The Constitutional Court of Latvia confirmed that all Russian schools should go to the Latvian language Photo: Reuters On April 23, the Constitutional Court of Latvia killed the last hope of supporters of school education in Russian, confirming that the reform, which assumes an almost complete translation of schools of national minorities to Latvian, corresponds to the main law of the country.

Which threatens the Institute of Scientific Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences and whether it is possible to save him Photo: Roman Denisov / TASS This story has been going on for the fifth year. On January 30, 2015, a fire that destroyed a significant part of the building of the institute and its library interrupted the natural course of the life of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAS).

The Ministry of Culture issued a rental certificate to the film by the French director Francois Ozon "by the will of God" about the priest-pedophile on April 29. The press service of the ministry reported this to Interfax. The film was supposed to be released on April 25, and in the morning the first sessions had already taken place on that day.

The North Caucasian District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don fined 38-year-old native of Chechnya Rasambek Bekmurzaev for 80,000 rubles under the article on concealment (Article 316 of the Criminal Code). The press service of the court informed the "Caucasian Knot" about this.

President Donald Trump announced the US withdrawal from the international arms trade treaty. His statement to members of the National Rifle Association leads Reuters. "We are withdrawing our signature," he said, adding that the UN would be notified shortly. Trump called it "another historic step" that will protect the rights of Americans.

UPDATE 22:11 Since the photo was removed from the project site, the direct link in the material was replaced with a copy made using the & WaybackMachine service. The gallery of the participants of the Great Patriotic War "Memory Road" from the Ministry of Defense contained an edited photograph of the alleged leader of the Islamic State, recognized in Russia as a terrorist and banned "Islamic State", Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. to this The blogger @tvjihad drew attention .

UPDATE 21:13 Two prisoners of Matrosskaya & Tishina died of drug poisoning, two more were rescued, said Valery Maksimenko, deputy head of the Federal Penitentiary Service. At the same time, the Moscow Investigative Committee claims that one of the four prisoners died, and three more were hospitalized.

Firefighters of the Krasnoyarsk garrison localized a fire in the finished product workshop of the Krasnoyarsk Biryusa Refrigerator Plant. This was reported by the press service of the governor and the regional government. According to the authorities, the fire was recorded at 19:53 local time, there were no dead or injured.

In Arkhangelsk, police officers drew up a protocol against one of the organizers of the anti-garbage rally, Elena Kalinina, under the so-called “fake news law” (part 10 of article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). about this. Lawyer Aleksey Kuroptev told the regional edition 29.ru The reason for the protocol was a post by Elena Kalinina on VKontakte, which spoke about the location of the march against the construction of a landfill near the Shies station.

The Shcherbinsky District Court refused to satisfy the claim of the Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor's Office (MMTP) for the cancellation of paid check-in for Pobeda flights at foreign airports. It is reported by TASS. The prosecutor's office called the introduction of paid registration illegal. The lawsuit also stated that the 25 euros that Pobeda charges for checking in for flights could be half of the ticket price. This is a significant amount for passengers, according to MMTP.

A federal court in Washington has sentenced Russian woman Maria Butina, accused of working as a foreign agent without the necessary registration, to 18 months in prison, reports The Washington Post. The prosecutor's office demanded the same term for her. The court took into account that the girl pleaded guilty and cooperated with the investigation. Butina herself said in court that she regretted that her actions had damaged Russian-American relations.

UPDATE 19:51 Hungary also suspended deliveries of Russian oil through Druzhba, reported & in the country's largest oil and gas company & MOL Organic chlorine was deliberately thrown into the Druzhba pipeline through the private Samaratransneftterminal, which led to the contamination of Russian oil. This is reported by TASS with reference to the statement of Transneft. “The first results indicate that this pollution was a deliberate act.

Syrian sailors did not pay per diem? This is what the Ministry of Defense thinks about this Photo: Evgeny Lonekov / RIA Novosti The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation responded to the request of Novaya Gazeta about the non -payment of per diem and the failure to provide benefits to sailors who participated in a military operation in Syria. The department said that all employees of the Navy received payments and benefits.

On April 24, human rights activists Oleg Orlov, Svetlana Gannushkina and Tatiana Lokshina visited the head of the Grozny Memorial, Oyub Titiev, who is serving a sentence in colony-settlement No. 3 in Argun. Orlov himself, head of the Hot Spots program of the human rights center, told Novaya Gazeta about this. According to him, Titiev is in a normal condition, he has no serious health problems.

A member of the terrorist organization "Islamic State" banned in Russia was detained in Nalchik on suspicion of planning a "resonant terrorist attack." This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Center for Public Relations of the FSB. The intelligence service said that the man made a homemade bomb, and the suspect received instructions to commit a terrorist attack from curators from Syria.