Congress building. Photo from the site www.morganangel.com Members of the Committee of the House of Representatives and the US Senate voted for the strict restriction of financial assistance allocated by Syrian rebels. About this writes The Hill with reference to a member of one of the committees. Such a decision of the congressman was made from fears that weapons may go to terrorist groups, including those associated with Al-Qaeda.

Pavel Astakhov. Photo: Astakhov.ru Pavel Astakhov, the Commissioner for the President of the Rights of the Child, made a warning about the introduction of the subject of sex education in the school curriculum, the press service of the children's Ombudsman reports . He sent the corresponding appeal to the head of the Ministry of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov and the heads of Russian regions.

Irina Khalip at a press conference. Shield of video shooting "Our NIVA" The Criminal Executive Inspectorate of the Partisan RUVD of Minsk sent to the court to re-conside the materials of the criminal case of the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Irina Halip. This was reported by the Belapan agency with reference to the journalist itself. On July 21, the postponement of the sentence has expired, however, since this day falls on Sunday, the court should take place no later than the 19th.

State Duma. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru Deputies Mikhail Serdyuk and Valery Trapeznikov introduced a bill to the State Duma on increasing responsibility for violence against journalists. The text of the document and explanatory notes is published on the State Duma website. The authors propose to equate the activities of media representatives with law enforcement officials. If the bill is adopted, the Criminal Code will be supplemented by the term "professional activity" along with "service".

Ekaterina Samutsevich at the Moscow City Court. Photo by L. Barkova/Grani.ru The disciplinary commission of the Russian Law Chamber for the absence of a permissible occasion stopped production on the complaint of Pussy Riot Pussy Riot Ekaterina Samutsevich in relation to her former lawyers Nikolai Polozova and Mark Feigina. Polozov reports this on Twitter. The chamber will make the final decision on July 25.

Irina Kalmykova with a 11-year-old son in Avtosak 05.05.2013. Photo by Alexander Denisov The camp of the participants of the hunger strike of large mothers at the reception of "United Russia" is defeated, seven activists were detained, the OVD-Info reports . According to Irina Kalmykova, activists were not allowed to preserve their property. First, police officers detained Alexander Makarov and Vladimir Malyshev.

Banner in support of Stomakhin near the Kazan Cathedral. Photo: vchera.com Unknown activists hung on the fence of the Kazan Cathedral on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg a banner with the text "Freedom Boris Stomakhin!", The Internet newspaper "Yesterday" reports . According to the participants in the action, the place for it was not chosen by chance. On Wednesday evening, Patriarch Kirill arrives in the Kazan Cathedral, and Stomakhin is known as a convinced anticleric.

Leo Rubinstein. Photo by the border.ru It happens that even throughout the human life the words change meanings. Sometimes - on the opposite. My older brother, for example, whose early childhood was in the years of the war, was proud that his dad was an officer.

A rally in Pugachev. Photo: fn-volga.ru The head of the police department of the Saratov city Pugachev Igor Lopatkin lost his post as a result of excitement in the city. This was stated by the head of the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Sergey Arenin, RIA Novosti reports. The new head of the department was appointed the former deputy head of the Urus-Martan Internal Affairs Directorate Andrei Ostapovich.

Roman Khudyakov. Photo: ldpr.ru The State Duma deputy from the LDPR Andrei Khudyakov brutally beaten on the Berezhkovskaya embankment in the center of Moscow as a result of a road conflict. According to the party’s website, Khudyakov was hospitalized in an unconscious state with a concussion. According to law enforcement agencies, which is quoted by RIA Novosti, the incident happened at 19:20 Tuesday. The deputy was driving home in a personal car. The movement was dense.

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo There was an escape to a jerk if you remember. Insolent, stupid, daytime. Vologda - from the feet. And - forward the head ... Well, the sad, almost inevitable completion of the camp plot, reckoning. The whole platoon beat me, was already tired twice. Vysotsky's song. Damned, for example, the Stalinist years. Now everything is wrong, guys. That is, not quite so. Probably caught during the escape, as before, they hit a mortal battle.

Nikolai Lyaskin in the police. Photo from Twitter @ristomin During the campaign walk of the supporters of Alexei Navalny, a member of the political council of the Moscow "Solidarity" Nikolai Lyaskin was detained. He was delivered to the Tver police department, he was not informed of the detention. About an hour later, the police released Lyaskin without drawing up the protocol. He reports this on Twitter. “I was taken away when I walked along the sidewalks.

The detention of Evgeny Urlashov. Frame of surveillance cameras In the near future, the investigation plans to apply to the court with a petition for removing from the position of mayor Yaroslavl Evgeny Urlashov, the press service of the Investigative Committee. Criminal cases against him and other defendants were transferred to the Investigative Department of the Central Federal District.

Oksana Trufanova. Photo from Facebook Chelyabinsk human rights activists can attract in the case of "riots" in the IK-6 Kopeisk in November 2012. This was reported by "RBC Daily" with reference to human rights activist Oksana Trufanov. According to Trufanova, the prisoners of the colony suspected of this case, investigators in interrogations found out information about the sources of her income, as well as the income of the regional PMC Nikolai Schur.

Edward Snowden. Photo: digitalTrends.com The exposure of the American special services Edward Snowden categorically denied the report that he issued secret information to the authorities of China or Russia, reports The Guardian. Snowden also said that the special services of both countries did not receive information from his computers.