Every third Moscow resident (37%) has a positive attitude towards the protests that are taking place because of the election campaign for the Moscow City Duma. These are the results of a Levada Center poll conducted by order of the Civil Society Development Foundation , RBK reports. Among those who support the protests, 26% said they did not participate in the protests, 9% said they could participate, and 2% said they had already participated.

The leadership of the Ryazan airborne school expelled two cadets who staged a protest in April over the replacement of sky blue epaulettes. According to Novaya Gazeta, another part of the cadets was forced to write a letter of resignation of their own free will. How many cadets left the school is not specified.

The Investigative Committee conducted an investigative experiment in Tver, in which, presumably, the suspect in the murder of the singer Mikhail Krug participated. This was reported by the publication Tverigrad.ru and the agency TIA , citing the words of the artist's sister Olga Medvedeva. Medvedeva said that on the afternoon of August 6, investigators cordoned off the house where criminals attacked Mikhail Krug and his family in 2002. Then they brought a man there in handcuffs.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. "Lord, let it go already!" How we get children with Instagram - and how to behave on social networks at all In the final issue of the season, Alexander Borzenko, Vladimir Tsybulsky and Yuri Saprykin Jr. are discussing how not to succumb to the fact that children demand more and more, whether they need to learn to use social networks, why parents stick the faces of children with stickers and what was before the Instagram.

Radio Liberty / YouTube The prosecutor's office demanded to deprive the parental pair of parental rights, which came to an unauthorized action on July 27 with a one -year -old child. The corresponding lawsuit was sent to the Perovsky Court of Moscow.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs says that the data of voters do not match, but does not say how exactly they do not match? This is their right, and you cannot be trusted with personal data at all! Were your signatures rejected because the notary made a mistake when certifying the documents? And you yourself looked where you could not check what the notary was doing! What, in another case, due to a notary's mistake, the signature was returned to you?

Radio Svoboda / YouTube Moscow prosecutors are pursuing a custody challenge against a couple who brought their one-year-old child to a July 27 protest for fair elections. The prosecutors have asked Moscow’s Perovsky Court to deprive the two parents of their right to care for the child.

FreeOmon is a bot account based in the social network Telegram. Its sole function is to add Russian riot police to preexisting images. Any user who sends the bot an image file immediately receives a new-and-improved, highly secured version in return. Twitter user Anatoly Kapustin first drew attention to the bot on August 5. Anatoly KapustinI found THE MOST CURSED BOT on Telegram! It adds riot police to any photo you want!

The working group of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation recommended that the commission reject the complaint of Lyubov Sobol, a lawyer from the Anti-Corruption Foundation, who opposed the refusal to register her as a candidate for the Moscow City Duma. The meeting was broadcast on the CEC website. The members of the commission adopted this decision unanimously. 239 signatures were not enough to register Lyubov Sobol.

Valery Sharifulolin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Director Quentin Tarantino came to Russia to present his ninth film “ Once ... in Hollywood ” in Moscow on August 7. During the visit of Tarantino, together with the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Medinsky visited Red Square, examined the king-bell and walked around the Moscow Kremlin.

Petr David Josek / AP / Scanpix / LETA Since March of 2019, Russian military servicemembers have been banned from using smartphones and posting photos taken on the job to social media. The new regulations were proposed in September of 2018, and Russia’s State Duma and Federation Council approved them the following February.

Anna Kozkin / "Mediazona" Within the framework of the Moscow Affairs, the defendants of which are accused of riots for protests on July 27, nine people have already been arrested. The classification of these events as mass riots disagree , for example, in the Council of Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation.

Brazilian criminal Clauvino da Silva, convicted of drug trafficking, was found dead in prison three days after he tried to escape from prison under the guise of a woman. According to BBC News, prison authorities in the state of Rio de Janeiro said that 42-year-old da Silva committed suicide in solitary confinement. On August 3, Clauvino da Silva tried to escape from prison disguised as his 19-year-old daughter. To do this, he put on a wig, a silicone mask, glasses and a pink T-shirt.

Galina Yuzefovich - the memory of the writer Tony Morrison, who fought with racial prejudices in literature Jean-Christian Bourcart / Getty images On August 5, American writer Tony Morrison died in New York. The literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells how the Laureate of the Nobel Prize fought with racial prejudices in literature, and why the heroes of her books fell in love with the whole world.

The Electoral Commission of the 43rd District of Moscow repeatedly refused to register a candidate for the Moscow City Duma, representative of the Yabloko party, Sergei Mitrokhin, Interfax reports. Sergei Mitrokhin told the agency that he could file a complaint with the court. “I have no confidence in the system of election commissions,” he said. For the first time, the electoral commission refused to register Mitrokhin on July 16, declaring some of the signatures in his support invalid.