On June 13, the main defendant in the Kirovles case, Alexei Navalny, did not appear at the Leninsky District Court for interrogation. The prosecutor's office asked to be arrested due to missing the meeting, the court refused to satisfy the request. Navalny will be forcibly taken to the Kirov court on June 17.

Reporting The New Times In the Italian city of Milan, on June 12, the opening ceremony of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, who was killed in October 2006 in Moscow, was held on June 12. The crime has not yet been disclosed, the court in the case will begin in the summer of 2013. The New Times visited the new Milan park and talked with the relatives of Politkovskaya “We want a street dedicated to Anna Politkovskaya,” said the petition of the Annaviva Milan Association, created in 2008.

The judge refused to arrest the prosecutor's office for failure to appear at the meeting On June 13, the main defendant in the Kirovles case, Alexei Navalny, did not appear at the Leninsky District Court for interrogation. The prosecutor's office asked to be arrested due to missing the meeting, the court denied the request.

High positions, fake diplomas and the lack of a political program - eight finalists of the presidential race in Iran were not much different from each other. On June 15, Iran’s Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the moderate liberal Hassan Rukhani won: he gained more than 50% of the vote, which became clear after processing 27.5 million ballots.

13th world chess champion-about why he has become a defector and why dissidents in different countries of the world need to unite against dictators *Gambit - a reception in chess, when one of the rivals donates a figure to capture the center or to exacerbate the game. Harry, have you really emigrated? Well, this is a semantic question. What is emigration? Have you left Russia and are not going to appear here in the near future? So far there is a threat of a criminal case, of course, not.

High positions, fake diplomas and the lack of a political program - eight finalists of the presidential race in Iran are not much different from each other. Does the Iranians have a real choice in June 14th elections - The New Times found out Tehran center before the election “Of the 686 people who expressed a desire to compete for the presidential chair, 8 reached the finish line - the rest were disqualified by the Council of the Guardians of the Revolution ...

The other day, the head of the Department of Transport, Maxim Liksutov, promised Muscovites a new metro schedule from the new year. And after that, three serious failures occurred in the subway in a row. What's going on with the underground? The schedule of trains in the Moscow metro is one of the busiest in the world: on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line, for example, up to 40 pairs of trains pass through one station within an hour.

Vladimir Putin at the Congress of the Popular Front for Russia on June 12, 2013 Alexey Navalny on "march vs executioners" June 12, 2013 Collage: GQ

On June 13, businessman and leader of the Civic Platform party Mikhail Prokhorov announced that neither he nor his sister Irina would run for mayor of Moscow. Civic Platform will not nominate candidates for the September elections at all As Mikhail Prokhorov explained at a press conference, the party decided to focus on preparing for the elections to the Moscow City Duma scheduled for 2014. "This year will be held under the slogan: "The Mayor is yours, the Duma is ours," the businessman said.