Sergey Magnitsky On Wednesday evening, a reception was held in Washington, dedicated to the family of Hermitage Capital, who died in the Moscow pre -trial detention center, Sergei Magnitsky. The memorable event was attended by Russian and American politicians, businessmen, public figures.

Ekaterina Samutsevich, 2013 At the opening of the LGBT festival " BOK O BOC " awarded to Ekaterina Samutsevich from Pussy Riot. Ekaterina Samutsevich received a "Brave tail" prize for the most daring act in support of LGBT in the field of ... Instagram.com/p/yqifvuthnm/ - Gabriel Poinsot (@g_poinsot) April 18, 2013

Kostroma The Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in extremism became interested in the participants of the reloading of the renewal in February in February in Kostroma : where Russian-American relations are moving, where the Deputy Minister for Political Issues of the US Embassy in Russia, Goard Solomon. Today, the employees of the E -E Center visited Andrei Markov, an assistant to the deputy of the Kostroma Regional Duma, who also heads the local branch of the Western Choice party.

The action "One day - one name" in support of the accused in the case of the riots on May 6 continues, today is the day of Nikolai Caucasian. Here's what the organizers of the action write about him: "Nicholas 27 years old, his parents are musicians. He positions himself as a left-handed social democrat.

Today, at 7.20, three Izhevsk pediatricians made an official statement about the beginning of a hunger strike against the non -compliance of the Labor Code, the introduction of penalties and low wages.

The state prosecution appealed to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation an acquittal against former judge Irina Glebova in Novosibirsk, who returned the parental rights to Father-Narcoman in 2011-and he soon killed his two-year-old daughter. According to the senior assistant prosecutor of the region Natalia Markova, on April 18, the state prosecutor appealed to the ex-Suder's acquittance to the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

The fact that President Obama will make a trip to Boston was announced on Tuesday, on the day when the president unequivocally called the terror acting in the city. Three people died in Boston, one hundred and seventy -six were injured. Fifty -eight people are currently discharged from hospitals, seventeen are in serious condition. The ecumenical, that is, designed for representatives of all faiths, the memorial service takes place in the Boston Historical Cross Cathedral called South End.

The report of the Public Commission, the participants of which analyzed witness testimonies about what happened on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012, was published. The conclusions are expected for everyone who monitors public processes in Russia: clashes provoked by the police, there are no grounds for such a massive and biased bringing civil activists to criminal liability. "Prisoners of Bolotnaya", meanwhile, are in prisons. We’ll talk about this in the program.

Cannes Film Festival, 2013 Films are announced that will participate in the main competition of the 66th Cannes Film Festival, outside the competition and in the program "Special View". In the competition of 19 films, including new paintings by Abladetif Keshish, Nicholas Winding Refne, Stephen Sodaberg, Francois Ozone, Coenes brothers, Takashi Miike, Arno de Palier and Jia Zhanke. The full list can be viewed on the festival website .

Eyewitnesses evidence begin to appear on social networks. People write that smoke from burning chemicals corrodes the eyes; Breathing is hard. The teenager says that neither his school nor his home is no longer. The local journalist Matthew Watkins talked with an eyewitness. "His truck was demolished from the road in a quarter from the explosion. His girlfriend was unconscious for about 20 minutes."

Here is another photograph that gives a good idea of the scale of destruction due to explosion at a fertilizer factory in the city of West, Texas:

Viktor Markovich Zhivov at a rally on Sakharov Avenue in the summer of 2012. Photo of Barbara Babitskaya Philologist, linguist, researcher of ancient Russian literature, literature and culture of the 18th century, Russian language and its existence in culture in general, the history of the church.

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