Alexey Navalny on the IV forum of municipal deputies. Photo by Nicky Maksimyuk/Grani.ru Member of the Coordinating Council of the opposition Alexei Navalny, nominated by the RPR-Parnas as a candidate in the election of the capital mayor, refused to speak in the Council of Municipalities, Gazeta.ru reports .

Activists on the roof of the "House of Bolkonsky" on the morning of June 25. Photo: Archnadzor.ru On Tuesday morning, the police detained four defenders of the Bolkonsky House on Vozdvizhenka. According to the correspondent of the "faces", the coordinator of Archnadzor Rustam Rakhmatullin and his two colleagues were removed from the roof, then Pavel Shekhtman, who replaced them, was detained. The detainees were delivered to the Arbat police department.

Sergey Lavrov. Photo: Government.rf The USA Snowden, who revealed the activities of the US intelligence services, did not cross the Russian border, the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". Russia has no concern to either Snowden itself or to its movement around the world, the minister emphasized. “I want to say right away that we have no concern to Mr.

Hugo Chavez after a course of chemotherapy. Photo The Florida News Journal The designed passage No. 5509 in the Khoroshevsky district in the north of Moscow will be renamed to the Street Hugo Chavez. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the acting Head of the Committee of Public Relations of the Cettlement City Hall Alexander Chistyakov. The length of the fare is about 170 meters. It is an equipped square between Leningradsky Prospekt and Aerostar Hotel.

Andreas Gross. Photo: Andigross.ch The deputy of the Switzerland Parliament Andreas Gross presented in the Council of Europe a devastating report on the case of the deceased lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Foundation Sergei Magnitsky. This was reported to the "faces" by the press service of the fund.

Checking subscription sheets. Photo from the site RNDS The Mosgorizbirk made an unprecedented decision to carry out a continuous verification of voter signatures collected by self -nominates, Kommersant reports . In previous years, the commission was limited to checking 20 percent of signatures. Such a decision in the election commission is explained by the upcoming elections to the city parliament.

Defendants in the "swamp business". Photo: Evgeny Biyatov/RIA "Novosti" All the defendants in the “Twelve Affairs” refused to admit guilt in sane crimes, Rapcy reports. They also stated that they were incomprehensible to the charges. “Your honor is stipulated. The case is fabricated, I really can’t understand what they blame me for,” Denis Lutskievich, judge Natalia Nikishina, noted, in particular. “I admit myself innocent in the commission of any illegal actions,” said Sergey Krivov.

Depardieu in Saransk. Frame NTV The minibus, in which Gerard Depardieu and members of the film crew of the Biryuza, were traveling, hit the accident in the center of Moscow on Sunday night, Izvestia reports. According to the publication, the accident occurred at about 3:30 in the morning. The Mercedes minibus, in which six members of the film crew moved, was headed by Petrovka towards the Metropol Hotel.

Illustration from the website of Rostelecom Vadim Semenov, General Director of Svyazinvest OJSC, elected chairman of the board of directors of OJSC Rostelecom, Vedomosti reports with reference to the press service of the company. Voting on the candidacy of Semenov took place on Monday at the correspondence meeting of the Board of Directors of Rostelecom, the name Semenov was listed in the directive sent to the Federal Property Management Agency for voting on this issue.

Alcotester. Photo from the site www.atesmedica.ru The State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building supported the amendment on the permissible norm of alcohol for drivers, RIA Novosti reports. The Committee received a letter from the Ministry of Industry and Trade, in which the department recommended introducing the norm that took into account the error of the devices, as well as the influence of external factors when measuring the degree of intoxication of drivers.

Sergey Cherepovsky. Photo from a personal page on Facebook The Central District Court of Tver extended the activist of "another Russia" to Sergei Cherepovsky, the term of detention in the pre -trial detention center until August 1. This was reported on his Facebook page Member of the Party Executive Committee Sergey Fomchenkov.

Vladimir Putin at a rally in Luzhniki Edward Snowden, who disclosed information about the activities of the American special services, is indeed located in Russia and will not be issued in the USA. According to Fontanka.ru, such a statement was made by President Vladimir Putin at a press conference in Finland. He explained such a decision by the lack of an agreement between Russia and the United States on the issuance of criminals.

110 years ago, on June 25, 1903, the English writer George Orwell (Eric Blair), the author of the classic anti -utopia "Animal Farm" and "1984", denouncing the practice of Soviet and world communism, was born. Orwell came to his ideas on the basis of the experience gained in the Civil War in Spain: “From childhood, I knew that newspapers could lie, but only in Spain I saw that they could completely falsify reality.

Meeting of the Federation Council. Photo: cousil.gov.ru The Committee of the Council of Constitutional Legislation on Monday recommended that the chamber reject the bill with amendments to the Law "On Citizenship", introduced by former President Dmitry Medvedev in April 2012, Vedomosti reported . The document proposed to simplify the procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship living abroad by children, one of the parents of which is a Russian.

Activists on the roof of the "House of Bolkonsky" on the morning of June 25. Photo: Archnadzor.ru On the night of Tuesday, activists of the Archnadzor movement stopped the demolition of the "house of Bolkonsky" on Vozdvizhenka. According to the correspondent of the "faces", the coordinator of the movement of Rustam Rakhmatullin and three of his colleagues climbed onto the roof of the building and blocked the work of the construction crane to dismantle the dome of the rotunda.