Certificates of persecution of gays, which are kept in secret prisons in Chechnya, beat, torture and even kill, caused indignation in many countries. An international appeal to Vladimir Putin and the Russian government has collected more than a million signatures in a few days. The concern was expressed by the US representative at the UN, condemned the State Department repressions, the action of LGBT activists was held by the Russian embassy in London.

"I am drawing a revolution!" - This is the name of an exhibition of children's drawings, which opened in the State Historical Museum. The exposition presents more than 150 drawings from the museum collection. The drawings exhibited in the State Historical Museum were mainly performed by students of two Moscow educational institutions: I.I. Real School Alexandrova and the male gymnasium named after M.V. Lomonosov.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev upon arrival in Bishkek President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev suggested legally to prohibit young people to let go of a beard, and girls "completely cover themselves with black robes." This was announced today by the press service of the president following the meeting of Nazarbayev with representatives of the spiritual department of Muslims of Kazakhstan.

Frauke Petri The Chairman of the German Evrosceptics "Alternative for Germany" Frauke Petri will not represent the faction in the parliamentary elections in September. Thus, she refused to claim the post of Chancellor of Germany, reports Deutsche Welle. The new representative in the Bundestag will be selected at the party congress at the end of April. Petri curled up in the party there was a split.

Vladimir Putin and Rex Tilleryson at the ceremony of signing the Kotrakt Exxonmobil and Rosneft June 15, 2012 The US oil concern Exxonmobil asks the US Department of Finance to allow him to resume joint projects with Rosneft on the Black Sea, which were frozen after Rosneft became the object of American sanctions imposed for the annexation of Russia of Crimea and supporting separatists in eastern Ukraine. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal .

Gerard Reve (1923–2006) "Gerard Reve is one of the largest writers of the post -war Netherlands. His role in homosexual emancipation is difficult to overestimate. For both of these reasons, Revo deserves admiration. All the more bitter to observe what has been happening to him recently," the Het Parool newspaper writes in January 1983, making an apology to readers for published on a Saturday application Interview with the writer.

Archive photo On the territory of one of the military units of Iraq against military instructors from the United States and Australia, poisoning GAZ IPRIT was used. According to the CBS television channel, the Islamic State Extremist group, which was prohibited in Russia, made a chemical attack. The TV channel clarifies that only Iraqi military were injured from poisonous substances. Advisers from the USA and Australia did not apply for medical help.

Not all people think the same. There are different points of view, many of them are in the "faces of time." Leading Vladimir Kara-Murza proposes to agree, clarify, supplement and argue, make the program a discussion club.

Roman Seleznev with a family in Sochi, archive photo In the United States, Roman Seleznev, the son of State Duma deputy Valery Seleznev, was signed in the USA, signed confessions. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to court documents. The prosecutor demanded for him 30 years of imprisonment. Seleznev’s lawyers asked the court to reduce the sentence, taking into account the recognition of the accused. The verdict will be announced on April 21 at the trial in Seattle.

Medvedev promised that the authorities would not be distracted by speculation and empty conflicts Conflicts in the upcoming presidential elections in Russia are beneficial to those who want the country's isolation, the head of government said Dmitry Medvedev during the annual report in the State Duma.

A video appeared on the network confirming that the authorities decided to fight Navalny "like Hitler" The Rain TV channel , citing sources close to the Kremlin, said that the presidential administration plans to begin the "Campaign to discredit Navalny", for which a special department under the leadership of Alexander Kharichev has already been created in the domestic policy management. The same is written in anonymous channels in Telegram: By the way!

Russia is unique not only its largest territory on the planet, not only by its 1917 revolution, but also by the fact that for several generations it has been living in war. The Great Patriotic War, which claimed more than a dozen millions of millions of lives of Soviet citizens, caused severe psychological trauma to all nations living in the territory of a huge country. Since the beginning of the 70s, the authorities began to deliberately speculate on the tragedy of this war.

FSB special operation, archive photo The Federal Security Service of Russia reported a shootout in the Vladimir region, as a result of which two suspects in terrorism were killed. The department told Interfax that the dead were immigrants from Central Asia, maintained contact with the recruiters of an unnamed international terrorist organization and prepared terrorist attacks on the territory of Russia. They showed armed resistance during detention.

The problems that foreign mortgages face in Russia are not force majeure, the head of government Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. He emphasized that when concluding contracts, borrowers should calculate risks in advance, including those associated with a change in the exchange rate. At the same time, Medvedev, answering the deputy’s question from “Fair Russia”, assured that the authorities would help borrowers who were in a difficult situation.

The success of reforms in Ukraine directly depends on Western sanctions against Russia. This was stated by President Petro Poroshenko, speaking in London.