The social network "VKontakte" announced the completion of the process of switching users to the new design of the social network, which was presented on April 1 of this year. The message about this was published on the blog of the social network. "Our team has been working for a long time on a new design, and from April this year the first users began to help us.

Lev Schlosberg "On August 16, Pskov visited the tall guest - Dmitry Medvedev with his retinue. The greatest misunderstanding of Russian politics and part -time, the chairman of the Temporarily Ceading Party called the meeting in Pskov under the Jesuit name" On measures to ensure a balanced socio -economic development of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, "writes a politician, a member of the Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko party, in his blog .

The leader of the Leningrad group, Sergei Shnurov, who is currently undergoing a second wave of popularity, admitted to the "Vesti" that he could not afford to come to Ukraine with tour, since "houses will be".

Interpol excluded from his database and terminated the international wanted list of the former co -owner of the company Yukos Leonid Neznin, sentenced in the Russian Federation to life imprisonment on charges of organizing murders and attempts on murders. This information was already confirmed by Nevzlin himself to RBC reporters. In addition, at the disposal of the publication were copies of the corresponding decision of Interpol and an official letter from the organization’s headquarters.

The St. Petersburg restaurateur Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is called a person from the neighboring circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin and is suspected of sponsoring the "troll factory" in St. Petersburg, refused claims against Yandex under the Law on Oblivion. Representatives of the businessman said that the trial has no prospects.

The government is close to the coordination of the sale of 25% of the shares of the Railway Railway Management of the Beteltrans company (BET). As a result of the transaction, control over the company will go to the structures of the son of the Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, writes the newspaper Kommersant . The company "T-Industry", which is the co-owner of which is Igor Chaika, already controls almost half of the Beteltrans shares.

In the county court in the west of Finland, on Wednesday, a hearing about the arson of the historical church in the city of Julivesk begins on Wednesday. The arson was committed by a 26-year-old resident of Finland. The prosecutor of Terhi Gren requires three years in prison for the arsonist for causing damage in especially large sizes. According to Iltalehti , the accused himself does not deny involvement in the arson, but denies the corpus delicti.

Residents of the American village of Shishmarev, located on the island of Sarychev in Alaska, vote on the appropriateness of relocation of the village to another place due to an increase in sea level. If most of the village, in which 650 people live, will support this decision, Shishmarev can become the first settlement of the United States to migrate due to climatic changes, The Guardian notes. The transportation of the village is estimated at 180 million dollars.

In Perm, the police detained a man who walked around the city in an image resembling Jesus Christ, with a wooden structure on his back. The incident was reported by eyewitnesses of the incident in the Perm Active and My City - Perm City on the VKontakte social network. According to them, the incident occurred the night before, August 16. The man walked around the city in a white sheet, carrying a T-shaped structure on his back, resembling a cross, but without the upper part of the long crossbar.

"With the privatization of Bashneft, the state fell into an unpleasant" fork "built by itself. On the one hand, it wanted to get more money, looked joyfully at overheated quotes, applauded the applause, who appreciated the state -owned package with a premium to the market (in the region of 300 billion rubles)," the politician on Facebook writes, commenting on the decision of the government Postpone the privatization of an oil company.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Studies (NASA) has announced a competition for creating a virtual robot model intended for future flights to Mars, TASS reports. The prize fund of the competition is $ 1 million. As noted in the message published on the NASA website , the participants of the competition will need to take Robonaut 5 as the basis of the humanoid robot.

The Court of the Bryansk region approved the verdict to the accomplices of the brutal murder of a man who was tortured for several hours, including using a hot iron. Two girls participated in the reprisal, one of whom was a stepdaughter of the victim and took revenge on him for rudeness. Last Friday, the Russian Themis considered an appeal for the verdict and left it unchanged, reports Bryansk Today . The youngest of the murder accomplices escaped criminal liability.

The World Boxing Council (WBC) completed the investigation against Russian boxer Alexander Povetkin, the sanctions will not follow. This was announced in an interview with TASS by the lawyer of the athlete Alexei Karpenko.

In Krasnoyarsk, an investigation of the brutal murder of 23-year-old Evgenia Petenyuk continues, the corpse of which was found in a suitcase hidden in the garage. The cohabitant of the victim was detained thanks to the ingenuity of the taxi driver who brought him. The driver offered the suspect assistance in employment, and later made an appointment on the phone, which he appeared with the security forces.

The crews of the operational-tactical aircraft of the Central Military District, deployed in the Urals and Western Siberia, were lifted into the air through educational alarm. Teachings with the participation of fighter-interceptors of the MiG-31 and the front-line bombers Su-24 will last a month. Then the fighter aircraft will go to Transbaikalia, where the launches of uncontrollable missiles will take place for ground targets.