Riots in Riga in January 2009 In Latvia for participating in the January riots of 2009, the musician, a researcher of folklore and public figure, Ansis Ataol Berzins, is serving a real prison term. He threw two snowballs, an empty plastic bottle and cobblestone, which broke the Sejm window. At the same time, the articles on which he was convicted was already not in the country's Criminal Code.

Valentina Matvienko The chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, during a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovin, called for the abolition of the international administration, which has been operating since the end of the war 1992-1995, and opposed the expansion of NATO in the Balkans. The first trip of Matvienko to Bosnia and Herzegovin takes place with exceptional security measures.

Former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili congratulated the Armenian people and predicted to him a "great future." At the same time, he hinted to the Georgian authorities that they should prepare for similar events.

The defendants in the case of the so -called "Primorsky partisans", to whom the jury previously issued the indictment for the murder of four people, in the last word declared their innocence. The day before, the prosecutor requested for accused from eight to 25 years in prison. The case is considered for the third time. The meeting is held in the Primorsky Regional Court in Vladivostok.

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One of the episodes of the All -Russian protest campaign "Voter strike", Dagestan (date is not indicated) The Kirov Regional Court canceled the decisions on the fines of the participants of the "Stuffers of voters" Alexander Tyurin and Ilya Laptev. This was reported by VKontakte Activist of Open Russia Vadim Ananin, who acted as a defender at Tyurin and Laptev.

In the Investigative Committee of Russia, on Tuesday, the director and organizer of the Artdoxfest documentary film festival Vitaly Mansky was interviewed. The survey was held as part of the audit on the statement of the State Duma deputy from “Fair Russia” by Anatoly Greshnevikov, who complained to the Investigative Committee on Artdokfest, saying that the festival “Propaganda of National Rapis” and “Stiting Hate” to the Russian people was taking place.

Mine "Young Kommunar" in the Donbass The Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe is discussing the possibility of contacting the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for inspection at the Yunkok mine, located on the part of the Donbass, not controlled by the Ukrainian government.

The first frame of the plot in the Vesti Week program dated April 24, dedicated to the "White Helmes" and a chemical attack in the Duma Russian TV managed to use shots from two feature films at once for “exposing” the Syrian “white helmets”: one propaganda, shot by order of the Syrian government, the other - anti -Asadov, telling about the attack using Zarin in 2013.

The Moscow City Court upheld the verdict to the former director of the library of Ukrainian literature Natalia Sharina, whom human rights activists consider the victim of political repressions *** can be called the “color revolution” of the events in Armenia, which led to the resignation of Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan? *** The Petersburg Union of Scientists called for the transfer of scientists to incomplete rates for the purpose imitate the implementation of the May decrees of Putin

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The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, in an interview with Russia 24, said the registry office was invented "for insidious purposes." “Why do the registry office be needed? In order to pull the property when they divorce. <...> The registry office is the first step taken by the law in order to destroy the family,” said Ramzan Kadyrov, Kommersant said . The head of Chechnya added that he was not going to raise the issue of the legislative resolution of polygamy.

The Russian IT-Holding Mail.ru Group helps Roskomnadzor in the fight against the Telegram messenger, says Internet activists who monitor locks. According to them, Mail.ru "scanning the Internet" and informs Roskomnadzor about private VPN and proxy services related to Telegram. There is no confirmation of this information from other sources yet. The representative of Mail.ru commented on these messages: “We also learned about it from telegram activists tonight.

On Tuesday, the Moscow City Court upheld the verdict to the former director of the library of Ukrainian literature Natalia Sharina, convicted of four years conditionally on charges of extremism and embezzlement in June last year. This was announced by her lawyer Ivan Pavlov. The Mosgorsud began to be examined on Friday, but postponed the meeting on April 24. However, on April 20, employees of the press service of the Moscow City Court informed reporters that the appeal of the ball was rejected.