Photo report by Rustem Adagamov from the promotion in support of Pussy Riot Today, August 15, at 10 a.m., the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was held in support of the arrested Pussy Riot participants Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich. About 20 civilian activists climbed the steps of the temple, put on colored balaclavs and raised sheets of paper with letters from which the inscription “Blessed is blessed” - a quote from a naked sermon.

How to steal a trillion. On September 27, the government must decide: what to do with the pension system. The treasury is no longer able to cover a huge deficit of the pension fund. All summer in the offices of the interested departments, passions boil: the main question is the fate of 1.9 trillion rubles lying on funded pension accounts of citizens. Until the last days, officials intended to remove them to cover the deficit. But in early August, the moods at the top suddenly changed.

Events in Bolotnaya Square caused a new wave of political emigration from Russia. Activist of “Other Russia” Alexei Devyatkin and journalist Jenny Kurpen, who asked for refuge in Ukraine, explained their decision in an interview with The New Times Alexey Devyatkin and Jenny Kurpen Alexey Devyatkin: On May 6, Jenny and I were detained in Moscow, but not in Bolotnaya Square - we did not want to participate in an event organized by Navalny and his associates.

The leader of the movement in the defense of the Khimki forest, Yevgeny Chirikov, in a conversation with The New Times gave his own explanation of the resignation of the scandalously known mayor of the city Collage. Evgenia Chirikova, Vladimir Strelchenko Why did Vladimir Strelchenko resign right now? Probably some karmic shifts occurred. We demanded the resignation of Igor Levitin, Minister of Transport. We asked for the resignation of Boris Gromov, the then governor of the Moscow region.

Continuation. Beginnings in The New Times # 27 , 29 , 35 , 38 , 42 for 2011 and # 1–2 , 9 , 17 for 2012 In prison, they are also called “informals”, “lowered” and a bunch of other, less decent-sounding names. They are a prison “caste of untouchables”, with whom one cannot sit at the same table, eat from the same dishes, use the same things, etc. Their word has no weight in the "showdown" within the prison team, that is, they can not count on protection.

Brazil is fighting corruption The case of Mensalander. In Brazil, a trial began, nicknamed here "cleaning the century." In the bench of the defendants - 38 high -ranking officials, bankers and entrepreneurs accused of large -scale corruption. All of them belong to the top of the ruling in Brazil for more than 10 years of the left party of workers and in the very recent past were listed as the closest associates of the Brazilians, ex-president Luis Inasiu Lula da Silva.

The creak of tightening screws that accompanies the installation of the last elements of ritual fittings on the lid of the coffin of political freedoms is increasingly evoking the idea that corruption is the last barrier on Russia's path to totalitarianism. Total mutual responsibility and the mafia management structure imply point show trials, but not mass purges.