Michael Vesner, Deputy State Secretary of the United States for Democracy and Human Rights, believes that the situation with freedom of speech worsens everywhere around the world except the States of the “Arab Spring” and Myanmar, RBC reports.

On Thursday, the Kiev District Court of Kharkov began preliminary hearings on a new criminal case against the ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, UNIAN reports. Already at the beginning of the meeting, the court refused to defend Tymoshenko to satisfy the request for the allocation of the prosecutor Viktor Lobach. Kharkov, the Kyiv court, motivated his decision by the fact that this discharge is not sufficiently justified.

On April 19, unknown people shot a businessman in the center of Moscow, RIA Novosti reports. The criminals opened fire on the SUV, in which there were a driver and a passenger . As a result of the attack, the man born in 1959 from the wounds received on the spot, his companion, born in 1986, was wounded and hospitalized, Interfax reports. The victims of the killers were discovered in the Toyota Land Cruiser car, parked near the house No. 6 in the Presnensky shaft.

At the building of the Tagansky court of Moscow, the police dispersed an unauthorized action in support of the Pussy Riot participants, Interfax reports. An hour before the official beginning of a meeting in the case of the participants of the feminist punk group near the court building in Marxist Lane, about 20 people were detained.

Experts record the growth of the strike movement in Russia. Rosstat will not help here, but there is data on the Internet. It seems that this is not just a fixation method or a self -organization mechanism, but also a new type of strike. From the network to offline: Pure "Swamp". “Swamp” in general - naturally, a strike is not only in this sense. You all rally in your Moscow, but in Russia, you see, the peak of popular discontent! No, not a "bloody regime", but because of money.

The Bureau of the Presidium of the Central Council of Fair Russia adopted a special appeal to Socialist Revolutionary Oleg Shein with a request to suspend the hunger strike in Astrakhan, the party’s press service reports. The appeal, signed by the chairman of the party Nikolai Levichv, refers to the decision to make a collective appeal to Oleg Shein with a request to suspend the hunger strike until the decision is made by the relevant courts.

Participants in the Youth Environmental Forum “Civil Campaign”, organized by the Prochrevsky movement “Local”, decided to create an ecological civil coalition “Ecoatak”. As reported on the website of the organizer of the forum - the movement of young political environmentalists “Local” , which is part of the headquarters of uniform actions, to the Forum “Civil Campaign”, which passed On April 18, in Golitsyno near Moscow, E -coologue from 40 regions of Russia gathered .

Experts record the growth of the strike movement in Russia. Rosstat will not help here, but there is data on the Internet. It seems that this is not just a fixation method or a self -organization mechanism, but also a new type of strike. From the network to offline: Pure "Swamp". “Swamp” in general - naturally, a strike is not only in this sense. You all rally in your Moscow, but in Russia, you see, the peak of popular discontent! No, not a "bloody regime", but because of money.

Moscow entered the top three of the most green capitals of the world - each resident of the capital accounts for more than 20 square meters of green spaces, the Department of Urban Policy of the city of Moscow said on April 19. Last year alone, 21 thousand trees and about 62 thousand shrubs were planted in Moscow. This year it is planned to plant about 40 thousand and 99 thousand trees and shrubs, respectively.

The Norwegian police prevented an attempt to penetrate the neo -Nazi into the court of the court in Oslo, where the process of the accused of terrorism Anders Breivik is taking place, Novinite.com reports. The detainee said that he was just curious to see what was happening in the courtroom. The police noted that the violator is already familiar with law enforcement agencies - this is a neo -Nazi, who several years ago threw a grenade into the crowd on the procession on May 1 in Oslo.

The separation of the functions of the governor and the head of the government of the Moscow Region can lead to conflicts surrounded by Sergey Shoigu . This was stated by political analyst Mikhail Remizov, the website of RIA Novosti reports. In his opinion, the posts of the governor and the head of government are more correct to fix with one person .

Sergei Soldatenkov, who headed Megafon for almost nine years, leaves the company ahead of time. Under the contract, he was supposed to be finalized until June, but next week the company will be headed by Ivan Tavrin, the current first deputy leader, reports Vedomosti (No. 71, of April 19). The fact that Soldatenkov does not plan to renew the expiring contract was known in January. Today the newspaper claims that he can lead the Ministry of Communications.

The judge, in the framework of the case of the requirement to recognize the extremist publication of businessman Boris Berezovsky on the website of the Echo Moskvy radio station, considers the opportunity to call the entrepreneur himself, Interfax reports. “Who is B. Berezovsky? It is necessary to install the source and the author. They can be persons interested in the case, ”said Judge Igor Kananovich at a meeting on Thursday.

Russian automakers refused to cooperate with Rosmolodezh in organizing a large -scale action - the International Youth Auto Railway "Victory roads", which starts on May 5. According to Izvestia , the Rosmolodezhi "discouraged" the results of the search for sponsors among Russian automakers, who took several months. “Automobile manufacturers were asked for three cars, possibly with drivers at the expense of the organizers.

OJSC RVK and the Primum corporate and financial communications agency completed a pilot project to increase the efficiency of communication strategies for innovative products, the RVC press service said on April 19. The project implemented as part of the RVC program to stimulate demand for innovative products ended in April 2012. “Startup teams operating in conditions of limited monetary resources are often trying to save on marketing and PR.