The lawyer of the Ukrainian political prisoner Oleh Sentsov, Dmitry Dinze, delivered to the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District territory pardon commission Sentovov mother’s petition to pardon her son, Hromadske  reports with reference to Sentsov's sister Natalia Kaplan.

According to Kaplan, at first, the petition to pardon Sentsov was sent to the Presidential Administration of Russia who did not respond at all, though they promised to consider it.

At the same time, Kaplan doubts the …

Russians may find themselves under new restrictions pertaining to the purchase of big-budget residential property in the US. American senators want to obligate companies insuring real estate deals to inform the Treasury about Russian natives purchasing expensive apartments in the country.

This possibility is discussed in a bill on new anti-Russian sanctions which was drafted by republicans Lindsey Graham, Robert Menendez, Cory Gardner and Ben Cardin. The document states that information on …

If the United States imposes sanctions against Russia because of the "Skripal case," Moscow will mirror its response to Washington, said the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova at the briefing broadcasted on the ministry's Facebook page.

"This is exclusively about the adequate response measures. Therefore, the response measures will match the sanctions measures against the Russian side, " said Zakharova. She stressed that Moscow always responds to sanctions …