Collecting aid for flood victims. Moscow, Observation deck on Sparrow Hills, July 11, 2012. Shooting Dmitry and Anna Borko.

Detention on Bolotnaya. Photo by E. Mikheeva/Grani.ru Police officers and contractors of the internal troops will receive bonuses for "participating in providing order during public mass shares" in May, Interfax reports. The Moscow authorities intend to spend more than three hundred million rubles on this.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikov in court on July 4. Photo by Veronika Maximyuk/Grani.ru The criminal case against the participants of the Pussy Riot punk group was transferred to the Khamovnican Court of the capital, RAPSI reports citing the Prosecutor General. "The prosecutor's office of the Central Administrative District approved the indictment in the criminal case against 22-year-old Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 29-year-old Ekaterina Samutsevich and 24-year-old Maria Alekhina.

The next morning, after the tragedy in Krymsk, Muscovites began to collect humanitarian aid. On the observation deck of Moscow State University, work was in full swing for four days. Under the scorching sun, young people unloaded, sorted, packed medicines, food, clothes, hygiene products for the victims. In 2010, during forest fires, volunteers have already shown how to cope with trouble without the help of the state.

Katherine Ashton. Photo from the site www.tsn.ua The US authorities are concerned about the Russian law on "foreign agents", since it may limit the activities of public and human rights organizations. This was stated at a briefing by the representative of the US State Department Patrick Ventrell, RIA Novosti reports. “We believe that people everywhere should use the same fundamental freedoms and universal human rights. Russians, like all people, deserve the right to be heard.

Fight. Frame NTV In the southeast of Moscow, a fight took place with the participation of cadets of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement, the incident occurred late in the evening on Wednesday at the hostel of cadets and young police officers in the area of ​​the 18a house on the Lortovo Val Street.

Vitaly Malkin. Photo: uude.ru Sergei Magnitsky was arrested legally and died due to the slope of the prison doctor, Vitaly Malkin said in Washington, a member of the Federation Council. According to RIA Novosti, Malkin at the head of the group of Russian senators presented to American colleagues a report based on the results of the parliamentary investigation of the Magnitsky case.

Pavel Krasheninnikov. Photo from the website of the St. Petersburg The maximum possible fine under the new Law on slander will be 5 million rubles. This was announced by RIA Novosti by the head of the State Duma committee on civil, criminal, arbitration and procedural law Pavel Krasheninnikov. Krasheninnikov said that in the bill on the introduction of criminal liability for slander there would be no type of punishment as imprisonment.

The action of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Photo by Nicky Maksimyuk The world section of the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow sentenced Eldar Damirov to six months of correctional labor, Interfax reports. On April 29, he beat the organizer of the April prayer from the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in support of the Pussy Riot punk group Roman Dobrokhotov.

Valentina Matvienko and Lyudmila Narusova. Photo: Denis Vyshinsky/Kommersant Lyudmila Narusova allowed “disrespectful” and “insulting” statements to the address of colleagues on the Federation Council, said the speaker of the upper house Valentina Matvienko in an interview.