The prosecutor Karasev read on a piece of paper why he believes that Lutskevich cannot be released The Moscow City Court today examined the appeal against the decision of the Basmanny Court to leave Denis Lutskevich, accused in the "Swamp case", in the pre -trial detention center. In 15 minutes, Judge Polyakova, having consulted with the college, left the decision of the Basmanny court unchanged.

East Side Gallery is a fragment of the Berlin Wall, sharing the German capital after 1961. The wall was painted shortly after the fall of the GDR regime artists from different countries. It has become a tourist object and the longest in the world - 1316 meters - an open -air gallery. One of the most famous Graffiti East Side Gallery was Dmitry Vrubel’s drawing, capturing the strong kiss of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker.

The future of the law on the protection of marriage looked doubtful two hours after the start of the hearing in the US Supreme Court - after several judges began to ask frankly skeptical questions to lawyers protecting the law. The court considers the issue of the constitutionality of several of its provisions.

BRICS countries have not yet been able to agree on the establishment of a joint development bank. This question was central on the agenda of the next summit of five countries that are part of this group - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The meeting ended today in the South African city of Durban.

Good morning, this day the day begins today. “Vedomosti” today write that the Communist Party nevertheless decided to file a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights on the cancellation of elections to the State Duma. True, it will only be about falsification and violations in Mordovia. There, about 96% of voters voted for United Russia. It was more only in Chechnya. Kommersant comes out with an article on the inspection of passengers at railway stations.

In the Tver court of Moscow, the process in the case of Sergei Magnitsky continues, scandalous by the fact that they judge a person who died more than three years ago. Today they interrogated witnesses. As we have already reported , the prosecutor had previously accused Magnitsky of a “criminal conspiracy” with William Brauder , the head of the Hermitage Capital Foundation, in which the Magnitsky worked, and a “group of unidentified persons”. The goal is to evasion taxes, the charge claims.

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Demonstration with a request to resign the chairman of the Kyiv city administration Alexander Popov The inability of the current Kyiv authorities to effectively cope with the consequences of the recent snowstorm became a factor in the struggle for the chair of the mayor of Kyiv and the place in the city council of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been living without a mayor since July 2012, when the Kyiv City Council accepted the early resignation of Leonid Chernovetsky.

The details of the inspectors' visit to the St. Petersburg branch of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation became known: computers were seized there, which, according to the director of the foundation's representative office in Russia, Lars Peter Schmidt, "has made our work in St. Petersburg impossible at the moment." At the same time, Schmidt assured that in its activities the fund is “honest to Russia.” The Adenauer Foundation works in many countries with difficult situations - for example, in Egypt.