Criminal case. Photo from the News Prim website The defendants in the Rosagrolysing case businessmen Sergey Burdovsky and Igor Konyakhin, who are charged with the theft of more than 500 million rubles from the state -owned company, asked them to mitigate the accusation, Kommersant reports. In their opinion, the case should be retrained with "fraud on an especially large scale" to "Fraud in the field of entrepreneurship".

White House. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru The government intends to spend 462 billion rubles on a phased increase in remuneration of federal officials in the coming years. By 2018, their income will double. Such data are given by RBC with reference to the draft main areas of budget policy and official clarifications of the Ministry of Finance, data from the editorial office regarding this document.

DPS employees at a blocked armored personnel carrier in Rostov. Photo by Sergey Rostovtsev Residents of Rostov-on-Don blocked two armored personnel carriers, moving around the city without license plates and without the usual support of traffic police vehicles. This was announced on his Facebook page by the city dweller Sergey Rostovtsev. The incident occurred on Tuesday at about 21:00. Inside each car, according to the city dweller, there were 8-10 military. “Who are they?

Igor Girkin. Photo: Joinfo.ua "The Minister of Defense of the DPR" Igor Girkin introduced a siege in Donetsk. This was reported by the website of the Russian Spring terrorists. In addition, Girkin issued the "Order" on the "mobilization" of material resources for the needs of the militants. According to the "Russian Spring", "orders" are signed on Wednesday in the evening. Meanwhile, the DPR functionary Vladislav Brig published on his Facebook page of these papers.

District Court of Guam. Photo: Wikipedia The judge of the District Court of Guam Francis Tidingko-Gitateat refused to free Roman Seleznev, the son of a State Duma deputy from the LDPR, Valery Seleznev, from the guardianship of the Russian. It is reported by ITAR-TASS. Russian lawyer Patrick Siville stated that Seleznev, in violation of the law, was detained in the Maldives not by local authorities, but by employees of the American special services.

The beginning of the "process of four" in the Zamoskvoretsky court. Frame Grani-TV During the debate of the parties in the swamp case, four prosecutor Aleksey Smirnov requested 4 years of general regime for Alexander Margolin and Alexei Gaskarov, for Ilya Gushchka - 3 years 3 years of general regime, for Elena Kokhtareva - 3 years 3 months with a 4 -year test term. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces" from the hall of the Zamoskvoretsky district court of Moscow.

Boris Nemtsov goes to serve 15 days of arrest. Frame Grani-TV The ECHR ordered Russia to pay 28.5 thousand euros to the leader of the RPR-Parnas Boris Nemtsov for the detention of strategy-31 shares in December 2010 and the subsequent administrative arrest. The decision is published on the court website. 26 thousand euros Nemtsov were awarded as compensation for moral damage, and the remaining 2.5 thousand in reimbursement of legal costs.

Dutch military. Photo: Armaholic.com Military personnel and police from the Netherlands and Australia will go to the Donbass to protect the crash of the Boeing-777. According to UNIAN , the corresponding international agreements on Thursday are ratified by the Verkhovna Rada. “They accepted, 321 votes for,” deputy Sergei Labazyuk told reporters following a closed meeting. “The Australian military will ensure the protection of this facility.

Mines purchased with Andrei Kashin's money. Hard video from YouTube A video appeared on the Web in which terrorists fired at Shakhtersk, where the forces of the ATO, “personalized” mines, came into the other day. Before the shelling, one of the militants states: “The real Russian patriot Andrei transferred to Catherine Gubareva (the wife of the“ People’s Governor ”Donbass Pavel Gubarev.

The building of the ECHR. Photo: echr.coe.int The European Court of Human Rights awarded the former shareholders of Yukos 1.86 billion euros as a compensation for their complaint against Russia, considered back in 2011, Prime reports. The solution is not final and can be appealed in the Grand Chamber of the ECHR for one of the parties for three months.

Fighting in gas. Frame BBC. The Israeli Armed Forces issued an order on additional mobilization of 16 thousand reservists, bringing the total number of people up to 86 thousand mobilized for the company in Gaza sector, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in military circles.

Vitaly Churkin in the UN. Photo: Mid.ru The Permanent Representative of Russia at the UN Vitaly Churkin accused the Ukrainian authorities of intention to destroy evidence at the site of the fall of the Malaysian Boeing-777, shot down on July 17 by terrorists from Russian weapons. According to RIA Novosti, he made such a statement at the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

Sberbank. Photo: Grani.ru On Thursday, the EU Council officially approved the decision on sector sanctions "in connection with Russia's actions to destabilize the situation in eastern Ukraine." Sanctions are introduced from August 1 for a year with the possibility of review after 3 months. Sberbank, VTB, Gazprombank, Vneseconobank and Rosselkhozbank fell under the sanctions.

Russian artillery is advanced to the border with Ukraine. Rostov Region, April 2014. Hard of video from YouTube channel Andrey X The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine published an interception of a telephone conversation between the leader of the Donetsk terrorists Igor Girkin and the militant commander having a call sign Cap. In this conversation, Girkin actually confirmed the shelling of ATO forces by Russian artillery.

Evgenia Vasiliev. Frame of the Rain TV channel The Moscow City Court refused the appeal of the lawyers of the main defendant the case of Oboronservice Evgenia Vasilyeva and left the defendant under house arrest, ITAR-TASS reports. "The decision of the Presnensky court on the extension of the Vasilyeva preventive measure in the form of house arrest until December 23 to leave unchanged, the appeal of the defense is the dismissal," the court’s decision said.