Members of the punk group Pussy Riot Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina, who received two years in prison for the punk prayer “Virgin Mary, drive Putin away” in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, were taken to a colony where they will serve their sentences. “Tolokonnikova was taken to IK-14 in Mordovia, Alyokhina to the 32nd colony in Perm. This information is not official, we do not have official information.

The Ministry of Education and Science has submitted to the government a bill on drug testing of schoolchildren and students, the government press service reports .

Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport Maxim Liksutov spoke about the plans of the capital authorities to increase the number of dedicated lanes for public transport and announced details of plans to introduce paid parking in the center of the capital.

The Kremlin does not consider it possible to give any comments on the case of oppositionist Leonid Razvozzhaev. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov announced this to reporters on Wednesday. There can be no other reaction, he emphasized. “This is hardly a case that can be commented on from the Kremlin and should be commented on from the Kremlin,” Interfax quotes Peskov as saying.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko has been appointed Russia's permanent representative to NATO. this reported The Kremlin press service on Wednesday, October 24. By decree of Vladimir Putin, Grushko is relieved of his post as deputy head of the Foreign Ministry. A source told RIA Novosti that the new permanent representative will arrive in Brussels in November.

Claims for 100 million rubles have been filed against the person responsible for the death of 7 people in an accident on Minskaya. Lawyer Igor Trunov reported claims for damages worth tens of millions of rubles. The claims were filed in the interests of the orphanage of boarding school No. 7 and the relatives of the victims, Interfax quoted the lawyer as saying .

The police exposed another gang from the village of Kushchevskaya in the Kuban. According to the investigation, members of the criminal group committed robberies and robberies in the south of Russia. “Officers of the criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Kushchevsky district detained members of a criminal group living in the territory of the village of Kushchevskaya.

photo by Artem Holoshchapov for Forbes And why is Sergey Nikolaev launching four new projects at once? Sergei Nikolaev, co-owner of the Tea Merchants Association, tastes another tea offered by one of the suppliers. He nods politely, takes another sip and refuses to purchase - he feels that the drink is from last year’s leaves. It is not as tasty as the freshly harvested leaf tea supplied by Asian plantation owners. Ten years ago, when opening the first tea store “Ounce” in St.

Russian gas giant Gazprom lost to the Czech RWE Transgas in an arbitration over the recovery of advance payments from the buyer for unselected gas under take-or-pay contracts. about this . the Gas Information Agency (AGI) Several informed sources told The case was heard in the Vienna Arbitration Court (Wiener Internationalen Schiedsgerichts). The Czech RWE Transgas argued that, on the basis of Addendum No.

Online game developer Zynga announced the dismissal of 5% of its staff and the cessation of development of 13 games. The company on Tuesday warned laid-off employees at its Austin office that it no longer needed their services and gave them 2 hours to pack their things, Forbes wrote on Wednesday . Similar layoffs occurred in other company offices.

The Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Sverdlovsk Region opened a criminal case under Part 3 of Art. 263 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“extortion”) against Aksana Panova, editor-in-chief of the Ura.ru news agency. Interfax was informed about this on October 24 by the press service of the regional headquarters, without specifying details.

The United States may repeal the Jackson-Vanik Amendment after the November 6 presidential election. As Assistant to the American President, Deputy National Security Advisor Michael Froman said, Washington “saw opportunities for growing cooperation with Russia,” so it took the initiative to terminate the Jackson-Vanik Amendment. The proposal has already been considered by the House of Representatives and is now in the Senate.

The results of the competition among NGOs for government grants have been summed up. The subsidy in the amount of 1 billion rubles was distributed by the Institute of Civil Society Problems, Resistance, the National Charitable Foundation and the State Club. The largest grant - 12 million rubles - will be received by a member of the All-Russian Popular Front, the Federation of Independent Trade Unions, for a trade union school.

Review of the world press: how Obama defeated Romney in the comedy genre, why Apple's magic doesn't work in the case of the iPad mini, why Arab developers are building a copy of the Taj Mahal Obama and Romney: who's funnier? Regardless of political preferences, Americans must admit: Barack Obama, after three rounds of debates with Mitt Romney, defeated his opponent on the humorous front, writes The Wired .

In Kazan, special services eliminated criminals suspected of attempting to assassinate the mufti. During the special operation, one FSB officer was killed and two more were wounded. When the special forces of the republican FSB attempted to detain the suspects, they put up fierce resistance and detonated an explosive device, presumably a grenade. As a result of the explosion, one employee of the republican FSB Directorate was killed.