Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Photo from the official site The first day of the Bishop Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church was held with a scandal. Near the Cathedral of Christ the Savior there were massive brawls between the supporters of Bishop Diomid, who sharply criticizes the leadership of the Church, and members of the Nashi movement, RIA Novosti reports.

Andris Takemanis. Photo from the site of Radio "Mayak" The ambassador of Latvia in Moscow Andris Takemanis was doused with juice at a press conference in the press center of RIA Novosti. According to the agency, as soon as the ambassador sat in a chair, the young man and the girl threw bags with red juice, similar to tomato. They shouted "Freedom to Vladimir Abel!", "Hands off Russian schools!", "Your hands are in the blood!" And scattered leaflets.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky in prison. Photo by ar Supporters of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky will celebrate on Thursday the day of his birth, the press center of Khodorkovsky reports. Marina Savateeva, deputy head of the public support committee of Khodorkovsky, said that the picket in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev will be held closer to the evening on the Revolution Square. According to her, the organizers bought 200 congratulatory cards for Khodorkovsky.

Sergey Lavrov. Photo from the website of the magazine "Expert" Russia does not exclude that the United States conduct unofficial consultations with Lithuania in relation to the placement of elements of the missile defense system. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov. His answer to the question asked at the Symposium "Russia in the XXI century" is published on the website of the ministry.

Residents of the Moscow quarter adjacent to the territory of "Moscow-City" will be relocated within the Central Administrative District. This was stated at a meeting of the Moscow City Duma by the chief architect of Moscow Alexander Kuzmin, the press service of the Moscow City Duma reports. The Moscow City Duma on Wednesday adopted a law on the city's targeted program for the development of the built-up area of ​​quarter #804 "Kamushki".

Jail. Frame NTV The Oktyabrsky District Court of Arkhangelsk found guilty of the exceeding the official powers of the former head of the Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Arkhangelsk Region Igor Bolotin, ITAR-TASS reports. It was fined 70 thousand rubles, the press service of the regional department of the judicial department said.

State Duma. Photo from the site www.news.webdigest.ru State Duma deputies from United Russia and the LDPR are preparing amendments to the law "On Political Parties". This was reported on Wednesday Gazeta.ru with reference to her own sources in parliament. The main change will affect the procedure for registration of parties. In the case of the adoption of the law, it will be necessary to prove the Federal Registration that the party consists of 100 thousand people.

Vladimir Kvachkov. Photo from the website of the People's National Party The Prosecutor General’s Office filed a cassation appeal against an acquittal of an attempt on Anatoly Chubais. According to Interfax, the Prosecutor General believes that during the process of retired colonel Vladimir Kvachkov and his alleged accomplices, serious procedural violations were committed. Earlier, that Vladimir Samoilov, a lawyer of one of the former defendants, said that the verdict will be appealed.

Moscow, June 24, 2008. Press conference organized by the Islamic Committee. Ingush oppositionist Magomed Khazbiev talks about the collection of signatures for the return of Ruslan Aushev to the post of President of Ingushetia. Filming VoineNet See also: Human Rights Watch: Torture, robbery and murder occur in Ingushetia Picket in Moscow against the escalation of tension in Ingushetia (video)

Trolleybus This year, a new type of public transport will appear in Moscow - an electric bus, RBC reports. According to the Mosgortrans conference "50 years. Results and prospects" The head of the company Peter Ivanov, the first experimental electric buses will appear in the capital in the second half of the year. They will be a hybrid of a bus and a trolley. "A small, similar to the bus is designed for about 30 seats and will work from the battery," Ivanov noted.

Altai. Photo from the site www.spsl.nsc.ru Omsk archaeologists discovered a burial in the Slavgorod district of the Altai Territory dating back to the 4th-III centuries. BC, in which the priestess was supposedly buried, Interfax-russia.ru reports and the official website of the Altai Territory . For the first time, scientists investigated the surroundings of Lake Bolshoi Yarovoye in 2004.

Andrey Sakharov. Photo from the site www.sakharov-center.ru On Wednesday, politicians and human rights activists called on citizens to sacrifice money for the needs of the Sakharov Museum, the Grani.ru correspondent reports from the press conference. The museum and the public center are at risk of closing due to lack of money.

Vladimir Abarinov From the news that the authorities of Florence are soon “rehabilitated” by Dante, blows a phantasmagoria and an icy infernal cold. The general audience reacted to the news as a curiosity - and in vain. The question of posthumous rehabilitation of various historical persons in Russia is quite acute. It makes sense to take a closer look at someone else's experience.

Acceleration of a rally in Nazran. Photo from the site Ingushetia.ru Ingushetia, large -scale human rights violations continue, the report of the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch says. As the Grani.ru correspondent reports, the report was presented on Wednesday in Moscow. “In Ingushetia, according to our data, the situation is still far from normal,” the report says.

Image from the site Human Rights Watch The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch will present on Wednesday a report on a violation of the situation with human rights in Ingushetia. As the author of the report Tatyana Lokshina reported on the air of the Echo of Moscow, it discusses mainly about human rights violations during counter -terrorist measures. Representatives of the organization visited Ingushetia at the end of May.