In Moscow, on the Nikitsky Gate Square, street artist Philippenzo painted a three-dimensional drawing on the pavement, which depicts a killer whale escaping from the nets, according to the website of the Russian branch of the Greenpeace organization. It took the artist four days to create the work. In this way, Greenpeace activists wanted to draw attention to the “whale prison” in Srednyaya Bay near the town of Nakhodka in Primorye, where 10 killer whales and 87 belugas are currently located.

The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that allows the use of bows in hunting as cold throwing weapons, according to the website of the lower house of parliament. The authors of the bill are United Russia deputies Vladislav Reznik and Ernest Valeev. As noted in the explanatory note to the bill, at present, the bow can only be used for sports. The document proposes to define the concept of small arms throwing weapons in the legislation, as well as to allow their use in hunting.

Biblical horrors of Ukrainian elections from masters of Russian propaganda Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" The election day began life -affirming. The Russian TV, exhausted by Ukrainian democracy, took up the digestive tract of Alexei Vorobyov. Elena Malysheva introduced a recording capsule into the singer’s body. Vorobyova pleased the delightful opportunity to represent the personal intestine on Instagram.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has notified the country's Constitutional Council of his early resignation from his post, reported . the Algerie presse service agency after massive protests in Algiers In March, Bouteflika announced that he would not run for a fifth presidential term. He has been in power since 1999. Then he also announced the creation of a new government and the postponement of the presidential elections, previously scheduled for April 18.

In the proceedings in the case of a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro, lawyers were refused a postponement to familiarize themselves with the materials. The defendants announced torture Photo: Elena Lukyanova It took law enforcement agencies for more than a month to deliver 11 suspects and 127 volumes of criminal case materials to St. Petersburg. At the first meeting on April 2, journalists had the impression that Moscow judges did not intend to delay the process.

The opposition movement was self -destructed to stop the pursuit of activists, but this did not stop law enforcement officers Since last week, the “Open Russia” does not disappear from the news headlines: yesterday, 7x7 reported a disruption of the film about the activist of OR Anastasia Shevchenko on March 31 in Saransk.

The Pobeda low-cost airline, which is a subsidiary of Aeroflot, “cannot” buy Russian MC-21 aircraft as an alternative to the American Boeing 737 Max, the participants in the meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov decided. about this RBC was told in his office. The interlocutor of the publication noted that otherwise the economy of the low-cost airline would have been “violated”, which implies a mono fleet of aircraft.

The oil workers agreed to extend the freezing of gas prices in exchange for additional subsidies On Monday, the government’s decision to extend the freezing of gas prices and diesel fuel until July 1 entered into force. New conditions, among other things, suggest increased compensation from the budget for oil companies for deliveries to the domestic market.

British Prime Minister Theresa May said she would ask the European Union (EU) to extend the Brexit deadline in order to "overcome the conflict in the parliament" of the country. It is reported by the BBC. May says she wants the UK exit deadline to be "as short as possible" to May 22. In this case, the country will not participate in the elections to the European Parliament.

Forces from other regions are pulled to Ingushetia to prevent further protest performances Photo: RIA Novosti There is a sequel The conflict from abroad with Chechnya was heated in another Caucasian region-Dagestan. What's happening? The first of April for Ingushetia turned out to be a completely serious day. After the rally in Magas on March 26 and 27 and the news came after them for several days of silence, the news fell one after another.

The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan fined local eco-activist Vera Kerpel 20,000 rubles for a physical exercise near the government building of Tatarstan, which took place in August 2018. this She announced on her VKontakte page. The court found her guilty of organizing a public event without filing a notice (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

A unique exhibition-auction will be held in Moscow Tsoi and Kasparyan at the exhibition "Mitkov". Vk.com “Literature and the art of the Bronze Age” is the name of the collection that will present the “Antiquarium” vauration house “The second”, the uncensional culture. The auction on April 4 is called "Joseph Brodsky and Sergey Dovlatov. Unofficial art and samizdat.

"New" visited a shelter for wild animals that appeared on Moscow streets Photo: Ivan Plotnikov - especially for "New" Where to find a lion cub in a shoe box, which is why the fox is crying, and also: why you can’t select a loud in the forest. Three rarest Javanese macaques, who were nursing two years, left for two years here, left from the near Moscow.

The Arbitration Court of the Irkutsk Region banned Akvasib LLC, the main owner of which is the Chinese company Lake Baikal, from building a plant for bottling drinking water in the village of Kultuk, Slyudyansky District, located on the shores of Lake Baikal. This is stated in the court decision. A lawsuit to invalidate the lease agreement between the company and the local municipality was filed by the Baikal Interregional Environmental Prosecutor's Office.

Why there was no authoritarian economic breakthrough in Russia Thirty years ago, on March 26, 1989, the first relatively democratic elections of people's deputies were held in our country. A dual power arose - the Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR against the Central Committee of the CPSU.