The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal. The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

Roskomnadzor will oblige the search engines to mark Wikimedia Foundation as a violator of Russian legislation. The reason for this was the organization’s refusal to remove articles about the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the online encyclopedia of Wikipedia. Such measures are planned to be maintained until the requirements of the Russian authorities are met.

Demonstrators at the building of the US Supreme Court, considering the question of the constitutionality of the prohibition of same -sex marriages. April, 2015 On Tuesday, the House of Representatives of the US Congress approved a bill, which at the federal level defend uniform and interracial marriages. All democrats-members of the House of Representatives and a quarter of congressmen-republicans voted for this bill.

The Sri Lanka parliament approved the candidacy of Ranil Vikmasinghe to the presidency of the country. He held the post of prime minister in the government of the previous president, Gotabai Rajapax, who fled from the country after popular unrest. Vikramasinghe will take up its post until the next elections in 2024. The choice of parliament did not meet the approval of that part of the Srilankians that protested against the policy of Rajapax.

Archive photo Gas supply to Europe through the North Stream gas pipeline can be reduced in July. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference following the results of the summit in Tehran. According to Putin, next week the Russian gas monopolist Gazprom will send a gas -jumping unit for repair, after which the power of the Northern Stream will drop to 30 million cubic meters per day. This is 1/5 from its design power.

According to the French Ministry of Economics, in response to aggression against Ukraine, France froze a number of assets belonging to Russian businessmen and politicians for a total of 850 million euros. Radio Liberty studied the list of frozen aviators - most of them have already written the media about most of them, for the rest we requested cadastral documents, installing the owners. Modest Putin Biarritz. The capital of the French country of the Basque.

Evgenia Albats The district court in Moscow recognized the legal entity of The New Times and the editor -in -chief of the publication Evgeny Albats guilty of disseminating false information for materials about the war with Ukraine. This was announced by the head of the Agora human rights center Pavel Chikov with reference to the lawyer Leonid Solovyov. The legal entity of the magazine was fined 600 thousand rubles, the journalist - for 70 thousand.

An illustrative photo In the Belgorod region, on Wednesday, it is alleged that two villages were fired from the territory of Ukraine - Zhuravlevka and Nekhoteevka. As the governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov said in his telegram, five shells were released. One local resident died. As a result of shelling in Netokhoteevka, according to the authorities, four residential buildings and a rural club were injured. There is no visible damage in the crane.

In the West, it is expected that after July 23, Gazprom will nevertheless resume the supply of raw materials on the Northern Stream - 1, suspended under the pretext of repairing the gas pipeline. Nevertheless, the very panic expectation of the resumption of deliveries already demonstrates the level of dependence of European countries, and above all, Germany, on the Russian monopolist.

Elena Lukyanova and Sergey Erofeev: Will Russian science and culture be preserved in exile? Sergey Medvedev: Exactly 100 years ago, in September-October 1922, about 300 representatives of the scientific and creative intelligentsia were sent to Germany from Soviet Russia to Germany by personal order of Lenin.

Almost 100 international experts in Eastern Europe made an open letter to the German government. They require to speed up and expand the supply of modern heavy weapons to Ukraine. The hopes that Europe will be able to contribute to the achievement of peace in Ukraine through diplomatic negotiations, the authors of the letter consider it unjustified.

Washington has intelligence information, according to which Moscow intends to repeat the scripts of 2014 according to the annexation of Ukrainian territories captured during the war. It's about the Kherson region and Zaporozhye. Kharkov, Nikopol, Kramatorsk were again subjected to fierce shelling, there are victims. More and more refusal of Russian soldiers to fight in Ukraine. Investigators talk about forced sending to the war.

The Second Western District Military Court at the exit meeting in St. Petersburg terminated the criminal case against the blogger Yuri Khovansky, who was accused of publicly justifying terrorism due to a song about the capture of hostages during the Nord-Ost musical. This was reported on Wednesday by, in particular, the head of the Agora human rights organization Pavel Chikov.

At least 250 teachers from 31 regions of Russia agreed to teach in schools in the occupied territories of Ukraine - in particular, in the Kherson and Zaporizhzhya regions, the mediazone publication, whose journalists talked with several teachers. Most of the teachers who volunteered to work in Ukraine, responding to the corresponding ads, currently live and work in villages, villages and small cities of Russia. More than eighty of them are from Dagestan.