The United States expect assistance from the Russian authorities in the detention of a former CIA employee Edward Snowden and its issuance. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the representative of the US National Security Council. The head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Alexei Pushkov, said that the issuance of Snowden to the United States is unlikely. Yesterday, the authorities of Ecuador announced that Snowden turned to them with a request to provide asylum.

The director of the Lev Ponomarev and several employees of the organization, evicted from the office, today was given the opportunity to collect and take things out. Human rights activists turned to friendly organizations with a request to shelter them.

Today in Moscow, court hearings begin on the so -called "swamp case." Preliminary hearings in the Zamoskvoretsky court were held on June 6, 7 and 12. The court did not satisfy a single application of the defense, refusing to exclude 73 policemen from the list and invalidated some evidence of the guilt of the accused. The lawyers claimed that the police were recognized as victims, although they did not receive any injuries during the riots in Bolotnaya.

One friend of mine wrote to the FB: “I ordered a new router on the phone, and instead of the“ router ”said Snowden. The new contradictory hero of the day, Essange N2, who took refuge in the extraterritorial zone of Sheremetyevo Airport Edward Snowden, provided Vladimir Putin, words of the American politician,“ poke the USA with a finger in the eye. ”And we will talk about this in the program.

Gennady Gudkov Former State Duma deputy Gennady Gudkov is registered by a candidate for governors of the Moscow Region. He is nominated by the "Apple" party. According to the chairman of the Moscow Region Irek Vildanov, Gudkov became the thirteenth candidate for the post of head of the region.

Edward Snowden is doomed to the fate of the eternal fugitive, unless, of course, they catch him. Where did he get the "romantic craving for the disclosure of secrets"? Can Snowden be called "Julian Assange number two"? This question is answered by the Moscow publicist and culturologist Stanislav Lviv. - It seems to me not quite.

Loading aircraft for the Berlin Air Bridge in Frankfurt, June 1948 In Germany, the 65th anniversary of the Berlin Air Bridge (Berliner Luftbrücke) is celebrated-operations of Western allies on the air supply of West Berlin with food during the blockade of Western sectors by the forces of the Soviet occupation forces. The Berlin Air Bridge lasted from June 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949.

Charles Dickens "Book Review" Marina Efimova Alexander Genis: Such a grandious anniversary as the 200th anniversary of Dickens, which the world celebrated last year, could not pass without a trace for the philology of America, where Dickens confidently occupies the second - after Shakespeare - a place among all classics. “Cursing”, so to speak, from the anniversary - a wave of new academic research and popular books designed for a wide reader.

New Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia Elvira Nabiullina Elvira Nabiullina on June 24 officially took office as chairman of the Central Bank of Russia. She replaced Sergei Ignatiev, who has held this post since March since 2002, for three terms in a row.

Kaluga region. Old people and children were left without electricity Residents of the cottage village "Zlato Field" of the Kaluga region for a week turned off the electricity. More than three hundred houses were left without light and without water, because the pumps swinging water from the wells turned off Many were left without hot food, because the village was not gasified, and people cooked food on electric stoves.

The central house of art workers worries not the best times the font size - + Lilya Palvelieva Updated: 07/15/2011 17:49 The leadership of the central house of art workers appealed to the Moscow Arbitration Court with a request to recognize the violations of violations that the State Inspectorate for Real Estate accuses it. CDRI is the only house in Russia, uniting figures of all types of arts. It was created on the initiative of Anatoly Lunacharsky in 1938.

A pond in a park in Tsarskoye Selo. Photo by Tatyana Voltskaya /Rferl There was a threat of excluding the historical suburbs of St. Petersburg from the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is not clear where - but it is clear in whose interests. In 1990, an application was applied for the inclusion of St. Petersburg and the suburbs - only 46 thousand hectares in the UNESCO World Heritage List.