One of the members of the American group Beastie Boys, Adam Horowitz, known as Ad Rock, performed at a concert in New York in support of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot. The concert took place on June 12 at the Brooklyn club Death By Audio; Horowitz performed a DJ set dedicated to the members of Pussy Riot. This was his first public appearance since the death of fellow band member Adam Yoke in early May.

June 14, 2012, 21:00 Politics "Airport" special regime In one of the districts of Moscow, public gatherings can only be held with the permission of the municipality Ekaterina Vinokurova close 100% In the Airport area, public gatherings can only be held with the permission of the municipality ITAR-TASS The Moscow Airport district will become a territory with the most stringent legislation regulating the holding of mass actions.

In Warsaw, the court handed down the first sentences to hooligans who provoked fights before the European Football Championship match between the Russian and Polish national teams. reports this ITAR-TASS with reference to the Polish Press Agency. The Warsaw Srodmiescie District Court summarily sentenced eight Poles who took part in the riots to pay a fine of 500 zlotys ($150) or suspended prison sentences of up to 12 months.

June 14, 2012, 20:00 Society “It’s no good having a pathologist act as an expert.” The Public Chamber is preparing amendments to exempt religious works from the scope of “extremist” legislation Vyacheslav Kozlov close 100% Expert opinions are the main evidence of the presence of signs of extremism in a religious text Reuters The Public Chamber wants to remove fundamental religious texts from the scope of “anti-extremist” legislation.

14 June 2012, 13:48 Science The lethality of various types of energy has been calculated: coal in first place, nuclear in last. An interesting study by scientist James Conk from a research center in Pasco, Washington, has been published, CNews reports with reference to Forbes . This study provides the lethality of various types of energy, i.e. the number of deaths from a particular type of energy source.

“K, has it ever occurred to you that language is developing? And that all the “errors” you listed may well be the result of this development.” If Ivan’s language develops in one way, Peter’s in a different way, and Marya’s in a third way, then such “development” has one name - illiteracy. And this is precisely what is observed in Russia today. Regardless of any changes in the language, either it has the same rules for everyone, or everyone uses it as it is more convenient for him.

Since Alexander Rodnyansky set out to turn his Kinotavr into a serious work event, all the Sochi flavor has been washed away from the festival: sluts, chanson and drunken boos.

Preliminary results of examinations of an accident near Pskov, in which the wife of Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the State Duma for the Pskov Region , said on Thursday Harry Minha was injured and another woman died, showed that both drivers were to blame for the accident, Boris Govorun, head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs . “Preliminary data from road accident examinations showed the mutual fault of the drivers.

investment fund Leonid Boguslavsky's ru-Net bought shares in two Indian network resources specializing in online commerce. The company invested $17 million in Freecultr, which sells clothing under its own brand, and BeStylish, an online clothing and accessories store. In particular, Freecultr received $9 million, BeStylish - $8 million. Now BeStylish sells about 1 thousand pairs of shoes daily, Freecultr sells 190-200 wardrobe items.

The Ob City Court of the Novosibirsk Region found a Chinese citizen guilty of theft of components for small arms. “The court took into account mitigating circumstances (admission of guilt, the presence of a dependent young child) and sentenced the perpetrator to a fine of 200 thousand rubles,” says a statement from senior assistant to the West Siberian transport prosecutor Natalya Krinitskaya.

RFU President Sergei Fursenko called UEFA's decision to conditionally deduct six points from the Russian national team in the Euro 2016 qualifying tournament not fully thought out. According to him, the statement of the head of the VOB Alexander Shprygin, who justified the beating of a steward by Russian fans on June 8, will be examined by the executive committee of the RFU.

By the fall, the opposition is preparing an alternative to federal television channels and the newly created public TV - its own Internet channel, on which famous journalists will be able to work, the Izvestia newspaper writes . According to the creators of the new channel, it will concentrate on covering socio-political issues. At the same time, the programs will have free copyright, that is, any federal and regional TV channel will be able to broadcast any of the materials.

14 June 2012, 13:34 News McFaul is again forced to make excuses: the United States does not finance the opposition in Russia US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul clarified in his microblog on Twitter that during a speech at the Moscow School of Political Studies the day before, answering in Russian a question about the US role in organizing “color revolutions” abroad, he did not mean Russia.

Rosstat and the Ministry of Economic Development did not agree on the assessment of economic development. On Thursday, Rosstat published an updated figure for Russia's GDP for the first quarter of 2012. At current prices it amounted to 13.5 trillion rubles, an increase of 4.9% compared to the first quarter of 2011. Compared to the fourth quarter of 2011, there was a decrease of 15.2%. Thus, Rosstat confirmed its first GDP estimate for the first quarter, published in May.

June 14, 2012, 19:07 Society Petersburg police promised not to evict homeless people from the city on the eve of the international economic forum On Thursday, the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Sergei Umnov , said that the police do not intend to forcibly evict homeless people from the city during the St. Petersburg Economic Forum (PEF), which will be held on June 21-23, 2012.