Behind bars in the "DPR" today are hundreds of Russian citizens Photo: Evgeny Feldman / Archive "New" Alexei came to Donetsk as a volunteer in the summer of 2014. Demobilized from the Russian Airborne Forces and having seen enough of the TV, he wanted to defend the “Russian world” from the “fascists”. He served in several divisions, and after the Debaltsevo operation of 2015 he and two other Russians were detained by employees of the DPR MGB. “They beat only during the detention,” says Alexei.

Vasily Surikov, who is missing. From a personal diary The fried picture "Suvorov's transition through the Alps" This year, the 170th anniversary of the great tragic of domestic painting turned 170 years old. Of all its classics, it is he who causes the most consonant with my personal impressions from today's people and events. Continuing. Beginning on the website "New" for July 27, 2018 January 24, 2013 Thursday.

The Privolzhsky district military court sentenced 21 residents of Bashkiria to terms of 5 to 24 years in a strict regime colony for participating in the activities of the Ufa cell of the Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami movement, recognized as banned in Russia. According to Interfax, they were also fined between 400,000 and 700,000 rubles.

To the 50th anniversary of his "thoughts ..." Photo: RIA Novosti 50 years ago, July 22, 1968, New York Times published Essay A.D. Sakharov “Reflections on progress, peaceful coexistence and intellectual freedom”, read by the highest leadership of the USSR in the manuscript and then published in the West with a total circulation of about 20 million copies.

The arrested head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region, Alexander Shestun, went on a hunger strike in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center, TASS reports with reference to the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Moscow. “Thus, he is protesting against his exclusion from the election for the post of head of the district for a new term and against the exclusion of a lawyer from him,” human rights activists said.

The court in Thessaloniki decided to extradite Russian Alexander Vinnik accused of fraud in the field of computer information to Russia. This is reported by Interfax with reference to his lawyer Ilias Spirliadis. The defense appealed the court's decision in terms of procedural violations. Consideration of the complaint is scheduled for September 4. “In general, we agree with the court’s decision,” Spirliadis said.

Georgia has abolished an administrative penalty in the form of a fine of 500 lari (about $200) for the use of marijuana, Interfax reports . The Constitutional Court of Georgia satisfied the lawsuit of deputies of the opposition Girchi party and recognized the punishment for using this drug without a doctor's prescription as unconstitutional. “Marijuana use is an area protected by the right to free development of the individual,” the court said in the ruling.

UPDATE Pussy Riot members are charged with a violation under Part 2 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (organizing or holding a public event without filing a notification in the prescribed manner), is reported on the Facebook group. Under this article, they face a fine of 20,000 to 30,000 rubles, compulsory work for up to 50 hours, or arrest for up to 10 days.

About a third of Russian companies (32%) do not intend to employ people of pre-retirement age, RBC reports citing a study by the Adizes Institute, an international management consulting company. Another 32% of companies in the event of an increase in the retirement age will hire pre-retirees, provided they are highly qualified. 29% of respondents agreed to accept pre-retirees for ordinary positions. Only 7% are ready to hire employees regardless of age.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow arrested for two months a 17-year-old teenager who attacked a policeman with a knife near the Slovak embassy in Moscow, Moskovsky Komsomolets reports , citing the press service of the court. He was charged under the article on encroachment on the life of a law enforcement officer (Article 317 of the Criminal Code).

On the evening of Monday, July 30, in the city hall of the IV district of Paris, an action was held in support of the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov. Photo: Yuri Safronov / "New Gazeta" On the facade of the city hall’s building, the leadership of which has repeatedly demonstrated a civil position (for example, an action was held on the 10th anniversary of the murder of Anna Politkovskaya), a large portrait of Oleg Sentsov appeared.

On July 29, President Vladimir Putin approved amendments to the law “On Currency Regulation and Currency Control,” which will exempt exporters who are subject to Western sanctions from fines for non-return of foreign currency earnings (i.e., refusal to return them to ruble or foreign currency accounts in Russian banks). . According to analysts, this will lead to a weakening of the ruble. As The Bell notes , only one company will be able to take advantage of the opportunity - Rosneft.

Before being escorted to Yaroslavl from St. Petersburg, a popular science book by journalist Asya Kazantseva “Someone is wrong on the Internet” was confiscated from the person involved in the “Penza case” Yuliy Boyarshinov - the FSIN officer explained this by the fact that he could use it “for recruitment and propaganda on the Internet” . It is reported by "OVD-Info". “My book is dedicated to popular pseudoscientific misconceptions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the creation of a military-political department in the Ministry of Defense. The corresponding document is published on the official portal of legal information. Colonel General Andrei Kartapolov, who previously led the operation of Russian troops in Syria and then commanded the Western Military District, became the head of the department.

The editor-in-chief of "Echo of Moscow" Alexei Venediktov left the board of directors of the radio station. this Venediktov announced in his telegram channel. “Minority shareholders will now be represented there by my deputy Ekaterina Godlina,” he said. Venediktov's decision to leave the board of directors of the radio station is connected with a conflict with the general director Ekaterina Pavlova.