About how and why the authorities take hostages In the Basmanny Court photo: Svetlana Vidanova, for "New Gazeta" The Basmanny Court and the Prosecutor General’s Office defeated humanism and common sense, as well as a little, over the investigative committee.

In Nizhny Novgorod, three students from Namibia, Malawi and Côte d'Ivoire were suspected of illegal missionary activity after being invited to the Jesus Embassy Protestant church. This is stated in the document of the regional Directorate of the FSB, which was at the disposal of "Rain".

In the Yaroslavl district of Bragino, a rally was held against the import of garbage from Moscow into the Yaroslavl region. About 500 people came to the rally, told Interfax. public activist Elena Lekiashvili “I need clean air!”, “No Moscow garbage”, “Clean your city from Moscow garbage”, - such posters came out from the residents of Yaroslavl. They were addressed by environmentalists, public figures and activists.

In the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan, an explosion occurred near a voter registration center. As a result, at least six people were injured, according to Tolo News, citing official sources. “As a result of the explosion, a child, a woman, a policeman and three men were injured,” the newspaper reports. Witnesses said at least 13 people were injured. Explosives were reportedly placed on a motorcycle and set off near the mosque.

In Iraq, 19 Russian women were sentenced to life imprisonment, according to AFP and a number of local media. They were accused of involvement in the Islamic State terrorist group (an organization banned in Russia). More details are not yet available.

The Aeroflot airline will fire the flight attendant who called Kaliningrad Koenigsberg during the flight, the official Twitter says. During the flight, it was announced in Russian on board that the aircraft was flying from Moscow to Kaliningrad, and then in English from Moscow to Koenigsberg. Vitaly Tretyakov, a journalist and dean of the Higher School of Television of Moscow State University, who flew on that flight, drew attention to this. He noted that the message was read by a male voice.

London's Old Vic Theater will stage a play about the death of former FSB agent Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned in the UK 12 years ago, reports The Guardian. The performance will be based on the play by playwright Lucy Prebble. She took as a basis the book of journalist Luke Harding "A Very Expensive Poison", published in 2016. After reading it, Prebble decided that she wanted to make a play that looked like "the history of our time".

Roskomnadzor will add the Boys Plus project to the register of banned sites, which writes about health for representatives of the LGBT community.

In anticipation of a meeting with Trump, the DPRK leader promises a lot to Seoul - at the first in the history of personal negotiations Photo: Reuters A sensation took place in the DPRK today - for the first time they officially announced that Pyongyang seems to have been striving for the nuclear status of the Korean peninsula.

Director of the Ukhta Industrial and Economic Forestry College of the Industrial Institute of USTU Vasily Zavyalov signed a decree on the transfer of the student hostel to the "barracks mode" in order to prevent crime. He forbade students to use electrical appliances and eat in their rooms, college students who live in the dormitory told radio station Moskva Speaks.

Protest actions resumed in Yerevan. The demonstrators blocked the passage to the Republic Square, the streets adjacent to it are blocked, reports . RIA Novosti Hundreds of oppositionists are blocking traffic, some are driving around the square in cars and honking. Police officers are watching in the city center, but they do not interfere with the protesters. According to the agency, the procession of demonstrators began from the Yeritasardakan (Youth) metro station.

About 6,500 Russian accounts on the social network Twitter were created to support the leader of the Labor Party, Jeremy Corbyn, in last year's parliamentary elections in the UK, according to an investigation by The Sunday Times. Many of the accounts were identified as Internet bots that masqueraded as female English names. According to the newspaper, they "bombarded" the public with political messages.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un promised South Korean leader Moon Jae-in to close the largest Pungeri nuclear test site in May. American and South Korean experts and journalists will be invited to the closing ceremony, writes . the BBC Kim Jong-un believes that the development of a nuclear program is no longer necessary if the US authorities "promise to stop the war and not attack." According to him, North Korea does not intend to continue to experience difficulties due to sanctions.

UPDATE The official Telegram twitter says that the servers have suffered due to a large-scale power outage in the vicinity of Amsterdam. Restoration work is currently underway. Telegram founder Pavel Durov warned of a temporary malfunction of the messenger within the next few hours. The reason is a serious overheating in one of the messenger servers. In this regard, some European users will have connection problems.