The Presidium of the Supreme Court on Tuesday, September 20, decided to send the case of businessman Alexei Kozlov, convicted in 2009 for fraud, to a new trial in the first instance and release him from custody. At the time of the new trial, which will begin in the Presnensky Court of Moscow, Kozlov will be under house arrest. According to Olga Romanova, she will go to the colony where her husband is serving his sentence on September 21.

The beginning of a series of single pickets was announced in his blog by the historian Nikolai Starikov, the author of books required reading for activists of the Nashi movement. According to Starikov, the pickets will be organized by a certain “Trade Union of Citizens of Russia”. They began on Tuesday, September 20, and will continue until objectionable media change their editorial policy.

The Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications of the Sverdlovsk Region must provide United Russia with the votes of at least 60 thousand people - this follows from a document published in his LiveJournal by Andrey Malgin. “Vyacheslav Lashmankin, head of the administration of the governor of the Sverdlovsk region, sent a letter to various regional chiefs with instructions regarding the upcoming elections.

On September 20, the European Court of Human Rights partially satisfied the claim of Yukos against the Russian Federation, acknowledging that Russia had violated the company's right to protect property. According to RIA Novosti, the court found that in the period from 2000 to 2001 the tax authorities violated Article 1 of Protocol No. 1 (protection of property) to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

“I hereby declare that from today I have nothing to do with the organization that calls itself the All-Russian political party Right Cause,” Leonid Gozman, one of the founders of Right Cause, wrote in his blog. “The country has lost, we have lost. But I, like my comrades in the Union of Right Forces, have never been either for Prokhorov or against him. We are for the idea, for making life less disgusting... In general, for democracy,” the politician writes.

The relationship between men and women is a very dangerous topic. No less dangerous are religion and politics. If you are a man and an officer, don't wear pink and orange. Take off your diamond watch. If you are wearing a diamond ring, turn it with the stone inside, it will pass for an engagement ring. Do not wear tight collars - they make the neck even thicker. Be vigilant, especially in the smoking room. And remember: an interview is not an interrogation.

Screenwriter Yuri Arabov - The New Times “Faust” is a protest against what is being done in our culture. ” Screenwriter of the Laureate film-about Goethe, Sokurov and the responsibility of the artist The film was shot in German. How did you write the script? The script was written in Russian, and the dialogs parodied the Pasternak translation of Faust. It was four years ago, when the production prospects of the film were very vague.

The Central Election Commission has certified the federal list of candidates for deputies of the State Duma from the Yabloko party, approved at the party congress on September 11, Interfax reports. The federal list of the party consists of 374 people, it is headed by the founder of the party, Grigory Yavlinsky, the current leader of the party, Sergei Mitrokhin, and environmentalist Alexei Yablokov.

Shot from the film "Faust". Mephistopheles - Anton Adasinsky (left), Faust - Johannes Zayler Mont Blanc over the Alps.

The purpose of information bursts is to maintain a sense of election reality in the population The election campaign, the main content of which during the summer were maneuvers around the Popular Front and its "primaries", took a break in the late August - early September. From the point of view of the authorities, this is quite reasonable tactics.