Moscow Candidate Alexei Navalny before the start of the television. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia checks the data on the assignment by supporters of the candidate for mayor of Moscow Alexei Navalny part of the money transferred to his election campaign.

© Shutterstock Alexander Genis: In the UK, a grandiose scandal erupted, caused by the fact that the Bank of England decided to replace the portrait of Darwin with a 10-pound banknote with an image of the novelist Jane Austin. Some saw in this concession to aggressive feminism (so where Austin has nothing to do with it), others consider the measure to be insufficient. One way or another, a hot argument about who is worthy to be on British money went beyond the borders of decency.

Candidate of Moscow mayor, oppositionist Alexei Navalny believes that his opponent Sergei Sobyanin has no right to participate in the elections. In his blog in the “Live Journal” under the heading, an urgent requirement and even an ultimatum ”Navalny refers to the norm of the law, according to which the head of the region, who had left his post ahead of schedule, can be elected to the same position only with the consent of the president.

Alexey Navalny Candidate of Moscow mayor, oppositionist Alexei Navalny said that the metropolitan city hall prevents his election campaign. Speaking on Monday live the Echo of Moscow radio station, Navalny emphasized that according to the sociological surveys conducted by its supporters, “the second round becomes almost inevitable,” and in this regard the pressure of the Moscow authorities, who seek to oust his election campaign from the media space - on the street and on the Internet.

Blogger Alexander Serebryanikov A criminal case was instituted in Murmansk against blogger Alexander Serebryanikov The owner and editor of the Bloger51 site is accused of the first part of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of Russia (actions aimed at initiating hatred or hostility on the grounds of gender, race, nationality, language, etc., committed publicly or using the media) .

The court found the guilty of all four defendants in the case of the flood of the Krymsk in the city of the Krasnodar Territory in July last year, whose victims were more than 150 people. At the bench of the defendants - the former heads of the Crimean district, the city of Krymsk and the Nizhnebakan rural settlement - Vasily Krutko, Vladimir Ulanovsky and Irina Ryabchenko, as well as the former deputy head of the Crimean District Emergency Prevention Viktor Zhdanov.

In the Omsk region, on August 21, mourning was declared day for those who died in a collision of a ship and barge on the Irtysh last Saturday. This was announced by the governor of the region Viktor Nazarov. He also said that the families of the dead authorities of the region will pay 500 thousand rubles each, and the administration of the city of Omsk - 200 thousand each. Today, the captain of the Poles-8 ship was arrested for a period of two months.

Promotion of supporters of Mohammed Mursi in Cairo (August 16, 2013) In custody, the displaced president of Egypt Mohammed Mursi is accused of involvement in the murders and torture of participants in the protest of the presidential palace in Cairo at the end of 2012. This means that his arrest will be extended for another 15 days, starting from the next week. This was reported to the agency France Press was reported on Monday sources in the legal circles of Egypt.

Traditional wedding garlands for newlyweds, sweaty from banknotes. Shop in Delhi, July 30, 2013 In the group of “risk currencies” a greater fall in recent months - only in the Brazilian Real Madrid The Indian currency course decreased on Monday to the next record minimum in almost seven decades after the country of independence gained in 1947 - 62.5 rupees in one US dollar. The fall already at the beginning of the auction amounted to 1.3% - as in the last week.

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Court of court in Krymsk In the city of Krymsk, the Krasnodar Territory today will begin the announcement of the sentence to four officials accused of negligence during a catastrophic flood in July last year. Then, only according to official figures, at least 170 people were killed, thousands of houses were flooded and destroyed.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: 22 years ago, Muscovites woke a caterpillar clang. Once per hour, the statement of the State Extraordinary Regulation Committee was read, and the Swan Lake was shown on TV. For more than two decades, historians argue about the nature of the events of that August, and we continue this dispute today, 22 years later.

Accused Vasily Krutko and Victor Zhdanov On Monday, the court in Krymsk began reading the verdict in the case of a flood in July last year. The fault of all the accused was recognized as proven what punishment the court will appoint for them will become known on Tuesday.

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