In the Hospital of Veterans of the Second World War in Yekaterinburg, at the 70th year of life, the head of the local branch of Memorial* Anna Pastukhova died. This was announced by Novaya Gazeta by the Executive Director of the Yekaterinburg Memorial Anatoly Svechnikov. Photo: [Ural Memorial] (https://web.Facebook.com/ekMemorial/?__tn__=-CUC*F) As Svechnikov said, on April 7, Pastukhova took part in the installation ceremony of the “Last Address” plates in Yekaterinburg.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested activists Pavel Krisevich and Anastasia Mikhailova, who staged a street exhibition of paintings in support of political prisoners. This is reported by the "Apology of Protest".

In the Abatsky district in the south of the Tyumen region, a 94-year-old woman, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, was presented with a stale gingerbread from Governor Alexander Moor. about it. writes 72.ru In the video, a relative of the veteran shows that the gingerbread cannot be broken or cut. “Probably, this gingerbread should be sent back to the governor, let him drink tea with him,” says a relative of the veteran.

The German cabinet has agreed to ease restrictions imposed amid the spread of the coronavirus for those who have been vaccinated or have been ill with COVID-19. This, according to Der Spiegel, said the Minister of Justice of Germany, Christine Lambrecht. It is assumed that the resolution may come into force on the weekend after the approval of Parliament.

On May 11, the student of Moscow State University Olga Misik is sentenced to “desecrate the booth” of the Prosecutor General's Office Olga Misik in court. Photo: Irina Buzhor / Kommersant On May 11, a student of the journalism department of Moscow State University Olga Misik, who became known during the Moscow protests of 2019 as a “girl with a constitution” (she publicly read the Basic Law of Russia to police officers) will be sentenced by a criminal article.

A group of State Duma deputies submitted a bill for consideration, which prohibits those involved in the activities of an organization recognized by a court as extremist or terrorist from running for election to the lower house of parliament. The document was published on the website of the State Duma. The deputies propose to ban employees who worked in the organization over the past three years until the day it was recognized by the court as extremist or terrorist.

Alexander Lukashenko stripped more than 80 former Belarusian military personnel and employees of various law enforcement agencies of their ranks for supporting the protesters. The corresponding statement was published on the website of the President of the country. “The servicemen and employees whipped up protest moods in society, organized and participated in unauthorized events, posted extremist materials on the Internet, and called for radical actions,” the decree says.

* In Kansk, was released a 15-year-old defendant in the “case of Kan teenagers” Nikita Uvarov from a pre-trial detention center, who spent almost 11 months under arrest. Earlier, the court ruled to immediately release Uvarov, declaring illegal the extension of the guard on April 6. At the same time, one more teenager remains in a pre-trial detention center and another one is under house arrest.

The Czech opposition demanded the resignation of Jan Gamachek, First Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister of the Czech Republic, after the media published his intention to make a deal with the Russian authorities before making a public statement in connection with the 2014 ammunition depot explosion. “Jan Hamachek must resign immediately, he cannot lead a ministry that is responsible for the security of citizens,” wrote .

The Russian government has imposed a temporary ban on the export of buckwheat, buckwheat groats and peeled buckwheat from the country. The decision is published on the official portal of legal information. The ban will be in effect from June 5 to August 31, buckwheat was included in the list of “vital goods for the domestic market of the Russian Federation”.

In France, an investigation was published about the "atrocities of Russian mercenaries" in the TsA. Here is the most important thing The patrol of Russian mercenaries in the banks, tsar. January 2021. Photo: Nacer Talel / Anadolu Agency / Getty “In the Central African Republic, the victims of Russian atrocities violated the law of silence” - with such a heading, the material in RFI_˟_, the most influential French media in Africa, was published .

Photo: Pavel Chikov / Telegram In Kansk, the 15-year-old defendant of the “Coven teenagers” Nikita Uvarov was released from the pre-trial detention center. This was announced by Novaya Gazeta by lawyer Vladimir Vasin. On April 30, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court ruled immediately, without any conditions and restrictions, to free Uvarov, recognizing the extension of the guard from April 6 illegal. “Only today everything came to prison, and the child at home,” the lawyer said.

Why are the luxury market and ministers grow into a crisis: Dmitry Prokofiev explains the Dmitry Prokofiev Exhibition at the Moscow Hippodrome. Photo: RIA Novosti The Liberal Mission Foundation published a report “Stagnation - 2: consequences, risks and alternatives for the Russian economy” . On the one hand, everything is written there as it is. On the other hand, none of the “persons making decisions” the recommendations of the authors will follow the report. Why so?

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of Novosibirsk has sentenced a local resident Renat Kovalenko to two years and two months of probation for a post on social networks about a rally in support of politician Alexei Navalny on January 31. This was reported on the website of the court. Kovalenko was found guilty of public calls for mass riots (part 3 of article 212 of the Criminal Code) and calls on the Internet to carry out extremist activities (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code).

A court in the French Nanterre (a suburb of Paris) acquitted the leader of the far-right Rally National party, Marine Le Pen, and her fellow party member, MEP Gilbert Collard, in the case of "spreading scenes of violence causing serious damage to human dignity." This is reported by the TV channel BFMTV. The court acknowledged the "violent nature" of the images circulated by the defendants on Twitter, but did not find "proselytism" in their actions.