In Moscow, on Barrikadnaya Street, dismantling of granite tiles, laid last week in place of dismantled paving stones from the beginning of the century, began. The Prefecture of the Central District of Moscow promises to return the old paving stones to their place, as requested by representatives of city protection organizations. Kommersant Publishing House special correspondent Oleg Kashin is trying to understand why this happened.

A Just Russia has nominated its candidate for the post of mayor of Khimki. He became State Duma deputy, head of the Moscow region branch of the party, Alexander Romanovich. Leading expert of the Center for Political Conjuncture Pavel Salin commented on Romanovich’s nomination to presenter Roman Karlov. — Why did A Just Russia nominate this particular candidate for mayor of Khimki?

The right to search citizens should belong exclusively to the police, says parliamentarian Maxim Shingarkin. He demands the cancellation of the order of the Ministry of Transport on the rights of aviation security services and private security companies for inspection. Experts strongly disagree with the parliamentarian. Airport security guards may be prohibited from searching citizens. This initiative was made by State Duma deputy Maxim Shingarkin.

Sergei Shvetsov became the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Government of the Perm Territory on September 6. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Shvetsov headed the department of logistics and communications of the government apparatus. Let us recall that former deputy chief of staff Pyotr Perminov recently announced his resignation. Mr. Perminov was the curator of the Open Space project, which envisioned a new format for the work of regional officials.

The company launched the first stage of a new juice production The Interagrosystems company commissioned the first stage of a new production complex in Belorechensk - a logistics center with a storage capacity of 11 million liters of products worth 260 million rubles.

The Russian President has lost the support of a quarter of his supporters The number of citizens on whom Russian President Vladimir Putin makes a favorable impression has decreased by 20% over the past 10 years. This was shown by the latest survey of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion.

The world's third-largest helicopter manufacturer, the state-controlled Russian Helicopters holding company, is preparing to place Eurobonds worth at least $300 million by the end of 2012 - early 2013, Deputy Director General for Finance Sergei Yarkova told Reuters on September 11. Last week the company received international credit ratings. Fitch Ratings assigned the company a long-term credit rating of BB+, Moody's assessed its creditworthiness at Ba2. The forecast for both ratings is stable.

42 1 min. ... Cycling Vuelta stage race in Spain Stage 20. Segovia - Bola del Mundo. 170.7 km. 1. Denis Menshov (Russia, “Katyusha”) - 4:48.48. 2. Richie Port (Australia, Sky) - gap 0.17. 3. Kevin de Weert (Belgium, Omega Pharma - QuickStep) - 0.42... 22. Denis Kostyuk - 4.54... 91. Alexander Kvachuk (both - Ukraine, Lampre) - 18.21. 21st, final stage. Cercedilla - Madrid. 115 km. 1. John Degenkolb (Germany, Argos) - 2:44.57. 2. Elia Viviani (Italy, Liquigas). 3.

114 1 min. ... Ukraine proposes to the Customs Union of the Russian Federation, Belarus and Kazakhstan, instead of establishing quotas for duty-free supplies of Ukrainian pipes every six months, to coordinate them three years in advance, said Minister of Economic Development and Trade Petro Poroshenko.

Yesterday, the head of the administration of Nizhny Novgorod Oleg Kondrashov in his blog proposed discussing at public hearings the transfer of the date of the City Day celebration from the second Sunday of September to May 21 or June 12. As stated in the blog post, on May 21, new style (May 9, old style), 1836, Emperor Nicholas I approved the regulations on the structure of the provincial city of Nizhny Novgorod - a document that determined the order of the city government until 1918.

The former finance minister said that the country needs to raise the retirement age to 63 years. True, in his opinion, the reform must be carried out gradually. Experts agree with the politician, but note that it will not be easy for the state to decide to take such a step. The retirement age should be raised by six months every year to 63 years. This proposal was made by ex-Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin.

In Turkey's largest city, Istanbul, on September 11, an explosion occurred near a police station, injuring several people, Reuters reports, citing local television. The cause and circumstances of the explosion are being established.

The ring road will undergo a major expansion At the end of last week, the Federal Institution "Directorate for the Construction of the St. Petersburg Transport Bypass" (DSTO, implementing the Ring Road project, Ring Road) announced a competition for the design of the expansion of the Ring Road section from Gorskaya station to Priozerskoye Highway (23.6 km). The contract value is 151.5 million rubles.

On the final day of the VIII Kazan Muslim Film Festival, the capital of Tatarstan was visited by film director and screenwriter Andrei Konchalovsky and theater and film actor Valery Zolotukhin. During the conversation, festival guests discussed the problems of modern Russian cinema. In addition, guests were invited to leave a cast of their hands as a keepsake for the festival museum.

A study of the world's largest universities has been published Moscow State University dropped from 112 to 116 place in the global ranking of universities QS World University Rankings. Following Moscow State University, St. Petersburg State University, Tomsk and Kazan universities lost their positions. MGIMO, Bauman MSTU, Novosibirsk University and a number of other educational institutions scored additional points in 2012, but still remain far beyond the top hundred universities in the world.