The City Council of Kharkov voted for the return of the Central Avenue of the city named after Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov. This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine. We are talking about the avenue that was renamed in 2016 as part of the Ukrainian Law on Decommunization. Now it is named after the Soviet general born in Ukraine, and later the dissident Peter Grigorenko. For the return of the previous name, 59 deputies voted, against 13.

"Buk"-the killer of the Malaysian "Boeing", shot down in the summer of 2014-was Russian. Military experts participate in the discussion of the report of the International Investigative Group in the Netherlands today: Vadim Lukashevich , Bogdan Kazaryan (both Russia), Igor Romanenko (Ukraine), political scientist Alexander Musienko (Ukraine), Sobyk RS Sofia Kornienko (Netherlands).

Former Russian soldier Maxim Gerasimov, whose correspondence in social networks was referred by the International Joint Investigation Group (JIT) as proof of the presence of military air defense of Russia in eastern Ukraine in the summer of 2014, when the Boeing Malaysian Boeing was shot down over the Donbass, claims that he did not write anything about it.

The international investigation was against the official accusations to three Russians and one Ukrainian, according to the investigation, involved in the tragedy in the sky over the Donbass in 2014. Fragments of a press conference in the Netherlands.

The head of the Moscow Municipal District, Tsaritsyno booed during a rally against the construction of the Southeastern Hord highway. The video from the protest is published in the News without Lieuting YouTube channel. The audience was indignant at the membership of the head of the Elena of the Goryosheva in the United Russia party. At the same time, the same one came to the rally to express support to local residents who oppose the construction of a new highway.

US Department of Finance The United States introduced financial sanctions against the Russian non -bank credit institution "Russian Financial Society". A message about this is published on the website of the US Department of Finance . It states that the "Russian financial society" fell under sanctions due to violation of the sanctions regime in relation to North Korea.

Political scientist Valery Solovya announced the departure from Moscow University of MGIMO for political reasons. On Facebook, he said that he wrote a statement of care of his own free will, but emphasized that his decision was caused by the position of the university, which, as the nightingale writes, for political reasons no longer wants to have any business with him. According to the nightingale, he "with understanding" refers to this reluctance.

In Moscow, the police launched a criminal case of hooliganism after the skirmishes of law enforcement officers and visitors to the HIP-Hop Mayday festival, which was held on May 1. This was announced by the head of the international human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov in his telegram channel. According to the lawyer, the police massively delay the witnesses of the brawl. Several suspects are under house arrest. Officially, the initiation of the case and the suspects were not reported.

Exhibition in St. Petersburg How to learn to live with dignity? In recent years, a category of dignity has increasingly arose in public discussion. There are more and more claims in the courts about insulting and protecting honor and dignity. Politicians talk about the "humiliation" of the power and the need to stand from the knees, "and the opposition requires respect for the dignity of a person in Russia.

Today we will talk about the upcoming television program "Direct Line with Vladimir Putin." Preparations for it are in full swing, meetings are convened in order to work out the script for the "communication" of the president with the people. The main issues that excite the public are an interethnic conflict in a suitcase, a story with a nasty temple in Yekaterinburg, the loud confrontations of the inhabitants of the “undesirable” construction sites next to their homes.

The UN specialist ANIES Kalamar published the results of the investigation of the murder of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. This was reported by Reuters. According to Kalamar, the Turkish special services handed over to the UN experts to a part of the sound recordings made on the day of the murder at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.

New Russian citizens Roman and Tatyana Vlasenkov Last week, Russia began issuing passports to residents of self -proclaimed people's republics in the east of Ukraine. The Radio Liberty correspondent went to the city of Novoshakhtinsk in the Rostov region to meet the first buses with the residents of the LPR, who are going to receive Russian passports in a local club.

Dmitry Tymchuk In Kyiv, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada from the Popular Front faction Dmitry Tymchuk was found dead, reports Interfax-Ukraine with reference to his own sources. The information was confirmed by the colleague of the deceased, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Anton Gerashchenko, the Ukrainian Radio Liberty Service reports. According to Gerashchenko, Tymchuk suffered a mortal wound to his house when cleaning the award pistol. He died before the arrival of the doctors.

The joint investigative group, which finds out the circumstances of the Boeing Capage at the Malaysian Airlines in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, on Wednesday for the first time officially called the names of people whom it considers involved in the tragedy and in respect of which the authorities of the Netherlands will be launched by criminal prosecution. A few days before, the Dutch media called their names, however, the final list only partially coincided with the leakage.

In the City Court of Petrozavodsk, on Wednesday, the next meeting was held on the criminal case of the head of the Karelian branch of the Memorial, Yuri Dmitriev, accused of sexual violence against his adopted daughter. The court listened to the girl’s testimony, Dmitriev himself at this time was taken out of the meeting room. The process over the famous researcher of Stalinist repressions is held closed.