The defense of the Deputy Chairman of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people Akhtem Chiygoz, sentenced by the Russian court to eight years in prison, appealed the sentence to him. Chiygoz’s lawyer Nikolai Polozov said on Tuesday on his Facebook that he filed two appeals. Akhtem Chiygoz was arrested in January 2015. His defense reported numerous violations during the trial.

In the coming days, the next meeting in the criminal case of torture will be held in Zakamensk (Buryatia), the application of which is suspected of three police officers. According to investigators, physical violence was applied to the detainees who were convicted of the theft of three tons of cedar nuts. In the bench of the defendants - three police officers, one of whom has not yet been fired from law enforcement agencies.

The jury of the 74th Venice Film Festival was awarded the main prize of the Golden Leo of St. Mark "" The form of water "Guillermo del Toro. Without awards, the film of Abladif Keshish “Mektub, my love. The song is the first” remained without awards, but, fortunately, not only festival winners remain in the history of the cinema.

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In the Lviv hotel, where the former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili stopped, a detachment of border guards came this morning. They handed the former Odessa governor a protocol on violation for illegal crossing of the border. Now the former President of Georgia has no documents. He abandoned Georgian citizenship when he became the governor of the Odessa region, and his Ukrainian passport was taken from him at the border.

John Tefft The United States consider the unresolved Ukrainian problem a key obstacle to the development of American-Russian relations. This opinion was expressed by US Ambassador to Russia John Tefft in an exclusive interview with Radio Liberty and the Voice of America.

Reuters correspondent recorded how, in the elections to the parliament of North Ossetia, the assistant deputy from United Russia Sergey Lutikov voted more than 10 times. The chairman of the precinct election commission No. 333 of Vladikavkaz, Elena Khadonova, who was at that moment in the premises, told the agency that she had not seen anything.

The pursuit of one of the leaders of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatars banned in Russia was called a violation of human rights

Russian anti-aircraft missile system S-400 Türkiye and Russia have entered into a contract for the supply of Ankara Russian anti-detrainable anti-aircraft systems S-400. The transaction on Tuesday confirmed the Kremlin. The assistant to the President of Russia on military-technical cooperation Vladimir Kozhin said in an interview with TASS that "all decisions made under this contract strictly comply with the" strategic interests of the country.

Julia Latynina The committee in defense of journalists (KZH) called on the Russian authorities to find and punish those who are responsible for attacks on journalist Yulia Latynin, as well as ensure its security in Russia. Nina Ognyanova, coordinator of the KZH programs for Europe and Central Asia, said that journalists should not be allowed to leave their homeland due to threats and attacks related to their professional activities. This is stated in the press release of the organization.

Some were sent here in the direction, others were born in the families of the repressed, the others arrived themselves - for a "long ruble". People from all over the Soviet Union gathered in Vorkut, but the country fell apart, and numerous miner villages around the city turned into ruins, on which people still live. "We were driven here" - so they say.

In Moscow, opposite the Kremlin, the Zaryadye Park opened. The city authorities erected a new tourist facility on the site of the demolished hotel "Russia". One of the guests and journalists was held by the head of the Department of Culture Alexander Kibovsky. The cost of building a park in the historical center of the capital is estimated at 25 billion rubles. The construction of the Philharmonic has not yet been completed.

Poll on the streets of Moscow

The Ministry of Economic Development of Russia predicts the reduction of pensions in real terms over the next three years. This is written by "Vedomosti" with reference to the text of the document submitted to the government. According to the publication, in the forecast of the Ministry of Pensions, 0.7 percent in 2018 and 0.6 percent in 2019–2020 are reduced.

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