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All you need to know early in the morning of July 9

Good morning!

Four of the twelve children sitting there in flooding from June 23 were saved from the cave in Thailand. The operation should resume today, Elon Musk even. Other news is not so optimistic.

• The British, who was poisoned by the “novice” near Salisbury, died, British Minister of Brexita resigned.
• In Turkey, where President Erdogan will be oath today, over 18 thousand civil servants are dismissed and four media are closed.
• The DPRK and the United States dispersed in assessing the results of two -day negotiations that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led in Pyongyang.
• In Ukraine, dissident Levko Lukyanenko died, who spent 26 years in Soviet prisons.

"Novice" and not very soft Brexit

Don Rodes died in the hospital in Salisbury-one of the two random, according to the British police, victims of the nervous gas nervous gas . British Prime Minister Teresa May wrote on Twitter that he was “stunned and shocked” by this death. The Permanent Representative of Russia, when organizing chemical weapons and an ambassador in the Netherlands, Alexander Shulgin gave his interpretation to a new case of a “newcomer” poisoning: “similar incidents”, he said, has recently occurred on the eve of important events (as he considers the final of the World Cup in Russia and the meeting of Putin and Trump in Finland) and is done for the undergoing authority Russia.

The resignation of Brexit Minister David Davis and his deputy Teresa May accepted with regret. The reason for their departure is the “soft Brexit” doctrine, which Teresa May convinced her office on Friday, and in Britain, in this regard, they are waiting for political shocks (possibly in vain). The new publication of Guardian about the alleged connections of the main sponsor of the campaign for Brexit with the Russian authorities, May did not comment, but Maria Zakharova already called her “another delirium”.

New term of Erdogan

Today, Turkey will solemnly move from the parliamentary form of government (in which it especially flourished, when the prime minister was Erdogan) to the presidential (under the beginning of the President of Erdogan). Erdogan himself will also be in the oath - after the recent early elections that he won in the first round. Today it is supposed to cancel the state of emergency introduced in the country after an attempt by the coup in July 2016. On the eve of the abolition of the Turkish authorities carried out the “last cleaning”: more than 18 thousand state officials were dismissed, three newspapers and one television channel were closed.

The whole world is a gangster

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo led “productive” for two days last week, according to him, negotiations in Pyongyang . As soon as he left (to Japan), the DPRK authorities said that the United States put the negotiation process at risk of their “gangster requirements” of one -way denuclearization. Pompeo answered from Tokyo: “If these requests are considered gangster, then the whole world is a gangster” (because the DPRK insists the UN on denuclearization).

In Russia

• In Kemerovo, another fireman was detained , who took part in the extinguishing of the “winter cherry”.
• Today, the courts in different cities will consider the appeals for the affairs of the director Kirill Serebrennikov, human rights activist Oyub Titiev, a citizen of Ukraine Pavel Grib, as well as the lawsuit of Oleg Deripaska to Nastya Rybka and Alex Leslie. Fish and Leslie are sitting in Thailand now - the charges against them assume up to 20 years in prison, the court will begin on July 19. According to The Bell, these two were detained in Thailand on the tip of a certain “foreign informant”.
• Today is the 56th day of the hunger strike of the Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov. Here is the last of his letters from prison.
• You all know about football without us - we will only say that the player of the Croatian national team, who said after the victory in the match with Russia the phrase “Glory to Ukraine”, received a warning from FIFA.

Dissidents

• In Ukraine, dissident Levko Lukyanenko died , who spent a total of 26 years in Soviet camps. He was 89 years old.
• In Moscow, the car shot down the human rights activist and dissident Sergey Grigoryans, as a result, his leg was damaged. Grigoryants fears that this road accident was adjusted.

Winners

• Vitaly Mansky’s film “Putin's Witnesses” received the Grand Prix of a documentary contest at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival. Mansky shot Putin and his entourage in 1999 and 2000. (On the same topic - an entertaining passage from the book of conversations of political scientist Ivan Krastev with another “Putin's witness” Gleb Pavlovsky.)
• The best novel by the Boker , for the 50 years of the prize, was a book, the contents of which everyone knows-the “English patient” by Michael Ondate.

We will start links today with a sad one.

• Last week, it became known about the death of the French director Claude Lancman and the too early death of the writer Oleg Yuryev (he was not only a poet, but also a wonderful critic). Here is one of the last interviews of Lancman, here the relatively recent article by Yuryev about Vaginov, here is his poem “The circumstances of the images of actions”.
• English. The first chapter from the book of a translator, philologist, chief expense of “Foreign Literature” by Alexander Livergent “Virginia Wolf. Moments of Genesis”, which will soon be published in the publishing house “AST”.
• Chinese. Kirill Kobrin is talking about the Chinese topic in the work of Moscow conceptualists with the artist Viktor Pivovarov.

Sincerely yours,
Seven forty