Volya Day in Minsk. Photo from the Charter'97 site The presidential candidate Vladimir Neklyaev, who is considered the most pro -Russian candidate, as well as the main rival of the current head of state Alexander Lukashenko, promises to maintain the Russian language as a state, but the Russian missile base is ready to leave only until the end of the current contract. According to Kommersant, on the eve of Neklyaev announced his election program.

Gay parade on the old Arbat. Frame Grani-TV The Administration of the Moscow District of St. Petersburg refused to coordinate the rally on the LGBT activists on November 5, according to the official website of the SPb-PREDE.ru campaign.

Vitaly Portnikov. Photo from the site www.day.ua The main thing that the participants of the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations that took place on Thursday in Kyiv are asking today: was there a bruise on the cheek of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin or not? And was the tall guest carefully made up during meetings with President Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov, or just now he has such an complexion? However, these questions are unnecessary.

Boris Sokolov. Photo from the site www.open-forum.ru Such a thoughtful remark appeared on one Internet forum: "I thought that the census had not yet begun ... but it had already passed." The census of the population of 2010 may be included in the annals of our demographic statistics as the most invisible and the most inaccurate. A lot of scribes were involved - more than 600 thousand.

Says the St. Petersburg activist of the left movement DSPA. Photographed by Dmitry Borko. Details in Georgy Losev's blog

Frigate model Sergei Gorshkov. Photo Militaryparitet.com The St. Petersburg shipbuilding enterprise North Verf launched the head of the Russian Navy, Admiral Sergey Gorshkov, built under project 22350. According to RIA Novosti, this is the first ship of the long sea zone, built in Russia after the collapse of the USSR. The frigate was laid down at the North Shipyard in 2006, and its current readiness is 40 percent. As expected, Admiral Gorshkov will be transferred to the Navy in 2011.

Traffic jams on the Leningrad highway. Photo from the site www.aksakal.info Capital officials must change their work schedule in order to partially solve the transport problem in the city in the morning rush hour. As RIA Novosti reports, the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin made such a proposal. “In order for the transport situation in the morning in Moscow to improve a little, it is necessary that officials begin to work at another time,” a source in the city administration quoted the mayor.

Ilya Milstein Adam Mikhnik made tactlessness. According to him, the meeting of the members of the Valdai club took place normally - until the moment until the Polish guest asked about Khodorkovsky. And here, as the editor -in -chief of the "Vypers of Vybes" said, the premiere was as if replaced. Putin experienced a “personal emotion” and in a sharp tone spoke about the former head of “Yukos” “as a killer, a bandit”.

I was lucky to observe how the Politzek day was first publicly celebrated in the USSR. It was on October 30, 1989, although a tradition arose back in the 74th, in Perm camps among the then "political" (maybe someone believes that then they were gone?). Here's what Kronid Lubarsky wrote about this later: "The political camp of that time was the most free place in the USSR.

Dmitry Medvedev. Photo by the presidential press service The Western human rights organizations Freedom House, Human Rights First and Human Rights Watch turned to Dmitry Medvedev with a request to "take immediate steps to ensure the removes of the accusations" from Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev, Echo Moscow reports.

MBR '' Bulava ''. Frame of the TV channel '' Russia '' The 14th test launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile of the Bulava’s marine base was successful - the combat blocks of a rocket launched from the White Sea, at the established time struck the target at the Kura training ground in Kamchatka. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the representative of the press service department and information of the Ministry of Defense.

Dmitry Medvedev. Photo "Komsomolskaya Pravda" The amount of theft in the public procurement system exceeds one trillion rubles per year. According to RAPSI, Dmitry Medvedev gave such an assessment at a meeting on the execution of the presidential instructions. The fact that the "economic effect of cleansing vicious purchases, according to the most conservative estimates, may exceed 1 trillion rubles," said the head of the Presidential Control Department Dmitry Chuychenko.

Nikita Tikhonov. Photo from the site www.life.ru Nikita Tikhonov, accused of the murder of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, pleaded guilty of weapons, he denies the allegations of the murder. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by lawyer Tikhonov Anatoly Zhuchkov. "Tikhonov was on the wanted list of false accusations of the murder of Alexander Ryokhin, and in order to somehow live, he was forced to speculate with weapons," Zhuchkov said.

Colony. Photo from the website of the Foundation "In Defense of the Rights of Prisoners" Minister of Justice Alexander Konovalov proposes to return the practice of forced labor as a separate type of criminal punishment, reports Echo of Moscow. The minister called the existing conditions for appointment as a punishment of correctional labor "legal oxymoron", since the courts can apply this measure only to those who do not have a permanent place of work.

Promotion 07/31/2010 on triumphal. Photo by E.