Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law according to which Russians can collect deadwood in the forest for their own needs. The document is published on the official portal of legal information. At present, collecting deadwood requires permission from the local authorities. This can take up to 120 days.

In the center of Yaroslavl, an unauthorized rally was held against the import of garbage from Moscow, which was attended by more than one thousand people. This was reported by Kommersant. According to the newspaper, the rally lasted two hours, the police did not interfere in what was happening. No one was detained during the street action, the newspaper specified.

The deputies of the Moscow City Duma voted in the first reading to extend the voting time in the upcoming elections of the mayor of Moscow from 20:00 to 22:00. This was reported on the website of the Moscow City Duma. The document also states that the Public Chamber will be given the right to appoint observers for the city elections. In addition, the number of proxies of candidates for the post of mayor may grow from 100 to 500 people. The bill was introduced by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

Roskomnadzor sent a request to the British analytical company Cambridge Analytica about whether the company collected personal data of Russians who are Facebook users. This was reported by Vedomosti. Vedomosti, citing a representative of the department, clarified that the request was sent on April 13, but no response has yet been received from the British company.

Kirill Serebrennikov. Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" The Basmanny Court of Moscow for another three months, until July 19, 2018, extended the preventive measure in the form of house arrest to the director, artistic director of the Gogol Center Theater Kirill Serebrennikov and the director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater Sofya Apfelbaum. The former general director of the Seventh Studio, Yuri Itina, the preventive measure was extended until May 24.

In the last presidential elections in Russia, 678 people could vote twice. This was reported by RBC with reference to the Deputy Chairman of the CEC Nikolai Bulaev. According to him, this is not the exact number of people, it will require more verification, it will take at least three weeks. Information about those citizens who voted twice will be transferred to the Investigative Committee, Bulaev added.

Russian Permanent Representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Alexander Shulgin showed a document from which it follows that a certain American scientist T. Rubin invented a bullet with a special container for a poisonous substance. This was reported by TASS.

Russia will not be disconnected from the SWIFT financial messaging system, despite Western sanctions. This, according to sources of the Vedomosti newspaper, was announced by the general director of the system, Gottfried Leibrandt, at the SWIFT business forum. Leibrandt emphasized that SWIFT is a neutral organization. “This is deeply respected by the community.

The father of two children from St. Petersburg needs an expensive bone marrow transplant Photo: Elena Lukyanova / "New Gazeta" From the author Employees of all Russian charitable foundations know: the more expressive the face of their ward in the photograph, the more fascinating its history, the more the person has the chances of finding a donor. The heroes of our heading are ordinary people with ordinary professions, ordinary life and, unfortunately, an unusual disease.

The Ministry of Culture, which became the victim in the case of the Seventh Studio, asked Kirill Serebrennikov, to extend the arrest of the Gogol Center artistic and other. Kirill Serebrennikov at a meeting in the Basmanny Court. Photo: Vlad Dokshin/ "New Gazeta" The Basmanny Court of Moscow, where the case is being considered, agreed to introduce the document from the Ministry of Culture to the materials - the appeal of the victim, signed by a certain E.V. Zaitseva.

Investigators are investigating why the prosecutor's office for several years banned fire safety checks at the Kemerovo shopping center "Winter Cherry". This is stated in the statement of the Investigative Committee.

Samples taken by investigators after the poisoning of ex-intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury did not reveal the chemical BZ. This was stated by experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). Prior to this, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, citing the Swiss laboratory Spiez, said that the Skripals were poisoned with BZ nerve agent, which is not produced in Russia.

The British telecommunications regulator Ofcom launched seven investigations into the Russian television channel RT due to biased coverage of the case of the poisoning of ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, Britain. We are talking about programs that were shown on the air of RT from March 17 to April 16.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow sentenced Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina to 100 hours of compulsory labor for participating in a protest against blocking Telegram near the FSB building on Lubyanka, Mediazona reports . Alyokhina was accused of organizing a mass stay of citizens in public places, which is not a public event. “The court found that a group of 12 people made paper products (airplanes - ed.). and obstruct the passage of citizens.

The Ministry of Social Relations of the Chelyabinsk Region officially announced the closure of the Lazurnenskaya boarding school for orphans with disabilities, reports . Znak.com According to a representative of the press service of the head of the region, the reason for the closure of the boarding school was the emergency situation with the restriction of water supply to the institution.