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Participants in Pussy Riot Punch group in the Hamovnic Court. From left to right: Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Ekaterina Samutsevich, Maria Alekhina. In the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow on August 1 - the third day of the hearings in the case of Pussy Riot . At the meeting on July 31, the testimonies of the victims were heard .

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American lawmakers can approve new sanctions against Iran on August 1, the introduction of which does not require the sanctions of the UN Security Council. Currently, sanctions are directed against financial institutions abroad, which have commercial ties with the Central Bank of Iran. As a result of these sanctions, Iran, according to estimates, loses about $ 63 million daily.

In the process in the case of participants in the punk group Pussy Riot in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, an interrogation of witnesses to the prosecution will begin today. In the first two days of the hearing, the things were essentially interrogated by nine victims, including guards, altars and candles of the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior, where Pussy Riot participants held the so-called punk-summer.

In Israel today, a 45-year-old resident of the country, who had previously committed self-immolation in protest against the growth of the cost of life, died from the burns today. This was announced by the representative of the hospital in Tel Aviv. Thus, the number of Israelis that died as a result of a similar form of protest. Akiva Mafi attached to the wheelchair set himself on July 22 - two days after the government of the country approved a package of tough saving measures.

The area of forest fires in the Tomsk region, whose inhabitants suffer from smoke, have increased by a third over the past day and reached 11 thousand hectares. This was announced by the deputy governor of the region Igor Shatur. According to Shaturny, about 4, 5 thousand people, hundreds of units of equipment, including aviation, fight fires. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Emergencies took out three mushroom pickers surrounded by fire from the distress zone.

Judge Marina Syrova in the process of participants in the punk group Pussy Riot once again refused to take self-setting up. Thus, the petition was rejected, stated this time by the lawyer of the victims and supported by the defense of the accused. Before the start of today's meeting in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, one of the defendants - Maria Alyokhina - became bad, she was called the ambulance doctors.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: The decision of the Chairman of the Supreme Court of Russia Vyacheslav Lebedev to cancel the decision of Judge Voronov, who refused to satisfy the complaints of the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev, create the ground for their possible liberation. Lebedev agreed with the arguments of the lawyers of the defendants on many points, and also did not rule out that businessmen could be condemned twice for the same crime.

Detained participant in the Strategy-31 campaign in defense of freedom of assembly on July 31, 2012 Eduard Limonov, the leader of the unregistered party "Another Russia" does not intend to pay a multi-thousandth fine for the unauthorized campaign "Strategy-31" . He was detained on July 31 in Moscow during an unresolved rally in defense of freedom of assembly. Large fines also threaten some other participants in the action.

XXX Summer Olympic Games. London, Great Britain Fencing. Women. Saber 1. Ji Eun Kim (South Korea) 2. Sofya the Great (Russia) 3. Olga Harlan (Ukraine) Diving. Men. Synchronous jumps with a 3-meter springboard. 1. Luo Yuton / Qi Kai (China) 2. Ilya Zakharov / Evgeny Kuznetsov (Russia) 3. Troy Dymey / Christian Ipsen (USA) Cycling. Women. Separate start race 1. Christine Armstrong (USA) 2. Judit Arndt (Germany) 3. Olga Zabelinskaya (Russia) Cycling. Men. Separate start race 1.

Pussy Riot participant Maria Alyokhina In recent days, the Russian blogosphere is a series of notes "from the courtroom." Nevertheless, observing the behavior of the judge and the prosecutor in the process over Pussy Riot, Columnist Lenta.ru Ivan Davydov doubted how to call the court that was happening and, most importantly, is there an objective necessity: I stopped understanding why we have a court at all. Why are all these expensive performances - "preliminary meetings", "court hearings"?