Volunteer's diary, part 1: "Hot, muddy and completely rough awaits you" We arrived in Krymsk on Tuesday evening. Finding the camp is not difficult - the training ground, filled with tents of various sizes, is located right at the entrance to the city. In the morning, the Krymsk administration ordered the removal of volunteers from the city center . Now the EMCHE members, and free volunteers, and “nashi”, and Vodyanov’s, and activists of the “Lisa Alert” movement are all under one sky.

Many years ago on this day we rejoiced. Two weeks later we were crying huge “bear tears.” Olympics-80 in Moscow. From July 19 to August 3, 1980, the XXII Summer Olympic Games were held in Moscow at the Great Sports Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium. Sports delegations from 81 countries took part in the 1980 Olympics.

In the Voronezh region, a criminal case has been opened against the director of the Donskoy Vodozabor municipal unitary enterprise, suspected of purchasing an expensive car at the expense of the organization, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the region reported on Wednesday, July 18. According to preliminary data, the manager purchased a Honda CR-V car for almost 1.5 million rubles belonging to the municipal unitary enterprise.

A team of volunteers from the Siberian Federal University (SFU, Krasnoyarsk) during excavations on the territory of Tuva discovered five Scythian burial mounds of the Neolithic period, reports the press service of the government of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

On the night of July 17, 1918, in Yekaterinburg, Emperor Nicholas II, along with his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, children and close associates, were shot, and after that their bodies were taken to the abandoned Ganina Yama mine. Every year, in mid-July, the family of the last Tsar is remembered in Russia. In the last two decades, the tradition of the Procession of the Cross has been established.

Prologue. When in Rostov they announced a collection of aid for the victims in Krymsk, my wife and I decided to donate too and brought warm clothes and bed linen to the public (Public Library, a gathering place for informal and free movements in Rostov-on-Don). It would seem that the duty has been fulfilled. But then a friend of extreme right-wing views called and asked if I could help him take his things to Krymsk. I couldn’t refuse my friend and told him that he could count on me.

While the State Duma is on vacation, the Public Chamber is slowly pushing through a law on volunteers aimed at limiting the activities of voluntary groups. (I wonder what Ms. Khamatova, who chose North Korea, will say about this) In the meantime, there is no law, in Moscow hospitals they are forcibly collecting donations, while hiding behind “voluntary” formulations. Here, in fact, is the document. You yourself think how the doctors reacted to this.

For a long time, Aram Gabrelyanov said that Izvestia will remain a serious publication and will not turn into a Lienews branch of the Kremlin. Tell me, colleagues-journalists and just readers, regardless of your attitude to me, can a respecting publication do this with an interview already taken. Shame and hell !!! I really look forward to comments by Aram Ashotovich. Original

Four members of the competition commission responsible for the purchase of medical equipment for the needs of the Smolensk region were fined 30 thousand rubles each for violations of the procedure for selecting auction participants (Part 2 of Article 7.30 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), Senior Assistant Prosecutor of the region Alexander Borovikov told Interfax on Wednesday .

Photo: ITAR-TASS United Russia deputy Evgeny Fedorov unexpectedly introduced amendments to the law on the media on “foreign agents” to the State Duma. They oblige the media to indicate information that they are funded or receive grants from abroad. The author of the amendments does not hide that the bill is a continuation of the work that United Russia began by adopting amendments on “foreign agents” to the law on NPOs . The idea of ​​such amendments became known on July 16.

The capital's government has agreed to a rally of the opposition movement "May 6 Committee", scheduled for July 26 in Novopushkinsky Square, said Vasily Oleynik, deputy head of the Moscow regional security department. As Oleinik clarified to Interfax on Wednesday, the event was agreed upon from 19.00 to 22.00 for up to 1.5 thousand people. Interfax - South

On Wednesday, July 18, a panel of jurors of the Supreme Court of Buryatia found Larisa Suvorova, director of the Sibir Management LLC stores, and her accomplices Alexey Konev, Roman Gigauri and Sergei Pakhomov guilty of the murder of a merchandiser at the pawnshop of the Zoloto 585 jewelry chain, the press service reports. republican prosecutor's office. “All defendants were found not to deserve leniency,” the statement said.

The investigation into the riots during a rally on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow on May 6 suspects Solidarity activist, 20-year-old Anastasia Rybachenko, of violence against police and mass riots. She is still a witness in the case, but her parents’ apartment has already been searched. The girl herself was in Europe at that time. Recently, the media reported that she was trying to obtain political asylum in Germany.

The number of victims of the fire in the public reception of the United Russia party in Novosibirsk, where a woman attempted suicide , has increased to five people; a criminal case has been initiated, said Marina Kinzhalova, senior assistant to the head of the RF Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk region. “A criminal case has been initiated under Article 110 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Incitement to suicide”),” M. Kinzhalova told Interfax on Wednesday.

Photo: ITAR-TASS FSB in the Nizhny Novgorod region plans to institute criminal proceedings against the chairman of the human rights committee against torture by Igor Kalyapin, whose organization actively acts not only in Nizhny Novgorod, but also Chechnya.