The court of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky gave 4 years in a penal colony to three policemen who tortured the detainees. According to RIA "Vostok-Media", the convicts are two detectives and the head of the criminal investigation department of the criminal police, a senior lieutenant, a captain and a major. They were found guilty of abuse of power with the use of violence and special means.

Tobacco products are excluded from the list of goods subject to mandatory certification. According to RIA Novosti, this is stated in a government decree signed by the head of the cabinet Vladimir Putin. At the end of 2009, the technical regulations for tobacco products will come into force, according to which they are subject to mandatory declaration of conformity, not certification. The Decree comes into force on December 26, 2009.

The leader of the Tekstilshchiki initiative group, a candidate for the Moscow City Duma on the Yabloko list, Tatyana Ovcharenko, talks about how much Muscovites overpay for apartments. Source - " Moscow Yabloko ".

Andrey Piontkovsky. Photo from the site civitas.ru In our organic movement towards TeoPleptocracy, we have already gained our sovereign trinity - Putin, Medvedev, Gundyaev. The point is not at all in the ill-fated watch of the patriarch-oligarch. Perhaps our Holy Spirit does not really know the worldly value of these perishable artifacts of postmodern culture, as his label -Pirman Fr. Kuraev.

One of the founders of the nationalist organization Northern Brotherhood, Pyotr Khomyakov, asked for political asylum from Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. According to UNIAN, this is stated in Khomyakov's letter to the President of Ukraine. In the letter, Khomyakov notes that in his homeland he became a victim of political persecution for his beliefs. Formally, he is charged under article 282, part 1 of the Criminal Code (creation of an extremist organization).

The FSB Investigation Department filed charges against Anton Mukhachev, general director of Trading House Kudinovo LLC, who was detained on Monday. According to Kommersant, the accusation of organizing an extremist community is based on the testimony of former associates and acquaintances of the businessman who were members of the Northern Brotherhood nationalist organization. Mukhachev himself denies any involvement in this society and does not admit his guilt.

The 47-year-old police officer attended the police officer in the work shift at the Izmailovo Department of Internal Affairs. According to Life.ru, he was urgently hospitalized. In the hospital, the major was diagnosed with reactive psychosis. In the police, the major worked for 25 years, and so far there have been no similar excesses with him. The major arranged a tantrum last Friday at about 17.00, when most police officers had already left the workplace and went home.

In Kyrgyzstan, prisoners from a number of colonies have gone on a hunger strike, AKIpress reports. According to the GUIN of the republic, in this way they expressed solidarity with the demands of the prisoners of the colony number 14, where minors are kept. The latter, as noted by Interfax, also demand the resignation of the head of this correctional facility, Kurama Nazarbekov. They accuse the jailer of "lawlessness".

The final accusation of illegal storage of drugs was brought by the Novosibirsk artist Artyom Loskutov, known as the organizer of the annual campaign "Monestation". This was reported by RIA Novosti by Lawkutov’s lawyer Valentin Demidenko. "Today, Loskutov was summoned to the Dzerzhinsky police department, where he was charged. This is the prosecution with which the case is supposed to be sent to court," Demidenko said.

The authorities of Abkhazia and South Ossetia hired the American PR agency Saylor Company to improve their image in the West. Saylor Company chief Mark Saylor, former editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times, confirmed the deals to Reuters. Contracts with PR consultants were signed in June and registered with the US Department of Justice in July.

OAO "Izhevsk Automobile Plant" initiated the procedure of its own bankruptcy by submitting a corresponding application to the Arbitration Court of Udmurtia. According to RIA Novosti, referring to court information, IzhAvto's statement was registered on August 6. In the spring, the Samara group SOK, which owns the Izhavto plant, intended to lay off 5,000 of its employees.

Investigators of the Chelyabinsk garrison are investigating the circumstances of the death of a conscript soldier who was found hanged on the territory of the unit, Interfax reports. "On August 11, at 21.00, the duty officer in the park of the military unit found a serviceman hanging in a noose. They took him off by the forces of the outfit, rendered assistance, the soldier began to breathe, his heart activity recovered.

One of the reasons for the emergence of contradictions between Moscow and Minsk, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko calls the lack of awareness of the Russian political elite about what is happening in Belarus. It is reported by RIA Novosti. "The political elite of Russia absolutely does not know what is happening in Belarus," Lukashenka said.

In Mallorca, a court found Russian yachtsmen guilty of assaulting police officers and sentenced them to pay a fine and 6 months in prison on probation. The Russian Consul General in Barcelona told RIA Novosti about this. "We assess the court's decision as positive. They were given six months probation, fines of various sizes. They are not threatened with deportation," the diplomat said. The amount of fines does not exceed one thousand euros.

The novel Near Zero, recently released as a special supplement to the Russian Pioneer magazine, was written by Vladislav Surkov, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration. to Vedomosti This was reported by an employee of the Zhivi media group, which publishes the magazine. The book, which talks about corruption in parliament, law enforcement agencies and the media, indicates that its author is Natan Dubovitsky.