Eduard Limonov was 77 years old. In recent years, he fought with a serious illness. Nevertheless, his departure found everyone by surprise - so his figure was not associated with weakness and death. A week ago, he fiercely scolded Zakhara Prilepin on Facebook and reported that he had entered into an agreement on a new book called "The Old Man Travels." Friends and acquaintances remember Limonov in numerous posts. Arina Kholina For me, Limonov is a little like a family.

Gulnara Karimova, 47-year-old daughter of the former President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, was sentenced to the court in Tashkent on March 18 by 13 years and four months of a strict regime for creating a criminal group, extortion and legalization of criminal proceeds. In February, Karimova asked the current head of state Shavkat Mirziyev to help her be released in exchange for refusing any complaints about 686 million dollars frozen on her accounts in the Swiss bank.

The annual Eurovision Song Contest this year-for the first time in the history of existence-was canceled due to coronavirus . This was reported on Wednesday by the organizers. "With deep regret, we announce the cancellation of the song contest in Rotterdam," the statement said.

The European Union suspected the Russian pro -Kremlin media in the spread of misinformation about coronavirus. Moscow is trying to share the inhabitants of European countries and cause their panic and distrust of the European medical system. Such allegations are contained in the report of the European External Relations Service, which British newspapers of Financial Times and The Telegraph got acquainted .

Gulnara Karimova The court in Tashkent sentenced the daughter of the former President of Uzbekistan Gulnan Karimov by 13 years and four months of the colony. She was found guilty of creating a criminal group, extortion and legalization of criminal proceeds. The deadline for serving the sentence has been calculated since August 2015. In 2015, during the life of the first President of Islam Karimov, his daughter was sentenced to five years in prison.

Detention of Leo Ponomarev for promotions near the FSB building in Moscow The leader of the “For Human Rights” movement Lev Ponomarev filed a complaint with the Moscow prosecutor's office against beating in the police department after the detention on the rally against political repressions near the FSB building on Lubyanka. This was reported to Kommersant by his lawyer Vasily Kushnir.

Valery Maksimenko Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Valery Maksimenko was resigned. The corresponding decree was signed by Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. The personnel military Maksimenko came to the FSIN eight years ago. He held the position of deputy head of the department since 2016. Maksimenko oversaw the economic activity of the FSIN, as well as interaction with the media.

Justin Trudeau and Donald Trump The leaders of the United States and Canada, due to the spread of coronavirus, agreed to close the joint section of the border for all citizens whose trips are not emergency. “By mutual agreement, we temporarily close our northern border with Canada,” wrote American President Donald Trump on Twitter. He noted that the decision would not affect the field of trade.

2014, Crimea Exactly six years ago, on March 18, 2014, two days after the so -called “referendum” about the accession of Crimea to Russia Vladimir Putin, speaking in the Kremlin regarding the introduction of the law on the inclusion of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol to the Russian Federation, said that “would not remember the interventions without a single shot and without human victims.” Just a few hours after these words , when storming the cartographic center in Simferopol, the ensign

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Humanity is testing coronavirus. A month ago, this was impossible to imagine. It seems that the previous life order is collapsing. Philosophers reflect on what the marvelous new world will be after the pandemic, economists evaluate the depth of the fall of the global economy. However, there is an equally important question: what can be the scale and duration of the coronavirus epidemic, say, in Europe? Mathematical models describing the processes of infection are long known.

The European Union suspected the Russian pro -Kremlin media in the spread of misinformation about coronavirus. Moscow is trying to share the inhabitants of European countries and cause their panic and distrust of the European medical system. Such allegations are contained in the report of the European External Relations Service, which British newspapers of Financial Times and The Telegraph got acquainted .

Entrepreneur Arkady Rotenberg received from the hands of his friend Vladimir Putin the title of the hero of labor for "special merits" in the construction of the Crimean bridge. At the same time, Rotenberg’s condition in March only increased by 200 million dollars and reached $ 3 billion. “He is getting rich when everyone is poor,” Forbes noted. Vladimir Putin is not afraid to go to Crimea to the coronavirus epidemic in order to again greet the brainchild of a successful businessman.

Evgeny Dubinin, detained in protest shares on July 27 in Moscow, complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to political motives for the dispersal of the rally. This newspaper Vedomosti was told by the coordinator of the human rights organization "Zone Law" Bulat Mukhamedzhanov. As follows from the complaint of Dubinin, who did not provide resistance during the detention, he deliberately hit him on the side of the bus for the transportation of the detainees.