US Congress. Photo WSJ The refusal to register the Party of People’s Freedom casts into question the degree of freedom and honesty of the upcoming elections to the State Duma, said the co -chair of the US Congress Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Senator Benjamin Cardin. Cardin’s statement , received by the editorial office of the faces of the Graduation.

Press conference and action against attacks on LGBT activists. Moscow, June 23, 2011. Photographed by Dmitry Zykov.

Anatoly Chubais. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru The head of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais will leave the Supreme Council of the Party of the Law. According to Interfax, the party co -chairman Leonid Gozman, who also previously also announced his departure from the organization’s leadership, stated this. When exactly they leave their posts, it is not reported. This will probably happen at the congress on June 25, where businessman Mikhail Prokhorov will be elected by the new leader.

Vitaly Portnikov. Photo from the site www.day.ua People who went on June 22 on the streets of Minsk and other cities of Belarus were silent, did not line up in columns, did not demand the resignation of the madman who comfortably located in the presidential residence and thinks what else to sell to be wintering ... Actually, this is people who simply want to live humanly. Can we understand these people in Moscow, St. Petersburg or Kyiv? It seems to us that we can.

Anatoly Bitkov. Photo from the site www.www.mk.ru In Magadan, a suspect in the murder of the editor -in -chief of the Kolyma Plus television company was detained. According to RIA Novosti, this is stated in the message of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Magadan Region. "The crime is disclosed, the suspect was established and detained.

Valentina Matvienko hits the bell. Photo by Russian look The governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko is not yet ready to say whether she will agree to become the speaker of the Federation Council, RIA Novosti reports. “This news is unexpected for me. It requires understanding,” Matvienko told reporters, thanking the president for a high appreciation of her work. "This news is unexpected for me. It requires understanding.

Icebergs in Alaska. Photo: Terry Martin/Russian Look The earthquake of magnitude 7.4 occurred in the Pacific Ocean 163 kilometers east of the island of Atka off the coast of the American state of Alaska. According to RIA Novosti, the US Geological Service reported this. According to seismologists, the focus of the earthquake lay at a depth of 46.8 kilometers. Possible victims are not reported. For coastal areas of Alaska, a warning was announced about the threat of tsunami.

Boris Sokolov The documentary "Stalin against the Red Army" shown on NTV is called upon to answer two main questions: whether the Tukhachevsky conspiracy was and how much the repressions weakened the Red Army before the 41st year. The first question in the film is not given a definite answer. The statement that there is no documentary evidence that could prove or refute the version of the military conspiracy is clearly erroneous.

Peter Falk. Photo by FoxNews In the United States, at the age of 83, film actor Peter Palk died, who played Lieutenant Colombo in the series of the same name, reports the Air Force. It is reported that the film actor died on Friday night in the city of Beverly Hills, where he lived. Falk was repeatedly nominated for the Oscar, the Golden Globe and the Telepremia Emmy. The actor began to act in the 1950s.

Alexander Kuchma. Shot video interview with newspaper.ru The prosecutor’s office does not see the grounds for an additional verification of the attempt in 2006 by the ex-head of “Yukos” Mikhail Khodorkovsky, because “personal hostile relations were the reason for his conflict with former cellmate Alexander Kuchma.” This was announced by the senior assistant to the prosecutor of the Trans -Baikal Territory Sergey Plautkin.

Calculation of ballots in the elections to the Moscow City Duma. Frame of the TV channel '' Russia '' President Dmitry Medvedev introduced a bill to the State Duma, which provides for a decrease from seven to five percent of the barrier in the elections to pass parties to the lower house of parliament, the Kremlin press service reports. The advisability of reducing the threshold Medvedev previously stated in an interview with The Financial Times and Moscow News.

Gas station. Frame EURONEWS The Russian government has retained an increased fee for gasoline since July 1, RIA Novosti reports. As stated in the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers, the amount of the fee will be $ 400.5 per ton. Due to problems with gasoline in a number of regions of the country, the authorities increased the export fee for it from May 1 to 90 percent of the rate of duties on oil, then extended the action of increased duty for June.

Alexey Gaskarov and Maxim Solopov. Photo from the site www.antifa.ru The Khimkinsky city court acquitted Alexei Gaskarov, accused of attacking the Khimki administration, and sentenced to two years in prison the second person involved in the case - Maxim Solopov.

Valentina Matvienko on a tennis court. Photo saint-petersburg.ru Valentina Matvienko can be elected by the speaker of the Federation Council already in the spring session. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the Chairman of the Commission of the Council on the Development of Civil Society Institutes Boris Spiegel.

Roberto Carlos. Frame Yutyub Samara "Wings of the Soviets" will pay a fine of 300 thousand rubles for the incident in the match of the 15th round of the Russian Championship against Anji. According to RIA Novosti, the head of the Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union Vladimir Katkov told reporters on Friday.