"Summer on a summer night" in the English national opera. The frame of the official trailer The deputy of the St. Petersburg Parliament Vitaly Milonov wrote an appeal to the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky with a request to check the production of the opera "Sleep on a Summer Night", which will be premiered on June 10 on the stage of the Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, Interfax reports.

Alexey Kudrin and Socialist Revolutionary Nikolai Levichv. Photo: srduma.ru State Duma deputies from Fair Russia Ilya Ponomarev and Dmitry Gudkov introduced an alternative to rallies in the State Duma, developed by the Committee of Civil Initiatives Alexei Kudrin together with the Institute of Modern Development.

Alexander Schmidt. Photo: BankPravo.ru An examination in the case of an accident with the participation of a car of the Gazprombank top manager Alexander Schmidt was unable to establish a connection between injuries received by the injured child with an accident. According to RAPSI, the 20-page text of the examination does not contain a direct answer to this question.

Alexey Navalny at the monument to the heroes of Plevna. Photo by V. Maksimyuk/Grani.ru The World Court of the Basmanny District of Moscow fined Alexei Navalny for a thousand rubles for violation of the procession, RIA Novosti reports. On the night of May 8, Navalny, together with Sergey Udaltsov, was detained on protest festivities at the monument to the heroes of Plevna in China-Gorod.

The beating of a riot police on Bolotnaya. Frame Grani-TV The investigation of the riots in Bolotnaya Square requested video materials to the border. The resolution on the production of the recesses received by the editorial office of the Grani.ru says that this video "recorded the commission of violent persons" in relation to police and military personnel of internal troops.

Michael McFol. Photo: m-mcfaul.livejournal.com US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFol is surprised by the reaction of the Russian Foreign Ministry to his speech before students of the Higher School of Economics. “The essence of my excursion into the past was not in the“ spread of egregious lies ”, but to clearly show what it was we overcame, abandoning the outdated ways of conducting diplomacy of previous eras,” McFol wrote on his blog.

Alexey Navalny. Photo from the site www.altapress.ru The Corruption Foundation received 4.4 million rubles from 11 businessmen and five public figures. This was reported on Wednesday "Vedomosti" with reference to the founder of the Foundation Alexei Navalny. Another 4 million rubles will be transferred in the second half of the year. The total amount of donations will be the annual budget of the fund, which Navalny estimates at 300 thousand dollars.

Occupyisud. Photo: Andrey Shabaev (http://shabaev.ru) Cinematographers began the collection of signatures for the release of director Vasily Bogatov, detained on Monday when dispersing the camp at the Moscow City Court and arrested for 7 days under an administrative article on disobedience to the police.

Sergey Magnitsky. Photo from the site www.vesti.kz The Italian parliament will consider the resolution in the case of a Russian lawyer Hermitage Capital Sergey Magnitsky next week, the Fund’s press service reports. Two projects of resolutions were introduced providing strict sanctions against Russian officials involved in the Magnitsky case.

Collisions on Bolotnaya. Photo by V. Maximyuk/Grani.ru The Moscow Basmanny Court on Wednesday sent Maxim Luzyanin, the second person involved in the case of riots in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6, RIA Novosti reports. Thus, the court granted the application of the investigation. Luzyanin was arrested until July 6. According to the investigator, despite the fact that Luzyanin was in a mask, the witnesses of events managed to identify him.

Sergei Sobyanin takes office. Short "Russia 24" Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin proposed to expand the powers of local governments with the right to participate in the coordination of projects for the construction of new facilities. According to Gazeta.ru, he stated this at the congress of the Association of Municipal Education of Moscow. The mayor’s proposal means that municipal meetings will be able to control the work of the administration and other district services.

Picket "Putin is alive" in Cheboksary. House frame on YouTube The court in the Moscow district of Cheboksar on Wednesday recognized the activist of another Russia Dmitry Karuev, who sneezed the portrait of Vladimir Putin during a single picket, guilty under Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“petty hooliganism”). According to the press service of another Russia, Karuev was sentenced to 15 days of arrest. He has already appealed the court decision.

State Duma. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru Deputies of the State Duma from the Fair Russia party Ilya Ponomarev and Dmitry Gudkov introduced 357 amendments to the bill on rallies, Gazeta.ru reports. At the same time, the Duma Committee on Constitutional Law and State Building, which is engaged in the preparation of the bill for the second reading, managed to consider 60 amendments in 10 minutes.

Julian Assange. Photo from the site www.antipr.org The UK Supreme Court rejected the appeal of the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange to a decision on his extradition to Sweden, where he is accused of sexual crimes, the Air Force reports. Assange, for his part, denies all the accusations and previously called the European order to arrest him invalid and not legitimate.

Closed Red Square. Photo by Stepan Yakovlev The Moscow authorities refused to coordinate the protest procession on June 12 from Belorussky Station on Tverskaya Street and a rally on Borovitskaya Square. “They called the city hall about the“ Million Millions ”on June 12. They offer a march on the Frunze embankment and a rally at the Andreevsky bridge. We do not agree,” writes Obaltsov, one of the applicants of the action on his Twitter.