Valery Gergiev. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru On Thursday evening, LGBT activists interrupted the performance of the Mariinsky Theater orchestra led by Valery Gergiev in Carnegie Hall, reports Artsjournal.com. When the conductor rose onto the stage, screams of protesters against violation of the rights of LGBT communities in Russia were heard in the hall. "Gergiev, your silence kills Russian gays!" - Activists from the organization Queer National Ny shouted.

Pen center logo A group of Russian writers demanded the immediate liberation of the defendants in the "swamp business". "The trial of the rally participants in Bolotnaya is a sad certificate of vices of Russian justice," the Russian Pen -Center says . "At present, the only reasonable way out of the situation would be an immediate announcement of the amnesty to all the accused in this case, without bringing to the end of the false and mocking legal procedure," the authors of the appeal said.

US Congress. Frame of the TV channel '' Russia '' At the meeting of US President Barack Obama with the Republican congressmen, there were no agreements on the issues of financing state institutions and the ceiling of the public debt, CNN reports . Nevertheless, both parties called the negotiations "very useful." The White House said that Obama and the leaders of the Republican Party during the negotiations did not come to a specific resolution of the dispute.

Andrey Isaev. Photo: Er.ru The Presidium of the General Council of United Russia dismissed the deputy Andrei Isaev from the post of deputy secretary of the general council, RIA Novosti reports. In addition, his powers were suspended as a member of the Presidium of the General Council. Earlier on Friday, the United Russia faction in the State Duma supported Isaev’s statement about the addition of authority.

Pavel Nikulin (left) and Ruslan Tatarinov In relation to the journalist of the "Russian planet" Pavel Nikulin, the case was opened on the statement of the head of the central apparatus of "Just Russia" Ruslan Tatarinov. This was reported on the website of the publication. Tatarinov accuses the journalist of breaking (part 1 of Article 116 of the Criminal Code) during hacking the apartment of supporters of the candidate for Moscow candidate Alexei Navalny on August 13.

Moscow City Hall. Photos of faces The Moscow authorities consider it necessary to adjust the route of the procession proposed by the organizers in support of the arrested and convicted defendants in the "Swamp case" on October 26. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the head of the capital's regional security department Alexei Mayorov. "I think that the organizers who chose the route were aware that the city is unlikely to fully satisfy their application.

Leonid Razvoszhaev in the Basmanny Court. Frame Grani-TV The defense of the defendant of the case on the organization of riots Leonid Razvoszhaev filed a complaint about the extension of his arrest, his lawyer Dmitry Agranovsky reports . "They filed an appeal against the decision of the Moscow City Court on the extension of Leonid Razvozhaev arrest until February 6, 2014," he wrote on Twitter. The Moscow City Court extended the arrest of Razvozhaev on Monday.

Nikolai Golovkin. Photo: 50.mvd.ru The Ministry of Internal Affairs intends to conduct the largest check in the Moscow region, Izvestia reports . According to the publication, a group of auditors from the headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will begin to work in the Moscow region in late October. First of all, they will check the activities of the head of the police near Moscow, as well as all key services and units.

Vitaly Portnikov. Photo from the site www.day.ua The viewers of the Baltic countries will no longer see the program "Man and the Law" - this wonderful illustration of the honed propaganda efforts of the journalists of the neighboring country and their Kremlin curators. Of course, this is a real restriction of freedom of speech - even in the OSCE they talk about it.

On October 11, in the "International Memorial" (Karetny Ryad, 5/10), a presentation of the photo album Dmitry Borko "1991, 1993" will be held. Start at 18:00. At the same time, two exhibitions are held in the Memorial: “Moscow - 1993. Fourteen days of autumn” and “turning point”, which are based on photographs that were included in the album. There are two era in these pictures: the end of the 80s-August of the 91st and Moscow events of September-October 93. Facebook event page

Lusine Dzhanyan draws a portrait of Tolokonnikova near IK-14. Photo from Twitter @lusine_djanyan Political prisoner Nadezhda Tolokonnikova to the Mordovian prison hospital is not transferred to letters from the will. Culturologist Elena Volkova, who is in correspondence with Pussy Riot participants, received a notification on Friday that her email sent on September 26 was not delivered, since the "addressee was not found".

Artem Lahtionov. Photo: 2DO2GO.ru The photographer Artem Lakhtionov, who took off the passage on a motorcycle in the subway, became a suspect in a criminal case of hooliganism. According to Jopolis, the Tver District Court of Moscow concluded Lakhtionov under house arrest until November 25. He was previously in the status of a witness.

A meeting of the Human Rights Council. Photo by the presidential press service The Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights Human Rights at a meeting on Friday approved a draft wide amnesty. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to a member of the HRC Commission on civilian participation in the legal reform of Kirill Kabanov. “The decision was made to conduct a wide amnesty.

Brayn Kiron. Photo: Greenpeace.org The Murmansk Regional Court rejected the complaint about the arrest of Great Britain citizens of Greenpeace activist Philip Edward Ball and the video operator Brayn Kiron, Rapsei reports. The decision of the Lenin Court of Murmansk on the election of a preventive measure in their form in the form of detention was recognized as legal. The defense asked the court to let the arrested on bail or any other preventive measure, not related to imprisonment.

A forage of a policeman. Photo: ofless.ru The head of the criminal investigation department of the Novgorod police inter-district department and his two subordinates were charged with abuse of power, the press service of the Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Novgorod Region reports . According to investigators, they threw the innocent drugs. Officers face up to seven years in prison under part 2 of article 285.