Manifestation in one of the villages of Deraa Province, July 1, 2011 In Syria on Friday, large anti -government manifestations were held, during which six people were killed in clashes with the police. According to eyewitnesses, in demonstrations in Damascus, Hama and other cities, hundreds of thousands of opponents of the regime of President Bashar al -Assad participated. Anti -government manifestations in Syria have been going on for three months.

He has been cooperating with RS since 1991. The editor and host of the Road to Freedom Program Vitaly Portnikov on Facebook , Twitter Portnikovv@rferl.org

According to the Azerbaijani Ministry of Foreign Affairs, journalist Yuri Snegirev was included in the so -called "black list" in connection with the illegal visit of Nagorno -Karabakh.

Russian fans The Minister of Sports and Tourism Vitaly Mutko plans to perform in the coming days in the State Duma. It is expected that one of the most discussed topics during this visit will be the Law on the fans that is being prepared in the Russian parliament. Experts - the parliamentarian Valery Draganov and sociologist Valdimir Rimsky - evaluate his prospects.

Tennis. Wimbledon tournament. United Kingdom The semifinals Novak Dzhokokovych (Serbia) - Jo -Winfried Tsonga (France) - 7: 6, 6: 2, 6: 7, 6: 3 Rafael Nadal (Spain) - Andy Murray (Great Britain) - 5: 7, 6: 2, 6: 2, 6: 4

Irina Lagunina: The other day it turned 20 years old since the beginning of the process of the collapse of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The first, June 25, 1991, the independence of Yugoslavia proclaimed Slovenia and Croatia. Slovenia has been a member of the European Union for 7 years, Croatia will join the EU in the near future. Before the conflict of the nineties, the Yugoslav peoples lived better than the rest of the peoples of the socialist bloc.

In the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, internal control is completely removed from today. Now customs officers of the three countries will exchange basic information about goods issued on their territory. Customs control will be carried out only on the external borders of the Union. The agreement on the formation of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan was signed in October 2007.

The word "socialism" in China sounds less and less The Communist Party of China celebrates the 90th anniversary. It was founded through the mediation of the Comintern and, like many other communist parties, appeared after the October Revolution in Russia. The CCP is the largest political organization in the world with 80 million members.

Negotiations on resolving the conflict in Libya, which took place as part of the African Union summit in Equatorial Guinea, ended to no avail tonight. Libyan rebels said they were ready to complete their conflict with the Gaddafi regime with military means. The condition of a political decision is, according to them, the resignation of Muamar Gaddafi.

Directors Boris Khlebnikov and Vitaly Mansky (in the foreground from left to right) and the head of the Union of Cinematographers, director and actor Andrei Smirnov and Kinoved Daniil Dondurey (in the background from left to right) are present at the first congress "Kino -Union". In Moscow, the first congress of the cinema union takes place. On the agenda - the election of the chairman.

The lawyer of the former colonel of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service Alexander Poteev, accused of issuing Russian agents to the US authorities, appealed the verdict in the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court. On Monday, the Moscow District Military Court sentenced Poteev to 25 years in prison - for state treason and desertion. The verdict was announced in absentia, since Potheev is outside of Russia.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow extended until November the deadline for the arrest of the former head of the Department of the Moscow Regional Prosecutor's Office Dmitry Urumov - at the request of the investigation. Urumov is accused of receiving a bribe from the organizers of the underground casinos in the suburbs.

Strauss-Kan and his wife leave the court building in New York, July 1, 2011 The former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominic Stross-Kan was released from the house in New York from house arrest. However, he must remain in the United States until the end of the trial. The following hearings in the case of the ex-head of the IMF, accused of trying to rape the maid at the New York Hotel, were scheduled for July 18.

The chief state sanitary doctor of Russia Gennady Onishchenko Russia lifted the ban on the supply of vegetables from two more countries of the European Union - Spain and Denmark, today said the head of Rospotrebnadzor Gennady Onishchenko. Prior to this, deliveries were allowed from the Netherlands and Belgium. The ban on the import of fresh vegetables from Europe was introduced by Russia in early June due to the outbreak of dangerous intestinal infection, from which about 40 people died.