The Servant of the People party of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is gaining 43.9% of the vote in early elections to the Verkhovna Rada. These are the results of the exit polls at the time the polling stations closed. 11.5% expressed support for the Opposition Platform - For Life party, whose political council is headed by Viktor Medvedchuk, 8.9% - for the European Solidarity party of ex-president of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.

The Leninsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested until September 18 Fetulakh Gamdulaev, who, according to the investigation, stabbed two people in the subway. This is reported by the joint press service of the courts of the city. Gamdulaev attacked two people in a St. Petersburg subway car at the Pushkinskaya metro station. He claims that he himself defended himself from the attack, as a result of which his arm was injured. At the same time, Gamdulaev issued a confession.

In the village of Vershino-Darasunsky, Trans-Baikal Territory, patients at a local hospital are forced to wash bandages due to a lack of medicines. This is reported by the publication "Chita.ru". One of the local residents, during a meeting with the Acting Governor of the Trans-Baikal Territory, Alexander Osipov, said that free medicines are not given to anyone, even to small children. “Sometimes they washed their bandages because there was no way to buy,” she said.

In the Solnechnogorsk district of the Moscow region, watering trucks arrived at the camp of activists opposed to the revival of the Povarovo training ground. Local residents organized an ecological picnic next to the landfill to draw attention to the problem of a closed, unreclaimed landfill, the runoff from which pollutes the surrounding rivers. A few hours after the arrival of the activists, two watering trucks with the marking "Solnechnogorye" arrived at the camp.

How the Central Bank from the Ministry of Economic Development argued Chairman of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina and Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin. Photo: RIA Novosti The dispute of the chief in economic development and the head of the banking system has been continuing for the second month: they find out which of them knows the economic theory better. The economy does not want to grow with the planned pace, the authorities are looking for a way to push it.

As of 15:00, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine received 1,225 reports of violations in the early elections to the Verkhovna Rada. This is stated in the Facebook of the Ukrainian police. Most violations were recorded in Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk and Zaporozhye regions. The police opened ten criminal cases. The Central Election Commission of Ukraine said that the elections are held without any major violations.

Everything that is happening in St. Petersburg around the upcoming elections is real violence Muscovites are needlessly outraged. Muscovites were very lucky in these elections. They had their own independent candidates who walked the streets, campaigned, collected signatures. Muscovites met in the yards, listened, discussed, dreamed. So what, that they dispersed with batons? But everything was real. The Remains of Democracy. They escorted the old woman to rest with music. And in St.

The British company Dryad Global received a recording of negotiations between the Iranian military and the frigate of the British fleet HMS Montrose with the crew of the Stena Impero tanker detained in the Strait of Hormuz. It was posted on the company's twitter. According to the recording, the Iranian military demanded that the crew change course. “If you obey, you will be safe,” they said.

In Rostov-on-Don, after the match of the second round of the Russian Premier League "Rostov" - "Spartak", clashes broke out between fans of "Spartak" and OMON officers. about it The eyewitness Nikolay Surin told to "Championship". According to him, after the match, which ended with the score 2:2, the fans went to the exit, but they were not let out. The line to get out was about 100 meters long. “After some time, a small mess begins: someone is waving their hands, pushing each other.

Why the authorities are cleaned up and does not worry about protests Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" In 2013, Sergei Sobyanin fought with Alexei Navalny during the post of mayor of Moscow. The authorities knew that Moscow needed competitive elections in which their candidate wins quite convincingly so as not to provoke "angry citizens." Six years later, such liberalism looks unthinkable.

The mayor of the city of Kungur in the Perm Territory, Sergei Gordeev, filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office against parents who came to the city festival in identical T-shirts for maintaining a special school for disabled children. A photo of the statement was published in the public “Kungur School for Children with Disabilities” on VKontakte.

Britain plans to impose sanctions against Iran due to the detention of the tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz. It is reported by The Telegraph, citing sources. British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt may announce restrictions on July 21, they will be of a diplomatic and economic nature, the newspaper notes. In addition, the UK may be pushing for European Union and United Nations sanctions to be reintroduced on Iran.

In the Amur Region, a section of the federal highway of Chita-Khabarovsk was closed in the area of ​​the city of Skorodino due to the erosion of the road after rainfall. A car flew into the resulting failure, according to the sites of regional departments of the Ministry of Emergencies and the Ministry of Internal Affairs . As a result of the incident, two people were injured. They are currently hospitalized. To restore travel, the road was covered with soil.

Independent candidates, who were not allowed to participate in the elections to the Moscow City Duma, offered to meet the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, in order "to discuss the current situation." The candidate's statement was posted on Facebook.

In Ukraine, at 8:00 local time (coincides with Moscow), early elections to the Verkhovna Rada began. The Central Electoral Commission of the country registered 21 parties on them. Voting will last until 20:00. the decision to dissolve the Verkhovna Rada President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky announced during the inauguration ceremony, and the date of early elections was agreed on May 21. Elections in Ukraine are held according to a mixed system, explains Hromadske .