In the city of Belorechensk, Krasnodar Territory, the district administration hung a large portrait of Joseph Stalin on May 9, Interfax reports . As the head of the district, Ivan Imgrunt, explained, according to tradition, the city carries out a large-scale historical reconstruction for Victory Day, including decorating buildings as in photographs of the war years. “The portrait of Stalin is installed in the same place as it was 72 years ago,” he explained.

The “ Red button ” mobile application has appeared - to notify human rights activists about violation of rights by law enforcement agencies. The service will allow you to quickly report to human rights organizations about the location of the detainee, about the Department of the ATS, to which it is probably brought or already delivered. “Simply put, the“ Red button ”is the button that you want to press first after an illegal hit in the autozak.

In 2016, Russia spent almost $70 billion on military needs and was among the top three in military spending. The country has taken the place of Saudi Arabia, but is still behind the US and China. As Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports , citing a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, defense spending increased by 5.9%. This is happening against the backdrop of an economic downturn and falling energy prices.

The Investigative Committee of Yekaterinburg opened a criminal case on the fact of incitement to suicide: a veteran of the Great Patriotic War committed suicide after 60 thousand rubles were stolen from him. According to investigators, at the end of March two women came to the veteran’s apartment and fraudulently stole his savings - about 60 thousand rubles. On April 21, his wife found the body of her husband in the apartment with signs of suicide.

In the city of Rzhev, Tver Region, residents of a panel house received an order from the mayor's office to independently demolish the building, which was recognized as unsafe, reports Ekho Moskvy. Lawyer Dmitry Deyanov, representing the interests of the residents, told TD that the authorities are acting within the law, and the owners are not obliged to demolish the building. The document states that residents of house No.

A seminar on countering extremism for teachers was held in the city of Revda, Sverdlovsk region. A representative of the regional government at the event said that the development of terrorism is connected with the Internet, Revda-Novosti reports . At the seminar, Revda teachers were given the task of stopping radicalism and extremism “at its very beginning” from school.

In July, an interdepartmental commission for the development of volunteering will be created in Russia, which will coordinate volunteers in various sectors. An online portal about volunteer organizations will be launched next spring. According to Kommersant, such proposals are included in the action plan for the development of volunteerism in the country. President Vladimir Putin instructed the Public Chamber and the Agency for Strategic Initiatives to prepare a corresponding plan.

The police of the Murmansk region held a role-playing game for students to calculate extremist propaganda and counteract terrorism, the press service of the department said . The game was attended by teams of students from five Murmansk universities. The first task was to calculate images of an extremist nature among a dozen other images in the subway - it was depicted by a wall in the corridor of the Center for Professional Training of the Murmansk Ministry of Internal Affairs.

There are six secret prisons in Chechnya where people suspected of homosexual orientation are kept, Novaya Gazeta reported . One of these prisons, according to the publication, is located in the city of Argun, the second, as Radio Liberty reports , is in the village of Tsotsi-Yurt. The publication does not disclose the location of the remaining prisons, however, according to its information, more than a hundred people are illegally detained in them.

A grenade exploded at a school in the Tsemadinsky district of Dagestan, RIA Novosti reports . According to preliminary data, one student was killed and eleven children were injured. As TASS clarifies , the explosion occurred in a computer class at a school in the village of Agvali. School director Shamil Abakarov said that the grenade was brought to class by an eighth-grade student. The Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that the cause of the explosion was careless handling of weapons.

Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Duma Nikolai Gubenko proposed introducing a childlessness tax for wealthy citizens in the capital, the Moscow city news agency reports . Gubenko came up with this initiative at a meeting of the Moscow City Duma commission on social policy and labor relations. He proposed to direct the proceeds from the childlessness tax to the needs of large families. “We have a fairly large number of very wealthy people in Moscow.

In Omsk, entrepreneurs independently repaired the broken road in the Amur village that led to their offices, the Prodvizhenie TV channel reports . Forty entrepreneurs - owners of companies located on 22 Party Congress Street - took part in the improvement of the road. They jointly purchased asphalt and rented asphalt-paving equipment to put the road in order. The repairs cost them 300 thousand rubles. “Year after year we ask for our road to be built, but it doesn’t work.

Today, April 24, is the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire. Every year, millions of Armenians and their sympathizers from other nations around the world pay tribute to the victims of the genocide, which killed one and a half million Armenians - at that time about half of all Armenians in the world. On this day, memorial services are held in all Armenian churches.

The “Need Help” Foundation begins raising funds for the work of the circus project “ Uppsala Circus” , where children and adolescents from social risk groups, as well as children with special needs, are trained. The main goal of the project is to give each student the opportunity to realize their talent, understand themselves, and learn new things. Uppsala Circus has been operating in St. Petersburg since 2000.

Irkutsk rescuers pulled out a pregnant female wapiti from the Lena River, which had fallen through the ice. The animal is currently undergoing rehabilitation, after which it will be released into the wild. As the press service of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations said , they received a message that a wild deer was running around in Ust-Kut. When rescuers arrived, someone scared the animal away, and it ran to the river to escape and fell under thin ice.