On August 15, at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow, a silver medalist in 800 m running Simmonds (USA) was the first of the athletes to condemn the adoption of a homophobic law and devoted his award to friends from the LGBT community.

August 12-16 Supporters of Alexei Navalny OMON detained in the apartment in pure ponds August 12, Monday The coordinator of the Left Front Alexei Sakhnin asked for political asylum in Sweden. The oppositionist explained his desire to leave Russia by what is in the so -called “operational list” of persons who should be arrested in the “swamp business”. On June 12 of last year, a search was conducted at Sakhnin’s house.

On August 14, Russian customs unexpectedly interrupted the smooth flow of Ukrainian goods to Russia. Typically, all True, things did not come to a complete collapse, but accelerated thrombosis of the trade arteries was evident: Russian customs officers performed their duties deliberately carefully - unloading all goods, carefully inspecting each unit, carefully checking all documents, rehangling and reloading ... In short, several hours instead of the usual 20-30 minutes.

More than 600 killed and thousands of wounded supporters of President Mohammed Mursi, who was set by the military, was marked by the most bloody suppression of protest in the history of modern Egypt The supporter of the Muslim Brothers on Rabiya al-Adaviya shouts curses against police officers Since the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, I wondered: what would happen if his generals defended the 30-year regime? Now I know the answer.

Click to increase the picture Click to increase the picture Already on the site Replicas Illegal The atmosphere of criticism does not withstand We will be taught to love our homeland Customs does not give “good”. And what?

On August 14, it became known that Yuri Kozlov, director of the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), which is part of the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", demanded that Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Danilov write a letter of resignation Director Kozlov named the reason with surprising frankness: they say that Danilov creates an atmosphere of rejection of the new law on the Russian Academy of Sciences.

On August 14, the scandal broke out around the intention of the Ministry of Culture to finish directed by Harry Bardin, who, due to the illness of the cartoon, which did not finish on time, created during state support.

Supporters of President Mursi are ready to fight to the last These journalists died in Egypt: Mosab El-Shami, photographer Rassa News Network (Egypt) Ahmed Abdel Havad, Al-Akbar newspaper (Egypt) Habib Ahmed Abd El-Aziz, Xpress Agency (Dubai) Mick Dean, Sky News Operator (Great Britain) For the commander of the Egyptian Army, General Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, events in the country-a kind of rubon, a point of no return.

What I received and what Putin did not achieve in Baku The visit of Vladimir Putin to Baku was most like a PR action in support of Ilham Aliyev, who counts on the results of the elections on October 9 for the third time in a row to become the head of Azerbaijan. The action had a specific price: share in the Caspian gas fields and new weapons contracts. Judging by the number of handshakes and smiles, Aliyev received his own.

What are the candidates for mayor build an election campaign Alexey Navalny for many Muscovites is already associated with the image of a young and energetic fighter with theft and corruption in the bureaucratic vertical.

Twenty days before voting: the war of compromises The campaign for the election of the mayor of the capital, which had recently grown in new territories, entered into a decisive stage.

08/12–16/2013 The New Times continues to follow the story of a man who received a terminal diagnosis* * Continued. Beginning at # 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43-44 for 2012, , 2 , 3 , , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 1 4 -15 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 for 2013 I have two types of meetings with a doctor: meetings where nothing happens at all, and meetings where everything is turned upside down.

How the former Moscow region is going to vote For the first time, residents of two new districts recently joined in the capital, Troitsky and Novomoskovsky, will choose the Moscow mayor for the first time on September 8. How the election campaign takes place in the former Moscow region - for the answer of The New Times went to two settlements of New Moscow - the largest and most remote G. Troitsk.

On August 14, it became known that Yuri Kozlov, director of the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), which is part of the National Research Center "Kurchatov Institute", demanded that Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Mikhail Danilov write a letter of resignation Director Kozlov named the reason with surprising frankness: they say that Danilov creates an atmosphere of rejection of the new law on the Russian Academy of Sciences.