The Tver court of Moscow rejected the lawyer of the head of Chechnya , Ramzan Kadyrov, Andrei Krasnenkov, to the human rights company Memorial to recover 500 thousand rubles, RIA Novosti reports. Earlier, Kadyrov accused the head of the Memorial Oleg Orlov of slander for his statements about the involvement of the head of the republic in the murder of the human rights activist of the Memorial Natalia Estemirova .

Search engines found the bodies of four dead as a result of the AS-350 helicopter in Yakutia, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the owner of the ship's company “Yuteir”. It is reported that there were two passengers, a pilot and a technician on board the ship. The helicopter went on a route from Lensk Airport to Burovaya, presumably in the village of Talakan, but already 4 minutes after departure, the connection with it was lost. The reasons for the crash of the helicopter are still unknown.

Special forces of the Berkut police began to use tear gas to disperse protesters in Kiev, the RIA Novosti website reports. On July 4, the rally participants gathered at the entrance to the building of the Ukrainian house before the press conference of President Viktor Yanukovych. They oppose the law policy adopted on Tuesday, which provides official status to the Russian language in a number of regions of Ukraine.

In Russia, it is hardly the first time that the permitted gay-prading will be held. Moreover, in St. Petersburg, where they recently adopted the Dragon Regional Law on "Propaganda of Homosexualism." What is the motivation of this kind of solution - it is difficult to say. It seems that Peter’s authorities simply realized that it was an invoice to contact an anti -Giyan theme. The logic of making decisions of the authorities is deeply mysterious for an external observer.

The main problems of the network of hardware and software complexes "Safe City" in the State Duma are the lack of unified technical standards and the general concept of its use. But they intend to develop the system further, while, in the opinion of a number of parliamentarians, the rule of law for such a system is not the main thing. The order to ensure the deployment of a network of hardware and software systems (AIC) Safe City was given by the President of the Russian Federation in July 2007.

Evgeny Roizman, the head of the City without drugs, will open a department in Moscow in the fall, but it will engage in only analytical work, collecting information and interaction with the police, Interfax reports. According to Roizman, he already found a premises in Moscow and agreed with the security forces with whom the funds will conduct joint operations to close the drugs.

The leader of the opposition party “Bunch”, the boxing champion Vitaly Klitschko was cut off the hand of a glass bottle during a rally against the official status of the Russian language in Ukraine, the Izvestia newspaper writes with reference to the words of Klitschko. The boxer did not in response to apply his fighting abilities. The boxer confirmed that the protesters were accelerated with tear gas , which he fell under the action.

Three people were injured as a result of a leakage of 100 liters of methylizocyanate dangerous for humans at the Devon Polymers enterprise, located in the village of Levashovo near St. Petersburg, Rosbalt reports. The accident occurred at 11.53. One person received moderate poisoning. Now the substances are neutralized, there are no threats of residential quarters, according to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Northern capital.

The pilot of the American airline Jetblue Clayton Osbon, whose inadequate behavior led to a breakdown of the flight, was recognized as “innocent due to insanity,” Bloomberg reports. According to the decision of the federal court in Texas, Osbon will be sent to the hospital for a psychiatric examination. During the examination, specialists have to find out if he is a danger to society. The next meeting in this case will be held in August 2012.

In Azerbaijan, the chief editor of the newspaper Tolysha Sado (Talysh Voice) and human rights activist Gilala Mamedov, who became famous in Runet, “Who are you? Come on, goodbye ”, the accusations of the Stateismman and inciting interethnic growth were charged. It is reported by Contact.az . The preliminary investigation in the Mamedov case was transferred to the General Prosecutor's Office. The human rights activist was arrested on June 21 on charges of drug storage.

Andrey Levkin Illustration: Sergey Elkin Since March, it is known that Konstantin Kostin has been creating a civil society development fund. Traditionally, the topic is associated with some (such or such) intentions of the authorities. This, of course, is a rich journalistic topic, but more interesting is the intentions of the fund itself. Now they can be partially understood, Kostin gave an interview to the "expert" .

The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Litvin asked deputies to accept his resignation, except for him, the vice speaker Nikolai Tomenko said about his early retirement, UNIAN reports. Both represent the opposition faction "But-Babyvshchina". Litvin made a resignation at the morning meeting on Wednesday after the adoption of the law on the provision of official status to the Russian language in a number of regions of Ukraine.

Two Swedes from a light -engine aircraft were thrown over the Presidential Palace in Minsk about a thousand plush bears with slogans in support of freedom of speech in Belarus, writes The Local on Wednesday. “As far as I can judge, the mission was successful,” one of the pilots told the publication. As it turned out, the plane with the bears flew out of the neighboring Lithuania at night and dropped his cargo early in the morning.

At least 70 people were injured as a result of leakage of chlorine on Wednesday night in the suburbs of Tbilisi, Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Emergencies of Georgia. Among the victims in the settlement is granft (Lilo municipality) are passers -by, local residents, as well as a pregnant woman and children. Chlorine spill occurred on the territory of a private Iranian company engaged in water supply.

Shlomo Weber Download files Presentation for the lecture by Schlomo Weber (PPT, 556.5 KB) We publish the text of the lecture of the professor of the Russian Economic School Weber “Obama or not: the foreign and domestic policy of the United States after the presidential election”, read on May 30, 2012 in the lecture of the Moscow Polytechnic Museum as part of the “ Economic Policy ” course. The lecture is organized by the Russian Economic School. Shlomo Weber : Good evening.