The Abinsky District Court in the Krasnodar Territory sentenced Vasily Meleshko to three years in a general regime for participating in the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses - a religious movement recognized in Russia extremist. The accused admitted that he was a witness to Jehovah, but refused to consider himself guilty. The lawyer appointed by the state recommended the opposite to him to admit guilt and count on condescension.

Rita Flores/Pussy Riot The Tver District Court of Moscow arrested on Friday for 15 days a participant in Pussy Riot Rita Flores due to Storis on Instagram with Tokio Hotel vocalist Billm Kaulitz. In the picture, his head was mounted with the body of a man in the form of a SS with a sleeve bandage with a swastika. It is reported by "Mediazona". The activist was detained the day before on the exit of the special receiver in Moscow.

On August 4, 1991, the USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev was going to fly on vacation to Crimea. The previous summer months for him turned out to be unprecedentedly hot in the working sense: the draft of the new Union Agreement was actively discussed at many meetings with representatives of nine republics who wanted to sign it. Moreover, each of the delegations continually made amendments in order to expand the republican powers, which was unthinkable in the former USSR.

The government will oblige sites to transfer the audience to a single meter in RuNet data about visiting pages by users, their IP addresses and their geolocation. This can make it possible to clearly identify the entire Internet source of Runet users. The Kommersant newspaper drew attention to this. In June, a law was adopted in Russia on the creation of a single meter of the Internet audience, which will be required to transfer these Russian sites.

The father of the American singer Britney Spears decided to abandon the guardianship of her daughter after 13 years in this role. This was reported by Variety and TMZ , citing documents sued. In June, Britney Spears spoke in court in Los Angeles with a request to deprive her of her father's status of the guardian. According to Spears, she is unhappy and devoid of personal and financial rights.

Ilya Salya The lawyer of the convicted prison of the former candidate for the post of Belarusian President Viktor Babariko left Minsk. Ilya Salya wrote about this on Instagram. He specified what was in Poland. The reasons for the temporary departure, Salya called the verdict of Babariko and the transfer of cases to the court of the opposition Maria Kolesnikova and Maxim the sign.

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The BBC journalist, who asked the uncomfortable questions of Lukashenko, is sent from Russia

Love Sobol The Prosecutor General’s Office appealed the verdict of Lyubov Sobol and demanded to ban the activist to leave Moscow. This is stated on the website of the Preobrazhensky court.

Navalny in the office of the FBK. Moscow, 2018 Oppositionist Alexei Navalny ridiculed the new criminal prosecution presented to him this week under the article on the creation of an organization encroaching on the identity and rights of citizens. The record of this appeared on the Instagram of Navalny , who is located in the colony, where she is serving a term in another criminal case.

The book "Brill between the partisans": postmodern of the 90s and modern political satire. Igor Yarkevich is recalled by director Vitaliy Mansky and journalist Grigory Nekhoroshev

Everything you need to know early in the morning of August 13 Good morning! In the Murmansk region , the memory of sailors who died 21 years ago on the Kursk submarine was honored . Opening the event, the presenters said that the Kursk catastrophe became a “swivel milestone in the way of reviving the Navy”. Without 118 victims, of course, it was not to revive.

Forest Fire next to the villages of the Kyuers of the Mountain Ulus Yakutia, August 7, 2021 Since the beginning of summer, the strongest forest fires in the history of the republic have been raging in Yakutia. Fire from the forest is thrown into settlements, volunteers cannot cope. Bloggers write about this from the very first days, try to draw attention to disaster, collect help. Barbara Zotova Request for help! Friends, colleagues, everyone who reads me.

The US Senate approved a plan for modernizing the country's infrastructure and approved the federal budget parameters for the future financial year. Both that, and another - the victory of President Biden over the right wing of the Republican Party, led by Donald Trump, who called Biden's projects "a plan for the destruction of America." Voting in the Senate was preceded by long and complex negotiations.

The Russian government wants to transfer civil servants exclusively to Russian messengers and e-mail services *** of the Russian Foreign Ministry did not extend the visa to the BBC journalist, who asked Lukashenko about the legitimacy of his power *** in Belarus, a sharp increase in vegetables is recorded *** In the United States, Joe Bayden's modernization plan was approved to modernize infrastructure.