For the first time on the screen, the series "Russian America" ​​on the TV channel "Culture" - from August 6 to 9 This week, Nina Zaretskaya's series will premiere on the Kultura channel. Although it was removed from sight, staged in the dead of night, I hope that this work will find a patient audience. Thank you, as they say, for your attention. The schedule follows: August 6, 01:15 Russian America. "Explaining Mr. Solomon Volkov" August 7, 01:30 Russian America. "Wanderer.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny said today that a listening device was found in his office at the Anti-Corruption Foundation. Navalny wrote about this on his Twitter. The oppositionist with his associates called the police. The wiretapping was discovered thanks to a device brought by the lawyer of the RosPil project Andrey Mishchenkov. There were no inscriptions on the microphone.

Foreword by Alexander Genis Dear friends and friends! Although the series was removed from sight, staged in the dead of night, I hope that this work will have a patient audience. Thank you, as they say, for your attention. Here is the timetable (Moscow time). Your Alexander Genis Russian America Documentary Series Russian America. "Explaining sir. Solomon Volkov" Date: 06 Aug 12 Time: 01:15 Russian America. "Wanderer. Alexander Genis" Date: 07 Aug 12 Time: 01:30 Russian America.

How to react when a man in a black uniform hits his butt in the stomach or pushes him down the stairs, and in response to the exclamation: “What are you doing ?!”, pretends that nothing is happening ?! The one who hits and pushes has a stripe on a black uniform "special forces", and over his shoulder a "Kedr" submachine gun, specially designed for shooting indoors.

Syrian Prime Minister Riyad Farid Hijab has fled the country, according to NEWSru . The ex-official was appointed to this position just two months ago. The act of the head of government in Damascus is not commented on, local media announced only that the official had been dismissed, but also. O. Prime Minister appointed his Deputy Omar Galavanki. Some media reported that Riyad Hijab fled to Jordan with his family.

In Grozny, according to preliminary data, two explosions thundered on Monday, as a result of which, according to incoming information, four people were killed, Interfax was told in the law enforcement agencies of the North Caucasus Federal District. The identity of the dead has not yet been established, the source said. According to him, there is still no complete clarity as to whether these explosions were carried out by suicide bombers.

On Twitter @KadirovRussia today, on behalf of the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, statements appeared about the case of members of the Pussy Riot group. Their author, in particular, does not understand why the girls are tried in a civil court - “If people desecrate the temples of their country, then they are not people, but pigs.

On August 8, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow will pass a sentence on the director of the State Academic Central Puppet Theater named after S.V. Obraztsov to Andrei Luchin, accused of embezzlement of about 12 million rubles. On Monday, Luchin spoke to the court with the last word, in which he asked to take into account his positive characterization, marital status, and the fact that he had not previously been convicted, RIA Novosti reports .

In Finland, an attempt to repeat the February "punk prayer" of Pussy Riot in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, for which Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich is currently being tried on charges of hooliganism, has been prevented, reports Newsru.com . Teivo Teivainen, a professor of world politics at the University of Helsinki, tried to repeat the Pussy Riot rally in the Assumption Cathedral in the capital last weekend, but he was not allowed into the church.

The fact that the departed human rights activists and experts are returning to the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society and human rights, writes on Monday. Izvestia “Four people who said they were leaving to protest the rotation system have returned. Since the rotation system, which we eventually developed, suited everyone, ”said Mikhail Fedotov, head of the HRC, to the publication.

In the Leningrad region, Alexander Sobolenko, the head of the administration of the Vsevolozhsk district, was charged with abuse of power with the use of violence. This was reported on the website of the regional prosecutor's office. Sobolenko was charged under paragraph "a" of part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code. According to the investigation, on April 23, 2012, at about 15:30 Moscow time, Sobolenko beat up visitors who came to see him in his office.

Photo: "New Gazeta" On Friday, at 14.30, a message appeared on the website of the Ministry of Emergencies of Tatarstan that during flight No. SU1191 from Kazan to Moscow, the Sukhoi Superjet-100 plane was partially depressurized, the crew dropped a height of up to 3000 meters and safely reached the Sheremetyeva, where he made an emergency landing ... On Friday, at 14.30, a message appeared on the website of the Ministry of Emergencies of Tatarstan that during flight No.

The American rover Curiosity ("Curiosity" - "Curiosity") successfully landed on the Red Planet in the region of the Gale crater, where, according to NASA scientists, there is a high chance of detecting the prerequisites for the existence of life (at the level of microorganisms). On Earth, the first pictures from the surface have already been received. The very first one, where you can see the wheel of the rover standing on the ground, caused stormy joy from NASA representatives.

This was announced today by the press secretary of the Minister of Health of the Russian Federation Oleg Salagay. According to him, the date of consideration of the law is set for October 18. Currently, the bill is in the Ministry of Justice, where it is undergoing legal examination. The upcoming law is called the toughest in the history of Russia. As recalled by Interfax , it prohibits smoking in most public places, residential buildings, hotels, transport.

“If people desecrate the temples of their country, then they are not people, but pigs. And trying animals in a civil court is absurd,” Kadyrov tweeted about the Pussy Riot case. His microblog contains other messages on a religious theme.