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On June 12, the Vladivostok schoolboy Semyon Golubovsky first came to a rally organized by Navalny. There the police approached him and took him to the station. After that, at school, the seeds began to "work out" and explain that he puts the cross in his future. The recording of the conversation with the director, where Semyon was called after he brought the Navalny 2018 icon to the school, posted on the Internet.

In Moscow, a congress of independent municipal deputies was held. According to the opposition politician Ilya Yashin, the municipal deputy of the Moscow district of Krasnoselskoye, the meeting participants nominated two main requirements to the authorities - to give local self -government real powers and the cancellation of the so -called "municipal filter" in the elections of the Moscow mayor. Opened #congress -dependent deputies .

Russia must seriously revise the regulatory framework governing public events. This is stated in the memorandum published by the Commissioner of the Council of Europe on Human Rights by Nils Huster. The document notes that the legislation of Russia on freedom of meetings in recent years has been significantly tightened and does not comply with international standards.

In Germany on Sunday, October 1, the law "On Marriage for All" entered into force, which legalized same -sex marriages. The law was adopted by the Bundestag this summer, after the Chancellor of Angela Merkel agreed to poll on this issue. She herself voted against. Since 2001, same -sex civil unions have been legalized in Germany. Entering such unions, however, had less rights than married.

Why did the word "liberal" become abusive in Russia? To what extent was the liberal idea in the Western world exhausted itself? We discuss with historians and sociologists.