Mikhail Khodorkovsky is seeking to unfreeze his 100 million euros, which were frozen by Ireland at the request of the financial police, reports . the public figure's press service Khodorkovsky applied to the District Court of Ireland with a request to unfreeze the funds of two investment funds. The report explains that the funds were frozen while Khodorkovsky was in prison in 2011.

The presidential affairs department "will make all the necessary personnel decisions in accordance with the instructions of the head of state." This was stated by the press secretary of the business manager Elena Krylova after Vladimir Putin criticized officials who became academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), TASS .

Under the bus in the south-east of Moscow, not an explosive device was found, but a bottle of gasoline, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes , citing the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the South-Eastern Administrative District of the capital. Information about the incident was transferred to the district department of internal affairs.

Ryanair announced the introduction of free air tickets Photo: ryanair.com The largest budgetary airline Ryanair today announced the creation of free tickets for its passengers. According to the Irish low -cost airline, the idea with the possibility of free flights at the expense of airports should be realized in the next 10 years. In other words: passengers will fly at the expense of the money that they leave in souvenir stores, Duty Free and restaurants, and the airport cafe.

In the Rostov region, border guards opened fire on the border with Ukraine while detaining smugglers, TASS reports with reference to the regional department of the FSB.

The personality cult of the President of Kazakhstan is gaining momentum Photo: RIA Novosti Renaming the capital of Kazakhstan Astana to the city of Nursultan, a bill with its own image and a genetic connection with Genghis Khan.

The editor-in-chief of Russia Today TV channel Margarita Simonyan commented at a press conference in Moscow on the adoption by the European Parliament of a resolution on countering Russian propaganda. Simonyan wonders how Russia Today and the Sputnik news agency can be compared to the Islamic State (a terrorist organization banned in Russia - ed.). “I don’t understand for whom this is more terrible - for us or the European establishment, which so easily betrays its own principles.

At a hearing in the case against RBC journalist Alexander Sokolov in the Tverskoy Court of Moscow, bailiffs detained four people, TASS reports with reference to the press secretary of the district court, Anastasia Dzyurko.

Valery Strelnikov, a prisoner in Correctional Colony No. 46 in the Sverdlovsk Region, was prosecuted under the article “disorganization of the activities of institutions that ensure isolation from society” after he recorded a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin complaining of torture and requisitions in the correctional facility, reports "Kasparov.Ru" with reference to a member of the Public Monitoring Commission Sergei Zykov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated the journalists of the RT TV channel and the Sputnik agency after the European Parliament adopted a resolution on countering hostile propaganda. “I would like to congratulate those of our representatives of the press, journalists who prompted representatives of the representative European body to make such decisions, on the fact that they are apparently doing their work actively, efficiently and with talent,” RIA Novosti quotes the .

In the southeast of Moscow, a home-made explosive device was found in the intercity bus, the Moscow Agency reports with reference to a source in emergency services. The bomb was found on the bus "Novomoskovsk-Moscow" in the area of ​​the house 33 on Orekhovoy Boulevard. A threat of an explosion has been announced in the Boulevard area, Ren-TV TV channel reports An explosive engineer has already arrived at the site of explosive detection. She was successfully removed from the bus.

Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the appointment of officials as academicians and corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) contrary to the recommendations of the Kremlin, TASS reports . Putin, who previously instructed not to combine science and civil service, said he intends to make personnel decisions regarding these officials. “They are great scientists, right?

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on countering propaganda hostile to the European Union, reports . the press service of the parliament The document was submitted for consideration by the Polish parliamentarian Anna Fotiga.

The Bryansk Regional Court placed under house arrest Roman Shilov, who had been in custody for four and a half years - the longest of the 13 defendants in the Bryansk “poppy case”. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by lawyer Valery Shukhardin.

The Paris Court of Appeal removed the arrest from the funds on the accounts of RIA Novosti, as well as FSUE Space Communications and State Foreign Property, TASS reports with reference to Andrey Kondakov, director general of the International Center for Legal Protection. Kondakov noted that the arrests are unlawful, since these federal state unitary enterprises are separate legal entities and cannot be liable with their property for the debt of the entire state.