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In the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Tuesday, voting is planned under the draft law on sanctions against Russia. The document was approved on Friday at a closed meeting of the Government of Ukraine . According to then Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, measures are provided against legal entities and individuals suspected of crimes against the territorial integrity of Ukraine and against its citizens.

The Ukrainian military continues an offensive in the vicinity of Donetsk. Civil activists in Kharkov held a march with the requirements of the resignation of the mayor of the city of Gennady Kernes. The United States is trying to weaken the positions of Islamic extremists in the north of Iraq with air strikes. Economist Sergei Guriev predicts a deterioration in the business of the business around Russia

The former commander of the Swifts pilot group Valery Morozov, accused of attempted bribe, was sentenced to a fine of 775 thousand rubles, the main military prosecutor’s office said on Monday. According to investigators, in the summer of 2012, Morozov demanded that the officer’s subordinate officer transfer part of the monetary allowance for complete exemption from the performance of the general duties of a soldier.

Marina Efimova Book Review of Marina Efimova Alexander Genis: August 1914 forever entered the mentality of the West as the most terrible catastrophe in his entire story. It is not surprising that the centenary of this event caused a huge wave of anniversary (if this word is appropriate) events. Only in Germany there are 80 exhibitions dedicated to the anniversary.

An exclusive iPhone with a portrait of Putin and the Kremlin on a titanium building appeared on sale in Moscow. In total, 499 copies were released. Price - 119 thousand rubles. The previous IPhone series with Putin’s portrait in the gilded case was very popular.

In Baghdad, strategic positions in different areas of the city were occupied by the troops of Prime Minister Iraq Nuri Al-Maliki. Sources close to the government report that on Sunday the main roads were blocked on the approaches to the Iraqi capital, some streets and bridges were blocked.

Iraq President Fuad Masum officially instructed the government to form a candidate from the Shiite coalition Haydar al-Abadi. On the same day, the head of the Iraqi National Alliance of Shiite parties Ibrahim al-Jafari said that the alliance representatives agreed to nominate the candidacy of the deputy chairman of the Hydar al-Abadi parliament.

The Federal Bailiff Service forbade four State Duma deputies to leave Russia due to debts, Izvestia writes today. The members of the Just Russia faction - Oleg Mikheev, Ilya Ponomarev, Vladimir Parakhin and Alexander Chetverikov will not be able to go abroad. The biggest debt, according to the bailiffs, in Mikheev - over five billion rubles. The deputy told the newspaper that he himself did not take loans, but was a guarantor.

The United States began direct supply of weapons to Kurdish forces in Northern Iraq to help them fight Islamic militants. This was reported by American officials who spoke on the terms of anonymity. On August 11, they reported that the assistance was still limited by automatic rifles and ammunition. US representatives reported that the CIA was delivered, but the US Department of Defense could also begin to arm the Kurdish militants in the near future.

Alexander Pyatigorsky. Nerusskaya idea. Friend Lukach

Entrance to the station "Victory Park" July 16, 2014 - closed after the train crash The Moscow City Court, apparently, intends to leave under the arrest of all the accused of an accident in the Moscow metro on July 15 The Moscow City Court on August 11 recognized the decision to arrest Valery Bashkatov’s master roads as part of the accident in the Moscow metro on July 15.

Marina Khodorkovskaya In the village of Corallovo near Moscow, Marina Khodorkovskaya will be buried today. There is no interview about the video and photography, there will be no interview, the press center of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev reports. Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s mother died on August 3 in Germany after a long illness. This year she was supposed to be 80 years old. Her friends and relatives will gather at a mourning ceremony.

The Kremlin press service reported on Monday about President Vladimir Putin's plans on August 14 to speak in the Crimea attached to Russia in front of members of the Russian parliament and ministers. According to Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, a few weeks later the “very living beginning of the domestic political season” will take place. "Putin will make a speech saturated with content," said Peskov, mentioning the September elections.

The Russian Embassy in Kyiv sent a note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine in connection with the loss of the Russian photo correspondent Andrei Stenin. This was reported by RIA "Novosti". The Ukrainian side has not yet received an answer to the Russian diplomatic mission. Earlier, the Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, Ella Pamfilova, turned to the Ukrainian colleague Valeria Lutkovskaya with a request to help find the missing journalist and promote his return to his homeland.