The Parliament of Karelia made repeated changes to the regional law on the elections of the heads of city districts, 26 parliamentarians voted for the return of the mayor’s elections in Petrozavodsk, eight opposed, Kommersant reports. Recall that in 2015, the deputies of the Petrozavodsk City Council again voted for the abolition of direct elections of the mayor.

State Duma Chairman Sergei Naryshkin compared Kyiv with the Third Reich, - Thus, the deputy commented on the law on the ban on Russian films in Ukraine, shot after January 1, 2014. Naryshkin did not exclude that after this in Kyiv, prohibited books would begin to burn, as the Nazis in the Third Reich did: “Perhaps, it is worth waiting for prohibited books in the squares of the capital of Ukraine and in other cities, then there will be a complete resemblance to the Third Reich,” the speaker said.

Yesterday it became known that the famous blogger Anton Nosik next week would be charged with “exciting hatred or enmity using the media” (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in connection with his statements in LJ and the “echo of Moscow” regarding the conflict in Syria.

Today a meeting of the head of the IC Alexander Bastrykin was held with the leader of the Aquarium Boris Grebenshchikov, the press service of the Investigative Committee reports . According to the press release, Bastrykin and Grebenshchikov discussed the issues of charity and remembered the student years in LSU. In addition, they “shared their eyes to the music and remembered how the famous rock club in Leningrad was born in the 80s of the XX century.

Corruption Putin through the eyes of Yakuza. Japanese mafiosi spoke about his business in St. Petersburg Anastasia Kirilenko April 21, 2016 One of Putin’s undeservedly forgotten episodes in St. Petersburg in the 90s is the creation of the so-called “municipal casinos” in the city, the official purpose of which was to care for poor citizens. They created a casino, but could not take care of the citizens: the casino did not pay taxes, working through the “black box office”.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow sentenced the defendant of the case of Oboronservice to Ekaterina Smetanova to four years in prison, Interfax reports . The court found her guilty of fraud and commercial bribery and appointed her a trial period - five years, as well as a fine in the amount of bribery - 6 million 499 thousand 555 rubles.

Russian intelligence agencies stopped the activities of 80 personnel employees of foreign special services, Vladimir Putin made such a statement, his words quoted by Interfax. “The activities of 80 personnel employees of foreign special services were suppressed along the counterintelligence line, more than 350 of their agents and persons suspected of unlawful activities were identified.

The Chairman of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova is ready to resign if she does not succeed in holding “normal” elections in 2016. She said this on the air of the program "with its own eyes" of the Echo of Moscow radio station.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs seized the literature discovered during the search with the swastika near the head of the Novosibirsk branch of the party Parnas Egor Savin, TASS reports . The head of the regional branch of the party Yegor Savin will soon give explanations in the police department, he said TASS. “Police officers came along with the LifeNUS journalists. We searched for a stolen computer mouse. We seized the “mouse”, which we have been using for a hundred years.

Member of the Supreme Council of United Russia, Yuri Shuvalov, proposed to exclude the deputy of the Saratov City Duma Dmitry Kudinov from the party for "dementia." Shuvalov wrote about this on Twitter. The reason was the statement of Kudinov, who proposed at a meeting of the commission on local self -government to remove children with autism and other developmental features from secondary schools.