A deputy of the German parliament from the Green Party and a member of the parliamentary foreign policy committee of Mariluis Bek came to the Khamovnican court to announce the sentence in the Pussy Riot case. - Why did you come here? My specialization is Eastern politics, I am a member of the foreign policy committee. For me, the issue of developing political relations in Russia is very important.

The verdict in the case of the punk band Pussy Riot is not only a fact of the biography of three young women. This is another blow to the judicial system and, above all, to the trust of Russian citizens in it. The Pussy Riot trial blatantly misrepresents what they did. In a secular court, the state prosecutor bases the charge on violation of church codes only to justify criminal punishment.

Kurochkin The girls did it. Putin jumped. Girls - freedom and glory! I'm not having fun. Girls-girls! What!? Not in my lifetime! From this moment and for a long time to come, you are bolder, faster, stupider, wiser, more irresponsible. Right from now on! They couldn’t wait until I solved my problems with my head, money and children... Another five years, another five or six new plays... I would then too... It’s too early for me... Not ready yet... Not famous yet...

Builders of the university, on Russky Island, organized a solid waste dump not far from the FEFU buildings. All construction waste that needs to be eliminated before the start of the APEC summit is brought here. The removal of waste to a specialized solid waste landfill, which is located near Vladivostok, is not carried out.

It has become a bad tradition to celebrate the end of Ramadan by raising food prices. Sellers explain this by saying that suppliers deliberately raise them. It’s strange, no matter how much I was interested in Khasav-Yurt, Nalchik or Pyatigorsk, prices there did not change. And why, if sales volumes are already increasing. And it makes no sense to suspect them of collusion, given the large number of suppliers.

The Russian government has approved a bill introducing mandatory direct elections of mayors in all Russian cities . The document was presented in May. It was prepared by the Ministry of Regional Development. Now the government must submit a bill to the State Duma. After this, it will be considered by deputies who can make amendments to it. In accordance with the bill prepared by the Ministry of Regional Development, indirect elections are prohibited.

Today we will find out how much conscience this government has left. Today we will hear a verdict that should never have happened. And whatever it is, you need to ask yourself the question: who are we? Are we people who really influence the observance of human rights in the country or not? And this is the main question. Every trial like the PussyRiot case poses a question to society: are we a trembling creature?! But today this question is posed more broadly - the whole world has posed it to us.

What should we do? After all, by helping people we can easily get a sentence. Ilya Farber On Friday, the Tver Regional Court handed down a verdict in the case of Ilya Farber. The court sentenced him to eight years in prison in a maximum security colony and awarded him a fine of 3,200,000 rubles. Moscow artist Ilya Farber moved with his family to the Tver region in the summer of 2010, got a job as a teacher of fine arts, literature and music at a school in the village of Moshenka.

Photo: ITAR-TASS On Friday, August 17, the Khamovnican Court of Moscow found the Pussy Riot punk group guilty under part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code ("Hooliganism"). Nadezhda Tolokonnikov, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich were sentenced to two years in colony of general regime. 20.50 " Interfax " Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin took care of the health of the ensign of the police, who stated that he was bitten by the ex-champion of the world of chess Harry Kasparov.

The investigative department of the Investigative Committee for North Ossetia opened a criminal case against 41-year-old Beslan resident Alexander Dzagoev, who offered a bribe of 100 thousand rubles to the police officers who detained him, the department’s press service reported on Friday. According to the investigation, in 2003, the investigative department at the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Sovetsky District of Samara charged Alexander Dzagoev with robbery.

Autonomous lights will be installed on the M-53 Baikal and Vilyuy federal highways in the Irkutsk region until mid-September. “Autonomous lamps are powered by batteries charged by solar panels and wind generators. Such lamps, unlike conventional ones, do not require expensive supply of underground or overhead power lines and payment for electricity,” the press secretary of the Federal Institution “Administration of the Automotive Industry” told the Interfax-Siberia agency.

A lot is said about the problems of motorists, the lack of space for parks, bad roads, transport taxes, but there is an equally important problem for many Kaliningrad residents - public transport. Hundreds of thousands of people use its services in the city every day, and the quality of public transport in Kaliningrad is far from ideal. I travel around the city myself, using public transport, more often on buses, less often on trolleybuses.

We are pleased to inform you that today the Eleventh International Kansk Video Festival will open in Kansk. Photo: Sergey Mezenov The festival program does not differ in “film festival standards”: it is replete with genres, full of surprises - and not only for the audience.

The liberalists of all stripes flew to defend the arts “Pudsk”. Yes, this is understandable where they will be promoting now, if Pussy is not so distant to the places?! According to the media, at least 30 people were detained near the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow, where the verdict was announced to the participants of the Pussy Riot art show. About 10 people were delivered to the Hamovniki police department, among whom is Harry Kasparov and the coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov.

Today is three years since the disaster at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station. As is customary, based on the results of the investigation, Rostechnadzor issued recommendations for preventing accidents at hydraulic structures. The measures are generally obvious, although some of them require new technical solutions. Despite the dilapidation of applied science, technical solutions will be found. The question is: by whom, how and in what form will they be implemented?