In society How to wet the "sawmill" July 16, 2013 Natella Boltyanskaya First chronicle. From the press release of the organizing committee: “... 2 weeks before the start of the events of the Pylorama forum, the Ministry of Culture, Youth Policy and Mass Communications of the Perm Territory announced a reduction in the project budget by 50% due to sequestration. The acting statement on this subject made the acting statement Minister of Culture I.A. Gladnev.

In uniform Public hearings on the "Swamp business". In the presence of absence July 16, 2013 Grigory Durnovo The press center of the Commission of the Public Investigation of the Swamp case held the next public hearings at which some results of the latest court hearings were summed up in the framework of the “Swamp case”, or rather, “Case 12”, for obscure reasons of it allocated.

It seems difficult to find two more dissimilar countries than Russia and Qatar. But they still have a common one. Both that and the other are produced by the trade in oil and gas and are ready to bear astronomical expenses for organizing sports competitions, the interest in which their own population is zero or quickly strives for it. Yes, and the opinion of this very population on this account, both there, and no one is interested in.

Tajik oppositionist and journalist Dodojon Atovulloev was detained at Sheremetyevo airport upon arrival from Prague. Atovulloev has the status of a political refugee in Germany and has a Russian visa. According to the Fergana portal, Russian border authorities refused him entry and offered to buy a return ticket to Prague. Atovulloev did just that. Interfax, citing law enforcement agencies of Tajikistan, reports that Atovulloev was detained at the request of the authorities of the republic.

In society Mediafiya. Bogardus scale for journalists July 16, 2013 Igor Yakovenko Many trillions of events take place on Earth daily. People die and ideas are born, new inventions appear and natural disasters occur, meteorites fall and underground lakes occur. The small part of these events becomes known to people: several hundred thousand facts fall in the field of view of news agencies, from which the agencies select several thousand and turn them into the news daily.

The European Court of Human Rights opened proceedings on the complaint of Evgenia Khasis, who was sentenced to 18 years in prison for complicity in the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and Novaya Gazeta journalist Anastasia Baburova. The court opened proceedings on the complaint of her accomplice Nikita Tikhonov, sentenced to life imprisonment, even earlier. Khasis' complaint alleges illegal actions by prosecutors and the replacement of judges during the trial.

The oriental-looking taxi driver entered the conversation without warning, emerging from his own thoughts: now, he said, it’s bad. Before, he said, it was good. - What exactly? - I decided to clarify. “That’s it,” the taxi driver answered simply. - Is that all? — Yes. - Who were you... before? - Secretary of the Komsomol city committee. Oh well. - Where? - In Azerbaijan. City of Cuba. This is north, near the border with Russia. - Why are you here? - I ask. - It's bad there now.