The human rights center "Memorial" confirmed the mass detentions of people in Chechnya. According to human rights activists, 13 people on the list published by Novaya Gazeta were detained by law enforcement agencies in Chechnya on December 17-18, 2016 or January 2017. “The fate and whereabouts of 9 of them remain unknown to their relatives, neighbors and acquaintances. Regarding one of them, relatives were unofficially informed that he “died of a heart attack,” said in a statement.

In the US state of South Dakota, a car drove into a crowd of pedestrians, the Associated Press reports , citing a statement by representatives of local authorities. The incident occurred near a rehabilitation center in the southeast of the state. Two people were killed and eight more were injured. The driver was also taken to the hospital. His name is not revealed. Highway Patrolman Tony Mangan said the hit was unintentional, according to preliminary reports.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs invited citizens to independently choose a combination of letters and numbers in car numbers. This was reported by the newspaper "Kommersant" with reference to the draft law "On state registration of vehicles." The document makes it possible to obtain numbers for a new car directly at the car dealership. The service will be paid, the maximum tariffs will be set by the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS).

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that he returned to his homeland a girl whose mother was detained while trying to get to Syria. “A resident of the Saratov region Sergey Ukhanov and his six-year-old daughter are together again. Recently, Sergei asked me to help return a child who was detained with his mother in Turkey while trying to cross the Syrian border. Today I phoned him. Everything is fine with the girl, she is with her father, ” he wrote on his Telegram channel.

Information that the Kremlin is sponsoring protests by environmentalists in the United States who are in favor of limiting shale oil production is “incorrect,” Interfax reports the words of presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “We also do not know where these sources come from and who is reporting this,” Peskov said. Earlier, two congressmen turned to the US Treasury with a request to check the information that Russia is sponsoring protesting environmentalists.

The news about the appearance of a Syrian woodpecker in Moscow, which was published on the mayor’s website, is inaccurate, since this type of woodpecker was first seen in the capital in 2007. This was announced by Novaya Gazeta Zoologist, candidate of biological sciences, researcher at the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov Pavel Kvartalnov. “The news itself does not look like a sensation.

The scandal with the supply of Crimea of ​​German equipment hit not only the Siemens company, but also in Germany Photo: Reuters The sanctions of the European Union, imposed in connection with the accession of Crimea to Russia, turned out to be a more serious problem than someone had previously submitted. Moreover, these are not the “sectoral” sanctions for the entire Russian economy that the West linishes with the implementation of the Minsk agreements.

Microsoft is discontinuing support for the Paint editor due to its deprecation. This follows from the Fall Creators Update list for the Windows 10 system. The release notes that the program is no longer in active development and may be removed in future versions of Windows. In addition to Paint, the list includes the Outlook Express e-mail program and the Reader App text file application, which will be integrated into the Edge browser in the future.

Half of the "Chinese firewall" has already been created in Russia, said in an interview with RNS. German Klimenko, adviser to the President of Russia on the development of the Internet, And - the news of the day! - we already have half of the “Chinese firewall”. There are two methods of building a "wall" - this is pre-moderation and post-moderation. China has pre-moderation - you knocked and they let you in. In Europe, post-moderation is accepted - if you shat, you were banned, ”he said.

In the Swiss city of Schaffhausen, a man with a chainsaw attacked passers-by, reports . SwissInfo According to police, the incident happened on Monday morning. According to preliminary data, five people were injured, two of them were seriously injured. The attacker has not yet been arrested. Law enforcement officers cordoned off part of the city. The details of the incident are being specified.

The EU countries, at the suggestion of Germany, intend to discuss the expansion of sanctions against Russia in connection with the supply of Siemens gas turbines to the Crimea. This is reported by Reuters, citing diplomatic sources. According to the agency, we can talk about the inclusion in the list of officials of the Ministry of Energy, as well as the company that sent the turbines to the Crimea.

In Dagestan, the minister of construction, architecture and housing and communal services of the republic was kidnapped. The suspects have already been detained, the minister himself has been released, reported the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) . According to information on the website of the ministry, the department is headed by Ibrahim Kazibekov. The incident took place on July 20 in Makhachkala.

The rector of St. Petersburg Mining University Vladimir Litvinenko, under whose leadership Russian President Vladimir Putin defended his Ph.D. thesis, has become a dollar billionaire. This is reported by the newspaper "Vedomosti". The publication notes that Litvinenko's declarations reflect only a small part of his fortune.

attack in the St. accused of organizing a terrorist The brothers Akram and Abror Azimov, who are The information was confirmed to the publication by two sources familiar with the investigation of terrorism cases. According to Abror Azimov, he was detained on April 4.

The explosion in Kabul killed 24 people, according to Tolo News, citing Interior Ministry data. More than 40 people were injured. for the incident . responsibility The terrorist group Taliban, banned in Russia, claimed The explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber on Monday morning. According to Tolo News, the explosion occurred near the home of the second deputy chief executive of Afghanistan. The police cordoned off the area.