Vladimir Lukin. Short "Russia 1" The Commissioner for Human Rights Vladimir Lukin at a personal meeting with President Putin raised the topic of the process over Pussy Riot participants, RIA Novosti reports. Lukin, answering the questions of journalists after meeting the president with the regional Ombudsmen, whether he talked with Putin about Pussy Riot, answered affirmatively, noting that he had not had a meeting with Putin today, but earlier. He did not specify the date of the meeting.

Vladimir Putin. Photo: Premier.gov.ru President Putin suggested a regional authorized person to think about formulating a consolidating idea. As RIA Novosti reports, with such a proposal, the president acted as the meeting participants raised the problem of interethnic and inter -religious relations in the country. “In the Soviet period, a lot of things were done not very good, but a lot of good things were invented ...

Mikhail Gorbachev. Photo FreeFor.ru Former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev considers the trial of the Pussy Riot punk group participants to no one needs. "I firmly adhere to the opinion that this whole process is an unnecessary venture. This is not a judicial case. It could be entrusted with such an authoritative organization as a public chamber," Gorbachev said in an interview with the BBC Russian service. Recently, Gorbachev has repeatedly been criticized by the Russian authorities.

Dmitry Borko All of us who consider ourselves disagree, the opposition or who is simply dissatisfied with something specific - today we are physically weaker than the authorities. Our only weapon inside us. This is ours, different than in power, morality, faith in justice and strength of spirit. And therefore, in the words and thoughts of our thoughts, lies are unacceptable and even "not quite true." Any distortion of concepts, inaccuracy only weakens us. Unfortunately, we allow them too often.

Site logo "Rospil" Moscow police officers came to the office of the Rospil public organization and took an explanation from Alexei Navalny on behalf of the interrogator conducting the verification of the logo posted on the website. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Julian Assange. Photo from the site www.antipr.org Ecuador authorities decided to provide asylum to the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the country's foreign minister Ricardo Patinho. "The government decided to provide diplomatic asylum to Mr. Assange," said Patigno, whose performance was transmitted live by the Latin American television channel Telesur. "The government examined all the facts and arguments represented by Assange.

Judge Marina Syrova. Photo from Twitter of the Group '' War '' The judge of the Khamovnik court Marina Syrova, considering the case of the Pussy Riot punk group, was provided with protection in connection with the incoming threats. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the head of the press service of the Moscow City Court Anna Usacheva. According to her, the head of the Moscow City Court Olga Egorova asked the judge to ensure the security of the judge.

Rasul Mirzaev. Photo from the site gazeta.spb.ru Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow appointed a new comprehensive examination in the case of athlete Rasul Mirzaev, after which student Ivan Agafonov died, RIA Novosti said.

Laying paving slabs. Photo from the site www.stroi-ek.ru The Moscow authorities refused to replace the asphalt coverage of city sidewalks with tiles. As the Moscow Komsomolets writes, all the work planned for 2012 has been canceled. The city hall sent the saved funds in the amount of 350 million rubles to improvement, in particular, for the repair of roads and sidewalks.

Putin gives icons to the patriarch. Photo by the press service of the prime minister The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Cyril is satisfied with the current character of church-state relations. According to Interfax, he stated this in an interview with the Polish media on the eve of his visit to Poland, which will be held on August 16-19 at the invitation of the Primate of the Polish Orthodox Church.

London. Photo by ar The authorities of Great Britain will transfer the founder of the WikiLeaks portal Julian Assange Sweden. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country. "According to our laws, Mr. Assange has exhausted all the possibilities of appeal, and the British authorities are obliged to extradite it to Sweden. We will retire this promise.

Artem Loskutov in Moscow. Frame Grani-TV The Central District Court of Novosibirsk refused to give the artist Artem Loskutov the Pussy Riot icon, which was attached as material evidence to the materials of the administrative case. As RIA Novosti reports, the representative of the court said this. "The answer was given to the application. The answer was sent to him by mail," the agency’s source said. Loskutov asked the court to return one of the paintings to sell it at the auction.

In the Pussy Riot case, the prosecutor’s office, “offended” activists and so -called experts again worked in a close bow - as at one time at the processes about the exhibitions “Caution, Religion” and “Forbidden Art”. Portraits of those who perform reprisals - professional fighters with blasphemy, dispensation, dissent, foreigners and sexual enlightenment.

Taisiya Osipova in court 12/27/2011. Photo by Y. Ivashchenko/Grani.ru Witness Anton Mandrick, who testified in court that the drug activists were thrown by the operatives, was intoxicated at the time of the search in a state of drug intoxication. The corresponding application is published on the website of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Smolensk region. The department is unhappy with the widespread dissemination of information about the story of a witness in the media.

Alexander Podrabinek. Frame of the faces-TV On the eve of the sentence to the participants of the Pussy Riot group, everyone guesses what the punishment will be. The possibility of justification is not even considered, and this is understandable - not the first day in Russia we live. Everyone agrees that the verdict will not be correlated with the fault of the defendants, but with political expediency, as it is understood in the Kremlin.