Dmitry Shusharin. Photos of faces The seventieth anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact was one of the main topics of discussion in the media and blogosphere. And, apparently, all week, until the seventieth anniversary of the beginning of World War II, unleashed by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia in the alliance with each other, the events of August-September 1939 will be discussed equally intensively and passionately. Although it is difficult to name what the Kremlin agitprop does and does.

No "prohibitive steps" in the field of legal regulation of the Internet are planned in the near future. Igor Shchegolev, Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, assured Ekho Moskvy of this.

About 95 percent of the goods belonging to tenants have already been taken out of the territory of the Cherkizovsky market. According to ITAR-TASS, Vladimir Malyshkov, head of the Moscow consumer market and services department, said this on Wednesday. According to the official, the remaining five percent is counterfeit, "which has no owners," and as soon as the "court cases" for this product are over, it will be destroyed.

Former collector Alexander Shurman, who was detained in June for stealing 250 million rubles, was brought from the pre-trial detention center to the hospital for a psychiatric examination, reports Life.Ru. As Shurman’s lawyer Timur Valiev said, “Alexander will stay in the hospital for about a month. All this time, psychiatrists will observe him. It is still difficult to say whether the examination will affect the outcome of the investigation.

Traffic police inspectors will be deprived of the privilege not to wear seat belts when driving. According to ITAR-TASS, this was stated by the first deputy director of the traffic safety department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, militia major general Vladimir Shvetsov. "Now the Ministry of Internal Affairs is amending the current rules. According to current legislation, traffic police officers may not wear seat belts. We want to remove this privilege," Shvetsov said.

After resigning from the post of president of AvtoVAZ, Boris Aleshin will go to work at the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI), writes Vedomosti . On the basis of TsAGI, Aleshin expects to create a new structure that will monopoly oversee the development and testing of civil and military aircraft in Russia, reports Kommersant . Sources of the publication say that it will be a kind of NASA.

The court granted the petition of the state prosecution and returned to the prosecutor's office the case of an attempt to bribe the editors of Novaya Gazeta to eliminate violations, ITAR-TASS reports. The petition was supported by the defendant Dmitry Kopylov and his lawyer. The prosecutor noted that two Kopylovs appear in the materials of the criminal case - one is Dmitry Anatolyevich, and the other is Dmitry Vladimirovich.

There were no Russians on board the An-12 cargo plane that crashed in the Congo. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the Russian consul in this country. According to preliminary data, four citizens of Ukraine died in the crash. According to Life.ru, there were also citizens of Moldova on board. Earlier, Reuters, citing representatives of the Ministry of Transport of the Congo, reported that five Russians and two local residents died as a result of the crash.

70 percent of the employees of the Moscow State Traffic Inspectorate were tested for knowledge of the rules of the road, and 7 percent of them flunked the exam. According to RIA "Novosti", this was stated to journalists by the head of the traffic police department of Moscow, Sergei Kazantsev. According to him, those who did not pass the exam will be given the opportunity to retake the exam.

The number of confirmed cases of influenza A/H1N1 in Russia has risen to 211, Chief State Sanitary Doctor Gennady Onishchenko told reporters. It is reported by RIA Novosti. As of August 21, there were 187 such cases. Onishchenko also recalled that a Russian vaccine against this new virus is currently being tested, and its production will be launched in October. Onishchenko himself will be vaccinated twice: with the new vaccine and the old one.

The government revised the rules of anti-corruption expertise: out of 17 corruption factors, the new methodology retained only 12. Vedomosti writes about this. The rules for anti-corruption expertise are being revised in connection with the entry into force of a new law. The draft of the amended rules is published on the website of the Ministry of Justice.

The gas pipeline from Russia to South Ossetia was put into operation on Wednesday, Interfax reports. Previously, South Ossetia received liquefied natural gas from Russia, as well as fuel through the Agara-Tskhinvali gas pipeline from the Tbilisi-Kutaisi main pipeline. The total length of the new gas pipeline is 162.3 kilometers, and its design capacity is 252.5 million cubic meters of gas per year. The construction of the pipeline was started at the end of 2006.

The cargo ship Arctic Sea was transferred under the jurisdiction of Russia and arrested by a court decision, according to the website of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office. Which court made this decision is not specified. Thanks to the transfer of the vessel, sailing under the flag of Malta, under Russian jurisdiction, the investigators of the UPC will be able to start searches on board.

Law enforcement agencies searched the private cottage of Sergei Karnaukh, leader of the informal social and political movement "Russian Club", suspected of extremism, who was previously detained on bail. was informed about this Interfax in the information department of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Far Eastern Federal District.

The pirates who captured the Arctic Sea destroyed the documents of all crew members. This was reported to Life.ru by a source close to the investigation. In his opinion, this was done for one purpose: they wanted to get rid of the sailors. The publication does not exclude that the lack of documents has become one of the reasons why the crew members of the dry cargo ship are still being held in Moscow.