According to information received by Novaya Gazeta, on July 27, at about 9 am, a chemical weapons destruction plant at military unit 21225 Pochep-2 leaked 6 tons of VX nerve agent. For unknown reasons (presumably a violation of the temperature regime of storage), three containers of two tons each were depressurized. As we were told by local residents, no official emergency was announced.

The second day of consideration of the Pussy Riot case began on the merits. Chairman - Judge Syrov (online) => Video: Anastasia Antipova - "New" Elena Kostyuchenko was with you. Thank you. Until tomorrow! 22:17 Girls were held in a car zakak. Pussy Riot supporters who were at the entrance to the Khamovniki court carried out them with applause. 22:00 girls were shook into handcuffs and led out of the audience.

It is a revenge! They were very scared in December, they thought something would happen now. But they quickly realized that no one was going to beat them, that the majority of the protesters wanted a peaceful development of events...

In the decisive fight in the category up to 75 kg. He defeated the Japanese Riki Nakai. Recall that the first award for our country at the 2012 Olympics was also won by a judoka in the category up to 60 kg. Arsen Galstyan.

Former member of the British group Genesis musician Peter Gabriel wrote a letter to the arrested members of the group Pussy Riot. This was announced on his Facebook music producer Alexander Cheparukhin. “Nadya, Katya, Masha. You have the right to your own prayers - from the heart. I hope you will be released very, very soon. We are all following this,” wrote the musician.

The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, made a tandem parachute jump on Monday during the opening of the All-Russian parachuting competitions taking place in the republic. “Yevkurov made a parachute jump from a height of 3,000 meters in tandem with the absolute world champion Denis Dobryakov at the All-Russian competition in parachuting for accuracy of landing that opened in our republic. The head of the republic made the jump on his birthday,” told Interfax .

The united opposition "Fatherland" during the congress on July 30 nominated ex-premier Yulia Tymoshenko, who is serving a prison term for exceeding her powers when signing gas contracts with Russia in January 2009, as the first number on the party's party list. Despite the decision of the congress, Tymoshenko will not be able to take part in the elections - Ukrainian laws prohibit candidates with an outstanding criminal record from running.

Russia has ratified an agreement to simplify visa formalities for citizens of the Russian Federation and the United States, according to the law on ratification, posted today on the official Internet portal of legal information. The agreement was signed on November 21, 2011. It is aimed at creating favorable conditions for the travel of citizens of Russia and the United States, the development of economic, cultural, scientific and humanitarian ties between the two states.

On the fifth day of the life of the “White ribbons” forum, the mass release of their own information ballot begins, and political scientist Nikolai Starikov and deputy Ilya Ponomarev converge on the debate In the morning, Alexei Domanov calls me, the first person who was not hesitated to put a white ribbon on Seliger. Van, our publication is ready. Help give out. He is waiting for me at his tent with a girl who is called Elena. Elena is a student from Tver, about 20 years old.

Photo: Evgeny Feldman - "New" 16:34 Navalny left the passing SK: “It was decided not to charge me today, so, apparently, all this was done just to torment you, sorry,” he turned to the journalists and added that nothing more in the UK did not happen. 16:10 Activists stand in a single picket at the gate: once every few minutes they transfer to each other posters “Investigative Committee - Factory of Lies” and “Bastrykin - a bottle of champagne”.

The Metropolitan police have stepped up security measures at the building of the Investigative Committee in Technical Lane, where opposition leader Alexei Navalny is expected to be charged in the “Kirovles case”. According to Interfax , three police buses are parked at the department, police officers and riot police are on duty. Several dozen journalists and bloggers have gathered in front of the entrance to the building of the Investigative Committee, who are waiting for Navalny to arrive.

Economist Sergei Glazyev has been appointed adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to the Kremlin website. As an adviser, he will oversee the "development of Eurasian integration" within the framework of the Customs Union and the Common Economic Space of the Russian Federation, the Republic of Belarus and the Republic of Kazakhstan. Sergei Glazyev is a Russian economist, politician, former Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of Russia. Born January 1, 1961. in Zaporozhye.

The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow banned the interrogation of witnesses and the examination of evidence in the Pussy Riot case from broadcasting on the Internet, having granted the relevant petition of the state prosecution. The meeting is now broadcast live on the court website , as well as on the websites of many media outlets, including the Novaya Gazeta website, where online reporting is also conducted .

The Tajik authorities have returned to the practice of blocking independent online news resources, Newsru.com reports . Appropriate measures have been taken against the website of the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC and the Russian TV channel Vesti. Restriction on access to sites appeared on July 29. The companies providing Internet services explained that the decision to restrict access was made by the Communications Service under the government of the republic.

More than 200 forest fires have been recorded in Russia to date. More precisely, 201, almost 27 thousand hectares of land were engulfed in flames. According to the press service of the Federal Forestry Agency, there are no threats to settlements and economic facilities. However, residents of the regions engulfed in fire complain of constant smog and the smell of burning. According to ITAR-TASS , the most difficult situation is in the forests of the Ural, Siberian and Far Eastern regions.