Helsinki University professor Teivo Teivainen tried to organize a performance similar to Pussy Riot's performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior at the Assumption Cathedral in the Finnish capital. about this . Interfax The head of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Finland and Teivainen’s colleague at the capital’s university, Johan Beckman, told According to him, the professor and the girls were not allowed into the religious institution.

plane that crashed in Indonesia The pilots of the Sukhoi Superjet-100 were sober. This was reported in the report of Indonesian specialists who conducted postmortem and toxicological analyzes of the remains of the pilots. Excerpts from the document were obtained by RIA Novosti . “No traces of alcohol, drugs, or medications were detected,” the report says. The SSJ-100 crashed during a demonstration flight on the island of Java on May 9, 2012.

On August 5, in Konotop (Sumy region of Ukraine), activist of the nationalist party “Svoboda” Vasily Udod was killed. This was reported by Gazeta.ua with reference to the party’s press service. Under what specific circumstances Hoopoe died is not specified. At the same time, nationalists claim that “law enforcement agencies are trying to hide the fact of the murder.” Vasily Udod, as noted, served in the border troops in the past, and has recently been actively involved in social activities.

In Grozny, suicide bombers blew up a Gazelle that was leaving the territory of a military unit. reported this on August 6 RIA Novosti with reference to the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Three servicemen were killed and three were seriously injured. According to an anonymous employee of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs, the explosion was carried out by two suicide bombers.

Three Syrian intelligence officers have sought asylum in Jordan. This was Agence France-Presse reported on Sunday, August 5. announced by a representative of the opposition Free Syrian Army, Among those who escaped, they said, was Colonel Yarab al-Sharaa, who headed the information department of a political intelligence unit based in Damascus. Together with the colonel, his brother Mohammad Kanaan, who also served in intelligence, fled to Jordan.

Israel has improved the Arrow-2 missile defense system to protect the country from possible aggression from Iran and Syria. reports this The Associated Press , citing a source in the country's Ministry of Defense. According to the agency's interlocutors, Strela-2 received a new radar and sensors, as well as an improved command and control system.

New York Times photographer Robert Stolarik was detained for filming arrests at another Occupy Wall Street protest. The New York Times reports this. The incident occurred on the evening of August 4 in the Bronx, New York. Stolarik was on an editorial assignment along with two reporters from the publication who interviewed protesters. Stolarik was photographing the arrest of a teenage girl when one of the police officers ordered him to stop filming.

Shares of the Japanese corporation Sharp on Monday, August 6, fell in trading in Tokyo by 5.73 percent to 181 Japanese yen per share ($2.35). Prior to this, during trading on Friday, the company's securities fell in price by another 28 percent. The company's shares are currently trading at a 40-year low. According to Agence France-Presse , the fall in shares is due to the publication of Sharp's report for the second quarter of 2012.

The Internet encyclopedia Wikipedia went offline on the afternoon of August 6. The problem was reported on the official microblog of the Wikimedia Foundation, which manages the resource. The Foundation notes that there are technical difficulties, which experts are already working to eliminate. The message was published at 17:34 Moscow time. The causes of the problems are unknown.

06.08.2012, 13:55:31 version Print | PDA/PDA MSL lands. Artist's rendering by NASA In an inhospitable land MSL arrived on Mars to search for water and life The most advanced apparatus that humanity has ever sent to the Red Planet has successfully arrived on site and has already managed to transmit the first photographs. In Gale Crater, the Curiosity rover will look for traces of life, as well as evidence that there were real rivers on the Red Planet in the past.

06.08.2012, 19:37:26 version Print | PDA/PDA Sukhoi SuperJet-100 of Armavia airlines. Photo from the ITAR-TASS archive, Mitya Aleshkovsky Take your planes Armavia decided to return the Sukhoi Superjet-100 to the manufacturer Armavia Airlines, which previously refused to purchase the second Sukhoi Superjet-100, is trying to return the first airliner purchased last year to the manufacturer. This became known on August 6.

The competition for the position of general director of the Russian State Circus will be held at the end of September 2012. Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Ivliev announced this on August 6, as RIA Novosti reports . The results of the competition, which was postponed twice, will be announced on September 20-21. At the same time, Ivliev advised applicants who will submit programs for the development of circus art to pay attention to property and economic issues.

Due to the scandal of blocking the microblog of journalist Guy Adams, who criticized the NBC television channel, on Twitter the number of new user registrations has increased. TechCrunch reports this with reference to an anonymous source in the company. The same source noted that Twitter called the Adams microblog story “a good thing.” Specific growth rates in the number of users are not disclosed.

The Japanese company Euglena installed a test for knowledge of its products at the entrance to the office. As reported in the description of the advertising campaign on the I Believe In Adv website, this measure was introduced in order to encourage visitors to the company to familiarize themselves with what it does in advance. The Euglena company develops dietary supplements and fuels based on euglena, a single-celled organism.

06.08.2012, 15:28:06 version Print | PDA/PDA Near the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin. Photo ©AP Revenge on the Sikhs Six people shot dead at religious temple in Wisconsin On August 5, a gunman opened fire at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. The criminal shot six people and wounded three, after which he was killed by a policeman. According to press reports, the shooter was a skinhead - he had a tattoo dedicated to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.