According to WADA investigation, Russia won the Sochi Olympics dishonestly Russian anti -doping laboratories deliberately hid the positive samples of athletes on the use of prohibited drugs. This follows from the report of the Independent Commission of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) published today . The document states that for manipulations with analyzes of athletes both in Moscow and in Sochi laboratories, the Ministry of Sports of Russia is responsible.

The International Arbitration Court rejected the territorial claims of the PRC in the South China Sea The International Arbitration Court in The Hague inflicted a sensitive defeat of China, ruled that its claims of 86 percent of the water area of the South China Sea have no historical grounds. Not a single international instance has yet passed such an authoritative and unambiguous legal conclusion regarding the territorial claims of the PRC, which was first announced back in 1947.

Special forces at the captured police building in Yerevan Despite the release of hostages, the Armenian police do not exclude "possible tragic consequences" In Yerevan, the third hostage was released from the police building, captured by armed activists of the Constituent Parliament movement. This was announced by the National Security Safety Service (SNB) of Armenia.

XX Congress: a new historical myth. Presenter: Vladimir Tolts. For the first time on the air: July 18, 1996.

Accused of preparing the attack on May 9, 2014 in Odintsovo Moscow Region. Moscow District Military Court: March 10, 2016 How the fight against terrorism on paper turns into real terms President Vladimir Putin annually announces dozens of prevented terrorist attacks and thanks the special services for the "high level of concentration and mobilization." So, according to official figures, in 2015, 30 terrorist crimes were prevented, and in 2014 as much as 59, of which 8 large terrorist attacks.

Valentina Cherevatenko Experts announced the inconsistency of the Constitution of an article about the "malicious evasion" from the implementation of the Law on "foreign Agents" The Presidential Council for Human Rights (SPC) announced the inconsistency of the Constitutional norms of the article of the Criminal Code of Russia about "malicious evasion" from the implementation of the Law on "foreign agents" (Article 330.1).

Promotion in Yerevan in support of the opposition who seized the police building (July 18, 2016) The authorities continue negotiations with armed oppositionists holding four police officers in the captured building In Yerevan, on the Square of Freedom, activists gathered who require guarantees for the non -disclosure of force against the police building.

The anti-terrorist operation in Alma-Ata has been completed, the National Security Committee (KNB) of Kazakhstan reports. The highest - "red" installed in the city in the morning - the level of terrorist danger is changed to "yellow" - moderate.

Terrible events in Nice can hardly qualify as a terrorist attack. The killer was not a faithful Mohammedan. According to those who knew him, he consumed alcohol and drugs. He did not visit the mosque, did not pray, like all believers - anywhere where the time of prayer would catch. His neighbor says that he "loved girls and salsa." What is Islamism! 31-year-old Arab Moammed Layage-Bulel, a native of Tunisia, was an ordinary hard worker.

Leonidas Donskis The experience of Leonidas Donskis Leonidas Donskis. Small Map of Experience: Harvesties, Maxima, Aphorisms / Translation from the Lithuanian Thomas Chepaitis; The introductory word Thomas Ventzlovs. - St. Petersburg: Publishing House of Ivan Limbakha, 2016. - 160 p. Essentially, each fragment in this small book (the size is often in one sentence) - an unusual philosophical, even more precisely - an anthropological treatise.

The “square” of Malevich. “Petersburg” White Alexander Genis: On the air - a new release of our cultural and historical cycle: 1916 - century later: paradoxes and parallels Faulkner said: "The past is never dead.

Turkish President does not exclude the possibility of returning the death penalty The head of the police, Istanbul Mustafa Kaliscan, ordered his subordinates to knock any helicopters without warning that would fly over the city without permission. Also, 1800 special forces were transferred from other regions of the country to Istanbul to ensure additional security measures on the streets and protect the most important facilities in the city after an attempt by a coup in Turkey.

The Levada Center explain this state of affairs of the inhabitation of vacations and the lack of political intrigue The interest of Russians in the State Duma elections decreased by a quarter compared to 2011. If two months before past elections - in October 2011 - this topic was relevant for almost two -thirds of the respondents (62 percent), then in June 2016 it was discussed by less than half of Russians (45 percent). These are the data of the Levada Center survey, which are given by RBC.

This happened during the ceremony in memory of the victims of the attack on the Cote d'Azur on July 14. The waltz joined the thousands of those gathered on the city embankment to participate in a minute of silence. The prime minister and local politicians sounded ridicule and calls to resign.

On Sunday evening, in Istanbul, the supporters of Erdogan gathered with the flags of the Turkish state in Taxim Square, which became the center of anti -government speeches three years ago. The smaller rally was held in Ankara, in front of the presidential complex.