photo ITAR-TASS What is actually written in the most resonant laws of recent times: the law on the promotion of homosexuality, libel, protection of children, as well as in the bill based on the trial of Pussy Riot The idea that power over language is power over society is reflected in Russian legislation in a very unique way. For example, laws aimed at strengthening public morality, which also apply to speech offenses, are written in such a way that it is impossible to apply them to the letter.

Pavel Sokolov Author The most famous in the world, the highest mountain, with its own language - these and many other remarkable Italian neighborhoods and enclaves around the world There were quite a lot of reasons that prompted thousands of Italians to emigrate en masse in the 19th and 20th centuries: poverty, crises, wars. The geographical spread of the countries they chose to start a new life is impressive: the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Paraguay, etc.

HeadHunter President Yuri Virovets, who became a venture investor, talks about why Youtube is outdated, how to make videos interactive and make money on it We continue to publish interviews with famous figures of the Runet.

On September 20, 1898, Alberto Santos-Dumont flew over the rooftops of Paris. The inventor equipped his airship No. 1 with a gasoline engine with a propeller, which was a risky idea, because the proximity of a ball made of Japanese silk filled with hydrogen could provoke an explosion. The first airship did not catch fire, but its flight was not perfect.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images In order not to make a mistake in choosing a partner for a long and happy family life, the psychologist advises to look at him as a commodity Classical literature often shows us “selfless love,” full of self-denial, passion and even sacrifice. Therefore, we are all accustomed to looking at love as a feeling that is stronger than us, pushing us to recklessness. But is this always the case when it comes to marriage and choosing a parent for their future children?

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the new composition of the Presidential Council for Culture and Art and made a number of changes to its work. According to the decree published on the Kremlin website, singer Larisa Dolina and musician Andrei Makarevich were excluded from the council. Instead of Dolina and Makarevich, the new council included film directors Stanislav Govorukhin and Alexander Sokurov.

A mosque will not be built in Mitino due to protests from local residents. On Friday, at a meeting of the Moscow City Planning and Land Commission, it was decided to abandon the construction of an Islamic humanitarian center with a mosque in the capital's Mitino district. agency reported this with reference to the press service of the Moscow government The Interfax . The decision was dictated by protests from some residents of the Mitino region.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is spending hundreds of millions of dollars for the ambitious goal of drawing an atlas of the human brain. What are the progress? In a small room behind a black curtain, a titanium-sapphire laser is aimed at something tiny and amazing: a half-centimeter glass window implanted into the skull of a living mouse.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gave instructions to prepare proposals for the withdrawal of Rosneftegaz dividends to the budget as soon as possible. “It will be necessary to analyze additional sources (of budget revenue - Forbes), which colleagues spoke about, and I fully support them. If there are no sources, there is no conversation; if there is a source, then we will divide them,” Interfax quotes Medvedev .

photo East News / AFP / ImageForum The American agency was only one of the sources of funding for socio-political projects in Russia It so happened that last Tuesday I was one of the first to learn about the demand of the Russian authorities to close the programs of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from October 1.

“Europe is desperately lacking mutual trust and mutual guarantees,” says Mohamed El-Erian, CEO of investment firm PIMCO. He believes that the problems of the Old World will not be resolved without the cooperation of all countries. This is how, jointly, a decision should be made on whether Greece will remain in the eurozone, El-Erian believes.

The supervisory appeal of the lawyers of the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky cannot be considered until the decision of the Arkhangelsk court to commute the sentence for Plata Lebedev comes into legal force. This statement was made today by the Chairman of the Moscow City Court Olga Egorova.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the budget for 2013 and subsequent years will provide for an increase in wages for public sector employees. According to the prime minister, the budget priority will remain the fulfillment of social obligations. Salaries for public sector employees “will grow at an accelerated pace,” Interfax quotes the prime minister .

The State Duma commission to verify the accuracy of information about the income of deputies did not find any violations in the actions of deputies from United Russia, whom the Yabloko party had previously accused of involvement in commercial activities. The commission only had questions for Andrei Skoch, whom the commission members invited to the next meeting.

In just 40 days, Muscovites will have to pay for parking in the center of the capital. Parking will become paid on two dozen streets and alleys (total number - 21) in the center of Moscow starting November 1, 2012. First Deputy Head of the Department of Transport and Development of Road Transport Infrastructure of the capital, Yevgeny Mikhailov, told reporters on Thursday.