This was announced in an interview with Reuters agency Vice President of the IOC John Coats The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is unlikely to cancel the ban on the participation of Russian athletes in the 2016 Olympics. “The International Federation has the right to disqualify the National Federation, and I do not think that we will dispute this decision,” the IOC Vice President John Cauts said in an interview with Reuters .

Sydney Beshe The dance jazz, very conditionally designated by the word swing, sharply crushed what was the main thing in jazz - free improvisation. Arrangers of all varieties adjusted standards for the desires and physical capabilities of dancing crowds. Fortunately, improvisation, freedom of expression, did not disappear.

On June 14, two political prisoners were delivered to Kyiv from Russia with special brotings of Ukraine - Yuri Soloshenko and Gennady Afanasyev. 74-year-old Yuri Soloshenko was convicted of 6 years on charges of espionage. His business was classified. As a former director of the Banner defense plant, they lured to Russia to create another business against a Ukrainian, Soloshenko told Radio Liberty.

Iraqi troops in the center of Falluja, June 17, 2016 Mosul is four times more in population and territory than Falluja, which recently passed under the control of government troops - as a result of battles that lasted about a month Iraqi troops begin preparations for hostilities in the Mosul region - a city with a population of about one and a half million inhabitants.

10 years ago, Sergey Senin removed the accusations of a double murder, but today he is threatened again by a life sentence A resident of the city of Tetyushi Sergey Senin is facing a lifelong conclusion for a double murder committed in 2003. The accusations against him were put forward and then, but were removed for lack of evidence. Evidence for 13 years did not increase, but the case was brought to the court.

Historian and sociologist Yuri Topper continues to excursion into the history of modern Olympism The historian and sociologist Yuri Topper continues to excursion into the history of modern Olympism. The beginning is here , here , here , here , here and here . "O sport! You are a architect! You help to find the proportions of the most perfect creation of the nature of a person triumphing in victory and crushing in failure. You are a master of harmony.

Ex-president of Egypt Mohammed Mursi (in court, December 2015) He was accused of espionage in favor of Qatar The court in Egypt sentenced the ex-president of Mohammed Mursi to the second life sentence . On Friday, he was accused of espionage in favor of Qatar. In the same case, the court approved six death sentences, including three journalists in absentia. Two more accused received life sentences. All sentences can be appealed in cassation.

The second summer in Moscow in the center changes asphalt to tiles, tiles for granite. In poverting Russia, more than 100 billion rubles will be so refracted. There are also those who want to justify this "authoritarian modernization" by Sergey Sobyanin - his spiritual brothers in the system. The article by Grigory Revzin is amazing with the frank apologetics by the City Hall of the City Hall in the city center and the arrogant cut the budget of Moscow.

Sergey Shoigu at the parade on May 9, 2016 in Moscow The Minister of Defense of Russia visited the Khmeimim base, where he conferred with the command Russian Shoigu Minister of Defense, on behalf of President Vladimir Putin, held negotiations with Syria President Bashar Assad.

Did Ukrainian reforms change the situation with the rights of women in the country? Interlocutor Vitaly Portnikova - President of the International Human Rights Center "La Strada - Ukraine" Ekaterina Levchenko

Themes of the week in social networks: the riot of fans in Marseille, the All -Orthodox Council and the reaction to the terrorist attack in Orlando

Peter Pavlensky and Nadezhda Savchenko during a meeting in Kyiv on June 18, photo: hromadske.ua According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, there are 12 political prisoners in Russia in Russia and another 16 people in Crimea Nadezhda Savchenko met in Kyiv with the Russian artist-activist Peter Pavlensky. Pavlensky arrived in the capital of Ukraine on the initiative of the Gromadv TV channel and tomorrow intends to make a public lecture "Needs".

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case against the former director of the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory Grigory Rodchenkov under an article on abuse of powers. This was announced by the official representative of the department Vladimir Markin.

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Coconut performance in St. Petersburg dedicated to the problem of autistic people, June 18, 2016 The police did not interfere with the action In the center of St. Petersburg on Saturday, on the International Day of the Pride of Autichids, human rights activists held the Coconut performance.