The Moscow City Electoral Committee spent 16.4 million rubles in 2019 to “improve the legal culture of participants in the electoral process.” This was brought to the attention of Open Media. The money was spent on two contracts. The first, for nine million rubles, involved training members of election commissions in the basics of the electoral process and the skills of interacting with observers, parties and the media.

Evgeny Feldman for Meduza On the evening of July 16, Moscow residents protested for the third day straight to demand that opposition candidates be permitted to register for September’s Moscow City Duma elections. The protest began with approximately 100 people standing in a steady downpour and reached about 1,000 participants at its peak.

The Emmy nominations have been announced in Los Angeles. The 71st awards ceremony will take place on September 22. Game of Thrones has received a record 32 nominations, including in the main category for Outstanding Drama Series. Kit Harrington was nominated for Best Actor and Emilia Clarke for Best Actress. In addition to Game of Thrones, the Outstanding Drama Series nominations include Better Call Saul, The Bodyguard, Killing Eve, Ozark, Pose, The Heirs, and This Is Us.

Arshak Makichyan Russian students picket for climate action at Yauzskiye Vorota Square in Moscow. July 12, 2019 Around the globe, the school climate strike movement founded by Swedish teenage activist Greta Thunberg has inspired hundreds of thousands of children to take to the streets, skipping school on Fridays to demand action on the climate crisis.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of Italy, leader of the nationalist League party Matteo Salvini said that the seizure of an arsenal of weapons with an air-to-air missile in Turin is connected with an investigation into the preparation of an assassination attempt on him by a group of Ukrainians. “This is what I said.

The European Parliament has elected German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen as the next President of the European Commission, the highest executive body of the EU. She will take over from Jean-Claude Juncker on 1 November. 383 out of 747 deputies voted for her appointment. At least 374 votes were needed to approve the candidacy. Ursula von der Leyen is the first woman to hold the presidency of the European Commission. This post appeared in 1958.

Evgeny Feldman in Moscow on the evening of July 16 took place a third consecutive action demanding to register independent candidates for elections to the Moscow City Duma. The action began in the rain in the presence of about a hundred people; Later, when the rain ended, the number of those gathered reached a thousand. Love Sobol, Konstantin Yankauskas, Ivan Zhdanov and other candidates who refused registration spoke in front of them.

Christine Lagarde has announced her resignation as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund. According to Lagarde, the resignation will take place on September 12. She will leave the post for a job as the chairman of the European Central Bank. It is expected that the approval of her candidacy for the post of head of the ECB will take place later than July 16.

Former accountant of the Seventh Studio Nina Maslyaeva, who is accused of embezzlement , was released on bail. According to her lawyer, Maslyaeva has already returned to her previous place of work at the Nikitsky Gate Theatre. Nina Maslyaeva's case was separated into a separate proceeding because she admitted guilt, entered into a pre-trial agreement and testified against other defendants.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow arrested a participant in a rally on Trubnaya Square in support of independent candidates for the Moscow City Duma, which took place on July 15, for three days. According to OVD-Info, Dmitry Sidorov and Eriskhan Geshaev were found guilty of using a smoke bomb during the action.

Director Quentin Tarantino compiled a list of 10 films that influenced his new picture “Once ... in Hollywood”, the action of which takes place in the 1969 Los Angeles. The list is called-““ Once ... in Hollywood, ”and Quentin Tarantino represent-swinging the 1960s.” The selection included ribbons released from 1958 to 1970. They will begin to broadcast on television in more than 80 countries a week before the American premiere “Once ... in Hollywood” (will take place on July 26).

The election commission of the 43rd electoral district of Moscow refused to register Lyubov Sobol, an FBK employee, as a candidate for the Moscow City Duma. The meeting was broadcast by the Navalny Live channel. The commission rejected 712 signatures out of 4940 collected by Sobol. The number of rejected signatures should not exceed 10%. At the meeting, Sobol pointed out that the commission refused to consider her objections.

In Ingushetia, a court has arrested journalist Rashid Maisigov on suspicion of drug possession, his lawyer Magomed Aushev told MBKh Media. "The hand swabs showed a positive result, the blood test was negative. There was also a survey from the FSB, in which Maisigov admitted guilt," the lawyer said. He noted that he would appeal the decision to arrest him and would petition for a genetic examination. Rashid Maisigov, who worked for the Fortanga publication, was detained on July 12.

Alla Chikinda, a representative of the LGBT Resource Center in Yekaterinburg, told Komsomolskaya Pravda that the center has received messages threatening to cause “something very unfortunate” to happen to its employees if the center does not close by August 1. The letter also demanded that the center and its employees donate all of their funds, including personal funds, to a well-known charity organization.

The prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk region organized an audit because of media reports about the technical reservoir of CHPP-5 near Novosibirsk, which journalists called the "Novosibirsk Maldives" because of the bright blue water. The prosecutor's office will check, in particular, compliance with environmental legislation. “If there are grounds, exhaustive measures of the prosecutor’s response will be taken,” the department’s website says.