A resident of St. Petersburg Konstantin Leutin, a vacationing in Thailand, disappeared during a boat trip in the Gulf of Siamese near the island of Sak near the resort city of Pattaya, the RIA Novosti website reports. Leutin, born in 1981, arrived in Thailand in early July. On July 22, he went on a walk along with a small group of Russians to celebrate the birthday of one of his friends.

According to MK , the degree of wear of fixed assets in Russian industry, according to Rosstat, was 47.1%at the end of 2010. This is on average. And in individual enterprises, the equipment dilapidated significantly more, which turned them, in fact, into a shy bomb. And one of the largest chemical plants in Russia Togliattiazot (TOAZ) was finally going to technically rearm.

Employees of law enforcement agencies and the Ministry of Emergencies blocked the discussion camp of the Opposition "Volga+Ural" in the Nizhny Novgorod region, reports on Wednesday Radio "Freedom" . Measures in relation to the camp, which began his work near Bogorodsky, were taken for considerations of fire safety, the police explained. It is reported that a day earlier, local authorities told activists that their event is illegal.

For the first time in Sakhalin's spawning rivers, the full -fledged industrial fishing of the pink salmon is allowed. Local environmentalists call this decision “legalized poaching”. On August 7, the commission for regulating the production of anadromic species of fish of the Sakhalin Region decided on the beginning of the industrial fishing of the pink salmon on three Sakhalin rivers - Lesnaya, Markovka and Turovka, reports the Ecological Watch of Sakhalin .

The number of general -round crimes in the Russian army in the first half of 2012 for the first time exceeded the number of military. This was announced by the chief military prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky, reports the website of RIA Novosti . According to Friedinsky, the number of murders increased by about 53 percent. In addition, in the troops they began to take bribes almost twice more often, and drug trafficking increased by more than 27 percent.

One of the members of the Pussy Riot group, Maria Alekhina, in her last word, stated that their performance was a protest against the vertical of power, which suppresses the personality in any of its manifestations. The defendant said that she herself was faced with the fact that independent people were suppressed from an early age. She referred to her experience in a boarding school for children, where those who run from orphanages go.

“Do not judge, and you will not be convicted; Do not condemn, and you will not be convicted; Farewell, and you will be forgiven; Come on, and will be given to you: with good good, settled, bent and overflowing will send you to your bosom; For, with what measure, measure, it will measure it with you. ” Apostle Luke Tomorrow, everyone will write about the end of the trial over Pussy Riot. Therefore, I decided to write today, an advance, so to speak.

President Vladimir Putin appointed Sergei Mitin to the acting governor of the Novgorod region - today the five -year term of office has expired. The election of the governor will take place on October 14. In May 2012, Medvedev signed a law that returns direct governor elections in Russia.

The lawyer of the Pussy Riot group Mark Feigin promised to organize an international joint action with three defendants in the case of punk; He wrote about this on his Twitter . “So, the World action Free Pussy Riot will be held on August 17 at 14.00 Moscow time. This is a peaceful non -violent action of solidarity, ”his message said. Feigin later asked to disseminate this information in all languages.

A resident of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Olga Kuklin, whose car was injured in a collision with a car from the court of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, applied to the court for compensation, the RIA Novosti website reports. According to Kukkukina, the amount of the claim is 230 thousand rubles. The woman explained that the damage from the accident was estimated at 319 thousand rubles, but 120 thousand of them were already paid by the insurance company.

The Norwegian Statoil, as expected in May, left the project of mastering the Shtokmanovsky deposit, giving Gazprom its share (24%) to the Shtokman Development AG, Interfax said. Today, Kommersant, with reference to his sources, writes that the head of Statoil Helge Lund and the senior vice president of Europe and Asia Küdland Torgeir left the board of directors of Shtokman Development.

The former girl of the 40-year-old Wade Michael Page, who is suspected of killing six people in the Sikh temple in Wisconsin, was arrested on charges of illegal possession of weapons, reports Reuters on Wednesday. According to a brief statement by the police department of the city of Miluoi, the charge against 31-year-old Misty Cook has already been put forward. The statement was not said when and where the woman was arrested.

Deputies of Fair Russia are preparing a new anti -corruption bill for the autumn session, obliging all employees of state corporations, as well as their spouses and children to declare their income and expenses, Izvestia reports. So far, only managers, their deputies and members of the board of state -owned companies have done this.

The Russian Ministry of Defense denied the statements of the Syrian rebels that they could kill the Russian general with the surname Kodzhiev, who allegedly helped the regime of Bashar al -Assad. There is no general in the Russian army with such or with similar surnames, a senior representative of the ministry told RIA Novosti .

An accident involving a car from the motorcade of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev was issued in compliance with all procedural norms. This was announced by Interfax by the senior inspector of the traffic police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kamchatka Territory Andrei Volkov. According to him, the information that the collision was designed retroactively does not correspond to reality.