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The arrest of the members of the Pussy Riot group - Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina (in the photo) and Ekaterina Samutsevich - was extended for another month, until July 24. According to the judge of the Tagansky court of Moscow, there were no sufficient grounds for changing the preventive measure in the case of hooliganism in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior this year. But the court found such reasons in Kazan, who on exactly the same day, June 20, released Ilgiz Akhmetzyanov, head of the Dalniy police department, where torture from champagne bottles were practiced.

"Citizen Khodorkovsky"

A documentary under this name is shot by director Sergei Shiryaev. On Monday, June 25, the trailer will appear on the Internet, and the premiere of the picture will be held in September. His heroes are political prisoners. The film defendant “Yukos Affairs”, who served the court for seven years, Vladimir Pereverzin, the only pardoned by President Medvedev “Political” Sergey Mokhnatkin, actress Liya Akhedzhakov, many famous people who supported political prisoners in prisons and courtrooms, participate in the film.

Sergei Shiryaev used to be engaged in music video, but after he went to the opposition rallies several times, he decided to make a film about the most worthy, according to him, people who are persecuted for their beliefs. “I didn't want to make an opposition film. But for some reason it turns out that if you try to tell the truth, you are called an oppositionist ... The simple and natural desire of truth becomes almost a crime, ”the director says. Mikhail Khodorkovsky will also appear in the picture - in several staged episodes: the film will be documentary, but with elements of reconstruction. The filming group has not yet disclosed the actor’s name.

The ministers are cheap

Contrary to the pessimistic expectations of economists, the Greek parliament managed to agree on the composition of the government. This became possible thanks to the Party of Democratic Lefts, which decided at the last moment to join the coalition of the “New Democracy” and PACOK, forming the vast majority in parliament-179 seats out of 300. The first decree of the new Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was the reduction in the salaries of the cabinet by 30%. Before the crisis, the Greek prime minister received € 122 thousand per year. This is considered the average category compared to other European leaders: for example, the salary of the President of France is € 198 thousand per year, and the Prime Minister of Spain is only € 78 thousand.

€ 62 000 000 000

So much is required to save Spanish banks-€ 12 billion more than shown stress tests in May. On July 9, at the next meeting of the Ministers of Finance of the Eurozone, the issue of the allocation of a loan in the amount of € 100 billion will be decided.

15 largest financial institutions in the world

They ended up in the red zone of the Rating Agency of Mole's, whose agency’s stability ratings were reduced by several points. Among them are world giants such as Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan. The agency warns: this may be a signal that the world financial system is included in a serious crisis.

$ 78.58 per barrel

This is the price of oil with delivery in August. Experts emphasize: taking into account the speculation of oil prices, the fall below $ 80 per barrel for the first time since October 2011 can have a psychologically important effect, and prices will go further down. In an obvious gain from this, the American President Barack Obama, whose ratings were dangerously approaching the ratings of his opponent Mitt Romni. The price of gasoline in the United States fell by 6% and amount to $ 3.472 per gallon, or in terms of liters and rubles - 30.27 rubles per liter of fuel.

Prison chronicles

● After ten days in custody, the activist of “another Russia” Alexander Kamensky, who was held suspect in the case of riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6 (the New Times wrote about this in No. 21 of June 18, 2012), the first of the arrested were released. The lawyer Evgeny Arkhipov managed to prove that his client was detained on the Revolution Square, and on Bolotnaya, on that day, May 6, was not.

● However, the investigation immediately corrected the deficit of the suspects and literally the day after the release of Kamensky retrained from the witnesses to the activist Maria Baronova (interview with her - on page 18).

● The Investigative Committee expands the case of riots in Bolotnaya: the applicants of the “December” rallies are called for interrogations-on December 5 on pure ponds and the 24th on Sakharov Avenue. This was told by journalist Sergei Parkhomenko, who also received an invitation to the UK.

"Lord, what is it?!"

-Such were the last words of the pilot Alexander Yablontsev, who controlled the Superjet-100 aircraft that broke on May 9 in Indonesia. According to the initial conclusions of experts, the main reason for the crash was the human factor: the on -board appliances warned the crew about the approach of the obstacle and even proposed to urgently release the chassis - the plane was so low. However, to the last, the commander was sure that he was flying over the plain: after all, the ground dispatcher allowed the reduction, so he turned off the automation and led the movement on his own. Due to bad weather, he only at the last moment saw the rapidly approaching slope of Mount Salak, pulled the helm up to take the car, but he did not have enough time for the maneuver.

Lyudmila Alekseeva: "I do not want to be in the ears in shit"

The head of the Moscow Helsinki group announced the withdrawal from the Presidential Council of Human Rights. “Vyacheslav Volodin (1st Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration) proposed a way of forming a council that destroys it as a working organization,” the human rights activist of The New Times explained the reason for her departure. - Previously, we proposed new members to the Council ourselves, and now public organizations should do this. Now, imagine, they will offer their candidates, for example, the Lake Cooperative, or the Federation Fund, or the KGB Association, or some other organization close to the president’s heart. And then Putin himself will choose from this list. Previously, we offered decent people, and among them he could choose those who annoy him less, but now he could well offer us men from Uralvagonzavod. I will feel the ears in shit. Why should I sit in the council? To be listed under the president? Now it is quite indecent. I was ready to stay in the council to do some work, and if there is no work, why do I need this? "