NATO ships in the Black Sea NATO is looking for forms of military cooperation with Kyiv, not wanting to increase Russia's influence in a crisis in Ukraine NATO accuses Russia of shelling of units of the Ukrainian army from its territory, of supplying to separatists of many types of weapons, including mobile anti-aircraft missile systems, one of which was shot down by the Malaysian Boeing, sending saboteurs to the eastern regions of Ukraine.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny The Moscow City Court rejected the complaint of the opposition policy of Alexei Navalny against the decision of the Lublin Court on blocking the blog in the "Live Journal". At the hearing, Navalny said that it is impossible to limit access to the blog with several thousand posts due to two records. In his opinion, only those publications that contradict the law are subject to blocking.

At the St. Petersburg oppositionist, in the past of the famous dissident, Alexander Skobov, an attack last night, he received stab wounds and is in the hospital. This was announced by the Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg. Alexander Skobov is a dissident of the Soviet era, in the late 1970s-an active participant in the Left Opposition group, editor of the Samizdat magazine "Prospects".

The telecumentist Aleksey Andronov on the blog on Sports.ru talks about how the NTV channel will show the Russian Football Championship. Switching from the events of the world championship to domestic football realities turned out to be quite sharp and noisy.

The situation in Lugansk In eastern Ukraine, 23 fighters of the Aidar volunteer battalion were killed in battles over the past day. According to the page of the battalion on Facebook, during the day the battalion units participated in three different operations in the vicinity of the city of Lutugino, Luhansk region.

Elena Rykovtseva: Today is exactly a hundred years from the moment when the First World War began. And this is in those days when there is a lot of conversations about the third world war, and about reasons for it. With us Oleg Budnitsky, historian, professor of the Higher School of Economics, with us Nikolai Ruden, journalist of the publication "Grani.ru" and also a historian by education.

The Russian border guards last night handed over the Ukrainian side nine wounded and the bodies of four dead troops, the representative of the FSB border department in the Rostov Region Vasily Malayev said. The day before, Malaev said that at the Matveev Kurgan checkpoint on the Russian-Ukrainian border, a transit corridor was organized for the transfer of the wounded and dead military to Ukraine.

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Representatives of the European Union countries are expected to gather today in Brussels to discuss the proposals of the European Commission on economic sanctions against Russia - in connection with its role in the Ukrainian crisis. Last week, representatives of 28 EU countries have reached a fundamental agreement on measures to restrict Russia's access to capital markets, restricting the supply of dual -use goods and sensitive technologies - primarily for the energy sector.

In the picture: Pamela Svtlen The White House announced that the candidacy of the new US ambassador to Uzbekistan Pamela Svtlen was aimed at approving the Senate on Monday. From 2011 to the present, she has been the post of US ambassador to Kyrgyzstan. Svatlen - African American, for a long time worked in Russia and in the post -Soviet space.

Vladimir Gandelsman Conversation with Vladimir Gandelsman Alexander Genis: Recently, books of a non -ordinary nature appeared in America, in which I myself managed to work, recently released a reader autobiography - the book “Kama Schelnik Kama Sutri”. Bibli-Memoirs is a kind of literary criticism, uniting a conversation about books with a confidential course of autobiography.

The decisions of the arbitration court in the Hague are discussed by political analyst Julius Nisnevich, lawyers Bill Bauring, Kamkhtyeva, former employees of Yukos Svetlana Bakhmina, Alexey Kondaurov, Alexander Osovtsov

Joseph Tirell Guest Ach - Writer Joseph Tirell Alexander Genis: This year marks the 50 years since the World Exhibition in New York. The city backdrop of the futuristic EXPO was a completely prosaic New York district called Quins. Despite his royal name, there is now nothing in Queens and remotely reminiscent of aristocratic splendor. (But there will soon be a street named after Dovlatov, and this in my eyes justifies a lot in the most boring of the five “Boos” New York).

The victory of the Yukos: the court in the Hague decided to recover from Russia 50 billion dollars, European politicians argue: is it possible to hold the World Cup in Russia? The killer of Yegor Shcherbakov was sentenced to 17 years in prison