Read the material of Novaya Gazeta: “Who shot the Kursk by the American torpedo at No. 89 of August 10.

Today, the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Supreme Court of Tatarstan considered the cassation appeal of the mother of 23-year-old Alexander Berbin and ordered the military unit to pay 250,000 rubles as compensation for non-pecuniary damage for the death of her son. This was announced by lawyer Andrey Suchkov, who represents the interests of Svetlana Berbina at the initiative of the Kazan Human Rights Center.

August 12, 2012 marked the 12th anniversary of the tragedy - the Kursk nuclear submarine was lost in the Barents Sea. Mourning events were held in all fleets on this day. 118 people died. 32 of them are buried at the Serafimovsky cemetery in St. Petersburg.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk rejected the complaint of the artist Artem Loskutov against the decision of the world court, which fined a civil activist for placing “icons” in defense of Pussy Riot in the city. Thus, the decision entered into force.

Journalist, blogger Jenny Kurpen and Other Russia activist Aleksey Devyatkin appealed to the Ukrainian authorities with a request to grant them political asylum. They fear criminal prosecution in connection with the case of mass riots on May 6 in Moscow. Jenny Kurpen reported this to the Agora Interregional Human Rights Association.

Magistrate of the 207th district of the Dorogomilovsky Court sentenced Yulia Arkhipova, a student of the Higher School of Economics, activist Yulia Arkhipova, who was detained on July 7 in Moscow, at the very beginning of the Monstration rally that never took place, to a fine of 10 thousand rubles for writing in a notebook. It is reported by Gazeta.Ru . “10,000 fines to me for monsooning,” Arkhipova wrote in her microblog on Twitter moskless.

The head of the Ministry of Communications, Nikolai Nikiforov, announced today on his Twitter that domestic roaming may be canceled in Russia. Corresponding amendments are contained in the new law "On Communications", which is being developed by the ministry. According to Nikiforov, the additional charge for long-distance calls will remain, but uniform tariffs will operate within the region, regardless of which subject of the federation the subscriber came from.

The commission to investigate the causes of the accident of the Breeze-M upper stage with the Express-MD2 and Telkom 3 spacecraft will announce the final results of the investigation by August 16, a source told Interfax . in the rocket and space industry "According to the instructions of the head of Roscosmos Vladimir Popovkin, the final results of the investigation will be presented before the 16th," the source said.

The Leninsky District Court of Ulyanovsk postponed to August 22 hearings on the complaint of Sergei Udaltsov, who is accused of beating Anna Pozdnyakova, an activist of the Young Guard. Today, additional evidence was considered in court, in particular, video recordings were shown that were not accepted by the court of first instance. The victim was not present at today's meeting. Earlier, the court sentenced Udaltsov to community service. However, the oppositionist appealed the verdict.

Lawyers for Pussy Riot began to issue custody of the children of members of the punk band, Lenta.ru reports . The guardian of Gera, the daughter of Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Pyotr Verzilov from the Moscow faction of the art group "Voina", will be lawyer Mark Feigin. He explained that the decision to issue guardianship was made because of fears that Verzilov could be brought in as a defendant in the case of the action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior and taken into custody.

On Monday, an extraordinary session of the city council took place, at which a decision was made "On the implementation of the provisions of the law of Ukraine" On the foundations of the state language policy "in the city of Odessa. The bodies of the Odessa City Council should ensure the use of the Russian language on the territory of the city of Odessa as a regional one. Its use in work, office work, documentation is provided.

Specialists of JSC "ISS named after Reshetnev" established a connection with the Indonesian satellite "Telkom-3", which could not be put into the estimated orbit due to an emergency with the launch vehicle "Proton-M", RIA-Novosti reports . According to the company, all the satellite's service systems are functioning normally, but due to the fact that it is in an off-design orbit, its use for its intended purpose is impossible.

156 Russian tourists, who have been waiting for more than a day to fly from Sicily to Russia due to the suspension of flights by the budgetary Italian airline WindJet, will most likely go home on Monday evening, Flamingo and told Interfax Neva travel companies All tourists will be taken out at the expense of tour operators. In total, about ten tour operators work with WindJet on the Russian market. At the moment, tourists are accommodated in hotels.

Earlier it was reported that the commission of Turkey, with the assistance of specialists from the Interstate Aviation Committee, would be investigating the crash. But later it was decided that the prosecutor's office, the state of which owns the helicopter, would also carry out the check. Pre-investigation checks are also carried out by the investigating authorities.

Deputy Prime Minister - Chief of Staff of the Government, Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov will be responsible in the Cabinet for interaction with religious organizations. The corresponding order was signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the Vedomosti newspaper reports .