In the framework of the counter -sanctions that the State Duma intends to consider on May 15, the import of alcoholic beverages from the United States and "other foreign states", unfriendly Russia, may be prohibited. The State Duma speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said that the law would give the government the opportunity to introduce restrictions on the import of any goods, if it turns out to be "replaced by ...

About a dozen civil activists reached the agreed picket to the government of the Government of the Novosibirsk Region. This was reported by the site "Siberia. Reals" . The picketers demanded the resignation of the head of the region Andrei Travnikov and the rupture of concession agreements on the construction of an automobile bridge across the Ob River and two garbage plants with two landfills in the suburbs of Novosibirsk. “They simply give us to debt slavery.

Students in the magistracy have the right to continuous higher education and can use a delay from the army during their studies, even if it is the third in the row. This decision was made on Tuesday by the Constitutional Court of Russia, RIA Novosti reports . The judges obliged the legislators to amend the federal law.

An attempt to block the Telegram messenger in Russia, which refused to convey the keys of the FSB, has turned into an Internet trip with a large number of affected civilians. Roskomnadzor blocked millions of IP addresses, interfering with the work of many Internet services that are not related to Telegram. Roskomnadzor himself suffered losses: on Tuesday, his site was subjected to several DDOS attacks and became unavailable for some time.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes a lecture in Havana, November 16, 2016 (Archive photo) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Canada reported that he is recalling the families of diplomatic personnel in Cuba, since he is studying "unusual symptoms associated with health", which are complained by the embassy employees in Havana.

A picket of deceived equity holders in Gelendzhik. April 11 In the Krasnodar Territory , in the village of Divnomorskoye on April 17, about a hundred people, mostly affected by equity holders, pray to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Cyril to “protect them from godless power” in the person of the head of Gelendzhik Viktor Khrestin. Their pickets under the motto "Do not wish your neighbor's housing!" Organized near an object known as the “Patriarch Dacha” .

OMON fighters, archive photo OMON employees beat 13 people at the Tomsk Center for the temporary detention of foreign citizens, one of them was hospitalized. This was reported today by members of the Public Supervisory Commission. According to the member of the PMC Alexander Paltusov, the incident occurred on April 12. The victims reported that the head of the center was present during the beating. He refused to comment on the situation.

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Edward Snowden participates in a conference on video communication with an audience of the School of Law in Buenos Aires, November 14, 2016 An ignorant attempt of censorship was called by the former employee of the US National Security Agency Edward Snowden Mass attack of Roskomnadzor on the IP address used by Telegram. Snowden published his entry on Twitte on April 17.

The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia denies reports that businessman Valery Pshenichichnaya was tortured before death in one of the pre-trial detention centers of St. Petersburg. Earlier, the New Gazeta published a material stating that traces of torture were found on the body of the entrepreneur. The press service of the FSIN refused to comment on the details of the investigation of the death of the businessman.

In the Krasnodar Territory, in the village of Divnomorskoye on April 17, about a hundred people, mostly injured equity holders, pray to Patriarch Kirill to “protect them from godless power” in the person of the head of Gelendzhik Viktor Khrestin. Their pickets under the motto "Do not wish your neighbor's housing!" Organized near an object known as the “Patriarch Dacha”.

On the streets of Yerevan April 17, 2018 In Yerevan, the police detained at least 29 activists who protest against the actions of legislators who nominated Serge Sargsyan to the post of prime minister, which will provide him with practically lifelong rule.

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The National Assembly (Parliament) of Armenia by a majority vote approved Serzh Sargsyan by Prime Minister of the country. A few hours later, by decree of the President of Armenia, Sargsyan was appointed head of government. According to the constitutional reform of 2015, Sargsyan received the fullness of power . On the streets of Yerevan for several days, protests are held against the stay of Sargsyan in power. The Armenian Radio Liberty Service shows reports from Yerevan.