In the near future, a special structure will appear under one of the Russian departments, which will support companies that have fallen under US sanctions. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov. “(The structure) will coordinate the actions of all departments in the government and interact with the enterprises that have fallen under the sanctions,” the minister said.

Ukraine wants to unite the churches by summer and resolve conflicts between the Orthodox: two out of three steps have already been taken. Tells "Gromad" The anniversary of the baptism of Rus' in Kyiv. Photo: EPA Original: "Gromad" What is a local church? The Local Church is a union of all Orthodox believers on a territorial principle.

The Gaidar Foundation presents a new lecture from the lecture cycle on urbanism. Reads Mikhail Blinkin Mikhail Blinkin The Yegor Gaidar Foundation, with the information support of Novaya Gazeta, continues the cycle of public lectures “In the city of Living”, dedicated to the problems of modern post -Soviet cities.

In the Tomsk region, 17 shopping centers were temporarily closed over the past week due to fire safety violations. This is stated in the message of the regional Federal Bailiff Service. “As security for the stated claims, there are demands for a temporary suspension of the operation of a number of facilities until the court decision enters into legal force,” explained the Federal Bailiff Service.

That against the backdrop of the Department of the UOC from Moscow takes place in the capital of Moskvofilism - the Pochaev Lavra in Western Ukraine Photo: RIA Novosti Ukraine is more closely close to autocephaly (complete independence) of its Orthodox Church. President Poroshenko made such conclusions after his 7-hour negotiations in Istanbul with the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on April 9.

"Tanks" at the MMKF ... arrived. The premiere of the new film from the creators of "28 Panfilovites" Frame from the movie "Tanks" You have not seen this for a long time. And here again. The new historical and patriotic “hit” with the working name “See Stalin” Kim Druzhinin is the basis of the run of two T-34 experimental tanks Mikhail Koshkin from Kharkov to Moscow in order to demonstrate their power, which means the need to produce new tanks to win the USSR in the Great Patriotic War.

The police in Yaroslavl opened two administrative cases against the organizer of the rally against the import of garbage from Moscow, Alexander Vorobyov. about this Vorobyov himself spoke on his Facebook page. According to the documents published on the organizer's page, he is charged with organizing a picket using posters without giving notice, as well as for organizing a rally on Volkov Square in Yaroslavl.

In Ukraine, it was proposed to deprive the residents of Crimea, who received a Russian passport and voted in the presidential elections in March 2018, of Ukrainian citizenship. This initiative was made by the President of the country Petro Poroshenko. According to the text of the document, whether a particular citizen was accepted or not in the elections will be determined using entries in the registers of state bodies, as well as on the basis of publications in the media.

The website of the Memorial human rights center experienced disruptions due to attempts by Roskomnadzor to block Telegram. This was reported by "Kommersant" with reference to the statement of the center. “The site of the human rights center may temporarily not open due to technical problems caused by mass blocking by Roskomnadzor,” the message says. The site has not yet been accessed. At the same time, the site of the international society "Memorial" is working in a normal mode.

On April 19, the Vitebsk court ruled in an administrative case on violation of the law on mass events of the Republic of Belarus. Eight people were found to be offenders. They "unauthorized" drinking tea in a private apartment. The owner of the apartment, as the organizer of the mass event, was fined 20 basic units (15,000 in Russian rubles). The remaining seven received warnings because they had not previously been involved.

The US Democratic National Committee has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit in Manhattan District Court against the Russian government, Donald Trump's campaign headquarters and WikiLeaks, reports The Washington Post. They are accused of conspiring to influence the results of the 2016 presidential election in favor of Trump.

State authorities, enterprises and banks began to massively purchase private VPN networks, according to Znak.com , as well as Fontanka , citing data from the public procurement website. According to media reports, the National Guard, the Pension Fund, RusHydro, Rosselkhozbank (it is headed by the son of the head of the Security Council Dmitry Patrushev) decided to buy the VPN.

Supporters of the politician Alexei Navalny in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Chelyabinsk filed applications to hold "He is not our tsar" protests on May 5. This was reported on the pages of Navalny's team on VKontakte. In Moscow, the opposition plans to organize a procession on Tverskaya Street and a rally on Manezhnaya Square. In St. Petersburg, Navalny's supporters will hold a procession along Zagorodny Prospekt and a rally on Pioneer Square.

217 oppositionists were detained in Yerevan, Ashot Agaronyan, spokeswoman for the police of Armenia, said. According to Interfax, such data are relevant as of 17:00 local time. They delay people who overlap roads for road vehicles, as well as drivers of cars who are trying to create traffic jams. Earlier, the police warned that in case of locking roads, force can be applied, as well as special equipment. On Friday, protests independent from each other are held throughout the city.

Time magazine has published a list of the 100 most influential people in the world as of 2018. For the first time in five years, Russian President Vladimir Putin did not appear on this list. The new Leaders list includes US President Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prince Harry and his fiancée actress Meghan Markle, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Chinese President Xi Jinping, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.