On August 9, the authorities of Vietnam and the United States began cleaning the Vietnamese Airport Danang (Danang) from traces of the toxic "agent of Orange", Reuters reports. For the first time, Washington will take part in the purification of the territory of Vietnam from traces of this toxic substance. In this regard, the ceremony took place at Danang Airport, in which US Ambassador David Shir took part. The US authorities allocated $ 41 million on this project.

Richard Sobolev, accused in the criminal case of riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6 in Moscow, will soon be released, Interfax reports. According to his lawyer on August 9, investigators replaced Sobolev's measure of restraint from detention for a recognizance not to leave. Recall that on August 8, the Basmanny Court extended before November 6 the arrest of another person involved in the riots - Vladimir Aokimenkov.

The Chairman of the United Russia party, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev will meet on Friday with five candidates for the post of head of the Central Executive Committee, and then the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia will approve one of them at the post. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the Secretary of the General Council of the party Sergey Nevorov.

The Basmanny Court of the capital posted on August 29, consideration of a complaint of a lawyer and opposition politician Alexei Navalny to cancel the termination of the criminal case on Kirovles, Interfax reports. Thus, the court satisfied the petition of the lawyer Navalny Olga Mikhailova. The defense asked for an additional time to get acquainted with the documents that the investigation intends to attach to the new consideration of the Kirovles case.

The administration of US President Barack Obama was accused at the disposal of gently handing the participants in the protest movement to “capture Wall Street” in Portland, Fox News reports. The channel refers to the information received from the Judicial Watch, which, in turn, enjoys the Law on free access to government documents. In November 2011, the camp of the “Grace Wall Street” movement was located in one of the Portland parks, which is in federal property.

In the UK, a lawsuit was appointed, who will conduct the case of poisoning in 2006 in London of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, the Echo of Moscow radio station reports. Robert Owen will conduct preliminary hearings in this case, he will have to determine the course of the investigation and decide, they will be heard with the participation of the jury.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine in September is ready to bring Yulia Tymoshenko an accusation of involvement in the murder of deputy Yevgeny Shcherban. This was stated in an interview with the Ukrainian newspaper "Today" First Deputy Prosecutor General Renat Kuzmin. The businessman and deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Evgeny Shcherban was killed at the Donetsk airport in 1996. The victims of the killer also became the wife of Shcherban and an airport employee.

The world section of the Tver court of Moscow fined 15 thousand rubles of the Left Front activist Konstantin Kosyakin for participating in the campaign on July 31 on the Triumphal Square in the center of the capital, the Echo of Moscow radio station reports. The court found Kosyakin guilty of violating the rules of holding and organizing a mass event. The activist himself said that he did not make any unlawful actions and did not intend to pay a fine.

Film School named after McGaffin and Portal Polit.ru continue the summer cycle of public film lectures now in the Museon Art Park and traditional online broadcasts. The cycle is a thematic special project within the framework of the Polit.ru project existing in 2004. The main tags of the summer season are independent cinema, festivals, the profession "film critic", domestic film production and startups in the cinema.

The FSB put on the wanted list of the corresponding member of the Russian Ecological Academy (REA) Sergey Volkov, who is suspected of embezzlement of 8 billion rubles allocated for the construction of the Central Ring Road (TsKAD), on Thursday Rosbalt reports. According to counterintelligence, the scientist spent stolen money on the support of underground nationalist organizations.

A criminal case has been instituted in Kamchatka against the local Minister of Sports and Tourism, suspected of fraud by 6.9 million rubles, the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia reports. Another suspect in this case is an individual entrepreneur. According to investigators, the Minister of Sports and Tourism of the Kamchatka Territory agreed with a businessman to purchase clothes and equipment from him for a youth hockey team.

In the Dudinsky seaport, the official opening of the permanent point of the cargo-passenger pass across the state border of Russia took place, the press service of Norilsk Nickel GMC OJSC reports. The opening ceremony was attended by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev, representatives of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation, the Federal Customs Service, Rosrechmorflot, the FSB of the Russian Federation.

The cleaners of the London metro announced a 48-hour strike in protest against low salaries during the Olympics, reports Press Association . The protest rally began at 5:30 in the morning local time (8:30 in Moscow). The cleaners intend to hold a picket on the street, next to the metro stations near the Olympic Park. They emphasized that only those stations that are near the Olympic Park will not be removed.

The leader of the unregistered party "Other Russia" Eduard Limonov was sentenced by the court to a fine for organizing on July 31 at the triumphal in Moscow an unauthorized protest, Interfax reports. On Thursday, the Tver court of the capital considered administrative cases against the leader of the unregistered party "Other Russia" Eduard Limonov and a member of the "Left Front" Konstantin Kosyakin, who were held accountable for the organization of illegal rally on the triumphal square.

The Khamovnican Court of Moscow will broadcast on the Internet the announcement of the sentence to the participants of the Pussy Riot punk group, which will be held on August 17 in the afternoon, Interfax reports. The live broadcast will be conducted on the court website. In addition, a separate hall will be allocated for journalists where they can watch the broadcast of the sentence.