A rally in defense of the Izmailovsky forest park. Photo: Svetlana Vidanova / "New" In Moscow, a coordinated rally was held on Izmailovsky Boulevard in defense of the Izmailovsky forest. About 400 people came to the Boulevard at the theater of facial expressions and gestures, most of them are pensioners. Activists opposed the tender for a new zoning of the Izmailovsky forest park, which was won by the only contestant - the Institute of Urban Planning and System Design.

The court sent Vasily Kostylev for compulsory treatment, accused of using violence against a policeman at a rally against pension reform in Moscow on September 9, reports . MBKh media The prosecutor made a request to send Kostylev for compulsory treatment. The defense insisted that Kostylev was not dangerous and was ready to undergo treatment voluntarily. Vasily Kostylev was arrested in Moscow on September 11th.

From Rezanov - through the Gulag - to the new century Photo: Irkniga.ru The Irkutsk International Book Festival will be held in the old Siberian city on August 30 - September 1. Its organizers are the Social Innovation Support Fund “Free business” and the Association “Interregional Reading Federation”. The “revision” of culture in a huge country is a fair and absolutely necessary matter. As well as fruitful - for future generations of creators and carriers of this very culture.

UPDATE 21:48 & The police detained Anastasia Patlai and Anton Tkachuk, the spectator of the performance, & OVD-Info reports . & Patlai was taken away & to the Zamoskvorechye police station. Unidentified people disrupted the Theater.doc performance “Exit the Closet” about homosexuality and coming-outs, reports , citing director Anastasia Patlai.

More than 150,000 people demanded that the criminal case of "mass riots" against participants in peaceful protests in Moscow be dropped. The open letter is addressed to the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin. “We believe that the criminal case on the riots is being used to intimidate the people of Russia and effectively ban the exercise of our voting rights,” the letter says.

The Moscow Mayor's Office refused to agree on a rally against political pressure on students and universities, which the organizers were going to hold on August 30 in the Pit public space on Khokhlovskaya Square, student magazine DOXA told Novaya Gazeta.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow refused to oblige the mayor's office to provide an alternative platform for the opposition march on September 3, MBKh Media reports , citing Alena Borisova, a lawyer for Pravozashchita Otkrytka. “A representative from the government of Moscow came to the court, told for a very long time that they could not ensure the safety of the procession, that the boulevards could not accommodate the declared 30 thousand people, that the streets needed to be blocked.

What are mass riots and why President Yeltsin did not become a dictator Photo: Alexey Antonov/Photokhronika TASS Speaking at a congress of people's deputies in March 1993, Russian Security Minister Viktor Barannikov, among his main tasks, called the struggle against political extremists. But, surrounded by President Yeltsin, the minister was accused of that he was not fighting with political extremism.

Employees of the Center for Combating Extremism began a preliminary check for extremism against Omsk resident, journalist Natalya Graf, who complained about bullying of her son by gymnasium teachers. “Last week, while I was at work, the police came to us. They handed me a summons demanding to appear at the Center for Combating Extremism. The child was so scared that he could not sleep until 4 am. I, of course, didn’t sleep at all,” she said.

There is an accelerated preparation for the launch of the Belarusian nuclear power plant Photo: RIA Novosti The less time it remains before the launch of the Belarusian nuclear power plant in Ostrovts, the more strange events occurs around this unfinished object. And all these events, replicas, trends are perceived as tied with a strong sea knot with an explosion near Severodvinsky.

The Anapa city court has arrested two police officers for two months accused of forcing a 17-year-old baseball player to have sex. It is reported by Interfax with reference to lawyer Yuri Gapeev. The policemen were charged with coercion to act of a sexual nature against a minor (part 2 of article 133 of the Criminal Code). The defendants in the case do not admit their guilt.

People in power have long forgotten how to do anything but stupidities and disasters. Robot Fedor did not dock to the ISS the first time. Well, not docked and not docked - no big deal. Docked from the second. In the US, too, the Challengers are exploding, and even Elon Musk, whom I adore, has quite enough not just small slips, but also major disasters. Here you are.

After the collapse of the wall of a building in Novosibirsk, three people were detained in a criminal case on violation of safety rules during construction work (part 3 of article 216 of the Criminal Code), according to the website of the Investigative Committee. We are talking about the executive director of Sibirenergomontazh Alexei Bocharov, the chief engineer of the Kemerovo SMU JSC Sibirenergomontazh Alexander Petrov and the head of the organization Mikhail Pavlov.

People’s poet - about the Russian Guard and postmodernism as a national idea Photo: Svetlana Vidanova / "New" By the texts of Emelin, you can study the history of post -Soviet Russia. Day after day, he fixes bad and good news in verses. Ugly laws, rallies, detention, rampant political booth. They read it excitedly, they are posted on Facebook, quoted in a table frenzy. And in this sense, of course, he is a poet of a folk type of Yesenin.

In Minsk, Nikita Chirtsov, a participant in a rally on July 27 in support of unregistered candidates for the Moscow City Duma, was detained, reports . OVD -Info According to human rights activists, the police told the detainee that he was wanted for the July 27 rally. OVD-Info notes that Chirtsov did indeed participate in the rally and was fined in an administrative case for participating in the rally (part 5 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).