Sergey Minaev, editor-in-chief of the Russian Esquire, helped businessman Alisher Usmanov record a video message to opposition politician Alexei Navalny. This is reported by the BBC with reference to the writer's acquaintances. As one of the interlocutors of the publication said, Minaev has long been familiar with Usmanov. Another BBC source noted that Usmanov had long wanted to answer Navalny, but his PR people were against it. “After Navalny accused him of rape, Usmanov was unstoppable.

The US Senate approved the 2017 Countering Russian Influence in Europe and Eurasia Bill, which expands anti-Russian sanctions. It is reported by RIA Novosti. The new sanctions imply a reduction in the maximum term for market financing of Russian banks to 14 days, and oil and gas companies to 30 days.

How are meetings on the actions of the detainees for shares on June 12. Updated Photo: Elena Lukyanova / "New Gazeta" In dozens of cities of Russia, anti -corruption rallies were held. Some of them were not agreed. According to the OVD-Info, 1721 people were detained throughout Russia on mass shares. Most of the detainees fall on Moscow (866 people) and St. Petersburg (658 people). The New Gazeta monitors the affairs of the detainees on the shares. June 15 Petersburg.

Report from the Tver Court of Moscow, where the detainees are judged on June 12 Photo: "New Gazeta" The day after the action against corruption on Tverskaya Square. The cases of the detainees begins to consider the court at the place of the crime-the Tver District, who had just departed from the action on March 26.

The Tver court of Moscow justified the novel by Kovalev and Dmitry Stepanov, who were detained on June 12 at an anti -corruption action. As the deputy head of the Open Russia human rights project Polina Nemirovskaya noted in a conversation with the New Gazeta, the court first issued such a decision on the cases of detainees in the capital. The court came to the conclusion that in their actions there is no composition of the offense, Nemirovskaya said. According to her, this is a formal reason.

The head of truckers Andrey Bazhutin plans to run for president of Russia. This was announced at a press conference in Moscow by the leaders of the Association of Russian Carriers (OPR), created on the meringue of last year's Khimki protest camp of drivers who disagree with the introduction of the Platon federal highway toll collection system. His candidacy has already been supported by the representative of the St.

The bishop of the Apostolic Orthodox Church and the son of Bard Alexander Galich Grigory Mikhnov-Vitenko came to the court to support the grandson of the science fiction writer Boris Strugatsky, detained on June 12 at an inconsistent campaign against corruption in St. Petersburg. This was announced by the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the city Boris Vishnevsky.

Participants in unauthorized rallies do not have enough support from the organizers Photo: "New Gazeta" There are situations when it is necessary to go to an “unauthorized” rally or march. When the action is necessary - because it is impossible to be silent, and the authorities brazenly refuses to hold the action or sends the protesters to a deliberately unsuitable place - politicians may call to go out into the “inconsistent” regime.

The deputies adopted in the first reading a bill that prohibits messengers from registering users without identifying them, according to the website of the lower house of parliament. The bill proposes limiting the distribution of messages at the request of the authorities. For violation of the law, its authors propose to fine and block instant messengers. Only those messengers that are registered with Roskomnadzor as distributors of information fall under the bill.

Photo report Unauthorized rally against renovation at the entrance to the State Duma Sergey Mitrokhin, chairman of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party, with a single picket at the entrance. His police detained one of the first. According to them, Mitrokhin was detained for violating the permissible distance between participants with banners A single picket outgrew to a rally.

In Komi village, along with people, it went under water Photo: "New Gazeta" In the Republic of Komi, a flood began. On the rivers of the mustache, Colva and Pechora, the water level has already exceeded critical marks, the road of Usinsk-Kolva was flooded, the emergency mode has been introduced in the villages of Kolva and the Schelobozh, a boiler room is de-energized in the Zakharvan village, five to six villages in the flooding zone.

An unidentified person opened fire in the city of Alexandria, Virginia (11 kilometers south of Washington - approx. ed.), Republican Congressman Steve Skeliz and several congressional aides were injured, NBS . reports The man, according to preliminary information, armed with a rifle, fired 50 shots within 10 minutes, after which he was detained. On the way to the hospital, the shooter died. The exact number of victims is being specified, but no deaths have been reported.

Law enforcement officers detained 15 people who went to single-person pickets against renovation near the State Duma, . OVD-Info said According to the resource, 14 detainees were taken to the Tverskaya police station. One detainee is in a paddy wagon near the lower house of parliament. “The police officers do not tell the picketers the article under which they were detained, but they refer to the violation of the restrictions imposed in connection with the Confederations Cup,” the report says.

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said it was absurd to call the rehearsals of the meeting with the participants of the upcoming "straight line" with the head of state Vladimir Putin. According to him, these are “just informational meetings”. “Meetings [with the members] do take place, but it is absurd to call it a rehearsal because there is nothing to rehearse.

A court in the Orel region refused to replace Oleg Navalny, who is serving a sentence in the Yves Rocher case, with the remaining term of imprisonment for a fine or compulsory work, reported . local media The Uritsky court of Orel took into account the words of the representative of the colony and the prosecutor, who opposed the mitigation of the sentence. They said that Navalny is a "malicious" violator of the regime.