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Results of the week on Saturday issue 7:40

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Yesterday, on the occasion of the International Day of Combating Homophobia, the Taiwan Parliament legalized same -sex marriages, and in St. Petersburg the police detained seven participants in the action in support of LGBT (the police pursued them did not notice them). Today, 75 years of deportation of Crimean Tatars are noted - there will be an excuse to compare the news about commemorative actions in different places. And the main events here:

• In Yekaterinburg, 33 people received administrative arrests for participating in shares to protect the square from the temple. For today's meeting with the mayor, activists decided not to go.
• In the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the ruling coalition broke up - respectively, Vladimir Zelensky will not be able to dissolve the parliament ahead of schedule. The head of the National Security Council and the Foreign Minister resigned.
• Russia can return a voice to the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe.
• The Czech Republic was sentenced to a military who participated in the confrontation in the east of Ukraine on the side of pro -Russian separatists.

They don't like the Russian Orthodox Church

In Yekaterinburg, 33 participants in the action of the square from the temple were sent under administrative arrest. The activists decided not to go to a meeting with the mayor of the city, outlined for today (because they have no authority to speak on behalf of all residents of the city).

Now the matter is probably for Putin’s “survey”. As it turned out, this will not be a note from VTsIOM: in the Charter of Yekaterinburg and the Russian Law on Local Self -government, a survey procedure is prescribed, which can be considered legitimate. It tells how it is carried out and how it differs from the referendum. Here, HSE professor Grigory Yudin explains why no survey in this case will replace the referendum.

And about the essence of the conflict. Here is a good selection of replicas of protests, from which it follows that they not only protect their favorite square, but protect it specifically from the Russian Orthodox Church, which is called the corrupt structure that has grown together as remote from Christian teaching. And the news that in Moscow the police came to the activist of the People’s Resistance Association of Folk Resistance of Lilia Osipova, this was as if confirms (the members of the association hung up the banner “apologize for the ECB!”)

Maxim Trustlyubov talks well about the evolution of the “feelings of believers” in Russia over the past 30 years. Against this background, the Russian Academy of Sciences finally changed her mind to assign the title of honorary professor Patriarch Moscow and All Russia Kirill.

Ukraine before the inauguration

• In the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the ruling coalition broke up . Now the parliament has a month to form a new coalition. After that, the newly elected president Vladimir Zelensky will be able to dissolve the parliament, but only if more than six months remain before the elections. Since the elections are scheduled for the end of October, Zelensky is unlikely to have time for Rosa of the Rada. Here these subtleties comment on the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada.
• The Foreign Minister Pavel Klimkin and the head of the Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov reported the departure from his posts.
• The current President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko gave Ukrainian citizenship Natalya Kaplan, a cousin of a filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, convicted for 20 years in Russia (she often represents him in a public field) and former deputy of the Russian Duma Ilya Ponomarev.
• The former head of the National Guard of Ukraine was arrested for two months in the case of assigning funds for housing for the military.
• The court in Kiev opened criminal proceedings on the ban on departure from Ukraine in relation to the current President Petro Poroshenko and other senior officials (within a year after leaving high positions).
• In the meantime, they think in the European Union how to close a visa -free entry for those Ukrainians who received Russian passports in accordance with the recent decree of Putin.

Russian routine

• The court in Moscow fined five thousand rubles of the head of the Moscow branch of Open Russia Tatyana Usmanov for organizing a direct line with Mikhail Khodorkovsky (this is called the “implementation of the activities of an unwanted organization”).
• Stanislav Zimmovets, convicted of participating in the “He NOT DIMON” action in March 2017 in Moscow, announced a hunger strike in the colony so as not to sit “wasted” for two and a half years, but to draw attention to the existence of political prisoners in Russia.
• The court in Moscow extended the arrest of the 75-year-old scientist Viktor Kudryavtsev, who is accused of Gosizman. Previously, Kudryavtsev suffered a heart attack. In the hospital, where Kudryavtseva was placed at the request of the ECHR, he did not find diseases that prevent the content of in custody. The scientist was returned to the pre -trial detention center.
• A detailed story about the petty persecution of the deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Maxim Reznik read here . Commentators say that the campaign raised in the near -laws of the media should increase the recognition of Reznik, and all this is done solely for the development of the election budget of the acting governor Beglov.

