Three explosions occurred in Grozny on the evening of August 31. Nine people were killed and 23 people were injured. Seven died on the spot, two died later in the hospital. Among the killed were seven law enforcement officers, and among the wounded were 18 security forces. The condition of six of the wounded is serious.

Before President Dmitry Medvedev had time to respond to the proposal of Right Cause leader Mikhail Prokhorov to limit the number of seats in parliament for the winning party to 226 seats, his subordinate had already criticized this proposal. Medvedev instructed the administration to familiarize itself with Prokhorov’s initiative, published in the manifesto of his party, and deputy head of the administration Vladislav Surkov had already stated that this was a formality.

As expected, Left Front activist Sergei Udaltsov was arrested by court for three days after being detained during a rally near the Central Election Commission on August 29. The arrest was imposed for allegedly disobeying the legal demands of a police officer; in addition, Udaltsov was fined two thousand rubles for exceeding the permissible number of participants in the rally - ten people announced, but thirty showed up.

In society What life is such and death August 31, 2011 Anton Orech The “yellow” press inflated the story with the end of AI Savvina: “ambulance”, obeying some instructions, refused to take the deadly ill person to the hospital. And we discussed this at Echo, and the people cited a lot of examples from personal sad experience. Although experts, both official and completely independent, but knowing the situation from the inside, were generally in no hurry to blame the doctors.

In the opposition Prokhorov and disagreements August 31, 2011 Igor Kharichev The leader of the “right -handed” Mikhail Prokhorov released the party’s program in which a lot of revolutionary ideas that could please the cloth of citizens tired of boring life. One of these ideas is to separate the Kaliningrad region from Russia. The program proposes to create an extraterritorial zone derived from Russian jurisdiction within the boundaries of this area. Good idea.

On August 25, a strange text was posted on the website of the Union of Writers of Belarus. Seven laureates of the Belarusian State Prize and one academician of the National Academy of Sciences published a laudatory article in support of the author of the novel “The Secret of the Oval Cabinet” of General Nikolai Cherginets (part -time - Chairman of the Writers' Union), ending with strange phrases: “In court, an administrative case was considered in the lawsuit of N.

Big personnel changes await the Public Council under the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate. Most likely, the new composition will not include real human rights activists, like Lyudmila Alekseeva, and other odious personalities, like Dmitry Muratov. And the Council will be headed, according to rumors, by a member of the Public Chamber, Olga Kostina.

The leader of the local trade union of workers of organizations employing migrant labor and the trade union of railway transport workers, Ukrainian citizen Dmitry Dubonos, who lives in Arkhangelsk, lost the court on a cassation appeal against the decision to deport him. Previously, he received a notice of cancellation of his temporary residence permit on the basis of alleged protests for a violent change in the foundations of the constitutional system of the Russian Federation.