In the Moscow Marfo-Mariinsky monastery, on Thursday, a festival of mercy will be held, dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the martyrdom of its founder- Grand Duchess Elizabeth Fedorovna Romanova . At the holiday, everyone will teach everyone to provide first aid. "In the garden of the monastery of the graduate of the Holy Dmitriyevsky school, sisters of mercy will teach everyone to provide first aid.

One of the leaders of the Pakistani Taliban movement Adan Rashid called to return to his homeland young activist Malala Yusufzai, who defends the rights of local girls to education. “I advise you to return home, accept Islamic and Pashtun culture, enter the madrasah, start the study of the scriptures of Allah, act for the good of Islam and the Muslim community,” said Rashid in an open appeal to Malala, published on Wednesday, July 17, as Interfax reports.

The American company Johnson & Johnson (J&F) should pay $ 22.9 million as part of the non -judge of the charges of concealing violations at one of its enterprises. The relevant agreement between J& J and shareholders was sent to the Federal Court of New Jersey. The court, as expected, soon approves it, reports to ITAR-TASS. In 2010, at the factory of the famous manufacturer of pharmaceutical and sanitary-hygienic goods, a check was carried out in the state of Pennsylvania.

The Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov really takes place in a scandalous case of multimillion -dollar embezzlement at the Moscow Institute of Steel and alloys - as a witness, and it has not yet been called for interrogation, Interfax reports with reference to the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

On Thursday, a meeting of the Supreme Court of Russia was held, at which a complaint of defense of retired Colonel GRU Vladimir Kvachkov , convicted of trying to organize an armed coup in 2010, was considered. The court partially went to meet the rebellious colonel and changed the verdict from the 13th year of the colony to eight, reports ITAR-TASS.

Alexei Navalny and Peter Officers, sentenced to Kirovles’s case by five and four years in prison, respectively, are in the neighboring single cameras of the Kirov pre -trial detention center, Dmitry Gudkov, who visited them, who visited them, told about this. “So: Navalny in a good mood. He asked everyone to maintain the vigor of the spirit, calls to go to the arena, continue resistance and help raise money for an officer's fine. The wallet will be soon! And hello everyone !!!

In the Spanish resort city of Benidorm, the Tempo tower will not be completed in any way, which was planned before the crisis as the highest residential building of Europe. However, now it is just a symbol of banking madness, which covered the world on the eve of the crisis, writes The Guardian . The skyscraper, consisting of two twin towers of 200 meters each, each should have completed back in 2009, but the financial problems of the developer and banks defeated these dreams to the puffs.

The Norwegian musician and nationalist Christian Vikernes, who is known mainly under the name Varg Vikenes, was released in France after two days of arrest . He was suspected of preparing the attack, but could not prove this. French law enforcement officers were alerted by the fact that the Vickereness’s wife bought four rifles, RIA Novosti reports.

In Russia, a “rather complicated epidemiological situation” in connection with the outbreak of meningitis, Vice Prime Minister Olga Golodets announced after identifying the next case of this very dangerous disease in children returning to Moscow from a camp in the Krasnodar Territory and rented from a train in Voronezh and Kursk.

Two key special services in the United States - the National Security Agency (ANB) and the CIA, which until recently "flame hated each other" now have a secret joint organization Special Collection Service (SCS).

On Thursday morning, a Jewish ethnographic expedition organized by the Federation of Jewish Commons of Russia (Feor) started from Moscow. Three synagogues on wheels (they are differently called "Mitsva-Mobiles") will visit more than 50 cities within three weeks. The rabbis of the "mobile synagogues" will answer people's questions about Jewish traditions and Judaism, the Interfax-religion portal reports. The chief rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar (Feor) addressed the participants in the action.

The head of the Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin responded to the attacks of Alexei Navalny, who, two days before his sentence , published an investigation about "how to saw in Russian Railways." The oppositionist accused the director of the railways of not living on the means, and published a scheme for owning the Yakunin family through offshores by a network of hotels in the forecourt in different cities of Russia. "The fabrications that he (Navalny.

The press center of the newspaper "Evening Moscow" on the eve of the round table "The spiritual heritage of Russian America and Russian-American relations" was held.

In the short list of the Runet -2013 Book Prize, whose winners are selected by network users and experts, the works of Viktor Pelevin, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Joan Rowling, Vladimir Pozner and other authors are included, RIA Novosti reports. The prize, which will be awarded this year for the third time, consists of competitive nominations - “Choosing users of Runet”, “Choice of the Expert Council”, as well as “Besseller on Ozon.ru”, which is the organizer of the award and other special nominations.

“Well then. Sobyanin and his team did not become the Count of Monte Cristo. They will have to retrain as building managers. The casino existed for exactly one day. The transition to the next stage took place instantly. And the understanding of the situation in all its clarity - “NO NAVALNY - NO ELECTIONS” - ​​was finally strengthened."