Members of the Parnassus party, who started a strike in the office of the head of the Novosibirsk Regional Electoral Committee, were detained. The police threatened them several times with administrative article 19.3 (disobeying the lawful demands of police officers) and gave 5 minutes for the strikers to leave on their own.

At a meeting of the UN Security Council, Russia will vote against a draft resolution on the establishment of a tribunal for the downed over Ukraine "Boeing" MH-17, said Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vitaly Churkin, quoted by RIA Novosti . If necessary, this will be followed by a veto, Churkin promised. “We will vote against, I have no doubts about that. If the resolution gets nine or more votes, it will be a veto < Russia will use the right of veto - Ed. >.

Photo: Natalia Zotova / Novaya Gazeta Members of the opposition Parnassus party, in protest against the refusal to register signatures, went on a hunger strike in the building of the Novosibirsk regional election committee.

The election man rejected signatures based on the basis of the FMS, which is outdated, the party members explain. The final decision was made from two days until midnight: Parnassus forced to consider more than 600 disputed signatures. Leonid Volkov refused to leave the office of the chairman of the election commission of Petukhov. Photo: Natalia Zotova / "New Gazeta" The discussion of the situation with the signatures of Parnas from the Novosibirsk Oblazbirkom took about ten minutes.

Maxim Reznik, head of the cultural commission of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, announced plans to initiate a referendum on the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. The referendum procedure does not imply that it can be initiated by the Legislative Assembly. Therefore, MPs will put forward this idea privately. “The Legislative Assembly itself does not initiate anything,” Boris Vishnevsky, deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St.

Dmitry Kovtun, one of Scotland Yard's suspects in the poisoning of former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko, had to decide today whether he would testify in the case or not. Back in March of this year, Kovtun voluntarily expressed a desire to become an interested party in the process taking place in London and testify via video link from Moscow (if he arrives in London, he will be immediately arrested - V. Ch. ).

The authorities of Sevastopol renewed the agreement on the lease of 267 hectares of land near Gasfort Mountain with a 99.9% discount with the Night Wolves, TASS reports . Thus, the local government canceled its own order dated May 23, which suspended the lease agreement for a land plot owned by the Balaklava Mine Administration (BRU). “Although the decision on it was suspended before the session of the Legislative Assembly, the contractual relations were fulfilled, the rent was paid.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia illustrated the message about the entry of "GOLOS-Ural" in the register of "foreign agents" with the image of an orange among apples.

Leonid Slutsky, coach of CSKA, has been appointed head coach of the Russian football team. Information about the final decision, agreed, including with the leadership of the country, was reported by Sport Express. According to the publication "Soviet Sport", the appointment of Slutsky will be announced before the end of July.

From August 1, Rospotrebnadzor introduces a ban on the import into Russia of canned fish produced at four factories in Latvia: products from these enterprises are withdrawn from circulation, Anna Sergeeva, assistant to the head of the department, told Novaya Gazeta. According to Sergeeva, the names of the enterprises will be published on July 28.

Employees of the Ukrainian border service did not use firearms against the Russians who tried to take pictures near the checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Russian border, according to the website of the State Border Service of Ukraine. The Ukrainian department launched an official investigation into the incident, they said that they had checked all the border guards on duty in the direction of the Krasnaya Talovka checkpoint.

The presidential administration will not be involved in verifying the data of the Novaya Gazeta investigation of the multimillion-dollar transactions of the FSB leaders with the land of the village of Kalchuka on Rublevo-Uspenskoye Highway. This was stated by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, reports .

Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov called absurd the information that the Kremlin allegedly forbade Russian officials to mention the name of opposition leader Alexei Navalny in public speeches, reports . Interfax “Everyone has their own relationship with him [Navalny], and in fact, based on this relationship, someone may use, and someone may not use.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has entered the Foundation for Assistance to the Development of Civil Society GOLOS-Ural in the register of foreign agents, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the department. According to the news agency, an inspection of the organization by the department of the Ministry of Justice for the Chelyabinsk region established that Golos-Ural is a non-profit organization that performs the functions of a foreign agent.

The State Duma proposed to deprive the rights or fine 100 thousand rubles for leaving children unattended in the car, according to the website of the lower house of parliament. The corresponding draft law was submitted to the State Duma by LDPR deputy Vitaly Zolochevsky. The document proposes to introduce Article 11.14 “Leaving a child (a minor under the age of 14) in a vehicle” into the administrative code.