Why, after Putin’s invitation to the Summit, Bidden punished the Kremlin with sanctions? Will the US and its allies protect Ukraine? Is Ukraine a real object of attention of the Kremlin? Can Putin's invitation to the summit be a serious mistake? My interlocutors: Stephen Paifer, Leon Aron and Eric Shiryaev

Emmanuel Macron and Vladimir Zelensky, Paris, April 16, 2021 The leaders of Ukraine, France and Germany called on Russia to withdraw troops from the border with Ukraine in connection with the growing tension in the region. The discussion of the situation around Donbass took place during the visit of the President of Ukraine to Paris on April 16. The presidents of Ukraine and France, Vladimir Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron, joined the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Tumso Abdurakhmanov The German prosecutor’s office on Friday said that she was conducting an investigation against a Russian citizen on charges of preparing the murder of a Chechen activist living in Germany by order of the Chechen authorities. This was reported by Der Spiegel. In mid -January, the German authorities arrested a Russian, whom the prosecutor's office calls "Valid D.".

Political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky and politician Yakov Yakubovich are discussing: 1. How will the new US sanctions package come to Russia? What "response measures" can come up with the Kremlin? 2. Why does Russia close part of the Black Sea? 3. Will Putin bring "military" notes to the Federal Assembly? 4. What will happen to Alexei Navalny? The program "Faces to the event" Elena Rykovtseva is conducting.

Joe Biden called his answer to Russia's actions "balanced and proportional." In Washington, they are sure that relations with Moscow have not yet reached the bottom, and they call not to slide "along the descending spiral." The White House and the US Department of Finance published reports on the introduction by the presidential decree of the new package of sanctions on Thursday in the early morning of Washington, and in the afternoon, President Biden made a special statement on this subject.

Roskomnadzor demanded that The Village be removed from the Russian publication to delete an article about the reaction of residents of other countries to police violence, threatening the site with blocking. This was reported by the publication itself. The editors deleted the publication.

The Russian government will expand the Far Eastern Hectare program to the Arctic. The program allows you to get land for free, including for doing business. According to the head of government, Mikhail Mishustin, entrepreneurs have long been asked for the expansion of the program. Mishustin noted that such measures will allow to master the unused territories of the Arctic. The head of government emphasized that citizens will be able to take land plots according to a simplified procedure.

Timur Olevsky The court in Moscow fined 15 thousand rubles of journalist Timur Olevsky under the article on the "implementation of the activities of an unwanted organization." It is reported by "MBH Media". The penalty is due to the fact that on March 13 Olevsky was supposed to become a leading at the forum of municipal deputies in Moscow, which were dispersed by the police. At the same time, almost all the participants in the forum were detained, including Olevsky.

Russia will send ten American diplomats from the country. This was stated on Friday by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. He also announced other measures that the Russian authorities intend to accept in response to the new US sanctions introduced on April 15. According to Lavrov, at a meeting with the US Ambassador to Moscow John Sullivan, Assistant President of Russia Yuri Ushakov suggested an ambassador to go to Washington for consultations.

Threats on the door of the expert of Vasily Weissenberg expert The expert of the Voice movement, the editor -in -chief of the Law news agency Vasily Vaisenberg posted a video on Facebook with the alleged authors of threats addressed to him. In the video, two people in medical masks on faces, in caps and hoods enter the porch. In one of them, cuttings of flowers stick out from the bag. Four minutes later, the same people leave the entrance, there are no more flowers in the bag.

Poet Lev Rubinstein in the program from the cycle "Artist and Politics". *** The visible world of the blind artist Inna Lesova. *** "Red dry". Radio travel to Belgium.

Anastasia Vasilieva at the colony No. 2 The treating doctors of the imprisoned oppositionist Alexei Navalny - cardiologist Yaroslav Ashkhmin, anesthetist Alexei Erlich, neurosurgeon Alexei Kashcheev and ophthalmologist Anastasia Vasiliev - addressed the director of the federal sentence of sentences to Alexander Kalashnikov with a request to urgently admit them to a naval colony No. 2 of the Vladimir region. The letter is published on the website of Novaya Gazeta.

Mari El authorities began to check after the death of a woman who did not wait for ambulance doctors, since they had to get on a horse -drawn wagon. This was reported by the "Raise" publication. The incident occurred on March 27, but on April 15, neither the Ministry of Health nor in the local administration knew about this, journalists say. The ambulance was traveling to a 46-year-old resident in the village of Paimyr.

More than 120 current professors and teachers of the Higher School of Economics signed an open letter in support of four journalists of the DOXA student publication, against which the authorities opened a criminal case of involving minors in the protests. The letter is published on the website of the newspaper "Trinity Option" .

The 423rd judicial site of the city of Moscow notified Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RSE/RS) that Roskomnadzor and the justice of the peace made procedural errors in determining the jurisdiction of part of administrative cases in relation to the interests of the media corporation in Russia LLC RSA/RS and its Director General.