The US Department of Justice has appointed a special adviser in the case of Russian interference in the Presidential election in Washington in 2016, writers writes. The former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Robert Muller, who held the post from 2001 to 2013, was appointed to the position. According to Senator John Kornin, the appointment will help to return the former FBI director James Komi, who was dismissed by US President Donald Trump.

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Vice President ONEXIM, founder of Independent Media Derck Sauer is negotiating on the purchase from the media manager Demyan Kudryavtsev The newspaper The Moscow Times. It is reported by RNS with reference to sources on the media market. This information was confirmed by the source close to Sauer.

The European Commission (EC) fined Facebook for false information about the purchase of WhatsApp for € 110 million ($ 122 million), reports The Wall Street Journal. In 2014, when the company submitted documents about the transaction to the EC, she said that she would not automatically combine accounts of users of the social network and messenger. However, two years later it was done anyway.

The Ministry of Education and Science did not find political propaganda in a lecture on politics Alexei Navalny, where he is compared with Adolf Hitler. This was reported by Provladimir with reference to the response of the Ministry to the local activist. As stated in the document of the Ministry of Education and Science, the purpose of the lecture for students of the Vladimir State University was “legal education” and “prevention of an extremist character”.

Kum of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the leader of the Ukrainian Choice movement, Viktor Medvedchuk, talked with the headquarters of the American leader Donald Trump during the election campaign. It is reported by Reuters with reference to sources. The interlocutors of the agency did not specify who Medvedchuk spoke to. The conversation was about relations between Russia and the USA, they explained. The leader of the “Ukrainian choice” himself rejected the information of sources.

"Match TV" filed a lawsuit to the Sports.ru sports site. This was reported on the website of the Moscow City Court. The channel considers the illegal broadcast of fragments of two matches of the National League (FNL). The television channel “bears significant costs for the acquisition of rights from official copyright holders,” the statement of claim.

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The Kremlin freed at least five regions from work to increase the appearance in regional elections in 2017. This was written by the newspaper Vedomosti with reference to a source close to the Kremlin. The task of increasing the turnout, according to sources, was set by the presidential administration before all regions. The reason for this is the low turnout that is concerned in the Kremlin.

Russia may lose access to the Telegram messenger. The authorities demanded that the service provide data for its entry in the register of the organizers of the dissemination of information. The founder of Telegram Pavel Durov, who consistently refuses to cooperate with both the Russian and the authorities of any other country in the world, refuses to provide data. “Even a single government or special service in the world has received a bit of information from us.

At least one person died due to a car hit by passers-by at Times Square in New York, Reuters reports with reference to the witnesses of what happened. NBC also reports one deceased. New York services have data about 12 victims, the agency adds. Later, the authorities confirmed the death of one person. According to the Fire Service of New York, 19 people were injured during the collision. According to Skynews, the police do not consider the incident a terrorist attack.

The decision of the Ukrainian authorities to block the most popular Russian social networks and Internet services is the first plot breakthrough in a long time sagging due to the delay in the series “What are the Ukrainians there?”. As in the harsh 2014, Ukrainian news again become the most discussed and popular news in Russia.

Since the beginning of April, more than 40 gays left Chechnya, fearing persecution. This was reported to the “Real Affairs” by the chairman of the “Russian LGBT network” Igor Kochetkov. According to him, from the moment of the publication of the article of Novaya Gazeta, more than 80 people turned to the organization for help for help. Half of them “Rossiyskaya LGBT network” helped to go beyond the borders of Chechnya, Kochetkov explained.

Armenia handed over to Russia military personnel Valery Permyakov, convicted for life on charges of killing seven people in Gyumri. This was reported to Interfax in the Armenian Ministry of Justice. As the agency clarifies, the military court in Rostov-on-Don on May 4, 2017 recognized the verdict of the Armenian court to be executed. The court of the Shirak region of Armenia made a decision in the Russian case in August 2016.

The lawyer of the “Chuguev human rights group” Roman Likhachev sued the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko due to the blocking of Russian Internet resources. Likhachev himself wrote about this on his Facebook. “I will not put up with such a lawless and unpunished violation of the rights of citizens, Mr. President. And the point is not in VK and not classmates, etc., it is a matter of limit freedom. What is tomorrow? Forbid to think? Forbid you to breathe?