Detroit. City Center The city of Detroit declared itself financially insolvent. He appealed to the court with a request to allow him to declare bankruptcy. During the restructuring of urban finance, which will be carried out under the supervision of the court and the extraordinary manager, all the calculations of Detroit with creditors are suspended, as well as the city’s fulfillment of obligations to the trade unions.

In Chechnya, the head of the republic created the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights. To the post of head of the Council, Ramzan Kadyrov was appointed Timur Aliyev, his former assistant on the development of public organizations. He is also known in the region as a blogger and journalist.

On the night of Friday, Ukrainian special forces dispersed the protesters against police arbitrariness on the Maidan of Nezalevniy in Kyiv. The protest was triggered by a high -profile case of rape by two police officers of Vradievka Irina Krashkova. Activists from the village of Vradievka, Nikolaev region, who were walking to the Ukrainian capital for a week and a half, continue the indefinite protest. On July 7, about fifty activists from Vradievka and other settlements went on foot to Kyiv.

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The convicted participant of Pussy Riot punk group Nadezhda Tolokonnikov was transferred from the colony in the Zubovo-Polyansky district of Mordovia to the colony in the village of Potma. As her husband Pyotr Verzilov told reporters on Friday, the translation is associated with the desire of Tolokonnikova to participate in the court examination of the complaint about the refusal of parole.

Alexey Navalny and his wife Julia The opposition will determine the date of the new mass protest event after agreeing with Alexei Navalny, who will come from Kirov to Moscow on Saturday morning. This was reported to journalists by a member of the Coordinating Council of the opposition, activist of the Solidarity movement Peter Tsarkov and the organizer of the action Alexander Ryklin. According to Tsarkov, such a decision was made on Friday by the committee of protest actions.

Head of the Civil Assistance Committee Svetlana Gannushkina The Tver Court of Moscow recognized as legitimate a fine of two thousand rubles on the head of the Civil Promotion Committee Svetlana Gannushkin for refusing to provide documents to verify the organization. According to Interfax, on Friday the court rejected the complaint of Gannushkina against the decision of the court of first instance, and it entered into legal force.

The head of the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science, Ivan Muravyov, resigned. As the Minister of Education and Science said Dmitry Livanov, Muravyov has long filed a departure, and now another person performs his duties; Who - he did not call. Earlier, a source in the government informed Interfax that Muravyov would be dismissed for a number of reasons related to violations during the Unified State Exam.

The Russian photographer and civil activist Yuri Barabash, who lived in Kyiv for several years and deported in mid -July to Russia, explains this decision of the Ukrainian authorities with political circumstances: the approach of the 2015 elections forces forces Viktor Yanukovych’s regime to more actively persecute any dissent. Barabash is the grandson of the Laureate of the Shevchenkovsky prize of philologist Yuri Barabash.

Signs of stores and various kinds of advertisements have long become an indispensable and significant part of the Russian city landscape. There are so many these specific texts that, as a rule, passers -by leave them unattended, the look slides along the tangent. You can live years next to some trading institution and not remember what it is called.

Detention of Navalny's supporters in Moscow July 18 Oppositionist Alexei Navalny and entrepreneur Petr Officers are released from custody by the decision of the Kirov Regional Court . Today, the appellate court granted the prosecutor's complaint to the arrest of convicts before the conviction entered into force. In its petition, the prosecutor’s office, in particular, indicated that the chosen preventive measure prevents Navalny’s participation in the Moscow Mayor’s election campaign.

US President Barack Obama on Thursday held a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and called for the resumption of peace negotiations with Palestinian autonomy. "President Obama called on Prime Minister Netanyahu to continue working with Secretary of State Kerry in order to resume negotiations with the Palestinians as soon as possible," the White House statement said.

What does the obsolete logo of the Memorial society mean, what historical time it symbolizes and why is it not afraid to place it on the main page of the fashion portal Colta.ru? The appropriateness of conversations about the design and communications of human rights organizations at the time of prosecutorial inspections and pressure on NGOs. Logo as a form and meaning. Why do the Logos of the Memorial and the Sakharov Center do not have the right to be “too beautiful”?

The market economy "In Russian" scares away leading foreign investors After the conviction with the real term of imprisonment by Alexei Navalny on Thursday, the Russian stock market survived a very noticeable fall - the main national indices lost more than 1 percent. Moreover, the shares of almost all leading Russian companies have fallen in place: Sberbank and VTB Bank, Norilsk Nickel, Gazprom, Rosneft, Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz.

In the Israeli city of Haifa, on Friday, near the consulate of Russia, a demonstration was held under the slogan: “We go out that we are vile from what is happening in Russia,” Radio Liberty Ela Kotler reports. A message about the action and the collection of those who wish to participate in it were made on the social network Facebook. Organizer Mikhail Polishchuk has been living in Israel for 20 years and has only Israeli citizenship.