Interview by Lech Valensa, who nominated Oleg Sentsov to the Nobel Prize Photo: Reuters The legendary electrician of the Gdan Shipyard, the leader of the Solidarity union, Polish President in 1990-1995 Lech Valens nominated Oleg Sentsov to the Nobel Prize of the World. He himself received this award in 1983, during martial law in Poland, shortly after the internation.

The Russian men's volleyball team in the first match at the World Championships won a landslide victory over the Australian team. The Russians defeated the opponent with a score of 3-0 (25:21, 25:20, 25:16). The meeting, held in Italian Bari, lasted 1 hour and 20 minutes. The most productive volleyball player of the meeting was Maxim Mikhailov, who scored 17 points. 13 points in the assets of Dmitry Musersky, and another 10 points for the Russian team brought Dmitry Volkov.

At the presentation of Apple at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino (USA), updated versions of the iPhone X and the new “smart watch” Apple Watch were presented. Smartphones called iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max have screens with a diagonal of 5.8 inches and 6.5 inches, respectively. Both phones support Face ID technology, which is faster than the previous model, and their displays are made using OLED technology. In addition, the iPhone Xs will support two SIM cards.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow added four days to the 30-day arrest period for the coordinator of the Left Front, Sergei Udaltsov, which he spent in the hospital due to a hunger strike. This was reported on Facebook oppositionist. “The Meshchansky District Court, represented by Judge Dyachkova, decided to extend the arrest of Sergei Udaltsov for 112 hours, not counting the days he spent in the hospital under arrest,” the report says.

The wife of Alexei Navalny, Yulia, took the video message from the head of the National Guard, Viktor Zolotov, in which the official promised to “make a chop” out of the oppositionist, as a threat. about it She wrote on Instagram. “Of course, I regard this as a threat to both Alexei and our entire family,” she wrote.

How General Zolotov created a new genre In the public life of the country, events sometimes occur, for the description and analysis of which it is extremely difficult to find the right tone and exact intonation. It seems to me that the video message from the Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard of the Russian Federation, General of the Army Viktor Zolotov to the opposition politician Alexei Navalny is one of those.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that provides for the imposition of sanctions against foreigners trying to interfere in US elections. This is reported by Reuters, citing Trump's national security adviser John Bolton. Those sanctioned face asset freezes, restricted access to US financial institutions, and a ban on US citizens from investing in companies that were involved in election interference.

The Safonovsky District Court of the Smolensk Region recalculated the term of imprisonment and released Alexander Shpakov, convicted of using violence against a policeman (Part 1 of Article 318) on March 26, the reports . human rights organization Open Russia Shpakov was serving his sentence in IK-3 in the Smolensk region. He was released under the “day and a half” law, which equated a day in a pre-trial detention center to a day and a half in a colony.

A red SUV drove into a crowd of people on a square in the city of Hengyang in the Chinese province of Hunan. This is reported by the BBC, citing official sources. According to preliminary data, three people were killed and 43 others were injured. The police arrested the driver of the truck. According to media reports, the 54-year-old man had previously been convicted. He served time in prison for arson and drug offenses.

The story of Svetlana Kuzmina, saved by the observer of the "new" Major Izmailov from Chechen captivity Two years and two months, Samara activist Svetlana Kuzmina spent in the Chechen captivity. In 1999, she went in search of the missing Samara Soldier Soldier and was abducted by militants. Together with Kuzmina, three more were captured: Moscow human rights activist Alexander Terentyev, French reporter Bris Fletier and Samara journalist Viktor Petrov.

The Moscow police detained the former chairman of the Moscow "Yabloko" Sergei Mitrokhin and the municipal deputy Alexei Alekseev for protests against the development of the Kuntsevo district. The politician wrote about this on his Twitter. According to OVD-Info, the police asked the assembled residents to disperse. Later, law enforcement officers detained another municipal deputy, Yevgeny Barkov.

From the life of words Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" As a child, I learned that some words, like some people, can not only die, but also resurrect. Then the goalkeeper struck me, I did not yet know that he had been called a goalkeeper before. Only much later I heard a magnificent Old Slavonic root, and when he met me again in Belgrade on the sign “Molimo Close the Gate”, I immediately realized what they wanted from me and closed the doors. Another example is werewilders.

The international anti-corruption movement Transparency International has included Russia in the list of countries that do not take measures to combat the bribery of foreign officials, follows from the published report "Export of Corruption". According to experts, from 2014 to 2017, not a single criminal case was opened in Russia on this fact. In addition, Russian legislation does not provide for punishment for such a crime.

In Moscow, unknown people defeated the exhibition of the artist Vasily Blondov called “Heavenly Jerusalem” in the Gallery of Modern Art “11.12” at the “Vincuration”. This was told by the director of the gallery Alexander Sharov. The incident occurred several hours ago.

Presidential Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Moskalkova proposed to enshrine in the legislation the concept of torture of prisoners in colonies, and responsibility for such crimes should be toughened, reports . TASS “The request of society to enshrine the concept of torture in Russian legislation has the right to exist, be studied and possibly included in the legislation,” TASS quoted her as saying.