Entrepreneur Valery Pshenichny, who had signs of torture on his body, committed suicide in a pre-trial detention center in St. Petersburg, Alexander Klaus, head of the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg, told TASS. “We understand the motives - was there any incitement to suicide, if so, on whose side - on the part of the investigating authorities, the penitentiary service, cellmates? All this is being worked out,” Klaus said.

Germany's foreign intelligence agency BND received a sample of Novichok nerve gas back in the 1990s. This was reported in a joint investigation by journalists from the newspapers Die Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung and TV channels WDR and NDR. According to media reports, a Russian chemist who had already been an informant for some time handed over a sample of the chemical. In exchange, the secret services promised to transfer him and his family to the West.

Kyiv can exchange the head of RIA Novosti Ukraine Vyshinsky for the arrested Ukrainian journalist Suschenko Photo: RIA Novosti When I transmit this note, Kirill Vyshinsky, the head of the RIA Novosti-Ukraine information portal, is transferred to Kherson, where the court will choose a preventive measure. The Ukrainian prosecutor's office of Crimea is now in Kherson, and it is a criminal case.

In Russia, the number of citizens whose income is below the subsistence level has decreased: in 2017 there were 19.3 million people, which is 0.1% less than in 2016 (19.5 million people). The figures are published on the Rosstat website. The cost of living, according to the data for the fourth quarter of 2017, is 9786 rubles.

The European Commission proposed to tighten control mechanisms and data verification for the issuance of Schengen visas. This was reported by TASS with reference to the European Commissioner for Migration, Internal Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos. “Criminals and would-be terrorists should not be able to sneak into Europe undetected. The EU is not a fortress, but we need to know who is crossing our borders,” Avramopoulos said.

The head of VTB, Andrei Kostin, called the adoption of the law on criminal liability for compliance with sanctions in the form in which it currently exists unacceptable, RIA Novosti reported . “Both I and [Viktor] Vekselberg — we believe that this is further damaging to the Russian economy,” Kostin added. According to him, at a meeting of deputies of the United Russia faction on May 16, he told the parliamentarians about this.

The story of farmer Peter Shumakov and his grandson Denis is a diagnosis of state power bodies Whose "heredity"? Soon, the blowjob two years since the “new” sent three editorial requests - to the General of the RF prosecutor Yu.Ya. Chaika, Head of the President of the Russian Federation for working with appeals of citizens and organizations M.G. Mikhailovsky and the head of the apparatus of the governor and the government of the Omsk region Yu.P. Karechin.

The first photos On May 16, a full -fledged automobile traffic began on the Crimean bridge, which connected the peninsula and the Krasnodar Territory. And the photojournalist Vitaliy Timkiv photographed it. The first bikers on the bridge. Photo by Vitaliy Timkiv/ especially for "New" View of the bridge from the side of Crimea. Photo by Vitaliy Timkiv/ especially for "New" The first cars on the Kerch (Crimean) bridge.

In Ingushetia (the city of Sunzha), on the morning of May 16, an attempt was made on the prosecutor, who is the accuser in the case of torture at the Republican Center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Combating Extremism (Center "E"), Interfax and TASS report, citing their sources . According to the agencies, a grenade was thrown into the courtyard of the prosecutor's house. His security guard, a law enforcement officer, was injured.

What is wrong with the law on responsibility for the execution of sanctions The State Duma adopted in the first reading amendments to the Criminal Code, introducing criminal liability for the implementation or assistance in the establishment of "anti-Russian sanctions".

Yury Kotler, a member of the United Russia expert council, was found dead in an apartment on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street in Moscow, TASS reports citing a law enforcement source. According to him, Kotler was found with a gunshot wound to the head. According to the source, the man could have committed suicide. The investigation considers this version as the main one, said Yulia Ivanova, assistant to the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow.

On Sunday, May 20, a coordinated rally against torture by the police and the FSB will be held in the Ovsyannikovsky Garden of St. Petersburg, OVD-Info reports , citing the applicant Elena Shender. Prior to this, the organizers tried five times to coordinate the rally and the procession in five different places in the city center, but each time they were refused. Finally, we managed to agree on a rally - after the activists abandoned the procession. Residents of St.

A year by the ban on Russian social networks in Ukraine. Material "Gromadsky" The ban on Russian resources - Yandex, as well as Mailru Group sites - postal service, social networks "VKontakte and Odnoklassniki" and others entered into force in Ukraine a year ago. President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree after a decision on this Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine.

The former owner of the Cherkizovsky market, Telman Ismailov, who is currently on the wanted list, filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation against the Rosbalt agency demanding compensation in the amount of 1 million rubles. A representative of the court told RBC that there were seven articles in question: five of them were signed by journalist Yuri Vershov, and in two more the author is unknown.

The head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, called it expedient the bill of Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin on voting by Muscovites outside the city and suggested that it be carried out as an experiment. She stated this at a meeting of the CEC, Interfax reports . “The CEC will not stand aside, we will start brainstorming and work on this issue.