In Madrid on Saturday evening, the largest gay parade in Europe was held. Hundreds of thousands of people took part in it. Trade unions and Spanish politicians went to the march for equality. Participants in the parade carried rainbow flags and slogans in support of sexual minorities. In the column, Russian tricolor and posters in support of Chechnya gays were visible. The procession lasted several hours and ended with a concert.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (in the center) and President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov (left) July 24 expires the contract on the delimitation of powers between the Federal Center and Tatarstan. But it is still unclear whether it will be extended.

Ehud Olmert was the first prime minister in the history of Israel to be sent to prison. After the release, he will be obliged to be celebrated in the police twice a month until the end of the sentence, as well as participate in the work of volunteer organizations.

Russian avant -garde with naked eyes Lada Panova Ivan Tolstoy: The Publishing House of the Higher School of Economics in Moscow has published a 600-page book Lada Panova "Imaginary orphan: Khlebnikov and Harms in the context of Russian and European modernism." The literary critic and linguist Lada Gennadievna Panova is the author of books about Mandelstam, Alexandrian poetics Mikhail Kuzmin, the fate of Pushkin’s texts for a hundred years from the 1830s to the 1930s and many scientific articles.

To the 130th anniversary of the Russian-American transaction (1997) Archival project "Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago." The most interesting and significant from the Archive of the Radio Freedom of twenty years ago. Incomplete story. Still living hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Did Russia lose Alaska? The program involves: Vic Fisher - professor -local historian, Nikolai Bolkhovitinov - historian, Boris Paramonov - philosopher, Stephen Langdon - anthropologist.

In London, the unmanned vehicle flew near the run of the Gatvik airport near the runway, forced the directorate to close the strip twice for half an hour. At least two flights were redirected to another airport, BBC reports . Representatives of the airport said that the runway was first closed for nine minutes, then another five.

Memory of a sociologist, filming and film critics Daniil Dondurey - with his colleagues “The Art of Cinema” under the leadership of Daniel Dondurey as a magazine about life, society and politics. The qualities of the intellectual Daniil Dondurey: the political position of a professional, the creation of a dialogue field and solidarity, the construction of institutions and communities.

On the 40th anniversary of the death of the writer Ivan Tolstoy: I remember this day perfectly, more precisely the evening, - July 2, 1977, exactly forty years ago. I stood by the window in the Leningrad apartment and smoked a phone. Nearby rustled and whistled the radio. The Voice of America passed the news. The announcer, as expected, said completely impassively: "The Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov died in Switzerland." And then - the wall collapsed, the world broke off.

What to do the educated class in the era of change? In the era of protest, in anticipation of changes before the educated class, like a hundred years ago, the question arises: what is its political role? Should the revolution be afraid or bring it closer? And there is an intelligentsia in Russia as a political and ethical power? Guests: Gleb Pavlovsky, political scientist and Andrey Arkhangelsky, publicist

Vladimir Kekhman The Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater last week was again in the center of the scandal. Its director Vladimir Kekhman unexpectedly went on maternity leave, transferring the powers to the former manager of the Baltika brewer, Snezhanna Lubar.

US President Donald Trump while meeting with the media US President Donald Trump sharply criticized traditional American media. Speaking on Saturday with an appeal to American veterans and gospel Christians who gathered on the occasion of the weekend of Independence Day in Washington, he accused the media of "acting an ax." “Fake media are trying to make us silent, but we will not allow them because people know the truth.

Fires in Siberia. April 2015 In many regions of Russia, due to high fire hazard, emergency mode has been introduced . Most fires are happening in Siberia: in the Irkutsk region, the Krasnoyarsk Territory and Transbaikalia. The main reason for forest fires was the heat - in Transbaikalia, for example, in recent days plus 36 degrees. To avoid the emergence of new foci of fires, special posts are displayed at the forests that do not let people go there.

Farm of crocodiles in the province of Matansas, about 150 kilometers south of Havana is one of the popular attractions of Cuba. You can get here for an hour and a half on a wide highway