Judge of the Leninsky Court of Kirov Sergei Blinov began reading the verdict in the case of Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov, accused of theft by embezzlement, which resulted in damage to the Kirovles company. From the first lines it is clear that the accused have been found guilty. The punishment will be announced at the very end. According to various sources, the verdict ranges from 100 to 160 pages.

We have already published a statement by three co-chairs of RPR-PARNAS - Vladimir Ryzhkov, Boris Nemtsov, Mikhail Kasyanov. Our party’s position is clear: we believe that the Kirovles case is completely falsified. The guilt of Navalny and Ofitserov has not been proven in court.

The Universiade has ended in Kazan. Federal channels, as expected, are in ecstasy. Of course, 155 gold medals alone have been won! I was not lazy and did the math. At all Olympic Games - winter and summer - the Russian team won a total of 169 top awards. Oh, if only the Universiade could last just one more day! Or maybe we, since this is the case, will henceforth only participate in the Universiades? And at the same time conduct them ourselves?

In response to the verdict against Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov in Moscow, people are flocking to Manezhnaya Square to express their support. No one coordinated the action, so on social networks people agreed to meet and come to discuss the verdict. Candidate for mayor of Moscow Sergei Mitrokhin and candidate for governor of the Moscow region Gennady Gudkov said that the format of the action was a meeting with voters. Several Moscow municipal deputies did the same.

In society The end of Russian science is 3. The results of the second reading July 18, 2013 Igor Kharichev The story with the Russian academies and, above all with the Russian Academy of Sciences, has not ended at all. Despite the numerous protests of the scientific community, the adoption of the law in the second reading took place on July 5, a day after the first reading.

Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina, who is being transferred from the Bereznyaki correctional colony, was beaten by guards. As Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to a Twitter post by the Voina art group, this happened in the Solikamsk pre-trial detention center in the presence of lawyer Oksana Darova after Alekhina refused to be transferred without familiarizing herself with the documents.

Around Russia Assad "Yakhont", silent ... 18 July 2013 Andrey Kozhinov “Quiet games under the side of sleeping people. Every morning even mice are sleeping in the house Boys know that everything needs to be done soon. And the boys do everything asah as much as possible. ” "Nautilus Pepilius" There is such a well -known psychological factor - denial as the protective mechanism of the psyche.

In the economy The failed "world government" July 18, 2013 Maxim Blan “Financial Twenty” launched in Moscow-a meeting of the Ministers of Finance and the heads of the Central Bank, designed to determine the agenda of the “Big Twenty” summit, which will be held on September 6 in St. Petersburg. The circle of issues that are going to discuss the participants in the current meeting is standard, the positions of the parties are more or less known for almost all issues.

On July 11, 2013, the Deputy Chairman of the Sami Parliament of the Kola Peninsula, Andrei Danilov, sent an appeal to the prosecutor's office demanding an examination of the performance of the creative group "Joy" on June 1 of this year in Murmansk at a concert dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Murmansk region, reports the SOVA Information and Analytical Center . From Danilov’s point of view, the speech falls under Art.