In September this year, elections to the State Duma and 39 regional legislative assemblies will be held in Russia. The four Duma parties ("United Russia", "Fair Russia", the Communist Party, LDPR) has been irremovable for three convocations in a row, since 2007. Will the current elections become another shuffling of the familiar deck, or before the "Unified Voting Day" society will receive at least a limited opportunity to discuss real problems?

Joseph Stalin accepts Joachim von Ribbentrop in the Kremlin of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany. Moscow, August 23, 1939 In this spring session, the deputies submit repressive bills with such a frequency to the State Duma that without their discussion in social networks does not pass even a day. Another flower was added to the magnificent bouquet of preparing prohibitions on May 5 United Russia Elena Yampolskaya and Alexander Zhukov, as well as Senator Alexei Pushkov.

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She is judged on charges of pornography LGBT activist and artist from Komsomolsk-on-Amur Julia Tsvetkova, who is now judged by criminal charges of spreading pornography, stopped the hunger strike, which she began on May 1, demanding a vowel consideration of her case. Tsvetkova’s message about leaving the hunger strike is published on Facebook by her mother Anna Khodyreva. "I was asked by my mother, doctors and defenders ...

The Arbitration Court in Moscow demanded that Google restore the YouTube account of the Tsargrad TV channel on the YouTube platform, Forbes writes . The corporation may appeal to the court decision. If Google does not make a court decision, then companies face high fines - 100 thousand rubles of delay for each day of non -fulfillment of the court decision. Every week the amount will double.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International has returned the status of a prisoner of conscience to the Russian opposition to Russian opposition. He was deprived of him in February, when the “amnesty” stated that she had discovered the “enemy language” in his long -standing performances. The assessments of human rights activists from Amnesty International caused bewilderment among many human rights activists in Russia and abroad.

In Yakutsk, during a meeting of the city court, which considered the case of the forced treatment of Shaman Alexander Gabyshev, the commander of the platoon of the Russian Guard, who stormed his house and detained Shaman, said that the possibility of the murder of Gabyshev was discussed. This was reported by Siberia. Realities were reported by two sources on anonymity.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle The British Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle announced a campaign to raise funds for coronavirus vaccination for those in need. They made the corresponding statement on the birthday of their son Archy, who was two years old on May 6. "We will not be able to truly defeat the pandemic until people around the world gain equal access to the vaccine. You can’t imagine a more wonderful way to celebrate our son’s birthday.

A bill was introduced to the State Duma prohibiting the actions of Germany and the USSR in the Second World War *** Journalist Lyudmila Savitskaya was refused to exclude it from the register of media-foreign agents *** The administration of Joe Bayden supports the idea of removing patent protection from the production of vaccines against Covid-19

Vladimir Kachan People's Artist of Russia Vladimir Kachan died at the 74th year of his life in the Moscow hospital, where he was hospitalized with Covid-19. Vladimir Kachan was born in 1947. After graduating from the Schukinsky school, he worked at the Moscow Theater of a young spectator, as well as in the orchestra Leonid Utesov. Later, the actor worked in the theater at the Malaya Bronnaya and Moscow Drama Theater. Stanislavsky.

The word "defender" is less and less used in judicial practice. He is preferred by the word "lawyer". In “On top of the barriers”, Kiev journalist Elena Kholodenko represents two defenders - in the literal sense of the word. Mark Feigin (lawyer): There are no more political lawyers. Because this needs some kind of absolute uncompromising, you just need to break everything, you need to make such political gestures that will forever make you an outsider, a freak, if you want.

The ban on participating in the elections for all “involved in the activities” of extremist and terrorist organizations and tightening responsibility for participating in “undesirable organizations” - these bills of the State Duma of Russia can consider in mid -May. The associates of Alexei Navalny are convinced that the initiatives are directed against them in order to prevent them from elections to the State Duma in September 2021.

The Russian team lost to the Canadian team with a score of 5: 3 in the final of the Junior World Hockey Championship, which ended in the United States. The bronze medalist was the Swedish national team, which in the match for third place beat the Finland team with a score of 8: 0. The best player in the tournament was recognized by the 16-year-old forward of the Russian national team Matvey Michkov, he became the best scorer, gaining 16 points (12 goals + 4 programs).

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