Searches in the Crimea (archive photo) In Bakhchisarai, in the annexed Crimea, the FSB officers detained two Crimean Tatars on charges of participating in the Islamic organization Hizb Ut-Tahrir prohibited in Russia. This was reported by the Radio correspondent Freedom Anton Naumluk. On the morning of Monday, the houses of the Crimean Tatar activists of the server Mustafaev and Edem Smailov were searches.

OFCOM British media regulator began three new investigations against the Russian State television channel RT. They relate to several news programs and political talk shows that took air at the end of April and early May. The regulator’s report emphasizes that the fact of the investigation does not mean that the broadcaster has committed a violation.

The Moscow City Court rejected the complaint about the extension of house arrest to the director Kirill Serebrennikov. A similar decision was made in relation to the former Gogol-Center CEO Alexei Malobrodsky, the former general director of the Seventh Studio, Yuri Itin and the director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater Sofia Apfelbaum.

Leh Valens at a meeting with the disabled in the Sejm The former President of Poland and the leader of the anti -communist movement "Solidarity" Lech Valens met on Monday with the disabled and their parents, who have been holding a sedentary strike in the Polish Sejm for more than a month, and expressed their solidarity to them, and also decisively condemned the government of the Party "Law and Justice".

In Moscow, human rights activists organized a series of single pickets near the presidential administration building in support of their colleague, the head of the Grozny branch of the Memorial PC, Oyub Titiev. The detained in January in Chechnya, Titiev was arrested until June 9th. The defense continues to insist that the case of the human rights activist is fabricated, and a package of drugs was thrown back to him.

On May 20, a rally of torture in the power organs took place in St. Petersburg. The protest was attended by more than 300 people. The theme of torture in the police and the FSB united activists of various opposition movements: anarchists, Marxists, Libertarians, members of Yabloko, Solidarity, Spring, etc. Before the audience, human rights activists, activists, musicians, friends and relatives of the defendants of the so -called "network case" were addressed.

They relate to several news programs and political talk shows. The regulator’s report emphasizes that the fact of the investigation does not mean that the broadcaster has committed a violation.

Finance Minister of France Bruno Le mayor The European Union must compensate for the losses that companies from Europe will incur in case of American sanctions due to cooperation with Iran. This was stated by Minister of Economy of France Bruno Le mayor. “Will we allow the United States to be an economic policeman around the world? The answer is not,” he said in an interview with the Radio station “Europe 1”.

New release "Export" Vladimir Abarinov Vladimir Abarinov: In the late 1920s, Mikhail Zoshchenko was unusually famous. His books were sold out, they were read from the stage by the master of the conversational genre, impostors wandered around cities and towns - people who betray themselves, like the sons of Lieutenant Schmidt, for the writer Zoshchenko. It was popular glory. Such popularity could not but attract the attention of translators.

Dozens of people cannot leave one of the distant villages of Yakutia. Because of the flood there, the runway and landing strip got wet there. The airport cannot accept and send planes.

Journalist Anton Krasovsky Journalist Anton Krasovsky said he was going to nominate his candidacy for the post of mayor of Moscow. He reported this on the air of the Radio Echo of Moscow. Krasovsky said that he was not going to advance against the current mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin or some other candidate.

Russia. Vladimir Medlinsky and Naina Yeltsin. Moscow, 04/23/2018 Discuss Alexey Klimenko, Julius Nisnevich Vladimir Medinsky was not fired, despite the conflicts related to his activities, and accusations of corruption of his immediate environment. Supreme authorities such as Medinsky and its employees are needed in the Ministry of Culture. The issues of artistic and historical value should be resolved by the professional community, the Ministry of Culture is absolutely not necessary for this.

Searches in Bakhchisarai, May 21, 2018 On the morning of May 21, Crimean Tatar activists in Bakhchisarai reported on their Facebook pages about searches that Russian security forces conduct in three addresses. One of them was not confirmed, but in Bakhchisarai itself and in the neighboring village of Dolinny, the houses of the server Mustafaev and Edem Smailov were really searched.

OSCE monitoring mission in eastern Ukraine (archive photo) International observers in the week recorded more than seven thousand cases of a break of a truce in the east of Ukraine. According to the First Deputy Chairman of the Special Monitoring Mission of the OSCE Alexander Khug, the past week has been the worst since the beginning of 2018. #OSCE SMM Hug: Last Week Was in Many Ways The Worst We have Seen So Far this year.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow