Vladimir Putin at the computer. Photo: Premier.gov.ru Vladimir Putin signed a law on the unified register of domains and sites with illegal content. According to RIA Novosti, the text of the law publishes on Monday Rossiyskaya Gazeta. From this day, the document comes into force. The list of prohibited sites that are to be closed without trial will be created since November 2012.

Boris Sokolov Today it is often heard that with the adoption of the latest laws that limit freedom of speech, meetings and the activities of NPOs, Russia returns faster in the 37th year. Such statements, of course, sin with an exaggeration, but anxiety about the fate of the remnants of democracy in Russia is quite natural. When asked what date should be considered the beginning of a large terror in the USSR, different historians and publicists respond differently.

Vladimir Strelchenko. Photo from the site Gorodhimki.ru. In the near future, the head of Khimki Vladimir Strelchenko will be dismissed, Izvestia writes . By order of the Governor of the Moscow Region, Sergei Shoigu, there are checks of the activities of the heads of several city cities near Moscow, including Sergiev Posad, Korolev, Pushkino.

Verkhovna Rada. Photo from the site kolo.poltava.ua The Parliament of Ukraine at an extraordinary meeting on Monday refused to cancel the law providing official status to the Russian language in a number of regions, RIA Novosti reports. The opposition previously introduced to the Verkhovna Radu four draft decisions on the cancellation of the voting results under this bill. The deputies from the opposition believe that when considering the document, the Rada and the Constitution was violated.

Ilya Milstein Alexander Bastrykin has many enemies. Such is the restless character of this person who can pounce with a short -barreled on someone else's dog and its master. And such is his position that you constantly have to discuss with different high -ranking opponents: with a seagull, with curls, or even with Hinstein himself. Now this list was replenished with Alexei Navalny, who hit Alexander Ivanovich the most painful.

Peter Gabriel. Photo from the site '' Echo of Moscow '' The famous British musician Peter Gabriel wrote a letter to the arrested participants of the Pussy Riot punk group, the Echo of Moscow reports. “Nadia, Katya, Masha. You have the right to your own prayers - from the heart. I hope that you will be released very, very soon,” the musician wrote. Earlier, Russian and Ukrainian rock musicians refused to support the arrested Pussy Riot participants at a concert in London.

The poster 'don't chat!' From the site www.davno.ru President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a law on the return to the Criminal Code of the Article "Cleveta", the Kremlin press service reports . The law was adopted by the State Duma on July 13 and approved by the Federation Council on July 18. The law on the same day was officially published and entered into force after ten days, August 10.

Pussy Riot support group in the Hamovnic Court. Photo by D. Zizkova/Grani.ru The defendants in the case of Punk-Molebne in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior at the trial did not admit their guilt. At the first hearing, on the merits of the criminal case, the video broadcast of which was the KIA Novosti, Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samutsevich said that they acted not due to religious hatred, but for political and artistic motives.

Laptop. Photo from the site www.linux.it President Vladimir Putin signed a law clarifying the procedure for the seizure of electronic media of information during the criminal investigation, as well as determining the procedure for returning and copying the information contained on them. The Law of 07.28.2012 No. 143-ФЗ "On Amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation" was published on Monday on the portal of official legal information.

Ambulance. Photo by Autonic.ru The five -story building fell in the city of Neman of the Kaliningrad region, Gazeta.ru reports. According to the Neman administration, for preliminary reasons, household gas exploded in one of the apartments. Due to the powerful shock wave, the inter-story floors collapsed, as a result of which the three apartments located above the other were formed, the representative of the municipality said. According to preliminary data, there are no dead among residents.

Sergey Glazyev. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru President Vladimir Putin appointed economist Sergei Glazyev as his adviser, the Kremlin press service reports . His responsibilities will include coordination of the activities of the authorities to ensure Eurasian integration within the framework of the Customs Union and the Unified Economic Space of the Russian Federation, Belarusian and Kazakhstan.

Valentin Rasputin and Vladimir Krupin at the Belarusian embassy. Photo: Embassybel.ru Culture figures who have entered the Pussy Riot participants became accomplices in a “dirty ritual crime”, the writer’s letter, published on the Interfax-religion website, said.

Destruction in Aleppo. Photo by ar. About 200 thousand residents of one of the largest cities in Syria Aleppo were forced to flee as a result of the counterattack of government forces. This was announced on Sunday at the UN headquarters in New York by the head of the humanitarian missions of the organization Valery Amos. Amos expressed concern in connection with the use of tanks, artillery and heavy weapons.

Interview by Medvedev The Times. Photo of the press service of the government. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev does not exclude that he will run again to the president, and is sure that he should not leave politics yet. Medvedev told about this in an interview with the British newspaper The Times . The transcript of the conversation of the prime minister with journalists is published on the official website of the government. “I’m still not a very elderly politician.

Alexey Navalny at the entrance to the TFR 07/30/2012. Shift video Keepermsk on YouTube Civil activist Alexei Navalny has not yet been charged with the Kirovles case, he has been summoned to the Investigative Committee on Tuesday, RIA Novosti reports. “We came, and we were told that it was decided not to charge me. I was called for tomorrow at 11.00,” Navalny said. “Tomorrow I was called to be charged,” he added.