Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in the dock of the defendants of the Meshchansky court of Moscow. Image from the website of the press center Mikhail Khodor The head of the MFI Menatep Plato Lebedev on Thursday evening was transferred from the cinker to a regular camera. According to RBC, the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service Yuri Kalinin announced this. Earlier, Lebedev confirmed his refusal to participate in cassation.

The father of the former head of Yukos, Boris Khodorkovsky, does not rule out that his son may not leave the pre-trial detention center alive. In an interview with Seva Novgorodtsev at the Air Force, he stated that "if our (authorities - Ed.) have no brains at all, then it may not come out." Commenting on his son's decision to go on a hunger strike in solidarity with Platon Lebedev, Boris Khodorkovsky said that he could not influence this decision in any way. “Well, what can I do with him?

Bayan Shiryanov on the threshold of the Basmanny Court. Photo dm. BORORO/Brani.ru The Moscow Basmanny Court on Thursday issued an acquittal of the writer Bayan Shiryanov (the pseudonym of Kirill Vorobyov), who was accused of spreading pornography. This was announced to the faces of the defendant Alexander Glushenkov. According to him, the court recognized the results of the first examinations of the novel "Middle Pilotage", made on the proposal of the prosecutor's office, unacceptable evidence.

Alexey Simonov and Lev Ponomarev. Photo dm. BORORO/Brani.ru On Thursday, at the Building of the SIZO Sailor Silence, a picket was held in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev. As the Echo of Moscow reports, about forty people came to the walls of the insulator. Some kept the portraits of the ex-head of the "Yukos".

Flooding in Tyrol. Photo AP At least 35 people became victims of floods in Central and Eastern Europe. Most of the dead fall on the share of Romania, where, according to BBC, the total number of victims in the country reached 31. More than 2000 houses were flooded. The strongest rain, floods and landslides continue in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Moldova, Bulgaria. Water and mud streams fill streets, houses, highways and railways.

After the raid in Tulkarma. Photo from the BBC News website After the student’s murder in Jerusalem, the Israeli army held a raid in the camp of Palestinian refugees in Tulkarma. According to Haaretz.com, five Palestinians were killed. According to the Israeli side, these were armed activists of the Islamic Jihad. Palestinian extremist groups have already promised to avenge the Israeli raid.

Bayan Shiryanov. Photo from the site www.ezhe.ru The accusation demands to be sentenced by writer Bayan Shiryanov (pseudonym Kirill Vorobyov) by one year in prison. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the lawyer of the accused Alexander Glushenkov. "The prosecutor's office asks the court to recognize my client and impose a sentence of one year in prison.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. Grani.ru collage Mikhail Khodorkovsky holds a dry hunger strike from the evening of August 19. Khodorkovsky himself reported this through a lawyer. "I started a hunger strike late at night on Friday, on August 19, after I became aware of the transfer of my friend Platon Lebedev to a punishment cell," the statement reported by Khodorkovsky through a lawyer and published on his website.

Sergey Ivanov and Minister of Defense of China Cao Hanchuan. Photo by ar The Mirny Mission 2005 is completed.

On Thursday, the Chechen election man approved the schemes of single -mandate constituencies. This is done as a preparation for elections to the parliament of the republic. According to RIA Novosti, the chairman of the election commission of Ismail Baikhanov, 21 single -mandate districts were formed, each of which will include an equal number of voters, that is, 29 thousand people. In total, about 596 thousand voters are registered in Chechnya.

Marek Belka, Prime Minister of Poland. Photo from the site www.newsvm.com Prime Minister of Poland Marek Belka held telephone conversations with the heads of government of neighboring states - Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine to coordinate actions against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko. RIA Novosti was reported in the office of the Polish Prime Minister.

In mid-August, President Vladimir Putin continued in Barnaul and Irkutsk the series of "political squiggles" begun in Nizhny Novgorod by the appointment of "Varangian" Shantsev. At the same time, he spoke about a new mechanism for empowering governors.

President of Karachay-Cherkessia Mustafa Batdyev. Image from Newsru.com The Prosecutor General’s Office does not know anything about the preparation of the school in Karachay-Cherkessia. According to Kommersant, the assistant deputy prosecutor of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District Sergey Prokopov, such information in the prosecutor's office "did not pass". “This is all the more strange that all such information passes only through us,” said Prokopov.

On the evening of August 24, Russian human rights activists demonstrated, as in our time, unauthorized rallies can be carried out. People who came to the "sailor silence" at their call to support Khodorkovsky’s hunger strike, stood opposite the prison with posters for more than an hour. The police that appeared was shy to touch the famous and elderly organizers of the picket in the presence of dozens of journalistic cameras.

Cindy Shihan. Photo by ar For the third week, a “watch of the world” is going on for the third week near the Texas ranch of President Bush in Crawford - the opponents of the war in Iraq set up the camp, requiring the immediate return of American soldiers home. The leader of the protesters, the 48-year-old mother of the soldier Sinda Shihan, who died in Iraq, accuses the president of lies and believes that it was he who almost killed her son himself.