Recently, in a conversation with a priest, the rector of one of the parishes of the Vyatka diocese, I, among other things, asked how he felt about the girls from the group Pussy Riot and received an interesting answer: “This is a provocation. Organized against the weak, then-current president, in favor of the arrival of a new strong one, who must show his strength, including in relation to these girls. A provocation, into the orbit of which the Russian Orthodox Church was drawn.

In the Amur Region, a criminal investigation into the poisoning of children with chlorine vapor in a hotel sauna has been completed, the Russian Investigative Committee reported on Thursday, June 28. As noted, charges under Part 1 of Article 238 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Provision of services that do not meet the safety and health requirements of consumers”) were brought against a 60-year-old sauna worker. The case against her has gone to trial.

Employees of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Grozny (Chechen Republic) on Wednesday, June 27, detained a woman allegedly recruited by extremists to commit a terrorist attack. “The police found and confiscated extremist literature and a suicide note addressed to relatives from a 19-year-old girl,” reports the press service of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The publication of materials about the murder of Magnitsky, in principle, was in the interests of the authorities. It does not at all prevent the spread of stories about horrors happening in prisons, courts, police, and other authorities. The reading public is created in a mood of fear and hopelessness. And this plays into the hands of the authorities. It would seem that the world's reaction to this chaos is the defeat of the Kremlin. Nothing of the kind.

Millhouse, controlled by Roman Abramovich, is negotiating with the world's largest mining company, BHP Billiton, to create a joint venture to develop a gold deposit in Chukotka. We are talking about potentially one of the largest gold deposits in Russia - the Baimskaya gold-copper area in Chukotka, informed sources told Kommersant . According to the newspaper's interlocutors, the deal could take place before the end of the year.

(back to top) The tricks of the subject “on his own” are not new, but even “grown boys” still buy into them. Like one bespectacled man, and not just anyone, but the Minister of Finance. Who served the inventor of the eternal “tandem”, who does not distinguish a white ribbon from a condom, faithfully, one might say, from the very beginning of his “glorious deeds”.

The first thing a person traveling around Russia sees when leaving the station building is the bronze fifth point of the Lenin monument. Well, how could it be otherwise, there are monuments, and they have a fifth point and it is usually located just at the eye level of those leaving the station. That's how it happened.

More than 25 thousand Russian graduates failed the Unified State Exam in 2012, the press service of Rosobrnadzor told Interfax on Thursday. According to preliminary data, 3.25% (more than 25 thousand) of graduates did not pass the state (final) certification, the press service reported, noting that this figure may change slightly based on the results of consideration of appeals and the holding of the Unified State Exam at additional dates in July.

In the Sverdlovsk region, the main criminal/offender was discovered. This is Zhenya Roizman and his foundation "City without drugs" . One gets the feeling that if law enforcement officers would have the energy directed to the fight against Roizman to apply drug traders, maybe Roizan would not need his fund?

This amazingly handsome man's name was Grigory Grigorievich Kviton. And if our previous heroes had one photo studio, then Grigory Grigorievich owned an entire network. He had one studio in Vladikavkaz, the second in Grozny. I don’t know anything about Kviton’s Grozny atelier, but the Vladikavkaz atelier thundered throughout the country. Initially, Kviton rented premises on Aleksandrovsky Prospekt, where Ambassador is now.

The military investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Petrozavodsk garrison opened a criminal case into the crash of a Su-27 fighter near the Besovets airfield in the Republic of Karelia, according to a message posted on the Investigative Committee’s website on Thursday. The case was initiated on the grounds of a crime under Art. 351 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Violation of flight rules or preparation for them").

Recently, in a conversation with the priest, the rector of one

Photo: ITAR-TASS The head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseeva, will fulfill the requirements of the law on rallies and submit a notice of the anniversary celebration. On July 20, the human rights activist turns 85 years old. Why did you decide to notify the authorities about your personal holiday? According to the new law, notification must be given of any event in which more than two people participate.

Photo: Alisa Ivanitskaya/PublicPost The head of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) Valery Fedorov and sociologist Olga Kryshtanovskaya, who recently created her own scientific foundation "Kryshtanovskaya Laboratory", presented two independent studies of protest participants, where they tried to predict the future of the opposition and the authorities. Who are they?

On June 29, the protest movement will be gathering on Red Square for the #Belygim Promotion under the slogan: “We will just sing here!” To sing a hymn. The art group #oxygen, together with activists #occupy, invite all people supporting the opposition movement to come to Red Square on June 29th at 20:00 to the frontal place in white clothing and sing a hymn together (in case of overlapping the reserve place-a monument to Marshal Zhukov).