On May 28, the traditional Day of Wrath was held in Moscow, organized by the opposition forces. The protesters brought a "black mark" to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and demanded his resignation. The protesters used black sheets of paper as black marks. During the action, about 50 people were detained, including Sergei Udaltsov (Left Front) and Lev Ponomarev (Solidarity, Movement For Human Rights).

New pages of the business of Sergey Magnitsky The employee of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Artem Kuznetsov, who was part of the investigative group in the case of Sergei Magnitsky, was at the center of a major scandal.

The writer and pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery, born 110 years ago, on June 29, 1900, was destined to oppose the Iron Age with the pure gold of human courage, humanism and nobility. He was a natural nobleman from a very old family. He knew what honor is. "It won't take long to sheathe steel, but you can't sheathe a proud spirit." Pilots and poets around the world simply call it Saint-Ex.

Prices for vodka and tobacco will rise again The Ministry of Finance sharply increases excise fees for alcohol and tobacco. To increase tax revenues to the budget, in the next three years, vodka and cigarettes will be caused by serious tribute.

Expert of the Center for Military Research at the University of Glasgow - The New Times On June 28, it turned exactly 5 months since the London Conference on Afghanistan, which approved a new coalition strategy. One of the key aspects of the document is the integration of moderate Taliban into the peace process. Meanwhile, the intensity of hostilities in Afghanistan does not decrease, and here in July it is planned to withdraw from the country of the first batch of American troops.

The resignation of the head of the Rostov region will cost 9 million annually Officials are normal people: they want to have a comfortable old age. Their difference from other citizens is that they know how to secure it. The President of Yakutia, sent at the end of May, will receive about 720 thousand rubles a year. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov, if retirement, can count on 80% of his current content - about 528 thousand rubles.

On June 23, on the first day of his three-day visit to the United States, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev flew to San Francisco in order to “feel” as he himself put it, the prototype of the future Russian innovative center in the suburbs-his favorite project. Medvedev visited several leading companies - Cisco, Twitter, Apple, looking at the same time at the local branch of the Russian company Yandex - and said at Stanford University.

Artistic images of Lena Haydiz interested law enforcement officers ** The work of Haydiz, on which the two-headed monster holds an ax, an accordion, a bottle of vodka and the flag “Beat the Jews, save the Rasey!”, Was exhibited on the 2nd Biennale of Modern Art and entered the “Himire” cycle-along with the “Himer of the Bolshevik”, “Himer of the Sexual Revolution”, “The Chimera of the Capitalist”, etc. However, nationalists.