Zanzibar is not the name of a nightclub in a provincial town, but an archipelago with a main island of the same name in the Indian Ocean, a semi-autonomous part of the East African state of Tanzania. Translated from Persian, "Zanzibar" means "land of blacks." In addition to the paradisiacal landscapes with snow-white beaches, coconut palms and crystal clear azure water, the island is known for its spice plantations and the slave trade - slaves were brought here from all over the mainland.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow placed 18-year-old Alexandra Dukhanina, suspected of using violence against police officers on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, under house arrest until July 6, Interfax reports. Activist Alexandra Dukhanina was detained on Monday in connection with mass riots at the March of Millions on May 6. The investigation accuses the girl of committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code (“Organizing mass riots”). Interfax-Center

Due to the large number of conflicting reports regarding the opposition's plans for June 12, I will explain the action plan for that day: It all starts at 12-00 at the Sakharov Center on Sadovoy (Zemlyanoy Val St., 57, building 6). There will be an action organized by the League of Voters in support of the Moscow city referendum (on various issues, the main ones being the elections of the mayor and the Moscow City Duma).

A march against the work of the hydrometallurgical plant is planned in Lermontov May 29 2012, 09:40 Activists of Russian patriotic organizations of the Kavminvod will hold a procession in Lermontov on June 1 demanding the closure of the city-forming enterprise - the hydrometallurgical plant (HMZ). Activists intend to march in the direction from the Lermontov Regional Multidisciplinary College on Komsomolskaya Street to the building of the hydrometallurgical plant on Promyshlennaya Street.

The daughter of a people's assessor, a former notary, a civil registry office employee, and a legal adviser at a factory, Evgenia Maslennikova began her career as a judge under Soviet rule and, after working for 18 years, was fired. The formal reason for dismissal is “for red tape.” But Maslennikova herself and many of her colleagues are sure that they have not forgiven her for being too independent.

In Kursk, a pre-investigation investigation is being carried out into the death of an arrested person who jumped from the fourth floor window of the building of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia in the Kursk region, where he was being interrogated.

Photo: Yana Karbovskaya/Publicpost Text: Yana Karbovskaya The Lisa Alert search team is holding an exhibition "Not Childish", which presents installations with nine of the most notorious stories about missing children. Some of them were found, some were not. A PublicPost correspondent spoke with volunteers of the movement and found out how and who they are looking for and how the state helps them with this.

One can, of course, say that all of these are tragic coincidences. Dagir Khasavov did not at all want to say that Muslims would flood Moscow with blood if Sharia courts were not introduced in the Russian Federation, and journalist Sergei Aslanyan, who allowed himself free speculation about the Prophet Muhammad, was not stunned and cut up for this at all. But what happened happened. And precisely in this sequence, precisely under such a set of circumstances.

In Omsk on Tuesday, a drunk driver hit a woman and her daughter who were crossing the road at a traffic light. The offender, who fled the scene of the incident, was later detained, and an administrative case was initiated against him under Part 1 of Art.

Instead of a preface: “Tolya,” I call Naiman, “let’s go visit Leva Druskin.” “I won’t go,” he says, “he’s some kind of Soviet.” - That is, how is it Soviet? You are wrong! - Well, anti-Soviet. Who cares. Sergey Dovlatov "Solo on Underwood". There are many of us, many! I mean opponents of the current government. Let's assume millions. And we are all different. What is good news is that even spicy-salted sprat are not the same. Especially domestic production.

After waiting until passions calmed down a bit after May 6, the government went on the offensive. On Sunday, Alexandra Dukhanina, a member of Autonomous Action, was detained. Articles 212 and 318 of the Criminal Code. All the violence that she directed towards a representative of the authorities apparently consisted in the fact that the riot policeman was dragging her by the throat into a paddy wagon. Two more were detained on Monday.

Photo: Valery Melnikov/Kommersant The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the capital announced on Monday that a license for the private security activities of the Pantan of the Gudkov family was suspended for a month. Gennady Gudkov himself considers the recall of the license political reprisal. Earlier, Chop has already been canceled a license to store and use weapons.

The criminal case against me, after the post, "how they saw in Transneft, it ended safely. The paper was dated on April 10, but we decided to wait - whether the decision in the prosecutor’s office will “stand” and whether its higher units of the UK will cancel. Everything is ok. So I am not a villain who stole the forest: And I even have the right to apologize and complete rehabilitation: Dozens of people interrogated, conducted several examinations.

He calls himself "generation of tobacco and alcohol" Sergey Dovlatov loves to repeat this phrase, but authorship belongs to the American poet Oden. “Everything from them, from the great. And so, I got tanned, ”laughs a member of the jury of the International Festival“ Photo Fest-2012 ”, the master of extreme photography Alexander Efremov, who does not release a cigarette from his hands.

Yesterday I came across a most interesting post. This is a peculiar reaction (even a little radical) to the “gift to the people of St. Petersburg” from Durov in the form of several five thousand dollar bills lowered on airplanes from the cozy window of his own office: “Dear friends! I think that Mr. Durov’s act of drinking generosity did not leave each of us indifferent. You can treat it in any way you like, but the fact of the “evolution” of our Zuckerberogova is obvious.