John McCain. Photo: Twitter.com/senjohnmcain Russia and Ukraine, despite the geographical remoteness, are an important topic for the United States. According to Voice of America, this was stated by the head of the Senate Committee on the Armed Forces of the Republican John McCain.

Dmitry Medvedev on the Kuril Islands. Photo: government.ru The Kuril Islands will perform an important defensive function, so both civil and military arrangement will actively develop there. This was stated by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a government meeting, Interfax reports .

Svetlana Gannushkina and Kirill Korotheev in the Meshchansky court. Photo: Muja Abu Alejdail The Civil Assistance Committee tried to appeal the introduction of foreign agents into the register, but the Meshchansky court on July 22 sided with the prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Justice, deflecting the complaint.

Boris Stomakhin in court, 04/20/2015. Photo: Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru The collegium of the Supreme Court for military personnel consisting of Sergei Sokkerin (judge-layman), Igor Krupnov and Alexander Zamashnyuk left the verdict to publicist Boris Stomakhin, who was convicted of his texts in April by seven years of strict regime. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces" from the courtroom. The hearings were open.

Ildar Dadin in the Zamoskvoretsky court, 06/25/2015. Photo "faces" In the Basmann District Court of Moscow, preliminary hearings were held in a criminal case against civil activist Ildar Dadin. This was reported to the "Franes" by lawyer Alexei Lipzer. Dadina is accused under Article 212.1 of the Criminal Code (repeated violation of the legislation on rallies). The activist faces up to 5 years in the colony. Judge Valentina Levashova extended the house arrest of Dadin until January 15.

Alexander Bastrykin. Photo: Sledcom.ru From the Russian Constitution, it is necessary to exclude provisions on the priority of international law. This was stated by the chairman of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin in an interview with Rossiya Gazeta.

Isaac's Cathedral. Photo: Cathedral.ru The St. Petersburg diocese turned to the city authorities with a request to transfer to it to the Isaac's Cathedral. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the diocese. "The appeal was sent to return to the free use of the Russian Orthodox Church in the person of the St. Petersburg diocese of the building of the Isaacievsky Cathedral on the basis of the current legislation," the press service said.

Whitehall Court. Photo: navalny.com The Corruption Foundation found an elite apartment in London by the First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Igor Shuvalov. The cost of the apartment is 11.5 million pounds, according to the blog of the founder of the FBK Alexei Navalny. An apartment with an area of ​​about 500 square meters are located in the Whitehall Court building in the very center of the city.

Ramzan Kadyrov. Photo: Instagram.com/kadyrov_95/ The Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the North Caucasus Federal District refused to initiate a criminal case on the death of Chechen Jambulat Dadaev, who was shot dead on April 19 in the formidable police officers of the Stavropol Territory while trying to detain. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the lawyer Zaurbek Sadakhanov, who represents the interests of the family of the deceased.

Ella Pamfilova. Photo: kremlin.ru Ombudsman Ella Pamfilova sent to the prosecutor general Yuri Chaika and director of the FSIN Gennady Kornienko official requests demanding to quickly provide information on where the captive Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko is located. This was reported on the website of the Ombudsman. "In connection with the delayed receipt of reliable information about the whereabouts of Nadezhda Savchenko ...

Picture from the site atkritka.com The Petrozavodsky City Court found the mayor's office of Alexei Stepanov guilty of drug propaganda and fined him 4 thousand rubles. This was reported by the Internet newspaper "Capital on the One".

Victor Mozheleansky. Photo with personal VK page Against the 26-year-old resident of Simferopol, Yevgeny Kostenko, the younger brother of the political prisoner-Jewish-Jewish Alexander Kostenko, the occupying authorities of the Crimea initiated a case of insulting the judge. Facsimile of the decision on the opening of the case was published on his Facebook page by the lawyer of the convicted Maidan Dmitry Sotnikov.

Silvio Berlusconi and Vladimir Putin. Photo: kremlin.ru Vladimir Putin proposed Russian citizenship and minister to ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. According to La Stampa, Berlusconi announced this at dinner with the functionaries of the forward party, Italy in the Roman restaurant Consolini.

Dmitry Medvedev. Frame "Russia 1" Russia must introduce response restrictive measures to arrest Russian property by foreign states. This was stated by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at a government meeting, TASS reports .

Sergey Naryshkin. Photo: Er.ru In 1991-2014, Crimea was peacefully annexed by Ukraine. According to RIA Novosti, such a statement was made by the State Duma speaker Sergey Naryshkin at a meeting with deputies of the French parliament, intending to visit the peninsula illegally.