State Duma. Photos of faces Representatives of the business community at a meeting of the Council for the legislativeness of the State Duma, where the draft article of the Criminal Code will be discussed on promoting sanctions, will be asked to soften the bill. It is reported by RBC.

Birobidzhan district court. Photo: Birobidzhansky--brb.sudrf.ru The judge of the Birobidzhan district court of the Jewish Autonomous Region Marina Tsimarno arrested Alam Aliyeva, a member of the local community of Jehovah's witnesses, until July 13. This was reported on the court website. The decision was made on May 18. The petition for the arrest of the suspect was submitted by the senior investigator for particularly important cases of the regional FSB Vladlen Bryantsev.

Alexander Kudrin. Photo: FinParty.ru Alexandra Kudrin, the head of Sberbank Investment Research - the analytical unit Sberbank Cib - is dismissed after the publication of the report on Gazprom with a sharp criticism of the methods of his work. This is reported by Interfax. Dismissal is issued by agreement of the parties. “The report was issued in violation of the internal regulations of the company, with gross violations of ethical norms,” said German Gref, chairman of the board of Sberbank.

Pavel Sharoyko. Source: ukrinform.ua The Supreme Court of Belarus sentenced the Ukrainian journalist Pavel Sharoyko to eight years in years in the colony in the "espionage" case. It is reported by TUT.BY with reference to the ambassador of Ukraine in Minsk Igor Kizima. Sharoyko was charged with Article 358 of the Criminal Code of Belarus (espionage). It provides for 7 to 15 years in a colony. Thus, the journalist was given a period of slightly higher than the lower limit.

Philip mouth. The frame of the documentary "Philip Roth: Unmasked" At the age of 85, an American writer, winner of the Pulitzer and Buker prizes Philip Roth, died, BBC reports . The cause of death is not specified. The mouth gained worldwide fame thanks to its novels “The Case of the Portle”, “Liberated Tsukerman”, “Spit”, “Conspiracy against America”. In total, he wrote more than 30 books. The writer received the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for the novel "American Pastoral".

Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo He "worked a lot on this law." Perhaps "more than others." It got to the point that "at time" visited the Duma and worked on it, and "several months" in a row. So why, in fact, do not name the document just accepted in the third reading by his name? With that at least the goal, in order to "make our legislative activity more interesting." Who for - click on the button. Zhirinovsky and Eternity are a new topic, almost unexplored.

80 years ago, on May 23, 1938, the leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists Yevhen (Evgen) Konovalets was killed in Rotterdam. NKVD agent Pavel Sudoplatov, posing as a supporter of the OUN who arrived from Poland and represented the "anti-Soviet underground in Soviet Ukraine", handed Konovalets a mine disguised as a box of Lviv chocolates.

ECHR. Photo: echr.coe.int Since 1998, the European Court of Human Rights has collected compensation from Russia for a total of 1.95 billion euros. This is stated in the study of the Public Verdict Foundation, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the trial of the court with Russia. At the same time, another 33 million euros are deducted from the Russian budget every year to work from the Russian budget.

Ilmir Imayev after liberation from the colony, 07/31/2017. Source: Idelreal.org The State Migration Service of Ukraine refused the political asylum to the Tatar Islamic activist, human rights activist and blogger Ilmir Imayev, who emigrated the term in the Russian colony in the Hizb Ut-Tahrir. The decision made some time ago, on Tuesday was reported to Idel. Reals.

The Ministry of Culture assured that he does not intend to achieve restrictions on work in Russia for the booking service of Booking.com hotels. The corresponding commentary of the director of the Department of Tourism and Regional Policy of the Ministry of Culture of the Ministry of Culture Olga Yarilova is placed on the website of the department.

Asan Egiz. Photo from personal twitter In the annexed Crimea, the Russian security forces abducted and beat the delegate of the Kurulti of the Crimean Tatar people Asan Egiza. It is reported by "Crimean solidarity." The chairman of the Medzhlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov, wrote about the abduction of Egiz on Wednesday on Wednesday.

Alexander Shumkov. Photo from the FB page "Freedom Oleksandra Shumkov - Freeshumkov" Ukrainian soldier Alexander Shumkov, abducted last year in his country and enclosed in pre-trial detention center-1 in Bryansk on charges of participating in the "right sector", announced a hunger strike of solidarity with Oleg Sentsov. This was announced on her FB page by political emigrant Elena Glushko.

Oleg Deripaska and Andrey Kostin. Photo: Emelinaludmila.ru VTB stopped cooperation with the firms of oligarch Oleg Deripaska due to inclusion in the US sanctions list and does not issue new loans to these companies. This was announced in an interview with CNBC by Bank President Andrei Kostin. Kostin also noted that his bank expects further decisions of the US Treasury regarding firms controlled by Deripaska. “We are his large creditor,” said VTB President.

Kira Yarmysh. Photo from personal twitter The Tver District Court of Moscow arrested Kira Yarmysh, spokeswoman Alexei Navalny, for 25 days on charges of organizing the inconsistent campaign "He is not a king for us." The functionary reported this on her Twitter. Yarmysh was announced guilty of part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of public events).

70 years ago, on May 23, 1948, a two-day operation "Spring" began in Lithuania to deport former "forest brothers", their accomplices and members of their families. In total, about 40 thousand people were deported to Siberia. Due to unsanitary conditions in the echelons, many deportees died on the way.