political scientists are sure The Ministry of Internal Affairs will search for the participants of the Pussy Riot rally in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior who are at large. Their identities have not been established at this time. If they are arrested, the scenario of the trial of Tolokonnikova, Alyokhina and Samutsevich will be repeated, experts say. Members of the Pussy Riot group who remain at large have been put on the wanted list.

He won the Masters Series tournament in Cincinnati for the fifth time in his career. Tennis Roger Federer won the Masters series tournament that ended in Cincinnati, confidently defeating Novak Djokovic in the final in two sets. This triumph allowed the Swiss to set another personal record, repeat another one, and, in addition, make a powerful bid for success at the US Open, which starts next week. Last week was, by his own definition, ideal for Roger Federer. And this is not an exaggeration.

Prayers dedicated to the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr (breaking the fast after fasting, ending the holy month of Ramadan) were held in 1,124 mosques in Tatarstan on Sunday. More than 105 thousand people took part in the festive services; there were no violations of public order, reports the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Tatarstan.

On August 21, the Supreme Administrative Court of Ukraine upheld the decision of the Central Election Commission to register football player Andrei Shevchenko as a candidate for deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, RIA Novosti reports. Former striker of Dynamo Kyiv, Milan and Chelsea Andriy Shevchenko is number two on the list of the Ukraine-Forward! in the upcoming parliamentary elections on September 28.

Since the beginning of this year, Far Eastern police have solved more than 400 crimes committed by organized criminal groups, reports the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District. “This figure is 8.5% more than the results of the same period in 2011. Half of them are related to drug trafficking,” the report says.

US authorities announced the arrest of $150 million allegedly involved in a money laundering scheme for the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah, according to the websites of the US Federal Prosecutor's Office and the US Drug Enforcement Administration. Federal prosecutor Preet Bharara and the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration Michelle Leonhart said that the Lebanese-Canadian Bank played a key role in the financial fraud.

JSC RusHydro has begun paying dividends to shareholders for 2011. According to the company's press service, payments will be made at the rate of 0.00789317 rubles. per share. Andrey Sinitsky

The post of chief architect of the capital was taken by Sergey Kuznetsov, partner of the Speech Choban&Kuznetsov company. Experts consider organizational skills to be the main advantage of the new architect. An expert council should be created to help the head of the complex. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin officially introduced the new leaders of the architectural complex. The chief architect was Sergei Kuznetsov, a 35-year-old partner of Speech Choban&Kuznetsov.

United Russia deputies introduced draft amendments to the law on the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, according to which the right to set the refinancing rate, as well as determine the composition of the basket of currencies, is proposed to be transferred from the Central Bank to the government, the Prime agency reported on August 21, citing information contained in the electronic document database of the lower chambers.

The Moscow Arbitration Court rejected the claim of the Ufa-based Holding Company Businessinvestgroup LLC for early termination of legal protection of the Sayany trademark, owned by Zhigulevskoe Beer OJSC. Lawyers for the defendant, Zhigulevsky Beer, did not appear at the hearing, but submitted documents to the court by mail confirming the use of the trademark.

On August 20, the “Zombies for President” event, organized by AMC Networks, took place in the United States. Thus, the television company producing the popular show “The Walking Dead” intends to find a new satellite provider. AMC Networks launched a "Zombies for President" campaign in San Diego after US satellite provider Dish Network previously dropped AMC channels.

Igor Nekrasov has been appointed to the post of Deputy Governor - Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of the Kurgan Region. According to the press service of the head of the region, before that he served as deputy head of the department - head of the department of reforestation and forest seed production of the forest management and reforestation department of the Federal Forestry Agency.

The assets of the bankrupt plant were sold for a price ten times lower than the starting price The bankruptcy trustee of Omsk-Polymer LLC, Sergei Kudlaev, managed to sell the property complex of the bankrupt plant. All real estate, transport and equipment of the enterprise went to the Moscow GreenLight LLC for a price ten times lower than the starting price - 99.8 million rubles.

Interim results of his work are summed up In the Samara region, the first results of the work of Governor Nikolai Merkushkin, who has held this post for one hundred days, are being summed up. Among the obvious advantages is the formed cabinet of ministers, in which the continuity of power has been preserved and local pressure groups are not represented.

Officials Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin yesterday received the winners and medalists of the Olympic Games in London in the White Hall of the Moscow City Hall. He recalled that the capital’s athletes made a huge contribution to the success of the Russian team at the Olympics. According to him, Muscovites accounted for 37% of all Olympic awards won by Russians, including 45% of gold medals.