Sergey Kapitsa In Moscow, at the 85th year of his life, the famous TV presenter and popularizer of science Sergei Kapitsa died, the general director of the television company "The obvious and nationwide" Svetlana Popova told RIA Novosti. “Sergey Petrovich died today,” she said. The main researcher at the Institute of Physical Problems, professor, doctor of physical and mathematical sciences Sergey Petrovich Kapitsa was one of the long-livers of Soviet and then Russian television.

Dmitry Demushkin. Photo from the site www.news.bcm.ru The leader of the nationalist association "Russians" Dmitry Demushkin passed the documents necessary for the nomination of his candidacy in the election of the mayor of the city to the election commission of Kaliningrad. According to the future candidate for the mayors of Interfax, the election commission had no complaints about the documents.

One of the largest Russian file exchangers, Rutracker.org, was hacked on Tuesday and remained inaccessible to users for some time, RIA Novosti reports. "Due to technical reasons related to the hacking of the domain registrar's account, rutracker.org is temporarily unavailable," Rutracker.org representatives said. Rutracker.org was redirected to a third-party site created on the basis of the Google Sites service. It featured an article "My Nostalgia" by Russian philologist Sergei Averintsev.

Ivan Okhlobystin. Photo Ivan Chernichkin, Focus.ua Actor Ivan Okhlobystin headed the Supreme Council of the Party "Just business". This was announced on his twitter by the party leader Andrei Dunaev. "Ivan Okhlobystin, in accordance with the decision of the Presidium, headed the Supreme Council of the Party" Just business, "wrote Dunaev.

Vladimir Strelchenko. Photo from the site Gorodhimki.ru. The head of the city district of Khimki Vladimir Strelchenko wrote a statement of care. According to Izvestia with reference to a source in the regional administration, Strelchenko made this decision after a conversation with the governor Sergei Shoigu near Moscow.

Change.org In Belarus, the authorities closed access to the Change.org website for users. According to Gazeta.ru with reference to the coordinator of the campaigns in East Europe and Central Asia Dmitry Savelov, this happened after publication on the petition website demanding to release the BNP editor Anton Suripin and realtor Sergei Basharimov.

Dimitri Smirnov. Photo from the site nm.ru The Russian Orthodox Church cannot be responsible for the actions of Abbot Timofei, who staged an accident at the end of July in the center of Moscow in the BMW Z4 sports car, since he was driving as a private person. This was stated by RIA Novosti by the head of the synodal department for interaction with the armed forces and law enforcement agencies, Archpriest Dimitri Smirnov.

Vladimir Abarinov In August, when politics goes on vacation, the "zoo rule" comes into force for American observers: in the absence of events, they write about animals, the benefit in the zoo always occurs something entertaining-the elephant was born or the boas adopted the rabbit. Some especially sophisticated Columnists write speakers about the fact that other Columnists have nothing to write about.

Valeria Novodvorskaya. Photo dm. BORORO/Brani.ru The Echo of Moscow launched an interesting project: the Magtor magazine, which has already undergone Soviet mythology as a furniture bug in a row. Of course, if Soviet historians are a pro, then it is much more prestigious to hear an amateur. But there is also European mythology, quite liberal and seemingly decent.

Rasul Mirzaev. Photo from the site gazeta.spb.ru The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow resumed the process in the case of the athlete Rasul Mirzaev, after which student Ivan Agafonov died. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by Judge Andrei Fedin, who is conducting hearing. "The court decided to renew the judicial investigation in the case against Mirzaev and interrogate the experts at the process of experts," the judge said.

Vladimir Vasilik. Photo from the Blagogon.ru website The punishment of the Pussy Riot group will serve their spiritual growth. This opinion was expressed by the assistant professor of St. Petersburg State University Deacon Vladimir Vasilik. “We wish them salvation and spiritual revival, but often we have to pay a large price for it, in comparison with which three years of colony of general regime is not such a long term.

Gennady Gudkov on the "Million Million-2". Photo: E. Mikheeva/Grani.ru The State Duma deputy from "Fair Russia" Gennady Gudkov on September 12 will be deprived of the mandate for entrepreneurial activity. This was reported by Vedomosti with reference to sources close to the leadership of the lower house of parliament and the presidential administration. On September 12, the second meeting of the State Duma should be held after the holidays.

At the Madonna concert in St. Petersburg. Frame of the video from the official page The St. Petersburg police launched an audit on the application of activists of the city public organization "Parental Control", who applied to attract Madonna for violation at a concert on August 9 on the prohibition of propaganda of homosexuality, RIA Novosti reports. "The statement from the townspeople to the police of the Moscow district was received.

The plan of the attack from the laptop Adam Osmayev. Frame of Channel One The Court of Appeal of the Odessa region rejected the complaint of Adam Osmaev’s lawyers, who is suspected of preparing an attempt on Russian President Vladimir Putin, and upheld the decision of the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine on his extradition to Russia, RIA Novosti reports.