In the Ukrainian city of Zaporozhye, local authorities dismantled the 20-meter monument to Vladimir Lenin on March 17-18. It was installed in 1964. In May 2015, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a law on condemning the communist and Nazi regimes, which involves, among other things, and the dismantling of all monuments of these eras. Show more To curtail

Seeking in the case of terrorist attacks in Paris Abdeslam (left) and Abdelhamid Abaud Salah Abdeslam, perhaps one of the two hidden from the police this week during the raid in Brussels The Belgian prosecutor's office reported on the previously found in the course of the raid in the apartment in Brussels fingerprints, which belong to a fugitive participant in the November terrorist attacks in Paris Salah Abdeslam.

In Yekaterinburg, in the festive campaign, which are held throughout the country under the general slogan of the "Crimean", several patriotic racks, student movements and representatives of Diaspor took part. Radio correspondent Freedom talked with demonstrators and found out that many of them know almost nothing about the Crimea.

Syrian troops "slowly advance" to the city of Palmyra Russian military aviation provides support to the Syrian troops advancing on Palmyra. The ancient monument city is under the control of the extremist group "Islamic State" (prohibited in Russia).

Vasya Oblomov became known as the author of acute satirical songs in 2010. In December 2011, he was one of the few Russian musicians who took part in the rally for fair elections. Vasya Oblomov spoke about his current perception of life in Russia in an interview with Radio Liberty.

People's Memorial "Nemtsov bridge" The People’s Memorial on the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge was organized immediately after the murder of Boris Nemtsov on the night of February 28, 2015 At the Nemtsov Most People’s Memorial in Moscow, the night duty officer was detained by Andrei Darclayite. This was reported by the website of the OVD-Info project. The police took the activist to the China-Gorod branch. The reasons for the detention are still unknown.

The leadership of the radio station called on the authorities of Azerbaijan, pardoning several political prisoners, to free Ismailov Radio Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty expresses concern in connection with the fact that journalist Hadiga Ismailov remains in the prison, while the authorities of Azerbaijan released several political prisoners on Thursday. “We are very happy for those journalists, human rights activists and activists who were released from the imprisonment ...

Two -thirds of Russian enterprises call the main problem of import substitution the detachment of Russian analogues In Russian industry - spring exacerbation of optimism. Why would it? Experts of the Yegor Gaidar Institute of Economic Policy in Moscow, regularly calculating the so-called “industrial optimism index”, noted a sharp increase in March, although in February this index was at a 6-year minimum.

The seven -month -old girl was in intensive care after two injections made by the ambulance paramedic The court in Transbaikalia decided to recover from the Karymskaya city hospital in Chita more than 165 thousand rubles of compensation in favor of the Medvedev spouses for the harm caused by their seven -month child as a result of an injection of drugs contraindicated in young children. This was reported by lawyer Anastasia Kopteeva.

On the map of Russia suddenly appeared a small, but in its own way the “hot” point - and maybe hot even without quotes. Even at the beginning of the week, few except Tulyaks knew about the small village of Plekhanovo. Now there (or rather, in a small gypsy village inside the village itself), a serious conflict broke out: with fights, pogroms and special forces. The subject of the dispute is gas.

Julia Galyamina - On the attack on activists

The construction of a skyscraper on the border of the Dubka park entered the active phase on March 7, which caused a sharp discontent of the residents of the district In Moscow on Friday, during a protest against the construction of a high -rise building on the border of the Dubka park, representatives of a private security company attacked activists, as a result of which one woman was injured. The Radio Liberty was told by public figure Julia Galyamin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin oversees the military, nuclear and space industry in the Russian government The deputy of the Moscow Regional Duma, the son of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Rogozin will be appointed to the post of Deputy Director of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense.

Datsik in the first interview, after liberation, said that prisoners in IK-31, where he was serving his sentence, were beaten and used as free labor The head of the Krasnoyarsk correctional colony number 31 Samvel Mkrtchyan intends to hold the former convicted person Vyacheslav Datsik, known under the nickname "Red Tarzan." On March 17, Datsik gave the defending head of the IK-31 interview, in which he publicly offended the head of the correctional institution, according to a message on the