US President Barack Obama enlisted President of Syria Bashar al -Assad from a “tragic mistake” - the use of chemical weapons. Obama warned that if the reserves of chemical weapons are used by the Syrian regime, then Assad would have to answer this before the world community and the United States. On Monday, the Syrian authorities threatened that they would use chemical weapons against foreign troops if they invade Syria.

The Khamovnican Court of Moscow has appointed a consideration on the merits of the criminal case against the participants of the Pussy Riot punk group on the merits of July 30. The court also rejected all the petitions of lawyers. The defense asked to return the case to the prosecutor’s office, as well as to call as witnesses to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Kirill.

The average level of public debt in 17 countries of the eurozone during the first quarter of this year increased from 87.3% of GDP to 88.2%, the Eurostat agency said. For comparison, in Russia - about 10% of GDP. The highest level of Eurozone countries remains in Greece (132% of GDP), although after the restructuring in March, it decreased sharply, at the beginning of the year Greece, the debt exceeded 165% of GDP.

The court in Bashkiria today sentenced to different terms of conclusion conditionally on charges of extremism , the initiation of hatred, national enmity and calls to the mass riots of the five administrators of the Ufa Gubernskaya site. The court found that the defendants - Nikolai Shvetsov, Sergey Orlov, Igor Kuchumov, Ildar Gabdrafikov and Konstantin Nesterov - posted extremist articles on the site, and also wrote insulting comments on the Bashkir population of the republic.

The village of Kushchevskaya of the Krasnodar Territory, where 12 people were killed in November 2010 On July 23, the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia announced the completion of the investigation of the brutal murder of twelve people in the village of Kushchevskaya in the Krasnodar Territory in the fall of 2010. The case was referred to the court, where he will be considered the jury. Four accused were asked about this.

Millions of China residents wrote on the Internet that they were extremely unhappy with how the government copes with the consequences of strong rainfall in Beijing, whose victims of at least 37 people became victims of the last weekend. Angry messages placed a total of about 9 million users. Judging by their comments, not all residents of the metropolitan region were informed about security measures in connection with the impending bad weather.

The colony in Salavat, where, according to human rights defenders, more than 600 prisoners hold a hunger strike. In Bashkiria, the mass protest of prisoners in colony No. 4, located under the city of Salavat, continues in Bashkiria for the third day. According to human rights activists, more than six hundred prisoners refused to eat food in the dining room of the colony in protest against the arbitrariness of the administration.

Oppositionist Eduard Limonov The leader of the unregistered party "Other Russia" Eduard Limonov was summoned for interrogation. He must come to the investigator on Tuesday morning. The agenda says that the opposition is assigned the status of a witness, but it is not indicated in which case.

On July 22, President of the United States Barack Obama visited the city of Aurora, Colorado, and met with the families of the victims of a single arrow, from whose hands 12 people died on Friday night and 58 were injured . On the edge of a huge parking lot near the cinema in a suburb of Denver, where a mass massacre occurred on Friday night , an impromptu memorial was built. Hundreds of people carry candles, flowers, state flags of the United States and commemorative signs.

In the north-west of Afghanistan, soldiers of the National Army wounded two US troops. The shooting fire was killed by return fire. According to the vice-governor of the province of Faryab Abdul Sattar Barez, this It occurred at the entrance to the military base in the Gormach area. Yesterday, in the province of Herat, the Afghan policeman shot three foreign civilian specialists who worked at the security forces training center.

Vladimir Kolokoltsev Vladimir Kara-Murza: Minister of the Interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev forbade blocking the streets for the sake of traveling with high-ranking officials of the Power Ministry. The reason for this decision was the case in Penza, when the head of the security forces arrived with the head of the Federal Migration Service Konstantin Romodanovsky on July 11.

Alexey Pankin To the death of Alexander Kokburn, a great critic of the press On July 22, at the age of 71, Alexander Kokburn, a great journalist, the bearer of the great tradition and my teacher in the profession of mediacritis, died of cancer. In recent years, he lived in California, was the co -editor of the electronic magazine Counterpunch ("Return Blow"), who tirelessly exposed the American ruling class and generally accepted stereotypes about how the modern world works.

In the children's camp "Constellation" near Khabarovsk, more than 50 children and three camp workers turned to doctors with symptoms of intestinal infection. As the Minister of Health of the Khabarovsk Territory Alexander Vitko told reporters today, four children were taken to a local hospital, the rest were isolated in one of the camps. A team of doctors left for observation and assistance there. The cause of the disease is clarified.

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