Russia celebrates international day in support of victims of torture by the bill on their actual legalization June 26 is an international day in support of the victims of torture. On June 26, 1987 , the UN Convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman or humiliating the dignity of circulation and punishment , adopted by the countries - participants in the organization three years earlier, entered into force.

The Greek account went on the days ... Greece seeks to write off part of the debt in exchange for reforms, its creditors - the opposite.

The artist around whom passers -by gathered was charged under an article on violation of the established procedure for organizing or holding a meeting, rally, demonstration, procession On the Old Arbat, late on Thursday evening, police detained the artist Oleg Skrypnikov, who painted portraits of passers -by.

US Secretary of State John Kerry and Vladimir Putin at negotiations in Sochi, May 2013 The US State Department published a report on the situation with human rights in the world The State Department of the United States published on Thursday the next annual report on the situation in compliance with human rights in the world. Russia in it did not enter the number of rude violators of these rights - perhaps only because it is already subjected to tireless criticism from the American authorities.

One of the wounded during the explosion in the mosque in El Kuwait The first terrorist attack on the territory of Kuwait since January 2006 More than ten people were killed and several dozen were injured as a result of the explosion in the Shiite mosque in the capital of Kuwait. The suicide bomber, whom witnesses describe as a "young man", blew himself up in the crowd during a Friday prayer. The Islamic State terrorist group took responsibility for the terrorist group.

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Alexey Navalny (left) and Ilya Yashin after the hearing in the Kirovles case near the court building in Kirov, April 2013 The court in Strasbourg ruled that Russia violated four articles of the European Convention Russia paid the opposition to Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin compensation, which was previously awarded by the European Court of Human Rights .

The main director of the Great Drama Theater in St. Petersburg George Tovstonogov Internet project #Tovstonogov100 on Instagram-this is an exhibition of photographs of George Alexandrovich Tovstonogov, which opened on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the great director The Tovstonogov BDT launched the #Tovstonogov100 project on Instagram to the 100th anniversary of the director. With details, Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskaya.

One of the leaders of the protest movement in Yerevan Vaginak Shushanyan In Armenia, protest leaders against raising electricity tariffs stated that they expanded the requirements for the government, which should be fulfilled so that they remove the blockade of the main highway in Yerevan. Previously, the movement "There is no robbery!" It required that the government cancel the planned increase in electricity rate by 16 percent, which should enter into force on August 1.

The pro -Russian activist aims in supporters of the Kyiv government during clashes on the streets of Odessa on May 2, 2014. The poet, essayist, psychiatrist Boris Kherson reads and comments on excerpts from his 2014 diary *** correspondence. Transfer of the role of letters in the modern world *** “My favorite records” with a Ukrainian politician, public figure, philanthropist inna theological Odessa poet and essayist Boris Kherson published the book Open Diary. This is his diary of 2014.

Protest Protest against Health Reform in Moscow They consider their dismissal of revenge for organizing a rally in Moscow in protest against the reform of healthcare, which involved the closure of 28 hospitals and a reduction in 7 thousand doctors The organizers of the rally "For affordable and high -quality medicine" were dismissed in Moscow. This was told by the Rain television channel one of the dismissed, a doctor of the highest category, endocrinologist Olga Demicheva.