News The Supreme Court offers to replace lawyers without the request of the accused 26 May 2015 The Supreme Court is preparing a decision (“On the application by the courts of legislation providing the accused of the right to defense”), which will allow the judges to evaluate the quality of assistance to the lawyer to the defendant during the process and replace him without the request of the principal, writes Right.ru with reference to the judge in retired Sergei Pashin.

In Russia, they began to strengthen the border with Ukraine, reports Russian Newspaper with reference to the regional border department of the FSB of Russia. According to the publication, in the Rostov region, more than 40 kilometers of barriers were already erected along the border and about 100 kilometers of ditches were buried.

The President of the Russian Federation intends to understand the situation with the assignment of Dmitry Zimin's status “Foreign Agent”. About this, as reported by RBC, he said on Tuesday at a closed meeting with businessmen at the Business Russia forum. According to the publication that refers to its own sources, the question of the inclusion of the “dynasty” in the register of foreign agents at the meeting was asked by the head of the RSPP Alexander Shokhin.

The London estate of Wantancherst, the largest house in London after the Buckingham Palace, belongs to the former senator from the Murmansk region Andrei Guryev, follows from the investigation of The New Yorker. Before that, no one knew for seven years who is the master of the house, the publication emphasizes. The estate of the estate is estimated at $ 450 million.

The Ministry of Finance of Russia considers it necessary to reduce the budget deficit for 2016-2018 by 1 percentage point in order to avoid a sharp drop in expenses, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov. According to him, in the medium term, the state budget deficit must be reduced annually by 1 pp.

EU representatives said that an ineffective struggle against corruption in Ukraine is one of the main problems that interferes with the decision on visa -free regime, Ukrainian Pravda reports with reference to the Deputy Chairman of the EU Consultative Mission (KMES) to reform the security sector of the South Fantu. “In fact, we really want to cooperate with Ukraine and have a visa -free regime. But the key problem is corruption. Any of the EU specialists will confirm this, ”he said.

The founder of the Dynasty Foundation Dmitry Zimin said that he intends to stop financing this organization due to the fact that it was included in the register of NPO - foreign agents, Interfax reports .. “Of course, I will not spend my personal money under the brand of an unknown foreign state. I stop financing the dynasty, ”Zimin said. According to him, the Far fate of the Fund will be decided by the Council of Dynasty at a meeting on June 8.

The prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region began an audit of the winner of the Miss Russia-2015 title, a resident of Yekaterinburg Sofia Nikitchuk, who, turning into a Russian tricolor, starred for the cover of the May magazine "Stolnik" in honor of the 70th anniversary of the victory. It is reported by Znak.com with reference to the regional prosecutor's office.

Russian President Vladimir Putin included the head of the Moscow Helsinsky group Lyudmila Alekseev in the Presidential Council for Human Rights (HRC). This was reported by TASS with reference to the corresponding decree published on the official portal of legal information. The initiative to return Lyudmila Alekseeva to the HRC came from the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova, the head of the Council of Mikhail Fedotov and the former Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin.

Yesterday, Alexei Navalny published a post dedicated to the work of Rusnano, with the speaking name “We admit that nothing worked for us and was bad. Give us even budget money. ” In it, the politician accused the company's management of incompetent work and the “Pipile of the Budget”. At the same time, the income of the head of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais in 2013 amounted to 207 million rubles, Navalny noted. “Well, just science fiction.

Simultaneously with the message about the closure of the Dinastia Foundation, which financed popular science literature, another symbolically important news came from the book market - once secondary, if not the marginal , the Book of Russia festival, organized by the Russian authorities, will be held in June as much as Red Square - now in the new format and with the new leadership. It seems that the Kremlin in the person of Rospechat begins to actively get involved in the book business.

The Russian consul visited two Russians Alexander Alexandrov and Evgeny Erofeev, detained by the Security Service of Ukraine near Lugansk and are now in a military hospital in Kyiv. “The Russian consul has just visited Erofeev and Alexandrov. They feel generally normally. We will report details later, ”the press service of the Russian Embassy in Ukraine, which is quoted by Interfax, said. Note that the representative of Russia met with compatriots only on the tenth day after their detention.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is investigating 40 criminal cases of crimes against Russians in Ukraine, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the department Alexander Bastrykin. “We are asked why you are investigating crimes in Ukraine? We have the right to do this if Russian citizens suffer, the Criminal Code allows, in particular, it allows you to investigate crimes against Russians, including the military.

The head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, on Instagram, rushed a film entitled “Whoever I did not understand, he will understand” with the participation of himself. “This is an action -packed picture, in which, after long negotiations, I agreed to the role of the protagonist. Separate scenes have already been shot. The director is the author of famous Hollywood films. Also in the film are world stars of the first magnitude. The authors are sure that the picture will be a huge success, ”Kadyrov wrote.

The Fund for Theoretical and Applied Research “Liberal Mission” will challenge in court a decision of the Ministry of Justice to include the organization in the list of NPO -foreign agents, Interfax reports with reference to the founder of the Fund, the supervisor of the Higher School of Economics, Yevgeny YasinP. One of the main sponsors of the Liberal Mission is the Dmitry Zimin Foundation “Dynasty”, which has recently received the status of a foreign agent.