The accounts of the “Committee for the Prevention of Torture” were arrested after being included in the register of “foreign agents”. This will not affect the investigations of the organization, but it can change the legal form, refuse to work as an NPO. This was reported to Interfax by the head of the organization, a member of the Council for Human Rights under the President of Russia, Igor Kalyapin. “Further activities will continue in a different legal form.

The international organization Reporters Without Borders (RBG) called on the Russian authorities to stop all cases against journalists who covered the anti-corruption rally on March 26, and to bring police officers to justice. This is stated in the RBG press release received by Novaya Gazeta. “Reporters Without Borders (RBG) condemns the egregious detention of dozens of journalists who covered an anti-corruption rally in Russia on March 26, 2017,” the report says.

A case has been opened in Russia about the murder of ex-State Duma deputy Denis Voronenkov, RIA Novosti reports citing a source. “The Investigative Committee opened a case on the murder of Voronenkov. It is with the investigator of the RF Investigative Committee Denis Zherenov," he said. The agency noted that they do not have official confirmation of this information.

In Kazakhstan, they want to introduce a dragon article in the Criminal Code Photo: TASS So far, in Russia, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan, they rally, in Kazakhstan they came up with a mechanism according to which any action can now be life -threatening in the literal sense of the word. The country has published the text of the bill on bringing laws in line with constitutional amendments adopted by President Nazarbayev in early March.

The district courts of Yekaterinburg fined 11 out of 12 detained participants of the protest action on March 26 by ten thousand rubles. The activists were found guilty under Part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by lawyer Elena Makarova. “My clients claimed that they had a one-man picket, but the court did not accept the arguments. We will appeal the decision to the ECtHR,” the lawyer said.

Moscow tenth grader - about why Facebook, unlike VK, did not go to the square Photo: Victoria Odissonova / "New Gazeta" Russian society suddenly faced such an interesting thing as the social network VKontakte. “We will not know, and hearts may suddenly not recognize the coming person” - and the newcomer was not recognized. They saw teenagers and some pictures, were indignant, proud, perhaps even remembered the word “memes”. But what is it and how it works, no one knows.

The Department of Social Anthropology represents Photo: "New Gazeta" In the absence of a modern honest assessment of what happened 100 years ago, the Russian public consciousness is doomed to rush between the idea of ​​a revolution as a good and the only way to achieve changes and the idea of ​​saving the current government at all costs as the only possible form of existence in the modern world.

The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) does not rule out the possibility of removing Ukraine from participating in Eurovision 2017 after Kyiv's decision not to let Russian participant Yulia Samoilova into the country. This was stated by the head of the EBU Ingrid Deltenre in an interview with the Swiss edition of Blick. The head of the EBU called Ukraine's decision "absolutely unacceptable." According to her, the situation with the Russian singer should be resolved before the end of next week.

In Chuvashia, four out of five witnesses who came to testify in the case of the March 26 rally were detained. Dmitry Semyonov, coordinator of Open Russia for the Chuvash Republic, told Novaya Gazeta about this. According to him, on March 29, the court considered the case of Open Russia activist Yuri Sidorov, who is charged with Art. 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (disobedience to police officers) for participating in the rally on March 26.

The Central District Court of Sochi arrested civil activist Vitaly Nebieridze for 8 days for “organizing or holding a public event without filing a notice of holding in the prescribed manner” (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by the activist's lawyer Mikhail Benyash. “Of course, we do not agree with the decision of the court and will appeal against it as illegal and unfounded.

The first domestic film award "Nika" is a round date - the thirtieth ceremony Photo: RIA Novosti “They reviewed the films of our ceremonies here, and I saw my“ portraits ”, shouted:“ Cut off immediately! There is a young black -skinned Cossack - there is a fascinated uncle, ”said Julius Gusman during the traditional warm -up of the ceremony at the Mossovet Theater. Nick was born in the era of another hopes. When the TV rattled the PROVTOR PROPERTION, and not the PROBERSHILTON.

The authorities are obliged to respond to protests in the country, and not "pretend that nothing is happening." This opinion was made by the Speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko, reports . Interfax “The authorities should not simply state or pretend that nothing is happening.

The National Guard denied the information that the servicemen of the military unit in the village of Naurskaya in Chechnya were not ready for an attack by militants, reports .

The Union of Journalists of Russia demanded an apology from the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Alexei Navalny for insulting the employees of the Volgograd Notebook publication. This is stated in a statement published on the website of the union. We are talking about an incident that occurred on the opening day of Navalny's campaign headquarters in Volgograd.

The Federation Council has voted in favor of a bill that allows sanctioned Russians to renounce Russian tax residency. The document was supported by 132 senators, nine abstained. Earlier, the State Duma adopted this amendment. According to the document, the government will determine the list of sanctions for which the norm will apply.