Gancations against the Kremlin regime, caused primarily by its aggression against Ukraine, have been operating for almost four years. Russian raw material kleptonomics has stagnated since 2010 and is not capable of any creative development. Sanctions that limit access to external financing and Western technologies exacerbate this state. The collapse of the economy can now come faster, say, not after 6 years, but after 3 years.

In the pavilion of the first international exhibition Cannabis Expo in Athens, January 2018 The organizers of the hemp march in St. Petersburg refused to conduct it. Earlier, the fact that the city authorities agreed for the decriminalization of marijuana on May 5, said one of the organizers of the event, lawyer Arkady Chaplygin. According to Chaplygin, the district leaders who agreed on the event are “tremendous pressure from law enforcement officers”.

Students and researchers of Moscow universities conducted an action against the fan zone of the World Cup, standing in a chain between the main building of Moscow State University and the territory, where it is planned to equip a site for fans. More than 150 people took part in the action. They demanded that the fan zone move to another place.

72-year-old Joseph James Diangelo, who is accused of committing many cruel crimes, appeared in the courtroom. Diangelo, a former policeman and diluted father of three children, was arrested on Wednesday in his house in the city of Sacramento, California. The accusation claims that it is precisely he should be considered a "killer from the Golden State", the search for which has been held for many decades. Diangelo managed to go out thanks to DNA analysis, Voice of America said.

"Academician Lomonosov" Ecologists have expressed fear in connection with the operation of the world's first floating nuclear power plant "Academician Lomonosov", which left St. Petersburg on Saturday and headed towards Murmansk. This is stated in the press release of the Greenpeace of Russia, distributed on Saturday. On its way, the platform will pass through Estonian, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian waters, and plan to use it near coastal lines.

“Without Putin, none of this would be possible” - such a toast suggested at a party on the azure bank the executive director of Sotrama . "This company laundered millions and millions of euros a month for its maternal company Horizon Oil Terminal in St. Petersburg.

The Russian Internet Ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev called the Telegram messenger blocking the mechanism of blocking the service not to fight, but with the authors of illegal content allegedly placed on it. In an interview with RIA Novosti, Marinichev suggested that the struggle of Roskomnadzor with Telegram could last forever, since the messenger cannot limit access through the blocking of IP addresses.

Natalia Veselnitskaya Russian lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya, who met during the American presidential campaign with Donald Trump Jr. and other advisers of presidential candidate Donald Trump, closely collaborated in the recent past with Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. This recognition was made by Veselnitskaya herself in an interview for the NBC television company . Veselnitskaya became known for a wide audience last year as a man who promised Donald Trump Jr.

The Police of St. Petersburg requires the Director General of “Rain” Natalya Sindeeva to inform the whereabouts of the former editor-in-chief of the channel Roman Badanin, who is now studying in the United States. This was announced on Friday evening by the publication "Open Media". According to him, Sindeeva also received a summons for the interrogation of the correspondent of "rain" by Maria Zholobova and producer Daria Zhuk.

Protest Protest in Gyumri, Armenia, April 27, 2018 Armenian President Armen Sargsyan met with former Prime Minister Sergei Sargsyan and acting head of government Karen Karapetyan. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the president. The report notes that Sargsyan continues political consultations to reduce the level of internal political tension.

At least six people were killed, eight were injured as a result of undermining a suicide bomber in the city of Galkayo in Somalia. Among the dead are several military. It is reported by the Somali edition of Garowe Online. Reuters notes that the Ash Shabab group, which has connections with the al-Qaeda terrorist organization, has taken responsibility for the explosion. Ash Shabab was created in 2014. She is the East African branch of Al-Qaeda.

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The police are preparing for an opposition action in Moscow, archival photos Activists of the "Young Guard of United Russia" are not going to go out on the streets on May 5 and 6 and to confront with the participants in the opposition shares. This was announced by the Russian BBC service by the chairman of the coordination council of movement Denis Davydov. He also claims that information about the creation of street detachments to counteract the opposition is not true.

The reduction in Oleg Deripaska’s share in EN+ will not necessarily lead to the exclusion of the company from the sanctions list. This was reported in the US Department of Finance. "A reduction in the share of property of the person who fell under sanctions is not necessarily the basis for excluding from the list," the Reuters agency said in the response of the Ministry of Finance.

The Kulebaksky plant is one of the oldest metallurgical enterprises in Russia, founded in 1866 in the city of Kulebaki of the Nizhny Novgorod Region by a college assessor Fedorov and Vyksunsky merchant Borodachev. Dmitry Kubasov’s film tells about the modern life of the plant, which has not changed much over the past 100 years. The film "Kulebaki" is a participant in the "Wednesday" program at the Artdokfest-2018 International Film Festival.