John Beiner. Photo from the Air Force website The speaker of the House of US Representatives Republican John Beiner opposed the initiative of his one -party man, Senator Lindsay Graham, who called on the United States to boycott the Olympics in Sochi, if Russia provides the asylum of the American special services Edward Snowden.

Natalya Tretyak and Dmitry Livanov. Photo: Misis.ru The head of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Ministry of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov and his deputy Natalya Tretyak will be interrogated in the case of the theft of budget funds at the Moscow Institute and alloys. This was written by "Kommersant" with reference to the deputy of the State Duma of Unicorn Vladimir Burmatov.

Explosion of the Proton-M rocket. Frame of the video The main reason for the accident of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the DM-03 accelerated unit and the three GLONASS satellites was the improper operation of the angular velocity sensor. According to Interfax, the deputy head of Roscosmos Alexander Lopatin announced this on Thursday.

Dmitry Krayukhin. Photo: amnesty.fi The Oryol human rights activist Dmitry Krayukhin, who on the eve of a search was held in the case of the Orvets Internet Encyclopedia , turned to the TFR demanding to re-search his apartment, since the search on Wednesday went with violations. It is reported by Kasparov.ru with reference to Krayukhin himself. The human rights activist explained that the order presented to him was dated June 12.

Nikolai Levich. Photo from Levichev.info The rating of the candidate for mayors of Moscow Nikolai Levichv, the chairman of the Just Russia, is 0.0 percent. This is evidenced by the results of the third survey, weekly conducted by Synovate Comcon among 1200 Muscovites aged 18 years. According to the results of the first survey, held from June 27 to July 3, 0.5 percent of the townspeople who determined their candidate were ready to vote for Levich.

Activists of the Moscow Municipal Front tried to give Sobyanin the coffin as a symbol of the Dead Souls, who signed for the expansion of Leninsky Prospekt. July 17, 2013, video Dmitry Zykov. Look at YouTube

95 years ago, on July 18, 1918, the Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fedorovna, the sister of Empress Alexandra Fedorovna and the widow of the Moscow General Grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich, who was killed in 1905 by terrorist Ivan Kalyaev, was executed. After the death of her husband, she founded the Marfo-Mariinsky monastery of mercy in Moscow at her own expense. In the spring of 1918, she was arrested and sent to Perm, and then to Alapaevsk.

Olga Golodets. Photo of the press service of the government The Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets admitted that in Russia a "rather complicated epidemiological situation" associated with the enterovirus infection, RIA Novosti reports. Particular attention of doctors is focused on the southern regions of Russia, since it is there that such outbreaks arise locally. “Today, all services are brought into a state of increased readiness. Doctors work in a tripled increased vigilance.

Sagra. Photo from the site www.mk.ru The Sverdlovsk Regional Court sentenced the previously hidden participant in the riots in the village of Sagra Magomeda Securov by the year and three months of the general regime, RAPSI reports. Beksov was found guilty under part 3 of Article 30, part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code (attempted participation in the riots). As reported on the website of the TFR, Bekov for a long time hid from the investigation and was put on the federal wanted list.

Hall of meetings of the Constitutional Court. Photo: ksrf.ru The Constitutional Court demanded to clarify the grounds for the prohibition of working with children for persons held criminal liability, the press service of the court reports . The KS found that a specific list of crimes that entail such a ban should be created.

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo Trolling in modern Russian politics is a widespread phenomenon. Multi -vector, expressed by scientific language. The opposition is a troll the power, the authorities are mocking the disagreements, everyone blows and reins in each other, and this endless process somehow brightens the hardships of unlucky life together. In fact, sometimes funny incidents happen.

130 years ago, on July 18, 1883, Lev Borisovich Kamenev (Rosenfeld), a prominent leader of the Bolshevik party, shot in August 1936 on a false accusation of the murder of Kirov and a conspiracy against Stalin, was born. Kamenev was a member of the Politburo, chairman of the Moscow City Council, chairman of the Council of Labor and Defense.

Evgeny Urlashov in the courtroom. Photo from the website of the Investigative Committee The Basmanny Court of Moscow removed from the post of mayor of Yaroslavl Evgeny Urlashov until the final procedural decision in the criminal case, RAPSI reports. Urlashov is accused of bribery, he rejects the prosecution. The investigator asked to remove Urlashov from office, as he could actually fulfill his duties, even being in a pre -trial detention center.

Pickets in support of Navalny in Moscow, July 5, 2013. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru Alexey Navalny stops participating in the elections of the Moscow Mayor as a candidate. This was announced on his Twitter by the chief of the election headquarters of Navalny Leonid Volkov. “The position of the campaign headquarters, agreed with the candidate: this is not an election, there is no point in participating in this,” Volkov wrote.

A woman, similar to Evgenia Vasilieva, in the Stoleshnikov Lane Moscow. Photo: @dashavor The Khamovnican Court of Moscow extended until September 23 the term of home arrest of the ex-head of the Department of Property Relations of the Ministry of Defense Evgenia Vasilieva, Rapsei reports. She was charged with especially large fraud in the framework of the Oboronservis case. Vasiliev does not fall under the amnesty, since the amnesty does not apply to the kidnappers of budget funds.