Lev Levinson. Photo from the site www.hro.org The government proposed rewriting Articles 275 and 276 of the Criminal Code on the state treason and espionage - and on September 21, the Duma adopted in the first reading the bill introduced back in 2008. Government initiatives are rarely laid down in the Duma for so long. But this one turned out to be so odious that it was even to slow down the healthy forces, sometimes even acting as deputies of United Russia.

Sergey Zheleznyak. Photo http://www.potrebitel-russia.ru The State Duma will not consider the bill on the transition to permanent winter time. As Interfax reports, this said the vice-speaker, Uneneros Sergey Zheleznyak. According to him, the question of translating the watch arrows is in the competence of the government, so that the bills submitted to the State Duma on the transfer to the winter are "excessive".

Nikolai Lyamov. Photo from the site of the Ministry of Transport The Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport and Development of Road Transport Infrastructure Nikolai Lyamov was resigned, his place was taken by the head of the capital's department of transport, Maxim Liksutov. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

Jail. Photo from the site /www.cullmanpd.com The controller of the Gldanian prison No. 8 in Tbilisi Mamuka Chkhitunidze was detained as part of the investigation of the torture of prisoners. According to the News-Georgia Agency with reference to the prosecutor Shot Tkeshelashvili, he was charged under the article "Torture". Chitunidze became the twelfth defendant in the case. In addition to him, employees of the Department for the execution of punishments and the Gldanian prison were detained.

On September 25, at 14:00, the Zyuzinsky Court of Moscow will hold a second hearing in the measure of restraint for Olga Zelenina, an expert from the Penza Research Institute of Agriculture, who gave an expert opinion objectionable to the State Drug Control Service and became a defendant under an article on attempted drug smuggling. World-renowned scientists stood up for Zelenina, human rights activists recognized her as a political prisoner.

Foreign Ministry. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The decision of the European Parliament deputies to nominate the participants of the Pussy Riot punk group for the Andrei Sakharov European Union is an attempt to intervene in the work of Russian justice. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the Commissioner of the Foreign Ministry on human rights, democracy and the supremacy of law Konstantin Dolgov.

Vladislav Surkov. Photo: D. Azarov/Kommersant Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov opposed the draft bill prohibiting civil servants to own property abroad. According to Izvestia, according to the conclusion of Surkov, the possibility of owning real estate abroad should be left to representatives of law enforcement agencies. Surkov noted that the Federal Law "On the Federal Security Service" is currently in force in Russia, which prohibits the FSB officers abroad.

Vladimir Abarinov Once my colleague, a specialist in military issues, was invited for a conversation to the Investigative Department of the FSB. The young investigator asked where the information was received for such and such an article. It turned out - from open sources.

Boris Berezovsky. Photo by Demyan Kudryavtsev Boris Berezovsky will not appeal the verdict of judge Elizabeth Gloucester, who deflect his lawsuit to Roman Abramovich. "I have no legal claims to Judge Gloucester. I consulted with my lawyers. As for the ethical side, it is not for me to judge this without being a citizen of this country," Berezovsky said in an interview with the BBC Russian service. “She (Gloucester.

Putin at the APEC summit. Photo by the presidential press service President Putin announced the need to tighten the punishment for an accident with victims committed by drunken drivers, RIA Novosti reports. “You just need to punish some things. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work out in a different way ... If this is not done, then such tragedies will happen everywhere,” Putin said, commenting on an accident on Minsk Street that occurred last Saturday.

"Sobol" of the traffic police. Photo from the site rcforum.ru The traffic police proposes to introduce a total check of drivers for alcohol on the roads of Russia and consider the possibility of confiscating cars from those who got drunk driving. According to RIA Novosti, this was announced by the head of the Main Directorate for the Safety of Road Safety of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Viktor Nilov.

Three talismans Sochi-2014. Illustrations from the site Talisman.sochi2014.com The Organizing Committee of the Olympics in Sochi declared a slogan of the upcoming Olympiad - "hot. Winter. Yours." (In the English version - Hot. Cool. Yours.).

Ales Belyatsky. Photo from the site www.balapan.com On September 25, the Belarusian human rights activist Ales Belyatsky turns 50. He will spend his anniversary in prison. At the end of November 2011, Belyatsky was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison with confiscation of property on charges of non -payment of taxes on an especially large scale. The human rights center "Vesna", which is headed by Belyutsky, offers everyone to congratulate him as part of a "congratulatory week".

A felled cross in Arkhangelsk. Photo: ARH-EPARHIA.RU Article 243.1 "insulting religious beliefs and feelings of citizens" will appear in the Criminal Code. According to Vedomosti with reference to the leader of the United Russia faction in the State Duma, Andrei Vorobyov, the corresponding legislative initiative in the near future will be submitted to the parliament.

115 years ago, September 25, 1897, the American writer William Faulkner was born, the Nobel laureate of 1949 "For a significant and artistic point of view, a unique contribution to the development of a modern American novel." Only after the Nobel Prize, Faulkner's work was recognized as wide circles of readers in his homeland, before that he was considered mainly a writer for critics.