The United States called on the authorities of Belarus to immediately release the human rights activist Ales Behaletsky and other political prisoners. The representative of the US State Department Mary Harf recalled that on Sunday it has been two years since the arrest of Belyatsky. Harf praised Belyatsky in support of the victims of political repression and work on registering human rights violations in Belarus.

Hadia Ismailova The police in Baku detained more than ten journalists protesting against the pressure that the Azerbaijani authorities on journalist Khadia Ismailov, working with our radio station. Participants in the action, mainly women, chanted slogans in support of Ismailova. The detainees were taken to the police department and soon released.

Members of the independent election commission of Afghanistan on Saturday for the first time chose a new chairman on their own. They became Yusuf Nuristani, who declared in an interview with the Afghan service of our radio station that he and his colleagues are hoping to hold the elections in 2014 in the country at the proper level, despite the preserved security problems. Earlier, the head of an independent election commission was appointed directly by Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

On August 2, in the village of Dudachkino, the Volkhov district of the Leningrad region, from the gate of the temple of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, they removed the sign with the slogan "Orthodoxy or death." The decision to dismantle a few months ago by the Volkhov prosecutor’s office, which recognized the inscription on it "exciting religious enmity and promoting the superiority of citizens of one religion in relation to another." De Jure can understand the following decision of

In the fight in the Matveevsky market, the vertical of power suffered. Russian embassies and consulates pour “metropolitan” vodka. The Middle Ages in the Ostashkovsky court: Teacher Ilya Farber was sentenced to seven years in a maximum regime.

Three participants in the American rock band Bloodhound Gang, who were reduced by the time of stay in the country for the incident with the Russian flag, left Russia. This was reported on Saturday evening in the Federal Migration Service. After a recent incident in Odessa, where during the concert the Bloodhound Gang bass player Avil Jared Hasselhoff put the Russian flag in his trousers, the group is offered to punish the entry into Russia and bring to criminal liability.

Bradley Manning arrives in the courtroom The condemnation of Private Bradley Manning, who revealed American secrets to the WikiLeaks site , and providing asylum in Russia to the former contractor of the American special services Edward Snowden, who transferred secret documents to several newspapers, became the main news events of the week in the United States.

The name of the famous geopolitical treatise of Samuel Huntington "Clamping of civilizations" is easily translated into any language. In this book, the American sociologist and political scientist predicted that the new source of world conflicts would not be ideology or economy, but culture, and that the line of fault between civilizations will become lines of future fronts.

Single picket at the State Duma The more legislative restrictions regulates the activity of Internet users, the less the world network of its former reputation “The space of freedom and anonymity” corresponds to. But maybe everything is not so bad, and instead the Internet becomes the space of individual responsibility? How inevitable and justified are the limits introduced by society and the state to certain types of statements, opinions and beliefs - online or offline?

The leader of Al-Qaeda, Aiman Al-Zauahri, called on Egyptian supporters of the Muslim Brothers to reject the principles of democracy and protect Muslim management norms. In a 15-minute video posted on Islamist sites on Saturday, Al-Zauahri criticizes those adherents of Islam, who created political parties in Egypt and supported the army, which retracted from the power of President Muhammad Mursi.

In the RS since 1983, since 1995, I have edited and conducted the programs “Difference in Time” and “Documents of the past”. Since 2014 - a permanent author of the RS in Prague. tolz.dates@gmail.com

The condemnation of Private Bradley Manning, who revealed American secrets to the WikiLeaks site , and providing asylum in Russia to the former contractor of the American special services Edward Snowden, who transferred secret documents to several newspapers, became the main news events of the week in the United States. These matters caused discussions about the powers of special services, the role of revealing secrets and the unfriendly behavior of Russia.

In Makhachkala, the imam of one of the city mosques Ilyas Ilyasov was killed. On Saturday evening, unknown people fired at the imam on the street when he got into the car. Ilyasov died on the spot, his driver was wounded and taken to the hospital, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Dagestan told Interfax. The attackers disappeared, their search is underway.

In the Tver region, the court of Ostashkov sentenced the rural teacher and artist, the former director of the House of Culture, Ilya Farber, by seven years and one month of the colony of maximum regime on charges of bribe and abuse of official powers and obliged him to pay a fine of three million rubles. Observers talk about the anti -Semitic background of such a harsh sentence. "Can a person named Farber help the village for free?" - the state prosecutor asked in court.

LGBT activist surrounded by paratroopers For less than a minute, a picket lasted in defense of the LGBT community on Palace Square in St. Petersburg. Its organizer Kirill Kalugin decided to hold his action on August 2, responding to a well-known homophobic joke that gay parade can be allowed only on the day of the Airborne Forces.