Data on the number of victims of explosions at military warehouses in the Turkmen city of Abadan, presented by the country's authorities and human rights activists, differ by more than ninety times. According to official information, 15 people were killed. The website of the human rights organization Chronicle of Turkmenistan claims that 1,382 people died. More than a third of the dead were children. Among them are newborns, since two missiles hit a maternity hospital.

The long-awaited agreement on the adoption of children between Russia and the United States, the absence of which has recently been constantly criticized by the Commissioner for Children's Rights Pavel Astakhov, has finally been signed. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signed the document on July 13 in Washington.

In society Protection of the reputation of the official is automated July 14, 2011 Andrey Soldatov, Irina Borogan The state continues to improve the system of monitoring the information that appears on the network, paying special attention to the protection of the reputation of the state officials. On July 12, Sergey Zheleznyak, chairman of the State Duma Information Policy Committee, proposed to delete an extremist comments from Internet resources within 24 hours.

It's sad and offensive what happened. After all, we were always told that this whole idea with the temple was simply intended to restore historical justice, to return property to the Russian state, that the local community would not be affected in any way by this matter, that perhaps some kind of long-term agreement would be renegotiated, etc. But these were all conversations; we did not receive any written documents on this matter.

The building of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Nice (France), over which there has been litigation between the Orthodox Association of Nice and the Russian Federation for several years, has been transferred for free and indefinite use to the Moscow Patriarchate, which will determine its future fate. This was stated on July 10 at a meeting with representatives of the Orthodox Association by the Presidential Administrator Vladimir Kozhin.

In society Dangerous turns of public mobilization July 14, 2011 Denis Volkov The murder of Yuri Budanov gave rise to fears in the Russian press that the riots that occurred on December 11, 2010 on Manezhnaya Square may be repeated. However, the situation remains outwardly calm. Studies of the Levada Center make it possible to trace the features of nationalist mobilization in comparison with the general processes of civil activity in the country.