In society Book for Moscow August 2, 2011 Vladimir Kolosov The recent radical decision to expand Moscow almost two and a half times caused a surprisingly sluggish reaction in the country. A dozen or two information messages, mostly neutral, but with a shade of some admiration for the “truly Russian” scope of the planned transformations, several caustic comments on the “liberal” sites-that's all. Maybe the hot July is the fault?

Around Russia Everything is more complicated than it seems August 2, 2011 Mikhail Berg It seems important to me that the “daily magazine”, which positions itself as a free intellectual and liberal publication, has been conducting a frank discussion on the Palestinian-Israeli issue for several months.

It turns out that it has been known for a long time that there will be elections in Petrovsky and Krasnenkaya Rechka. The newspapers wrote about it a month ago. A girl from Dom-2, who is running for parliament near St. Petersburg, was walking her dog and reading the newspaper on the stand. So she knew. And for some reason no one from the opposition knew about the elections. And in Petrovsky and K. Rechka themselves they were also somehow surprised. And in the St.

Left Front activists Sergei Udaltsov and Konstantin Kosyakin were the only ones detained for the July 31 action in Moscow who stayed overnight at the police station. On August 1, Udaltsov was sentenced to 15 days of arrest, Kosyakin to five, both for allegedly disobeying the legal demands of police officers. Udaltsov went on a hunger strike. According to the Left Front website, the judge of court district No.

By decision of the Prosecutor General's Office, the criminal case against lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in 2009 in a pre-trial detention center, was resumed. According to Kommersant, the reason was the decision of the Constitutional Court prohibiting the closing of criminal cases in connection with the death of suspects without the consent of relatives.

Around Russia Singapore: The Brave Future World August 2, 2011 Julia Latynina It just so happened that on Earth, social garbage dumps are located along the equator. Papua-New Guinea, Ecuador, Congo, Sudan, Haiti, Caribbean, Yamaika, Delta of the Amazon, Marshall and Solomon Island, etc.-all this is some kind of panopic of laziness, corruption and deemagogue politicians, buying their voters for a bag with rice and explaining all the troubles of the country by the trumpet of prolified colonizers.