Mikhail Khodorkovsky congratulated Ekaterina Samutsevich, one of the defendants in the Pussy Riot case, happy birthday, which she celebrates on Thursday in the pre -trial detention center.

The sister of the Russian General Vladimir Kuzheev, the message of the Syrian rebels about the murder of which the former military man refuted the day before, told the Russian Air Force service what he did in Syria. According to the woman, for the past five years, the brother really lived in this country and worked as a military adviser. Earlier it was reported that the general in Damascus held the position of adviser to the Minister of Defense for military educational institutions.

Anton Oreh “He could have betrayed his friend, but he didn’t do it. He could have compromised a hundred times with his conscience and the so-called court - but he didn’t do it. Through him they wanted to put pressure on Khodorkovsky, with his help they wanted to ruin the company - and nothing came of it. Therefore One cannot help but pay tribute to the courage of this man - especially since, purely physically, it is very difficult for him to serve.

The Republican Congressman Steve King intends to submit a bill on the abolition of all the laws adopted under the US President Barack Obama, RIA Novosti reports with reference to The Hill Washington newspaper. With such a proposal, King spoke to voters in Ayov. He also recalled his threat to pursue Barack Obama through a court for his June decision not to deport young illegal immigrants from the country.

Russian billionaire Andrei Melnichenko, it seems, decided to again wipe his nose to the owners of fashionable yachts, planning to build the largest sailing yacht in the world, writes CNBC . According to the American media, the sailing yacht will be at least 130 meters long, while now the longest vessel of this class is the EOS yacht (about 93 meters). However, the businessman himself, like his environment, is silent about the new ship.

The owners of the Domodedovo Airport, in the hope of obtaining funding for the construction of the third runway (runway), are ready to lease the state for a symbolic one ruble per year of 274 hectares of land, previously bought by the airport for their own money under a new lane. About this writes "RBC Daily" . The construction of the third runway (to replace the outdated second runway) in Domodedovo was supposed to begin in 2012.

Russian Sofya Ochigava won the Silver Medal of London in the weight category up to 60 kg of the women's Olympic boxing tournament. - Diary of games-2012. Schedule and results of competitions In the final, she lost to a principal rival, repeated and current world champion Irish Katie Talor. Brazilian Adrian Araujo and Mavezun Choriev from Tajikistan took bronze. Later on Thursday, the battle for the gold of the 2012 Olympics was held by the second Russian woman - Nadezhda Torlopova.

The Russian Orthodox Church expressed concern that a public resonance caused by the detection in the Sverdlovsk region of abandoned barrels with human embryos could only end with the guilty punishment for "violation of the rules for the disposal of medical waste." According to the chairman of the information department of the Moscow Patriarchate Vladimir Legoyda, the problem is not exhausted by this, but only exposes both a monstrous in its scope and everyday life, the scale of killing children

On Friday, Russian oppositions are going to go to the "inspirational-public" auto-industry from Moscow to Astrakhan. During the action, which was called "White Stream", activists are going to visit 12 days of the Volga region for 11 days. "Our car racing is a visit to coordinated public events, meetings plus nights in nature, excursions, interesting places along the Great Russian Volga River in the company of civilian activists," the Facebook social network said on the campaign.

Honda has distributed the first photographs of the next generation sedan and the Accord coupe intended for the American market. At the moment, the Japanese manufacturer has not disseminated detailed information about changes in the technical filling of models. The Japanese only clarified that all the details about the new "chord" will be declassified in the fall of this year, reports Motor.ru .

The twelfth day of the Olympiad brought the Russian team only four medals - the result that seemed to the media is not particularly noticeable compared to 13 medals over the two previous days. The only gold on Wednesday was won by Natalya Antyukh in 400 meters with barriers - for Russia it is the 11th award of the highest dignity in games. Elena Sokolova won silver in long jumps. Lyubosov , who performed in the female wrestling tournament, and Taekwondist Alexei Denisenko, earned in bronze.

Farewell to the screenwriter of the film "Moscow does not believe in tears" by Valentin Chernykh, who died in Moscow on Monday, will be held on Friday in the ritual hall of the Botkin Hospital at 11:00, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Union of Cinematographers (SK) of the Russian Federation. The funeral will take place at 13:00 at the Vagankovsky cemetery. After the funeral in the Cinema House at 17:00, a memorial ceremony will begin.

The popular British group of Muse, which created the official anthem of the 2012 Olympic Summer Games called Survival (can be translated as “survival”), confirmed its participation in the closing ceremony of the London Olympiad-2012, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the British media. As the organizers noted, in the show entitled "Symphony of British Music", which will be held at the main Olympic stadium on August 12, more than four thousand people will be involved.

The Moscow Department unilaterally terminated the contract with the director of the GUK "Moscow Theater" New Opera Sergey Lysenko, Interfax reports. "The basis for the termination of the contract was numerous claims to the organizational and financial and economic activities of the director of the state institution of culture," the agency was told in the Department of Culture on Thursday.

Closed testing of a service that allows you to include content from Gmail, that is, simply put, the contents of the mailbox, in the results of the Google search. Thus, if the user, for example, is looking for a sample of the paperwork in Google, letters from colleagues, partners or friends containing similar documents may enter the search results. The results from the Gmail account will be placed on a separate tab on the right side of the page.