Photo: Vasily Shaposhnikov/Kommersant On Thursday morning, the Moscow Komsomolets said that the city authorities refused paving slabs. According to the publication, the return to the asphalt was due to "saving budget funds." "Sobyaninskaya" tiles appeared on the streets in 2011. The newly elected mayor then stated that asphalt has an unpresentable appearance and does not affect the ecology of the city - distinguishes harmful evaporation in the heat.

Dear Nadya, Katya and Masha, I am writing to support you during this difficult time. I want you to know that I really hope that the Russian authorities will respect the principle of freedom of speech for all citizens of your country and will not punish you for your protest. In a civilized world, many people have the right to express their opinions as long as it does not harm anyone, and I believe this is the best practice for any society.

What is happening now in Syria is extremely easy to describe – there is a full-fledged civil war going on there. The number of victims varies from 12 to 16 thousand, and more than 230 thousand are refugees. (The population of the country for reference is 20.2 million as of 2009). And what has Russia done towards Syria during all this time? Starting from December 5, 2011, she began to block and oppose resolutions on Syria in all international organizations.

I do not cause anger the fact that I am sitting. I do not hold evil. Personal evil - no. But there is a political evil. Our imprisonment serves as a clear and distinct sign that freedom is taken from the whole country. And this threat of destroying the liberation, emancipation forces of Russia is what makes me be angry. In the small you see a large, in the sign - a tendency, in the private - general. Feminists of the second wave said: "Personal is political." This is true.

I was surprised to see on A.A.’s blog. Navalny http://echo.msk.ru/blog/navalny/920180-echo/ letter to the chief doctors of Tambov regional government health care institutions. The chief doctors have nothing to do - look for a certain Alexey Anatolyevich Navalny. How many of them live in Russia? How many in the Tambov region? Here you can ask a lot of questions and have fun. Only the state of our healthcare is not conducive to fun.

The Tula Regional Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case into violence committed in the city of Aleksin in 2010 against one of the detained citizens. He stated that he was raped by Aleksin police officers in 2010. bottle neck. According to local sources, bodily injuries of a corresponding nature were also recorded. The victim repeatedly appealed to the authorities with a request to initiate a criminal case against his tormentors in uniform, but he was constantly refused.

Nizhny Novgorod police have identified the “telephone terrorist” who reported a bomb on a plane on a flight to Antalya (Türkiye), the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Nizhny Novgorod Region reported on Thursday. The woman who called turned out to be a 46-year-old resident of the Avtozavodsky district of Nizhny Novgorod. She had already confessed to the police what she had done and cited a quarrel with her sister as the reason for her action.

A new message of support for individual members of the PussyRiot art gang came from sunny Ukraine. According to media reports, one of the members of the PussyRiot art gang, namely Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (in certain circles goes by the nickname “Tolokno”), was offered to appear on the cover of the Ukrainian version of Playboy magazine, the Izvestia newspaper wrote on Wednesday, citing the magazine’s editor-in-chief - Vlada Ivanenko.

The Supreme Court of Chuvashia upheld the verdict of the Moskovsky District Court of Cheboksary against two employees of the OSB of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chuvashia, accused of beating a detainee, senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Republic Oleg Dmitriev told the Interfax-Povolzhye agency on Thursday.

A drunk visitor to the reception office of the head of the city of Slobodskaya, Kirov Region, Evgenia Rychkov, attacked a receptionist with a knife, Rychkov reported on his blog. Rychkov wrote that, according to his secretary Anastasia, at approximately 11:40 an unknown woman entered the reception area, asked something indistinctly, after which she pulled out a knife from her bosom and tried to stab the secretary with it several times.

The Pussy Riot action, the reaction of society, and the trial became the basis for many fruitful discussions of the political situation in the country, the position of the Russian Orthodox Church and other religions in society, and the concept of art. Also, a lot of words have been said about the judicial system and criminal law. It was separately studied whether the group can consider themselves musicians or only action artists.

I somehow have a hard time imagining what the Russian Orthodox Church and the authorities expected from the meaningless story with PussyRiot. Increased authority? Capital? General horror! Wasn’t it smart enough to realize that, as always, it would turn out the other way around? They would sit quietly, sell healing prayers and slowly fool irresponsible citizens with visions of eternal life.

Somehow the news went unnoticed that Prime Minister D. Medvedev signed a decree on holding a competition for participation in the second television multiplex... This means that by 2015, according to the government’s plan, Russians will have about 20 digital television channels. Where are regional TV channels in this scheme? Nowhere. The supreme power pretends that this phenomenon does not exist in our country.

Soldiers of the Elbrus high-mountain search and rescue team are working to rescue two climbers from Volgograd in the mountains of Kabardino-Balkaria, the North Caucasus Regional Center (SCRC) of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry reported on Thursday. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, two climbers fell from the Chet-Chat peak (height 3200 m) in the Adyrsu gorge.

The Cultural Council is being created under the government of Kabardino-Balkaria, the press service of the head of the republic reported on Thursday.