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The American human rights organization Freedom House expresses concern about the adoption in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in the first reading of the law that grants the government the broad powers to censorship of domestic and international media. This is stated in a statement common on Tuesday.

On Tuesday in Moscow, the action of the memory of victims of hostilities in the east of Ukraine took place. Civil activists opposing the official Kremlin policies against Ukraine passed from Pushkinskaya Square to the building of the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow. People who support the separatists of the Donbass tried to prevent the action. Some of the activists on both sides were detained by the police to show more To curtail

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in the first reading adopted a bill on sanctions against Russia. The decision was supported by 243 deputies of 308 registered, UNIAN reports. The document was approved on Friday at a closed meeting of the Government of Ukraine. According to Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the sanctions are provided against legal entities and individuals suspected of crimes against the territorial integrity of Ukraine and against its citizens.

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The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case on the abduction in Ukraine of the agency "Russia Today" Andrei Stenin. This was announced by the official representative of the department Vladimir Markin. According to him, the investigation is engaged in the establishment of the whereabouts of the journalist. On the eve of 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.

Humanitarian convoy in the DPR In the USA, it is not excluded that the sending of humanitarian goods from Russia to Donetsk and Lugansk may follow a military invasion of Ukraine Russia curled up that I sent a convoy with a humanitarian cargo for the eastern regions of Ukraine. The motorcade left today early in the morning from the Moscow region. According to official messages, it includes about 280 cars with two thousand tons of food and essential items.

Switzerland canceled the participation of the Russian delegation in the air show in the city of Payern near the non -nuclear lake in the French part of the country. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of Switzerland on Tuesday.

The Ukrainian authorities will not let the convoy with Russian humanitarian aid to the country, said Andrei Lysenko, a representative of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine. According to him, the Russian cargo will receive permission to cross the Ukrainian border only after certification by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Deputy Head of the President of Ukraine Valery Chaly added that Russian humanitarian aid at the border will be overloaded with Red Cross cars.

The Association "Partnership for Development" does not recognize itself as a foreign agent The Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation expressed concern about a court decision on the recognition of the Saratov environmental organization "Partnership for Development" by a foreign agent. According to the HRC, the conviction is the next proof of the legal uncertainty of the concept of "political activity" in the Law on NPOs.

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And are those who claim that Putin has been so revenge on their own people for standing on Bolotnaya and Sakharov, for the cleaned Moscow on the day of the inauguration, for anti -war marches after the capture of Crimea? The first public fright and, as a result, the vanity of revenge was the date on August 12, 2000. That Saturday we still did not know that the Kursk atomic missile carrier sank in the Barents Sea.

15 years with Putin: Autarchy instead of progress. Will the closure of the country, anti-Western hysteria and aggression of the Kremlin in Ukraine bring the authoritarian regime of Vladimir Putin to the socio-economic crisis in Russia? They are discussing the supervisor of the Center for Research of the Post -Industrial Society ”, Doctor of Economics Vladislav Inozemtsev and the editor -in -chief of the Russian Planet site Pavel Pryanikov.

Mexico President Enrique Peni Nieto signed a law that allows private, including foreign, investors to invest in oil and gas production projects. The law also opens up access to private investors to the Mexican electricity market. The adoption of this law marks the end of the state monopoly that existed in Mexico for more than seventy years of production, production and sale of energy.

On August 12, the Kostroma Regional Court was abandoned by the head of the regional election headquarters Parnas Andrei Pivovarov. Andrei’s lawyers plan to appeal to the Supreme Court, and then in the ECHR. Human rights activists demand to free Pivovarov and stop his persecution