Interview of the mother of director Oleg Sentsov, who announced an unlimited hunger strike - "Gromad" Photo: Alexander Nazarov / Gromadskoye * Natalia Gumenyuk and Alexander Nazarov, "Gromadskoye" Oleg Sentsova’s mother Lyudmila Georgievna saw her son for the last time three years ago-in the summer of 201th at the trial in Rostov-on-Don, through glass. And before that - on May 12, 2014, when Oleg was taken out of the house in handcuffs.

Former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have signed a deal with Netflix to produce movies and TV shows, according to the streaming service's website. For how long the contract was signed is not specified, it is only known that it is long-term. It is also not known what remuneration the spouses will receive on it. Fiction and non-fiction content will be produced by the production company Higher Ground Productions they founded.

Alexander Askoldov was gone. The unpublished monologue of the director and afterword Yuri Norshtein Alexander Askoldov. Photo: Yuri Samolyago / TASS Director-Mif. Writer. The author of the legendary “commissioner” based on the story of Vasily Grossman. Film belonging to the world classics. In which the air of time. Film forbidden. Sent to the shelf. The right power tamped the ideas of communism and the universal fraternity. The director himself was driven and did not let them go.

In the future, the period of childhood will be considered the age of up to 30 years, and not up to 21 years, as it is now, says Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova. She made such a statement at the conference of the United Russia party "Direction 2026". “Childhood, which at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War was 14 years old, in the 60s - 16 years old, now all over the world - 21 years old, and in the future it will be at least 25-30 years old,” TASS quotes her .

In Kyiv, a Chechen is waiting for a court, who is accused of attempted Adam Osmayev. Its story is a ready -made plot for a spy novel Photo: EPA On April 17, the Shevchenkovsky District Court of Kyiv considered the issue of choosing a preventive measure to Alexander Vinustovich Dakar, a citizen of Ukraine, born in 1958, a native of Odessa, a married, previously infringed. The next term of its detention expired at midnight.

There are enough relatives, friends, classmates and colleagues in the government and in general in the Russian elite, but is this the only way to determine a place in the social elevator? The government has been formed, but the discussion about how the appointments are connected with the interests of this or that "Kremlin tower" continues. It's not that these arguments have no grounds at all.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has registered a complaint against the blocking of the Telegram messenger in Russia. The head of the international human rights organization Agora, Pavel Chikov , said that the case file appeared in the court database. Last week, the ECHR registered another complaint - a fine of 800 thousand rubles for refusing to provide the FSB with encryption keys for access to user correspondence. The court fined the messenger in October last year.

In the residential area of ​​Busserine on the northern outskirts of Marseille (France), unidentified people, wearing masks and armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, opened fire on a group of young people, reports the French edition of La Provence. The incident happened around 5:00 pm local time (18:00 Moscow time). The shooters traveled in three vehicles.

Journalist, Director of the AIDS Foundation. Center" Anton Krasovsky announced his intention to participate in the Moscow mayoral elections, which will be held on September 9, 2018. “I will run not against [Sergei] Sobyanin, not against Yashin, not against Dmitry Gudkov, not against some person who wins the primaries of Yabloko, the Left Front or the Communist Party.

Anti-fascist Viktor Filinkov, who was arrested in the "Penza case", demanded to check the investigators who refused to open a case on his torture. The application was submitted to the Military Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Western Military District of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov said on Facebook.

In Russia, a public movement will appear in defense of national languages, which will include representatives of regional parliaments, the scientific community, as well as experts in the field of language policy. This decision was made by the participants of the round table "Development of native languages ​​in the system of general education", held in Moscow.

In Moscow, a series of single pickets was held near the Presidential Administration in support of the head of the Grozny branch of Memorial Oyub Titiev, accused of storing drugs of a large scale (part 2 of article 228 of the Criminal Code). Photo: Anton Carliner The action was attended by representatives of the Memorial human rights center, as well as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch - only twenty people. The action lasted two hours.

Russian businessman Mikhail Prokhorov filed a lawsuit against politician Alexei Navalny with the Lublin Court of Moscow for the protection of honor and dignity and asks to recover one ruble from him. This is reported by TASS with reference to the press secretary of the court Lyudmila Morozova. “Today, the court received a statement of claim for the protection of honor and dignity from Mikhail Prokhorov, Alexei Navalny was declared the defendant,” she said.

UPDATED Initially, it was reported that Sergei Boyko is the head of Navalny's Moscow headquarters. He left the post in April and became coordinator of the Novosibirsk branch. The police detained the coordinator of the Novosibirsk headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny, Sergei Boyko, according to a message in the group of the Moscow headquarters of VKontakte. He was stopped near the house and taken away in an unknown direction without explanation.

To save budgetary funds, it is possible to build narrower roads in Russia, Arkady Fomin, a member of the United Russia General Council, said, Interfax reports . He believes that in this regard, “you can look at the reserves; one example is the width of the lanes of our roads.” “For example, in Europe, the width of roads is already an average of 25 centimeters narrower than in Russia, it would seem a penny. There 25, here 25, four stripes - a meter, meters - in kilometers.