Tolter thousands of march for democracy, which began in Ankara, ended in Istanbul July 9, 2017 The first anniversary of the coup d'etat in Turkey is executed. Thousands of civil servants were removed from work on a new decree published the day before.

In Rostov-on-Don, the Open Russia movement supported the protest of the Communists. As the Radio Liberty correspondent Grigory Bakunin reports, a rally against corruption was held on Saturday in Rostov-on-Don.

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The Pechersk court of Kiev for two months arrested deputy Mikhail Dobkin , giving him the opportunity to make a bail in the amount of about two million dollars within five days. The deputy said that he did not have that kind of money. At a court session, his associates at the opposition bloc in the Verkhovna Rada were attended. All of them expressed their readiness to give a guarantee for him, and two - to make a deposit.

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- Now, if you say "injury" - what comes to mind immediately? - asks Masha. “This is if a person is harmful and he has the consequences,” the girl answers on the right. “Children's psycho -trauma,” I declare as a modern person who is aware of all trends. - Mounting. Or brick, - says the guy next to me. “The injury is painful,” says the girl on the left with a glass of soda in her hand.

Volunteers of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Archive photo In several cities of Russia, supporters of Alexei Navalny were detained. In Tula, the coordinator of the opposition, the opposition of the opposition Dmitry Nikolaev, along with one volunteer, was stopped when they rode a car for a coordinated picket. In the region, activist Nikita Reutsky was also detained, the Human Rights Portal "OTD-Info" said on Saturday.

Alexander Nikitin after the arrest. Photo from the KGB archive During the blockade, Leningraders confiscated cameras, all pictures of the besieged city were prohibited by everyone except official correspondents. The photose amateur Alexander Nikitin violated this ban, took three pictures of destroyed houses and paid for them with life: vigilant citizens handed it to the police. In addition to the camera, he found a map on which Nikitin noted the destruction places.

The Supreme Court of Russia decided to abolish the International Confederation of Unions of Artists (ISSC) . By and large, no one stood up for the successor of the Union of Artists of the USSR, not a single cultural figure with a loud name raised his voice to its defense.

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The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, proposed to be taken out of the territory of the Gay Republic, if they are there to "clear the blood". At the same time, answering the question of the journalist of the American HBO channel about the persecution of homosexuals, he emphasized that in Chechnya there are no people of non -traditional sexual orientation. “We don’t have such people, we don’t have gays. If we have - take it to Canada, praise Allah, away from us,” Kadyrov said .

In Georgia, the punishment for growing hemp for personal use has been canceled. According to Interfax , the decision was made in response to the appeal of a group of citizens who demanded that several norms of the Criminal Code regarding the scale of the punctuated hemp breed to recognize as unconstitutional.

Raul Castro and previous US President Barack Obama during a meeting in Havana in March 2016 Cuban President Raul Castro criticized Donald Trump, who took a more stringent position in relation to Cuba than the previous US administration.

Alexey Borodavkin Russia believes that in peace negotiations in Geneva, representatives of the Syrian opposition began to show more flexibility. They no longer put forward the immediate resignation of President Bashar al -Assad, said Alexei Borodavkin, a constant representative of Russia at the UN Mission in Geneva. The Russian diplomat noted the understanding that first needs to be achieved, and only then to carry out political reforms.