Petersburg, Primorsky District Administration, June 24. Public hearings on the issue of changing the height limit for Okhta Public and Business Center CJSC (a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft OJSC) from 27 to 500 meters. The construction site was moved from Okhta to Lakhta, which is much further from the city center. However, the building will still be perfectly visible, since the required height has also been increased by a hundred meters. Video by Vladimir Volokhonsky.

Mikhail Prokhorov. Photo by Russian look Businessman Mikhail Prokhorov at the Congress of the Party of the Lawyer Deed was accepted into the ranks of this political association and elected its leader, ITAR-TASS reports. For Prokhorov’s entry into the party and his election to the leading role, 107 participants in the congress voted, against 1, 1 person abstained.

Valentina Matvienko. Photo http://talmut.cn The support of Dmitry Medvedev initiatives to move the governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko to the post of head of the Federation Council, rather, a “black mark” than the prospect of her election for this post. This "Kommersant" was stated by a source in the presidential administration. On Friday, Medvedev approved the idea of ​​appointing Matvienko as a speaker. This initiative was made by President of Bashkiria Rustem Khamitov.

Petersburg, June 25. 14 participants of the "Slavic Gay Pride" and the attacker were detained. Photographed by Vladimir Volokhonsky.

Gay Flag. Photo from the site www.gay.ru The Senate of the state of New York approved a bill allowing to register same-sex marriages. According to the Associated Press, 33 legislators voted, “against” - 29. Thus, the New York will become the sixth US state that allowed representatives of sexual minorities to officially formalize their relations.

Parnassus rally emblem on June 25 More than two thousand people took part in the rally, which was held in the Pushkin Square of the Moscow Party of Folk Freedom, the Grani.ru correspondent reports ( Video faces-TV ). The rally participants chanted “Elections without an opposition - crime”, “Putin and Medvedev Down with”, “Putin must leave”, “Down with the United Popular Front”, “Down with dishonest elections”.

The accident at Gorpadskaya. Frame of the TV channel Russia24 In the Kiselevskaya mine in the Kemerovo region, the body of one of the four miners was found under the rubble on June 16. According to the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee, a criminal case has been instituted on the fact of the death of the miner under part 2 of Article 216 of the Criminal Code (violation of security rules in conducting mining, which entailed the death of a person).

The promotion of the High City Hall on 07/28/2010. Photo by Anastasia Krivoshanova (An-observador.livejournal.com) In one of the European countries, Petr Silaev, an anti -fascist suspected of organizing an attack on the administration of the Khimki near Moscow, Interfax reports citing a source in law enforcement agencies. According to RIA Novosti, the anti -fascist was detained in Belgium. The issue of Silaev’s extraction in Russia will be decided after an official notification of his detention.

Colony. Photo from the website of the Foundation "In Defense of the Rights of Prisoners" The leadership of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for St. Petersburg appointed an official verification of the death of the city of the Vyborg district of the city detained in the 58th department of the police. According to the Office, the detainee died on Friday evening.

US Congress. Frame of the TV channel '' Russia '' The House of Representatives of the US Congress rejected a resolution allowing President Barack Obama to continue military operation in Libya. According to the Associated Press, the document was rejected with 295 voices against 123, and not only the Republicans, but also many democrats refused to support it.

The emblem of the gay parade in St. Petersburg. Illustration from the site Gayrussia.ru The Slavic Gay Parade in St. Petersburg ended with the detention of 14 activists and one attacker, reports Fontanka.ru ( Video faces-TV ). At the beginning of the action, LGBT move activists rode along the Neva on a ship with a rainbow flag, and then landed on the pier near Senate Square and headed for the copper horseman.

Football fans. Photo from the site of Fratria.ru The fans of the Grozny football club Terek are ready to accept the proposal of the head of the Russian CEC Vladimir Churov and work in the election commissions. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the representative of the Green Gang fan club Rustam Abaev.

Moscow, June 25, 2011. Photographed by Dmitry Zykov.

Kirill Goncharov. Photo: mosyabloko.ru The leader of the Moscow "Youth Apple" Kirill Goncharov, who was detained after the action at the "Dachi Patriarch" near Gelendzhik, was sentenced to five days of administrative arrest for "disobedience to the legal requirements of police officers" during the detention, the party’s press service reports. According to Yabloko, the magistrate Swedes removed the press from the courtroom and refused to provide Goncharov as a lawyer.