Mikhail Prokhorov The leader of the Civil Platform party, Mikhail Prokhorov, said that he would send a petition to the Yaroslavl court with a request not to arrest the mayor of the city of Yevgeny Urlashov, detained on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday on suspicion of extortion of a bribe. In 2011, Urlashov left the United Russia party and a year later joined the Civil Platform. He was going to lead the list of this party in the autumn elections to the Yaroslavl Regional Duma.

Friends and colleagues of Yuri Shchekochikhin gathered in Peredelkino near Moscow to recall the famous journalist who died10 years ago. And although according to the official version, death occurred as a result of severe intoxication, friends and colleagues of Shchokochikhin have no doubt that Shchokochikhina was killed.

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Vladimir Kara-Murza: Today, all world attention is focused on Egypt, where President Mursi is suspended from power. About what a change in power in Egypt is a military coup or a people's revolution, we are talking today with Igor Korotchenko , the chief editor of the journal National Defense, Evgeny Satanovsky , the president of the Institute of the Middle East, they are in our studio. And we have, on direct telephone communications, orientalists Alexei Malashenko and Bagrat Seyranyan .

The French foreign intelligence service illegally monitors phone calls and actions of Internet users, wrote the French diary Le Monde on Thursday. The publication’s report indicates that the special services “spy” behind subscribers both within France and beyond. At the same time, only the so -called metadata gather, that is, not the content of conversations and texts of emails is recorded, but who calls or writes to whom, when and where, the newspaper notes.

South Korea suggested that Severnaya Korea are negotiating to resume the work of enterprises in the industrial region of Keson, located on the territory of the DPRK near the border between the two countries. In a statement published on Thursday, the South Korean ministry on the association reported that she proposes to start negotiations on the next Saturday.

Yunus-Bek Evkurov The head of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Evkurov on Thursday, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, asked to accept his early resignation. Putin satisfied the request by appointing Evkurov to acting as the head of the republic - before taking office as head of Ingushetia. Evkurov himself intends to participate in the upcoming elections.

President Obama made a statement in which he expressed “deep concern” by the decision of the Egyptian army to remove the country's president and suspend the act of Egypt's constitution. The US President called on the Egyptian military leadership as soon as possible to return power to the hands of a democratically elected government and to refrain from extrajudicial arrests of President Mursi and his supporters.

The plane of the Bolivian president Russia criticized the actions of France, Spain and Portugal for the delay because of the American Snowden of the Aircraft of the Bolivian President Evo Morales. On Thursday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the actions of three European states can hardly be considered as friendly towards Russia and Bolivia.

The Leninsky District Court of Yaroslavl arrested until September 3 one of the accused in the case of corruption in the city hall of Andrei Zakharov. He appears in the case, in which the mayor Yevgeny Urlashov also passes, as an alleged intermediary while trying to receive a bribe. According to the investigation, Urlashov, detained on the night of July 3, and several of his subordinates extorted a large amount from a local entrepreneur.

In Moscow today there will be another protest against the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). The Moscow authorities agreed on a rally in Gorky Park with a declared number of participants up to a thousand people. Today, the State Duma Council included on the agenda on Friday the consideration of the bill in the second reading. The first reading of the document passed yesterday.

Picket of spectators of the Bolshoi Theater, June 29, 2013 Nikolai Tsiskaridze was dismissed, and Pavel Dmitrichenko has already charged the investigator. Are the perpetrators punished in the tragedy that happened in the Bolshoi Theater? In the theater museum. A.A. Bakhrushin on July 3, Nikolai Tsiscaridze, dismissed from the Bolshoi Theater after a series of scandals, met with his fans. Nikolai Tsiscaridze reported his colleagues about dismissal as a resolved issue two months ago.

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