 rubles and the image of the city of Derbent on a banknote of 2000 rubles. “This initiative is timely and necessary to continue building a positive image of the region's cities,” said Odes Baysultanov, Deputy Minister for North Caucasus Affairs.

On the manifesto of the head of the Investigative Committee Bastrykin On the manifesto of the head of the Investigative Committee Bastrykin Photo: RIA Novosti When politics acquires the features of clowning, political scientists become satirists, satirists - psychiatrists, lawyers - ask for patients to them, and philology rises to the law enforcement. On Monday, April 18, 2016, the head of the Investigative Committee, Mr.

The girl who participated in the staged kidnapping in the center of Moscow will be expelled from Russia for violating immigration laws, the reports . press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs According to the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk, a report on an administrative offense was drawn up against the girl, a citizen of Ukraine. In the near future, the materials will be submitted to the court to resolve the issue of deportation from Russia.

The meeting was attended by relatives of Nadiya Savchenko and her lawyer. Reportage The meeting was attended by relatives of Nadiya Savchenko and her lawyer. Reportage Russian military or volunteers of the "People's Militia of the LNR"? Yevgenia Yerofeeva and Oleksandra Oleksandrov were captured by the Ukrainian military during a battle in the Luhansk region in May 2015.

The Ministry of Justice has included the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people in the list of organizations whose work has been suspended in connection with the implementation of extremist activities, according to the agency's website. “The public association is included in the list on the basis of the decision of the prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea to suspend the activities of the public association,” the statement said.

The Russians were not injured in the explosion on a bus in Jerusalem, reports with reference to the Russian Consul in Israel Ruslan Kandaurov. RIA Novosti “Preliminary information received from hospitals and from law enforcement agencies, Russian tourists (among the victims) are not listed,” Kandaurov said. Earlier, the Jerusalem authorities recognized the explosion of the bus as a terrorist act. Mayor Nir Barkat said the explosion was caused by a bomb.

Lawyers and human rights activists - about what Columnist Bastrykin threatened us Lawyers and human rights activists - about what Columnist Bastrykin threatened us Photo: TASS In the publication "Kommersant-Vlast" a column of the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin was published, in which he spoke about the attitude to extremism and methods of combating it.

The explosion on the bus was definitely caused by a bomb. This statement was made by the mayor of Jerusalem Nir Barkat, writes the newspaper Haaretz. According to RIA Novosti, the Israeli police found fragments of an explosive device in a blown up bus. Emergency services suspect that an explosive device was in the back of the bus. As a result, fragments flew, the fire arose instantly and was strong - these are the events that are characteristic of a bomb explosion, Haaretz clarifies.

Ivan Zhdanov and Georgy Alburov told reporters about the results of the meeting with the chairman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova.

Businessman and former co-owner of Euroset Yevgeny Chichvarkin will brand the public movement Open Russia by Mikhail Khodorkovsky. This became known during a joint press conference in London. “I am very pleased that Evgeny, who has significant managerial experience and is a generally recognized specialist in public communications, is joining us ...

In Samara, a hearing about extortion from the blogger Begun and others begins. Legally it is uninteresting, which can not be said about its political component In Samara, a hearing about extortion from the blogger Begun and others begins. Legally it is uninteresting, which can not be said about its political component Dmitry Begun. Screech of the plot of the television radio company Terra In Samara, a wonderful embankment is one of the few decent looks in the city.

The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine received an appeal from the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, sentenced in Russia to 22 years in the case of the murder of journalists of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, in which she asks to begin the procedure for her return to her homeland. This was announced on his Facebook page by the head of the department Pavel Petrenko. The letter is dated April 07, 2016.