Photo: RIA Novosti The Cathedral of Christ the Savior passed the action in defense of Pussy Riot. On the morning of August 15, activists in multi -colored balaclavas lined up in a row near the temple building with signs forming the inscription "Blessed Merciful." Immediately at the entrance to the temple, guards appeared in civilian clothes and began to disperse the participants in the action.

Photo: RIA Novosti Update: 08/16/2012 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Smolensk region called on journalists "to objectivity in the publication of comments on socially significant trials and resonant criminal cases." As stated in the press release of the department , Anton Mandrick, who announced the process in the Taisiya Osipova case that the investigators were thrown by the drugs, the opiate addict himself.

Today two remarkable events became known. Firstly, unknown persons beat up the participants of the rally in support of PussyRiot at the KhHS. KhHS is not the most remote place in Moscow, and the police are almost always present there. However, the police chose not to interfere in the “process”, and not only did not interfere with the beatings, but also did not detain any of them.

DNA testing confirmed the involvement of a 38-year-old man detained on Wednesday in the attack on girls in Irkutsk, a source in the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told the Interfax-Siberia agency on Wednesday. “A genetic examination has just been completed. The DNA materials taken from the suspect matched those left by the pedophile on the victims,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The Ministry of Health of the Sakhalin Region sent to the prosecutor's office materials to verify the actions of Uglegorsk doctors in the treatment of three-year-old Seva Zavgorodniy, who fell into a coma due to a severe infection, the department's press service reported on Wednesday. Earlier, on behalf of Governor Alexander Khoroshavin, a ministry commission conducted its inspection at the Uglegorsk central district hospital.

The St. Petersburg Transport Committee sent a request to the carrier company demanding an explanation regarding the disruption of aquabuses on the Nevskaya and Central line routes, the committee's press service reported on Wednesday. “Disruptions in the operation of these water routes were recorded by the Central Dispatch Service under the Transport Committee from 11.00 Moscow time.

Yesterday I met with one very famous journalist. He told me that "the department in the Kremlin to combat counter -modernization" orders "Chernukha" against G. Gudkov on the Internet and the media. The first story appeared on the Pravda.ru portal Gudkov and I really laughed when I read it to him on the phone. The rector of the Church of the Church of the St. Territory of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Saint-Louis (France) Archpriest Vladimir (Shibaev).

It was inevitable that this would happen. It is no coincidence that rumors about a repetition of the action came several times from different cities. This is Vienna. Cathedral of St. Nicholas. On Facebook, a certain Thomas Draschan wrote today about the action of solidarity held in the cathedral with the arrested members of Pussy Riot and published this photo. Judging by the comments, there was also a clash, either with the guards or with the servants.

The head of Karachay-Cherkessia, Rashid Temrezov, declared the Eid al-Fitr holiday, celebrated this year on August 20, a non-working day, the press service of the head of the republic reported. “The decree was signed in accordance with the Federal Law “On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations” and taking into account the petition of the chairman of the presidium of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Karachay-Cherkessia,” the statement says.

Governor of the Penza region, member of the Supreme Council of United Russia Vasily Bochkarev topped the list of candidates for deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the region of the fifth convocation and his election program, the press service of the regional branch of the party reported on Wednesday.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Text: Anastasia Petrova — The Vedomosti newspaper wrote that you could be deprived of your deputy mandate by the fall. Do you believe in such a development of events? I don't just believe, I know this is the plan because they didn't dig up anything they dreamed of. They didn't succeed. Therefore, they decided to simply stupidly vote to deprive me of my mandate.

The FSB Directorate for the Ivanovo Region opened two criminal cases against the heads of farms - deputies of local governments suspected of fraud, the department's press service reported on Wednesday. According to investigators, the suspects provided the regional department of agriculture and food with deliberately false information about the production and sale of fiber flax.

Photo: ITAR-TASS In Khimki near Moscow, power is changing - the governor of the Moscow region, Sergei Shoigu, who was appointed instead of Boris Gromov, who was considered permanent, dismissed the equally permanent Vladimir Strelchenko. Strelchenko and Gromov are great friends, acquaintances from their service in Afghanistan.

Mikhail Kostyaev continues his series of pre-election conversations with candidates for mayor of Kaliningrad. This time he publishes an interview with the coordinator of the Amberkant blogger club, Dmitry Nadrshin. "One of the few decent middle-class businessmen is being unfairly persecuted by local authorities." Andrey Rudoy tells the story of how the administration of Nizhny Novgorod solves its problems through harsh criminal means.

The director of a school in the Bryansk region is accused of beating a high school student, the press service of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the region reported on Wednesday. “The director of the Klimovsky district secondary school, Alexander Kislenko, who is a deputy of the district council of people’s deputies, has been charged with committing a crime under Part 1 of Article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (assault),” the statement says.