Russia in the international arena

• Russia and the Netherlands settled the conflict because of the ship with Greenpeace activists, who tried to climb the Gazprom platform in September 2013. According to Reuters, Russia will pay 2.7 million euros - half as much as the international arbitration decided, in which Russia did not participate and which at first did not recognize the decision.
• The Council of Europe is ready to return to Russia the right to vote in the parliamentary assembly (PACE). Moscow was deprived of this right in 2014 for the illegal annexation of Crimea. This statement was accepted by the Foreign Minister of 47 Member States of the Council of Europe-mainly in order to preserve the opportunity for citizens of Russia to apply to the ECHR.
• The court in the city of Pardubitsa sentenced the Czech soldier to three years in prison (with a deferred for four years) for participating in hostilities in the Donbass on the side of pro -Russian separatists. He was also deprived of a military rank.
• It tells about the career of the Polish politician of Lilia Moshechkova (natives of Donbass and the hot supporters of the so-called “DPR” and “LPR”), which goes to the elections to the European Parliament from the Makhrovo National Polish Party Korwin-terribly interesting.

Airlines

The MAC Commission deciphered the data of the black boxes of the SSJ 100, which crashed on May 5 in Sheremetyevo. The data was transferred to the Federal Air Transport Agency. Aeroflot denied media reports of gross errors made by pilots during emergency landing. Why these gross errors are generally possible, it is described in detail here .

Pops

Today, Tel Aviv will host the final of the Eurovision Song Contest, Russian singer Sergei Lazarev took place there. The main scandals accompanying the current competition are described here .

Well, the Rip Grumpy Cat is a cat, famous throughout the world with its gloomy muzzle, especially suitable for commenting on current events, died at the age of seven.

Reading links

• Import of emotions and sounds. A very interesting conversation with cultural historian Andrei Zorin about the transplantation of Western emotions to Russian soil - from spell and nostalgia to “addictions” and “healthy relations”. Or a story about how foreigners created British music - from Handel to Graim.
• Books. A nice list of mini -responds to undeservedly forgotten books - in what other list will you meet the next one after another “fifth seal” by Ferenc's Chanta and Heliodor's Ethiopica? Or a story about a collection of little -known works by Yuri Lotman - with an intellectual and biographical context (and even with drawings!) And one more thing: a conversation with Ksenia Krasilnikova, who survived a difficult post -rod depression, and then wrote a book about this is very useful, especially if you read it before, and not after this depression.
• Excerpts. A fragment of the novel of the Italian writer Curzio Malaparte (1898–1957) “Ball in the Kremlin”, written under the impression of visiting Moscow in the summer of 1929 (the book is published in the “Elena Shubina”). Or the story of a good Polish writer Olga Tokarchuk from the collection “Outlandish Stories” (went to “Exmo”).
• Movie. Want about the Cannes Film Festival? Well , for example, Anton Dolin about the new film Kantemir Balagova. But in general, read better how Nikita Mikhalkov’s studio entered a tough conflict with the Karelian village, where the master shoots the film “Fire” about the fire at the wedding.
• Housed investigations. The grand text of Boris Grozovsky about how the “examination” works, on the basis of which Russian investigators make crazy accusations, and the courts bear the convictions (for example, one of the experts declared “disbelief in positive changes after the elections”). Or a very interesting story by Ivan Golunov about the work of microcredit organizations, pressing apartments for their borrowers is the most interesting thing that the beneficiaries of this scheme are wonderful in Riga.

Sincerely yours,
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