Victoria Nuland. Photo: usembassy.gov Dmitry Loskutov, assistant Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin, who distributed the record of the telephone conversation of US Secretary of State Victoria Nuland with the American ambassador to Kyiv by Jeffrey Payette, denies Russia's involvement in the listening of diplomats negotiations. He made such a statement to the Associated Press. According to Loskutov, he accidentally found a video with a recording of the conversation in social networks.

At the Kharkov airport. Photo: hrk.aero The passenger of the Kharkov aircraft - Istanbul, who tried to deploy a liner in Sochi on Friday, demanded to free all the "hostages of Ukraine." This was reported by Ukrainian National News with reference to the head of the Main Investigative Department of the Security Service of Ukraine Maxim Lenko. Lenko added his demand to fly to Sochi, the invader explained that Putin and Yanukovych, who have his hands in the blood.

Andrei Semenov on the procession "Death to the Kremlin Occupants!" 05/09/2013. Photo from a personal page on Facebook Civil activist Andrei Semenov was detained by the police at the entrance to the agreed rally against the restrictions of the Internet trade, for trying to carry the poster criticizing the Olympics in Sochi. The rally organized by the Consumer Protection Service was held on Saturday in the Moscow Bolotnaya Square.

Vladimir Ryzhkov. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru The co-chair of the RPR-Parnas Vladimir Ryzhkov and 15 members of its federal political council left the party. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the politician itself. The reason for this decision, Ryzhkov called the introduction of resolutions that were not agreed upon in advance on the Saturday meeting.

Detention on Bolotnaya. Photo by E. Mikheeva/Grani.ru Russia asks the ECHR to fully reject the complaints of the seven "swamp prisoners", considered in the framework of the case "Vladimir Aokimenkov and six others against Russia." This was reported in his blog by the lawyer Akimenkov and Yaroslav Belousov Dmitry Agranovsky.

Participants in the antiolympic action in Nalchik. Photo from the FB page Evgenia Tash In Nalchik, the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, on Friday more than 30 protesters against the Sochi Olympics were detained. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to activists of the Circassian national organizations. Most of the detainees are young people under the age of 30, who are not in any public associations.

Navalny at the rally on September 6. Photo by Yu. Timofeeva The folk alliance, led by Alexei Navalny, was renamed the Party of Progress. As Navalny wrote on his Twitter, such a decision was made at the extraordinary congress of the party, held on Saturday.

The alliance of animal defenders spent a promotion against the destruction of homeless animals in Sochi in front of the Olympiad at the Olympic watch on the Moscow Manezhnaya Square. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces". Three people took part in the action. One unfolded the flag of the alliance of animal defenders, the other two stretched out a banner with the inscriptions "Entertainment at a thousand lives" and "Blood Olympiad" in Russian and English.

Determination of promotions in defense of "rain". Photo by E. Mikheeva/Grani.ru On the Manezhnaya Square of Moscow, the police dispersed the flash mob in support of the Rain television channel, the Grana correspondent reports. Participants in the action opened umbrellas. Everyone who did this was detained. According to the ATS-Info, at least 43 people got into the police.

180 years ago, on February 8, 1834, Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev, the great Russian chemist, the creator of the periodic system of chemical elements was born. In addition to science, Mendeleev was interested in public problems and was a noticeable publicist of a conservative direction.

Vitaly Klitschko, Oleg Tyagnibok and Arseniy Yatsenyuk. Photo: svoboda.org.ua The Security Service of Ukraine closed the case against a coup attempt in December 2013. This was reported by UNIAN with reference to the head of the Main Investigative Department of the SBU Maxim Lenko.