About 70 participants in the protest shares were detained on Saturday in Armenia. These are the latest police data. The Armenian police stated that "unauthorized meetings" would stop. In Yerevan, as well as other cities of the country on Saturday morning, massive anti -government protests resumed. This is the ninth day of protests against the appointment of former President of Armenia Serge Sargsyan Prime Minister. Protesters block car travel along the main streets and government buildings.

For protests by representatives of trade union organizations of Ukraine What is the secret to the success of the Prozorro public procurement program? Vitaly Portnikov: Prozorro state procurement program is considered one of the most successful reforming projects of the Ukrainian authorities. What is the secret of success? This is our broadcast today, but at first the plot of my colleague Vladimir Ivakhnenko .

At the place of use of chemical poisonous substances, April 7, the city of Duma, Syria (screenshot) The mission of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons visited on Saturday, April 21, one of the districts in the city of Duma, in Syria, to collect samples in connection with suspicions that chemical weapons were used on April 7. According to the results of today's trip, OPCW will analyze the situation and decide on a possible new trip to the Duma.

In the Kyiv studio of Radio Liberty we discuss Ukraine after the Maidan. Will Ukrainians be able to build a democratic European state? How are the relations of Ukraine and Russia developing? Is a full dialogue possible between different regions of the country? We discuss all these and many other issues with politicians, journalists and experts.

Why did Jesus forbade people to call people fools? There is a commandment in the Nagoric sermon: do not call your neighbor a fool. The scripture does not say that the value of a person is in the strength of his intellect - it is in something else. The word sometimes does not just hurt, but can kill psychologically: a person can carry this load all his life. The main thing is that a person is in his place. People with not very high intelligence should not solve state problems.

LGBT action in St. Petersburg (archive) In St. Petersburg, on the art Square, HIV-infected LGBT activist Boris Konakov chained himself with a chain to the oak and doused his hawthorn. He spent the performance in response to the words of the deputy Peter Tolstoy, who on the air of the Russia-1 channel proposed to be treated with folk remedies if the import of drugs from the United States is banned in Russia.

The British police and special services identified the main suspects in the poisoning in Salisbury of the former GRU agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. They are located in Russia. This is written by The Telegraph newspaper with reference to sources. The newspaper does not name the names of the suspects, but emphasizes that recently in the investigation of the attempt on the Skripals there has been a "breakthrough".

Actress Nina Doroshina during the collection of the troupe of the Theater "Contemporary" In Moscow , the People's Artist of the RSFSR Nina Doroshina died . Its most famous role in the cinema is the role of hope in the film by Vladimir Menshov "Love and Pigeons." Doroshina was 83 years old. TASS reports about her death. For many years, since the late 1950s, Doroshina played on the stage of the Moscow Contemporary Theater.

Egor Chernyuk, coordinator of Navalny’s headquarters in Kaliningrad, one of the heroes of Andrei Loshak’s film “ The age of disagreement ”, the nominee for the Boris Nemtsov Prize for the courage to defend democratic values in Russia, was forced to urgently go abroad. Yegor, like other supporters of Navalny, was detained and interrogated by police officers and the “E” center during the entire election campaign.

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Why did Jesus forbade people to call people fools? This release of the program is dedicated to fools. A whole country, the Russian Federation, despite the constitution, scripture, and so on, as one of the cornerstones of its existence, considers it necessary to condemn fools. Why in the Gospel, in the Nagoric sermon, this commandment is standing: "Do not call your neighbor a fool." Our guest is the Orthodox priest Roman Zaitsev and psychologist Alexander Imashev.

Was the White House ready to introduce new sanctions as a punishment for cooperation in Moscow with Assad? Did Russia save inaction after allies blows on targets in Syria? Has the Kremlin and close billionaires for sanctions developed? Should Russians pay for supporting the actions of their government?

The Co-Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced on Friday that he was suspended all the nuclear missile tests, and also closes the landfill on which the last six nuclear explosions were made. US President Trump responded to Pyongyan's statement by a Twitter message, evaluating this news as “good news for both North Korea and the whole world” and adding that he is waiting for a meeting with the North Korean leader. North Korea Has Agreed to Suspend All Nuclear Tests and Close Up A Major Test Site.

The rally for revising the "Renovation Program" in the interests of the waiting list and residents of emergency houses was held in Moscow. The organizers were acted by the activists of the Muscovites Against Demolishing movement and the Yabloko party, led by Sergei Mitrokhin, who intends to run for mayors of the capital. About three hundred people took part in the action. Supporters of the Renovation Program did not come to support the protesters.

Battles in the south of Damascus Syrian rebels leave another district in the vicinity of Damascus, which they held for several years. Under the threat of government forces, the fighters of the armed opposition agreed to leave several cities in the Vostochny Kalamun region to the north of Syria along with families. The territory will go under the control of the forces of Bashar al -Assad. The agreement was reached with the participation of Russia.