In Afghanistan since yesterday evening, at least ten police officers have died as a result of explosions and attacks of the Taliban. In the city of Musa-Kala, the Gilmain province today died four police officers who tried to neutralize the bomb laid on the sidelines of the road. The Taliban took responsibility for the explosion that happened this morning in the northern province of Kunduz, whose victims were two police officers.

One of the members of the Pussy Riot group - Maria Alekhina - in the Tagan court of Moscow More than a hundred Russian cultural and art figures signed the appeal in defense of the arrested participants in the Pussy Riot punk group. The circulation posted today on the website of the Radio “Echo of Moscow” says that, in different ways, evaluating the moral and ethical side of the Pussy Riot actions, its authors do not consider these actions a criminal offense.

Personal belongings of Sergey Magnitsky, presented at the exhibition in Berlin In the capital of the United States, there were two significant events related to the case of Sergei Magnitsky. The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs approved the draft law on the introduction of strict sanctions against Russian officials involved in human rights violations.

Will Putin's Russia live until 2017? Options for the development of the political crisis in Russia and its overcoming in the program "Time of Guests" are discussed by political scientists Stanislav Belkovsky and Vyacheslav Gamesov. Complete audio version:

Frame of video shooting of alleged falsification of signature sheets (according to the opposition - in support of Dmitry Mezentsev) http://youtu.be/yz9ttvgrlu The activist of the Solidarity movement Amir Khairullin, beaten the other day, believes that he suffered due to the story with false signatures in support of the ex-candidate of the president of Dmitry Mezentsev . In January 2012, Khairullin received an offer to work on a fake signatures and told reporters about this.

In Dagestan, on Wednesday evening, the leader of the Izberbash extremist group Magomed Abdusalamov was killed, also known for the nickname Al-Bara. The militant opened fire on the police, demanding that he stop the car. The return fire of Abdusalamov was shot dead. The incident occurred in the Dahadaevsky district of Dagestan. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to the Republican Investigative Committee.

Ekaterina Samutsevich, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina in court There is an active collection of signatures under the open letter with a demand to stop the criminal prosecution of girls for punk-summer punk in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The letter in support of Pussy Riot was signed even by the proxies of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin - Chulpan Khamatova and Evgeny Mironov.

Inflation in Russia for the period from 1 to 25 June amounted to 0.5%, and since the beginning of the year - 2.8%, the Federal Statistics Service said. For comparison, last year, for the same period, consumer prices in the country increased by 0.2% and 4.9%, respectively. The higher rates of their growth were then associated with the January indexation of tariffs for the services of housing and communal services, from this year transferred to July.

Sergey Magnitsky, 2006 John Kerry: Who is “for”, say “ah”, who is against it, say “nay” Irina Lagunina: After several deferrals, the Senate Committee on International Affairs opened the road for voting on the draft Law “Justice for Sergey Magnitsky” at a general meeting of each of the Congress chambers. For a long time, the committee remained the most serious barrier on the path of this document, which now has a chance to become a legislative act.

Dodjoni Atovullo On June 27, 1997, a peace agreement was signed in the Kremlin, which put the end of the civil war in Tajikistan, which lasted 5 years. However, it quickly became clear that the agreement between the authorities and the opposition was in favor of the authorities, and the registered world turned out to be the world of Emomali Rakhmonov, who became the permanent leader of Tajikistan 15 years ago.

The Technic-Taliban group, uniting the Pakistani Taliban, took responsibility for the murder of the commander of the People’s Militia detachment Fahimar Rahman. Rahman’s bodies and three other supporters were discovered this morning in the Pakistani city of Peshavar. The fighters of the Rahman detachment conducted an active struggle with the Taliban in the Khaibert district of Pakistan near the Afghan border.

The Moscow City Duma adopted a law on direct elections of the mayor today. Political parties and their regional branches can nominate candidates. Participated in the elections of self -nominated. The nomination should support 6 percent of deputies of representative bodies of local self -government and elected heads of municipalities at least in three quarters of the city municipalities. A self -nominated person must collect 1 percent of Moscow voters in his support.

Vladimir Tikhomirov The leaders of the countries of the European Union at the next summit on June 28, as expected, will discuss a plan for further budgetary and banking integration within the EU. But can this decision stop the crisis in the eurozone , which is already influencing, among other things, on the Russian economy?

There is an active collection of signatures under the open letter with a demand to stop the criminal prosecution of girls for punk-summer punk in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The letter in support of Pussy Riot was signed even by the proxies of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin - Chulpan Khamatova and Evgeny Mironov.