Kirill Serebrennikov. Photo from a personal page The founder of the Seventh Studio, the Gogol Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, called the suspicions of law enforcement agencies unreasonable, related to the financing of theatrical projects. The director said this in an interview with the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda. “What to do when a skating rink is rolled up for you? The theater, art turned out to face a gigantic machine, is quite a repressive property.

95 years ago, on June 24, 1922, German Foreign Minister Walter Rathenau was assassinated. The attempt was staged by members of the ultra-right organization Consul. They took revenge on Rathenau for calling for compliance with all the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles and for signing an agreement with Soviet Russia in Rapallo. The hatred of the killers for Rathenau was also explained by his Jewish origin. Rathenau's funeral began with a ceremony in the Reichstag.

Sean Spicer. Short of broadcasting The White House wants to maintain flexibility when applying sanctions against Russia and other countries. This was announced at a briefing by the press secretary of the US President Sean Spicer. "I think the main thing that bothers us in the approach to sanctions - how the Congress draws them up and is it not fraught with a potential undermining of the powers of the executive branch," Spicer said.

Qatar flag Qatar called the requirements put forward by the Arab countries unacceptable and impossible to cancel the diplomatic blockade. It is reported by the BBC. "The list of requirements confirms what Qatar talked about from the very beginning. The illegal blockade has nothing to do with the fight against terrorism, it is associated with the restriction of Qatar sovereignty and interference in our foreign policy," said the press secretary of the government of the country Sheikh Saif At-Tani.

205 years ago, on June 24, 1812, Napoleon's Great Army crossed the Neman River and invaded the territory of the Russian Empire. The Patriotic War began. Napoleon's troops numbered, taking into account the allied Austrian and Prussian corps, about 570 thousand people, with the French accounting for just over half of this number. Of the other peoples in the Great Army, most of all were Germans and Italians. The Russian army at the initial stage had half as many forces.

Vasily Nedopepekin. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru In Moscow on Red Square, police detained civil activist Vasily Nedopepekin, Mediazona reports . He conducted a single picket in support of the mathematician Dmitry Bogatov, arrested in the case of calls for terrorism and preparing the riots. Nedopecina was delivered to the China-Gorod police department. They also brought an activist Milena Khutoryanskaya there.

Frame from the video "Hitler 1945/Navalny 2018" The Kremlin ordered to sociological services the study of Russians to the activities of the leader of the progress party Alexei Navalny. This was reported by the BBC for a source close to the presidential administration, as well as sociologists and participants in polls. So, by order of the presidential administration, VTsIOM conducted a survey in Yekaterinburg on the attitude to Navalny, to corruption and protest shares.

Ivan Nepomnya in court, 08/20/2015. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru The Zavolzhsky District Court of Yaroslavl requested the characteristics of the Swamp Prisoner Ivan Nepomnyansh, who was serving a sentence in colony No. 1 of the Yaroslavl region, to consider a petition for parole. This was stated by lawyer Dmitry Dinze, reports TASS. "The petition was sent, he was accepted for production and requested from the colony the characteristics of the non -remembers," Dinze said.

Air Force Air Force Israeli. Photo: jpost.com The aircraft of the Israeli Defense Army (IDF) attacked the positions of the Syrian government forces in response to the shelling of Israeli territory. It is reported by Haaretz with reference to the army command. About 10 Syrian mortar shells fell undeveloped area in the Golan Heights area. As a result of shelling, no one was injured.