Konstantin Gaaza - about the labor collective under the roofs of the Kremlin “No,” Vladimir Putin answered the journalist’s question if the time has come to say if he was going to run for the Russian president in 2018. Before the elections - ten months, the official campaign will begin in December. Last summer in Moscow there were rumors that Putin could not go. Now a political science consensus will certainly go.

Messages that in Chechnya since December 2016 they have purposefully delayed homosexuals, beat and torture in secret prisons, struck European politicians, journalists and public activists. British Prime Minister Teresa May called the actions of Chechnya authorities "barbaric atrocities" , and LGBT activists from France called on the International Criminal Court in the Hague to investigate what was happening in Chechnya.

In St. Petersburg, about fifty people came to the Mariinsky Palace, where the city legislative assembly is located in order to demand a referendum on the issue of transferring the Isaac's Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church. Nearby stood auto -zats and police cars, dozens of police and riot police. At first, the watering machine interfered with the folk gathering, the gathered led by deputy Maxim Reznik tried not to miss her, but after a few minutes she still left.

In Washington, before the residence of the ambassador of Turkey, a fight took place between the guards of the embassy - supporters of President Recep Erdogan with the Kurdish and Armenian protesters. Two people were arrested as a result of police intervention. Nine people were injured, local authorities said. The quarrel began in the afternoon of May 16.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

Advisor to Moscow Mayor Vladimir Resin is associated with the Renovation Consortium, which will demolish five -story buildings in the Russian capital, says Transparency International Anti -Corruption Center. According to the authors of the material published on Wednesday, the consortium, which includes S.Holding, MosExpert, Glavmosstroy, Mosproekt and Kalinka Rielti, consists of people close to the receiver.

The chairman of the European Parliament Antonio Tayani and Prime Minister of the chairman of the EU Malta Joseph Muscat signed an agreement on the provision of Ukraine visa-free regime. At the solemn ceremony of signing the agreement held in Strasbourg, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko was present. The agreement will soon be published in the EU Official Journal. 20 days after the publication, the visa -free regime for citizens of Ukraine will enter into force.

Ireland Prime Minister End Kenny leaves the post of leader of the liberal-conservative party of Fena Gel. Kenny, who was headed by the party for almost 15 years, said that he would not lead the Fine Gael for future elections, but would fully concentrate on the work of the head of government. Until June 2, the party will choose a new leader. The most likely applicants are the Minister of Social Protection Leo Varakar or the Minister of Housing Construction Simon Koveni.

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US President Donald Trump said that “no policy in history” was worse than him. Speaking on Wednesday to graduates of the Coast Guard Academy in the city of New Longon (Connecticut), the president commented on the situation in the White House after he resigned the director of the FBI James Komi. It was the Komi that the investigation of the possible connection of the Trump election headquarters with the Kremlin during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Member of the US Congress Al Green called for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Speaking on Wednesday in the House of Representatives, the congressman criticized the president’s actions and stated that the American people not only choose the head of state, but also controls his everyday actions for which he is responsible to the people. Rep.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Tatyana Moskalkova, acted on Wednesday in the State Duma with a report on her activities for 2016. What the Russian Ombudsman said and was said about - the human rights activists - Svetlana Gannushkin, the chairman of the Civil Promotion Committee, Lev Ponomarev, Executive Director of the All -Russian Public Movement for Human Rights, Valentin Gifter, Executive Director of the Institute of Human Rights.

Why are serial prisons in Russian prisons. In the Radio Studio Liberty, the head of the human rights project "Zone Law" Sergey Petryakov and a member of the Moscow Public Supervisory Commission, journalist of the newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets" Eva Mercachev. In the video from Yekaterinburg - lawyer Alexei Bushmakov and a member of the public observation commission of Tatarstan Albert Zaripov.

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Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin The bill on guarantees to residents of demolished five -story buildings, which Mayor Sergei Sobyanin was submitted to the Moscow City Duma last Saturday, demands significant improvements, Kommersant reports with reference to the review of the Moscow prosecutor's office. The department noted that the law does not determine the legal consequences of the decision to exclude the house from the renovation program, which can be adopted at the general meeting of owners.