During a protest in Minsk, a man died as a result of an explosion. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic. “One of the protesters tried to throw an unidentified explosive device towards law enforcement officers. It exploded in his hand," the Interior Ministry said. The ministry claims that this happened on Pritytsky Street, where the demonstrators were trying to build barricades.

The whereabouts of the main opposition presidential candidate in Belarus, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, is unknown. A message about this appeared on her husband's telegram channel "Country for Life". UPDATE 23:37 & Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has been found, she is fine. This is reported by the telegram channel of the “Country for Life” movement.

On the central streets of Minsk, law enforcement officers continue to detain residents of the city who do not agree with the results of the presidential elections in Belarus. The broadcast from the capital is conducted by Tut.by. Dozens of people have already been detained, including ordinary passers-by and cyclists. The first detentions began on Zaslavskaya Street and near the stele "Minsk - Hero City".

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow has appointed three activists of Indefinite Protest a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions until September 7 on suspicion of vandalism, a Novaya Gazeta correspondent reports from the courtroom. According to the court decision, Igor Basharimov, Ivan Vorobyevsky and Olga Misik are prohibited from leaving their homes at night, approaching government buildings, attending mass events, using the Internet and mail for a whole month.

The Slovak authorities are planning to expel three Russian diplomats from the country. This is reported by the local edition Aktuality. Representatives of the Russian Foreign Ministry were suspected of espionage: the country's authorities are sure that the owners of diplomatic passports were intelligence officers. It is noted that they must leave the country before the end of this week.

The situation in Belarus changes every minute. But Lukashenko will not sit down the term Photo: Valery Sharifulin / TASS Still, in vain he did all this, in vain. It rumbled so that the quiet Sapa was covered with earth, and nothing would be secret. It rumbled throughout the world, now nothing to hide. And the aunt did not need to lower that ladder from the school window. Updated Added information about strikes.

An assassination attempt was being prepared on the candidate for the presidency of Belarus, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, which was prevented. As reported by TASS, this was announced by the head of the KGB of Belarus Valery Vakulchik. “Information was received from the so-called joint headquarters [of the opposition] that they were afraid of a provocation and an attempt on Tikhanovskaya’s life,” he said.

After the constitution is zero, it turns out that you can not play football The political continuation of the Sunday penalty against Spartak should be a ban on video replacements during the television of football matches. It is better to leave only the radio at all: let the right people say what is happening on the field. And even before the "Orange Revolution" is not far, and football fans are not hipsters with white ribbons to you. Alex Kraal (Spartak) and Elmir Nabiullin (Sochi).

Linguist - about the benefits and dangers of state regulation of language Photo: Sergey Medvedev/TASS After a meeting of the Council on the Russian language, Vladimir Putin said that improving his norms should not lead to a vulgar simplification of punctuation and spelling, and instructed to formulate the concept of linguistic statelitics. Another power initiative aroused many disputes, which we asked the leading researcher at the Institute of the Russian Language named after V.V. Vinogradova.

A record 44 candidates ran for the by-elections in Moscow in two constituencies. Independents are again trying to prevent There will be a single voting day in September. 20 heads of subjects will be elected (18 directly and 2 indirectly), as well as legislative elections in 11 regions. Particular attention will be focused on the by-elections to the State Duma in the Kursk, Penza and Yaroslavl regions, as well as in Tatarstan.

Not a single party became interested in protesters in Khabarovsk Protest action in Khabarovsk. Photo: Igor Volkov / AP / TASS For a person who observes the Russian political life from Khabarovsk, the “zeroing of the Constitution”, which took place on July 1, now looks like an example of “laconicism”, which the federal government showed. Information, media support of “reservating” amendments was minimal and almost shy.

The Butyrsky Court of Moscow during the preliminary hearings in the criminal case of the youngest of the Khachaturian sisters - Maria - extended her preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions. This is reported by TASS with reference to the lawyer Yulia Nitchenko. The lawyer added that the district court, just as the Moscow City Court had previously done with respect to two older sisters, Angelina and Krestina, forbade Maria to participate in public mass events.

The European Union should consider imposing sanctions against Belarus after the presidential elections in the country. This was stated by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, TASS reports .

In the St. Petersburg Kgallery, an exhibition was opened for the 30th anniversary of the tragic anniversary of Tsoi. Summer will not end " Fans of the work of the leader of the Kino group, who died in a car accident on August 15, 1990, had a happy case to see his work from the collection of Kinoveda Natalia Razlogova, a friend of Tsoi. The presented canvases, oilcloths, polarid pictures and personal items that became at hand of Tsoi art objects have not seen a wide viewer previously.

The Lebanese government is resigning in its entirety. This is reported by LBCI News with reference to Health Minister Hamad Hasan. Prime Minister Hassan Diab is expected to make an official speech to the Lebanese people around 19:30 local time today. mass protests in Beirut On the eve of , during which there were clashes with the security forces. Residents demanded that the government resign and punish those responsible for the explosion of ammonium nitrate in the port.