In support of Khodorkovsky. Photo by Dmitry Borko The share of Russians who would approve the early exit to the ex -head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky, over the past six years, has increased from 19 to 33 percent, and opposing against 44 to 16 percent. According to Vedomosti, this is evidenced by the survey conducted by the Levada Center on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the businessman (1,600 people from 45 regions were interviewed, the status of 3.4 percent).

The building of the ECHR. Photo: echr.coe.int The European Court of Human Rights accepted the complaints of two defendants in the "Swamp case" by Vladimir Akimenkov and Yaroslav Belousov. This was announced on his Twitter by lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky. The defender also emphasized that in the near future complaints in the ECHR will be supplemented by the facts of extending the arrest of the defendants and inhuman handling of them in court.

Illustration from the website of Rostelecom The prosecutor's office of the Ulyanovsk region claims that she did not demand from the Internet provider Rostelecom to block access to the entire newspaper.ru website and the entire Komsomolskaya Pravda portal. As noted in the official statement of the department, it was only about “prohibiting access to specific pages ...

State Duma. Frame NTV The government introduced a bill to the State Duma, expanding the list of grounds for unscheduled inspections of the NGO Minoust. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". The document involves amendments to Article 32 of the Law on NPOs and clause 5 of Article 2 of the Law on "Foreign Agents". The project was developed by the Ministry of Justice in pursuance of the order of President Vladimir Putin of November 12, 2012.

Alexander Podrabinek. Photo: gzt.ru The democratic movement in the Soviet Union has never been uniform and homogeneous. Everyone was people - workers and professors, believers and atheists, internationalists and patriots, Westerners and soils. The rejection of totalitarianism united everyone as not so much as recognition of the highest moral value of human dignity. It all began here, the rest did not have significant significance.

Lyudmila Alekseeva and Lev Ponomarev. Photo: yabloko.ru The head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva and the executive director of the Lev Ponomarev Lev Ponomarev movement did not enter the new composition of the Public Council under the Moscow Prosecutor's Office. This was reported by Interfax with reference to Ponomarev’s statement, made at a meeting of the Presidential Council for Human Rights. “We criticize, make criticisms, we are inconvenient,” Alekseev commented on the news.

Valentina Matvienko. Photo: Er.ru The Federation Council approved a law introducing a ban on international adoption of Russian children with same -sex pairs, RIA Novosti reports. The speaker of the upper house Valentina Matvienko said that this ban, as well as the previously adopted ban on the propaganda of "non-traditional sexual relations", is not discriminatory in relation to representatives of sex minorities.

Defendants in the "swamp business". Photo: Evgeny Biyatov/RIA "Novosti" Famous Russian human rights defenders and public figures turned to the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Vladimir Lukin with a request to intervene in the situation with the inhumane treatment of the defendants in the case of riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012.

Moscow infectious diseases hospital No. 1. Photo: Med-id.ru In Moscow, seven children 11-12 years old are hospitalized in the 1st Infectious Hospital with suspicion of serous (enterovirus) meningitis, and two patients have already been confirmed. It was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the official of the capital's health department Irina Kalinovskaya. According to Kalinovskaya, there is no talk of a group disease.

" in several regions The "Committee against Torture" is holding an action " Law Enforcement Officer, Remember the Oath , timed to coincide with the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, which is celebrated annually on June 26. In the Nizhny Novgorod and Orenburg regions, information boards appeared with quotes from the texts of the oath of police officers, the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor's office. in Ufa and Yoshkar-Ola The action was banned .

Boris Titov. Photo: Deloros.ru Alexey Navalny can be amnestied on fraud, but the Kirovles case does not fall about the embezzlement under an amnesty. This was stated by the Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs Boris Titov, RIA Novosti reports. “If Navalny has open affairs under the 159th article (fraud), it can be amnestied,” Titov said.

Council of the Federation. Photo: cousil.gov.ru The Federation Council approved the homophobic law adopted on June 11 by the State Duma. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". Now the document must be signed by President Vladimir Putin.

Mikhail Kosenko in court. Photo by Dmitry Borko Judge of the Zamoskvoretsky court Lyudmila Moskalenko, leading the case of Mikhail Kosenko, allocated to separate proceedings from the swamp business, at a meeting on Wednesday stated that the victim of the riot police Alexander Kazmin has serious health problems and he could not be present in court, the faces correspondent reported.

Edward Snowden. Photo: digitalTrends.com Edward Snowden, who revealed information about the activities of the American special services, remains in the transit zone of the Moscow Airport Sheremetyevo, since he cannot buy a plane ticket due to lack of documents. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source surrounded by a fugitive American. Snowden’s American passport was canceled, but he has no other personality certificates with him, the agency’s interlocutor noted.

Mikhail Borisovich Khodorkovsky turned 50 years old. Vladimir Bukovsky, Lyudmila Alekseeva, Yuri Shevchuk, Boris Akunin and others, turn to the most famous political prisoner of Russia with congratulations and wishes to the most famous political prisoner. Brani.ru sincerely join these warm words.