The British government approved the basic principles of negotiations with Brussels on leaving the European Union. According to the British media, Prime Minister Teresa May at a cabinet meeting on the issue of Brexit on Friday managed to convince the supporters of the so-called "hard Brexit" to soften their position.

Logo of the World Cup in Sochi, illustrative photo On Saturday, at 21 hours Moscow time, at the Fisht stadium in Sochi, a match will be held as part of the 1/4 finals of the World Cup between the Russian national teams and Croatia. The day before it became known that Vladimir Putin is not going to visit him-as they said in the Kremlin, because of his working schedule. The President of Croatia came to the match.

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It is often said that football, which has no equal popularity, is “the most important of secondary things”. Or maybe football is even more than just a game. This sport also began to in a simple way to determine or emphasize national identity. The main carriers and guides of identity are football fans, in love with their team and often ready to do anything for her.

By the end of 2018, the authorities of Poland will demolish a total of 75 monuments of the time of the USSR related to the Red Army, Soviet partisans and prisoners of war. In Russia, this decision predictably caused a storm of indignation and accusations against Warsaw. The Polish Institute of National Memory recommended that the country's authorities demolish 75 monuments related to the Red Army, Soviet partisans and prisoners of war, which were built after the Second World War.

On December 12, 2014, Yuri Shutov, a former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, publicist and author of revealing books about Anatoly Sobchak, died in a prison for life-sentenced “White Lebed” in Solikamsk. The first mayor of St. Petersburg, jesters did not only know well, but also helped him come to power. He was an assistant to Sobchak, but disappointment came quickly. In his articles and books, Jutov described his former boss as a Krasnobay, a thief and a crook.

US Secretary of State in Pyongyang North Korea expressed disappointment with the results of negotiations in Pyongyang with the participation of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. As stated in the State Agency of the DPRK, Pyongyang does not agree that the United States requires North Korea one-sided steps to dismantle a nuclear-nuclear program.

In St. Petersburg, the first museum of a tin soldier in Russia opened. It is located in the former house of the caretaker of the Suvorov Museum, there are only 6 halls in it, however, there was an impressive panorama of the legendary transition of Suvorov through the Alps, the unique layout of the last parade of the Russian Imperial Guard of 1914 on the Marse Field, and even the small theater.

What happens to the population of Ukraine? How does its composition and mentality change? Vitaly Portnikov: How do the migration processes affect the Ukrainian population? What to do with the mentality of people? This is our program today, but at first the plot of my colleague Vladimir Ivakhnenko . Vladimir Ivakhnenko: If in the early 1990s the population of Ukraine was 52 million people, now (without residents of Crimea annexed by Russia) - about ten million less.

The Pope Francis called the "thirst for profit" and the struggle for income from oil and gas production, as well as "religious fundamentalism" and "fanaticism" the cause of wars in the Middle East.

Monument in the Soviet military cemetery in the Polish city of Belsko-Bila By the end of 2018, the authorities of Poland will demolish a total of 75 monuments of the time of the USSR related to the Red Army, Soviet partisans and prisoners of war. In Russia, this decision predictably caused a storm of indignation and accusations against Warsaw.

On July 9, US President Donald Trump intends to announce a candidate for a member of the country's Supreme Court, who was released after retirement Anthony Kennedy.

Dmitry Gudkov The Moscow City Electoral Commission today officially refused the candidate from the Civil Initiative party Dmitry Gudkov in registration in the elections of the Moscow Mayor. This decision in the election commission was explained by the fact that of the necessary 110 signatures of municipal deputies, the opposition was provided only by 63. The ATS-Info portal today reported that journalists were not allowed at a meeting on the registration of candidates.

In the Tomsk region, two policemen from the Verkhneketsky district received conditional terms for the torture of the detainee. The court found them guilty of abuse of authority and imposed a punishment in the form of 4.5 and 3 years in prison with a probation with a trial period. They were also deprived of the official ranks of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Siberia.real correspondent was told in the press service of the regional investigative committee.

Igor Ivanov in the Ramensky City Court On June 14, the Supreme Court of Karelia abolished the acquittal of the human rights activist Yuri Dmitriev, and on the same day the Ramensky city court of the Moscow Region sentenced the 64-year-old Igor Ivanov unknown to the general public to 12 years and 2 months of the colony of maximum regime-also under the "pedophilian" article for sexual actions in relation to minor years: this is how the New Year's visit turned into a New Year's visit.