Russian military instructors, advisers and mercenaries from private military companies have appeared and are already actively operating in Central and East Africa. Russian political technologists are involved in the preparation of important elections in several African states. More recently, such news would seem fantastic, but today it is a reality. The Kremlin is rapidly trying to return the influence that the USSR had in many regions of the planet, and even to acquire completely new allies.

Press Freedom Index map The human rights organization "Reporters without borders" (RSF) warns that violations of the press freedom are no longer a prerogative of authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. The group, located in Paris, reports in its Freedom Index in 2017, published on April 25, that "the climate of hatred steadily becomes more noticeable." The index annually evaluates the level of press freedom in 180 countries.

Why are there so many emotions in foreign policy? The foreign policy of the largest countries has become extremely emotional, and the language of politicians and diplomats acquired sharp and even rude forms. When a stable system of relations and institutions begins to fall apart, personal relationships play an increasing role. Russia is used to feeling a great power, but now there are no real resources for this.

The Yabloko party will choose a candidate for mayors of Moscow for primaries in late May. It is expected that about four thousand voters will take part in the preliminary vote. Non -partisan candidates of democratic views can apply for nomination from Yabloko; The participation of members of other parties is prohibited. As the head of the Yabloko election headquarters Nikolai Rybakov noted, at the moment, politician Dmitry Gudkov can already participate in the primaries.

One of the leaders of the "Left Front" Sergey Udaltsov The Moscow City Hall agreed on the holding of the Left Front on the Revolution Square on May 6. This was reported by TASS agency with reference to the Department of Security and Combating Corruption of the Russian Capital. Up to two thousand people will be able to take part in the action, as was indicated in the application submitted on Monday.

Ecologist Valery Brini The court in Adygea awarded one million rubles to the ecologist Valery Brinich as compensation for non -pecuniary damage. For three years, the activist was illegally accused of inciting hatred on a national basis. This was reported by the publication "Mediazon". The compensation will be paid by the Ministry of Finance of Russia. Earlier, the prosecutor of the Republic of Adygea brought his official apology to Brinich.

Danish engineer and inventor Peter Madsen The court in Denmark sentenced the inventor Peter Madsen to the life imprisonment of the inventor for the murder of journalist Kim Vall. This was reported by the agency France Press. #Breaking Danish Inventor Madsen Gets Life Term For Journalist%27s Murder - AFP News Agency (@AFP) April 25, 2018 Investigators believe that Madsen in advance planned the murder of a journalist on board the UC3 Nautilus submarine he constructed.

Children of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and the Minister of Emergency Situations of Azerbaijan Kamadadarov used dozens of offshore companies for investment in business, expensive real estate and modern hotels throughout Europe and the Middle East, journalists from the OCCRP consortium (the investigation of corruption and organized crime) found out . The original publication in Azerbaijani. Russian translation of the TV channel present.

Vladimir Ugov, one of the creators of the poisoning substance "Novice" One developers of the nerve substance "Novice" by Vladimir Carbol was killed by a car was killed by a car. He told The Bell himself about this. According to the scientist, the incident occurred on Tuesday, April 24, under Anapa. Ugov crossed the road at a pedestrian crossing near the house where he lives. At the wheel of the car was an elderly resident of the village who did not try to escape from the scene.

A former employee of the Chelyabinsk pipe factory became the director of the Alexandrinsky Theater of St. Petersburg. Rinat Dosmukhamedov has already met with a new team, the press service of the Ministry of Culture of Russia said . Dosmukhamedov was the deputy general director at the Moscow branch of JSC Chelyabinsk Pipel Plant. Then he worked as a top manager in several commercial banks. He also headed the Russian trade representative in the United States.

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Nikol Pashinyan for protest In Armenia, the Opposition Parliamentary faction "Elk" nominated its leader Nikola Pashinyan for the post of Prime Minister of the country. In order to take this post, Pashinyan will have to enlist the support of 53 deputies of parliament. The Elk party has nine deputies, another opposition party has 31 votes. Most belong to the ruling Republican Party of Armenia. It was a coalition with the Armenian revolutionary federation "Dashnaktsutyun".

Since Roskomnadzor began to block Telegram, a week has passed. The results are all the same: the messenger constantly changing the IP address continues to work, and the sites and services that use the same IP stop working - if at first the companies tied to Amazon cloud servers suffered, now it has come to Google servers, which seriously complicated the life of almost all users of the Runet.

Paper aircraft - symbol of the Telegram messenger - with the inscription "Roskomozor" Since Roskomnadzor began to block Telegram, a week has passed. The results are all the same: the messenger constantly changing the IP address continues to work, and the sites and services that use the same IP stop working - if at first the companies tied to Amazon cloud servers suffered, now it has come to Google servers, which seriously complicated the life of almost all users of the Runet.