Around Russia Comedy of the Pechersk Court August 8, 2011 Inna Bulkina The story with the last (or not the last, but another) arrest of Yulia Tymoshenko, like all stories with Yulia Tymoshenko, is played according to the laws of the soap opera. All this has already been, all the moves are recorded, the roles are rehearsed, the heroes with enthusiasm or without repeat memorized replicas and get pre -prepared letters.

In uniform Has the GKChP won? August 8, 2011 Alexander Golts On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the attempt of a military coup in the USSR, the FSB officers managed to prevent a new military rebellion. According to Ural journalists, five alleged tutorial organizers arrested in Yekaterinburg: among them, the 65-year-old Afghan war veteran, an entrepreneur and a retired criminal investigation officer.

In society Tamers of chaos August 8, 2011 Anton Oresh The Russian Football Union (RFU), as is now accepted, decided to hold a popular discussion. A kind of “football law” was made for discussion, more precisely, “the draft rules for ensuring the safety of spectators at stadiums during football matches”. The disgrace in stadiums has already become unbearable. Football turned into a mixture of a zoo, circus, a crazy house and a radical gathering.

While the newly-minted sole leader of Right Cause, Mikhail Prokhorov, is conducting a party (and in fact, his own) advertising campaign, billboards with his portraits are being dismantled in regional centers. On August 4 this happened in Yekaterinburg, and on August 7 in Novosibirsk. In Yekaterinburg, a banner with a portrait of Prokhorov and the slogan “Strength is in truth” was removed. He who is right is stronger” with an area of ​​20 by 70 square meters.

The demolition of a historic building in Bolshoi Kozikhinsky Lane (house 25) in the center of Moscow continued. The demolition is being carried out by Satori, even though the company said last week that the demolition order had expired and would not be renewed. Local residents and activists of urban protection organizations who came to protect the house were attacked by employees of a private security company hired by the developer, the Vector homeowners association.

In the Kremlin Mikhail Prokhorov and "Old Guard" August 8, 2011 Avtandil Tsuladze The nationalist scandal around the “right business” splashed out internal contradictions in the party. You can describe them with one phrase - the conflict of the "old guard" and the new personnel of M. Prokhorov. Prokhorov is a tough manager aimed at achieving very ambitious goals. Having headed the party, he was convinced that the work in it, in fact, was not conducted.

In the Pavlovo-Posad district of the Moscow region, one of the dangerous peat areas, a strong fire broke out, as Kommersant reports, the largest this season. The fire was discovered a kilometer from the Veresk gardening partnership; this is the closest large peat fire to Moscow. The smell of burning over the weekend was felt in various settlements in the Gorky direction, including Elektrogorsk, Pavlovsky Posad, and Orekhovo-Zuevo.

In the regions Fire in Ukhta: Falsification History August 8, 2011 Julia Latynina Everyone in Russia knows that our cops are corrupt, and investigators plant innocent and “squeeze” the business. Many in Russia also heard about the honest prosecutor of Grigory Chekalina, who turned to President Medvedev with a statement that the criminal case on the fact of arson of the Passage shopping center in Ukhta on July 11, 2005 was falsified, and the Brothers Makhmudov’s honest businessmen are innocent.