Metropolitan Ilarion Volokolamsk. Photo: Patriarchia.ru The monarchy has many advantages over elected forms of government. This was stated by the head of the Synodal Department of External Church Relations by Metropolitan Hilarion in the program "Church and Peace" on the Russia-24 television channel, Interfax reports .

The FSB building on Lubyanskaya Square. Photo: Grani.ru Five employees of the Department of the Federal Security Service in Moscow and the region are accused of bribery. This was reported by "Kommersant" with reference to sources in the special service. Deputy Head of the 7th Interdistrict Directorate Colonel Alexei Kruglov and operative Roman Nadezhdin are suspected of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale associated with extortion (part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code).

160 years ago, on July 1, 1857, the first issue of the Russian opposition newspaper Kolokol was published in London, published by Alexander Herzen and Nikolai Ogarev. By this time, the volume of correspondence between Herzen and Ogarev from Russia had grown so much that the annual almanac "Polar Star" was no longer enough. The newspaper also made it possible to quickly respond to Russian events.

The wreckage of the shot down by Boeing-777. Photo from @euromadan The case of the death of the Malaysian Boeing-777 in the east of Ukraine will be considered by a specially created international tribunal or a court in one of the countries included in the investigative group. This was reported by the Dutch online publication Nu.nl.

The screensaver of the METARA virus Petya The Security Service of Ukraine accused the Russian intelligence agencies of involvement in the distribution of the Petya-META virus, who infected computers in dozens of institutions in Ukraine and spread to several dozen countries this week. This was reported on the website of the department. According to the SBU, the goal of cyber attack was not enrichment, but the "destabilization of the socio-political situation" in Ukraine.

Vitaly Marquiv. Frame of the video In Bologna, the former fighter of the Ukrainian volunteer battalion Vitaly Markiv was arrested, the Deputy Prosecutor of Ukraine Yevgeny Yenin said . The Italian prosecutor's office suspects the marks of involvement in the death of the Italian photojournalist Andrea Rockkelli and Russian human rights activist Andrei Mironov in the Donbass in 2014.

Energy System Management Center. Photo: Burlingtonelectric.com US authorities are preparing for a possible hacker campaign aimed at facilities of industrial and energy infrastructure, including those associated with the nuclear sector. The corresponding report was jointly prepared by the Ministry of National Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigations, reports Reuters.

At the Moscow rally against the demolition of five -story buildings. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru President Vladimir Putin signed a law on housing renovation in Moscow, which provides for the demolition of Khrushchevs and the relocation of their inhabitants. The text of the document is published on the official portal of legal information. Thus, the document entered into force.

Collection of Jehovah's Witnesses. Photo: JW-russia.org In Dzhankoy, the 67-year-old Jehovist Vitaly Arsenyuk died of an extensive heart attack after a court hearing on charges of illegal missionary activities. This was reported by journalist Anton Naumluk.

Yuri Kuchin. Photo with personal FB page In Vladivostok, at the procession in honor of the city day, the coordinator of the local headquarters Alexei Navalny, deputy of the City Council Yuri Kuchin was detained. He wrote about this on his page. Kuchin, as a deputy, received an invitation to the city hall to participate in the celebration of the City Day. "Well, I went to the festive procession, like a deputy and a resident of Vladivostok.