Former Georgian Prime Minister Vano Merabishvili, arrested in May in the case of the bribery of voters and abuse of official powers, announced a hunger strike.

The Communist Party officially decided on the candidate, which the party will nominate to the post of mayor of Moscow, whose early elections will be held on September 8. The first vice speaker of the State Duma Ivan Melnikov was the candidate. "He took part in the Moscow Party Conference. A candidate for the post of mayor of Moscow from the Communist Party of the Communist Party nominated Melnikov. A course to win!" - wrote the leader of the Communists Gennady Zyuganov on his Twitter .

The forest fire near Nizhny Novgorod ruined the rest for children who spend the holidays in the Star camp. Hundreds of vacationers with the counselors had to leave their detachments after the threat of spread of fire was created. “At 15:30, in the Proksunsky district, as a result of a lower forest fire, a threat of fire switch to the Star Kid camp was created,” the website of the Russian Emergencies Ministry said.

While the police are investigating the circumstances of the tragic death of the four-time Judo European Champion Elena Ivashchenko, the press appeared in the press the first versions of the suicide of the 28-year-old athlete. According to one of them, she jumped out of the 15th floor, quarreling with her loved one. According to the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda , Elena’s childhood was difficult: her father abused alcohol, and mothers were diagnosed with schizophrenia.

“Last week, immediately after my arrest, a young man called me. He said: I want to get advice about holding a gay pride parade in Yaroslavl. I was surprised. Of course, there is an LGBT community in my native Yaroslavl. But it is quite closed, it’s difficult to come out of hiding I’m not in a hurry. Before this, we only had educational events in the city, like distributing leaflets for the “day of silence.” And then there was a parade. We met and had coffee. It turned out the following.

The leader of the Ukrainian Opposition Party Vitaly Klitschko first went around the popularity of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, according to a survey conducted by the Kiev International Institute of Sociology ( KMIS ).

Russian bailiffs still do not have an official notification of the death of the oligarch Boris Berezovsky, who died in late March 2013. Great Britain did not consider it necessary to send documentary confirmation of the death of an entrepreneur, in respect of which five cases were opened in Russia, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP). “To date, we do not have documentary confirmation of the death of Berezovsky,” said Arthur Parfenchikov, head of the service.

Porsche and Piekh families bought a ten percent share in Porsche Automobil Holding SE at Qatar Holding LLC, returning full control over the company, Interfax reports with reference to Bloomberg. “All Porsche shares are currently again belonging to the Porsche and Piekh families,” said the head of the supervisory board of Wolfgang Porsche.

The Gazprom skyscraper, which was planned to be built in the center of St. Petersburg on Okt, as you know, later changed the deployment and is now being built on the outskirts, on the banks of the Gulf of Finland, next to the village of Lakhta. The magazine "Kommersant Money" tells how the emergence of a new center of force will affect the residential real estate market of the Northern capital.

The social state in Russia in 2012 existed in three types: as a support for the pension system, which is in some cases, failures in the revenue of a pensioner, as a system of pension benefits by public transport and as a significantly underfunded system of support for disabled people, the Kommersant newspaper writes. At the same time, the ratio of the main part of the monetized payments to the continuing to grow average households will continue to decline quickly.

The Spanish national team players defeated the Uruguay team in the Confederations Cup match, which takes place these days of Brazil. The meeting of Group B, held in Recyphs, ended with a score of 2: 1 in favor of the current world and European champions. The Spaniards scored both balls in the first half. In the 20th minute, the striker of Barcelona Pedro Rodriguez distinguished himself. Twelve minutes later, the gates of the Uruguayans was struck by the forward of Valencia Roberto Soldado.

In the village of Akulinino in the Moscow Region, where, according to local residents and bloggers reports, there is a scandalous recently, the estate of the head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, the correspondents of the interlocutor visited. They confirm the previously published information about the luxury of this officially unconfirmed object and add some interesting details to its portrait.

According to the Federal Tax Service, from January to May of this year, a consolidated budget was collected 0.4% less taxes than for the same period of last year. The fall is insignificant, but it happened for the first time since the crisis of 2009, the Vedomosti notes. As a percentage of GDP, the decrease is more dramatic: from 19.7 to 17.8% of GDP, the expert of the economic expert group Alexander Suslin quoted.

Popular singer Vitas, who faces a criminal sentence for hitting a cyclist and attacking a police officer, turns out to be a participant in another legal conflict. A neighbor accuses the artist of flooding her apartment and is trying to recover money spent on repairs through the court. The reason for contacting Themis was an incident that occurred last winter in an elite residential complex in Shmitovsky Proezd, writes Moskovsky Komsomolets .

The idea of ​​collecting money from the migrants entering Russia entering Russia, which was entered in the capital, with the expectation of their possible expulsion from the country, took shape in the form of a bill.