In Kyiv, picketers demand the release of Nadezhda Savchenko (July 11, 2014) The Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko was captured in Lugansk before the death of Russian journalists, her lawyer Mark Feigin wrote on Twitter. He called for the release of Savchenko, who is in a pre -trial detention center in Voronezh on charges of involvement in the death of two VGTRK employees near Lugansk on July 17.

The participants and organizers of the Kazantip electronic music festival, which this year has moved to Georgia from Crimea, complain to high prices and the local police, which interferes with the youth, is having fun "really." The hierarchs of the Georgian Orthodox Church are constantly holding protests, urging them to stop a “pile of sin” and to leave Georgia as soon as possible.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reassigned Vladimir Yakunin as the head of the Russian Railways company. The term of the Yakunin contract is not specified, the president of the company is appointed by the Railways Charter for three years. Yakunin has been heading Russian Railways since June 2005. The previous contract expired two months ago and was still not extended, which caused concern in the market. Now Yakunin is 66 years old, the maximum age of civil servants is 65 years.

Alexey Mitrofanov The Dorogomilovsky court of Moscow today is expected to proceed with the hearing on the lawsuit of the widow of businessman Oleg Dergilev against deputy Alexei Mitrofanov to recover almost 68 million rubles, the press service of the court told reporters. Anna Dergilev believes that Mitrofanov owed this money to her wife, who was killed last fall. The lawsuit was filed on the basis of debt receipts found by the widow.

Determined for the attack on the correspondent "Echo of Moscow" in St. Petersburg Arseny Vesnin was released from the police. A protocol for petty hooliganism was drawn up for him. The deputies are asking the governor of St. Petersburg to take an investigation into the case of personal control and punish the attacking journalist for the obstruction of professional activities, the Radio Liberty correspondent reports.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko dismissed Verkhovna Rada and appointed early parliamentary elections for October 26. As stated in Poroshenko’s appeal to the people published on his website, the deputies will continue to work until the election of a new parliament. The President said that it guarantees honest, democratic and transparent elections, and emphasized the need to ratify in September an association agreement with the EU.

Kim Philby Book Review of Marina Efimova Alexander Genis: The return to the big policy and mass culture of the rhetoric of the Cold War returned an acute interest in its heroes - and anti -heroes. One of the latter is told by the book that Marina Efimova will present. Marina Efimova: The story of Kim Filby - an English aristocrat, who became a Soviet spy - was investigated and described along and across.

In the UK, an English theater and cinema actor, director and producer Richard Atenboro, died. He was 90 years old. The son Michael told the BBC that his father died on Sunday, August 24. The creative career of Richard Atenboro lasted six decades. Among his most popular acting works are the roles in the films "Big Escape" and "Jurassic Park". The greatest success in his directorial work is the film "Gandhi", which won eight Oscars.

In Pakistan, the clergyman, who headed anti-government speeches, said that he would die if Prime Minister Navaz Sharif would not resign within 48 hours. According to the Pakistani division of our radio station of Radio Mashaal, on Monday, at the manifestation in Islamabad, Tahir-ul-Kadri showed thousands of protesters of the white burial shroud with the words that it was intended either for himself or for the government of the ball.

Anna Akhmatova and Nikolai Gumilyov with his son, 1915 Summer of the war in verses and music Alexander Genis: A century, especially with such a rich culture and such a tragic story as XX, is a natural measure and a suitable distance to consider today in the future and adequate historical context.

Six concepts of the University-2040 were invented by participants in the summer campus, which took place this summer in Tatarstan. In addition to students of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Service, which is the initiator and chief organizer of the project, the models for non-existent reality were constructed by students who came to the campus abroad.

Each of us has several biographies with our historical truth, fun or sad, successful or failure, good or bad. A person is arranged as a multidisciplinary collective farm in which a small “I” plays not only his original role, but also has a specialized biological function in the structure of general physicality.

The Investigative Committee of Russia summoned for the interrogation of the employees of the Corruption Fund, created by the opposition Alexei Navalny. The message on the website of the politician specifies that the subpoenes to the investigator were received by the head of the sociological service of the fund Anna Biryukova, an employee working in the investigation department, Galina Koposova, as well as volunteer Vladislav Naganov.

Under Pskov on Monday, the funeral of paratroopers who died under unknown circumstances passed. According to Slon.ru , referring to local sources, an eyewitness said that about 100 people were attended by the funeral, the date and circumstances of the deaths were not called. The funeral went to the cemetery next to the military training ground. The ceremony was guarded by the police - outsiders were not allowed.