UPDATE: 20.30 Armenia broke off diplomatic relations with Hungary. This was stated by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan at a meeting with ambassadors of UN member countries accredited in the republic. “Neither I nor the people of Armenia accept this. The Armenian people will not forgive this,” Sargsyan said.

The post is dedicated to the number 31 - an important date about human rights and opportunities in Russia. Good afternoon. Or evening. If you are lucky enough to be born into an ordinary Soviet-Russian family. If your parents are not oligarchs or influential government officials in our time. If your parents did not raise you in such a way as a child, that you could achieve any career heights yourself. Then your destiny is to be part of the Russian population.

Photo: Collage Publicpost/Kommersant Supporters of the "Other Russia" party and participants of " Strategy-31 " came to the Moscow City Hall and staged a sit-in there. The party's press release states that "a peaceful seizure of the Moscow City Hall has been carried out." Activists demand a meeting with Sergei Sobyanin and the opening of Triumphal Square for citizens and rallies. Officials at City Hall said the mayor had left the building.

Photo: Daniil Kolomiychuk/publicpost About 100 activists gathered today on the triumphal square for a traditional action in defense of Article 31 of the Constitution, guaranteeing freedom of assembly. Among those who came about a third, they were journalists. By tradition, the police were several times more than the opposition. According to the results of the action , about 40 people were detained .

In Nizhny Novgorod, the topic of travel prices in transport becomes one of the most topical. Not so long ago, I described where the legs grow from all crazy bus innovations : rising prices for travel by 33% at once, the rise in the cost of student tickets by 117% (!), Attempts to control private transportation. In the end, the guys from the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin came up with a particularly sophisticated mockery of beneficiaries - a single social travel travel for 39 (!!!) trips.

Photo: Reuters The Russian team brought four medals on the first day of the Paralympics in London: two golds, a silver and a bronze. Vladimir Balynts won a silver medal in powerlifting in the weight category up to 48 kilograms. Judoka Victoria Potapova took bronze for the Russian team in the category up to 48 kilograms. Swimmers Sergei Punko and Oksana Savchenko showed the best results in swimming at a distance of 400 meters freestyle among men and women, respectively, and won gold medals.

Ivan Matveevich Vinnikov. The oldest human rights activist in Tula. He told local media the story of his many years of attempts to bring the great-great-grandson of Leo Tolstoy, the former director of the Yasnaya Polyana museum-estate and Chairman of the Tula Regional Public Chamber Vladimir Tolstoy, to criminal responsibility for forgery and fraud. It was like this.

Recently, it is not difficult to notice that the number of politically motivated sentences has increased. The recent monstrous sentence against Taisiya Osipova (8 years old) is proof of this, but only the lazy don’t talk about Pussy Riot. Meanwhile, any such process is not only the will of an abstract power machine, but a set of actions of the prosecutor, judge, and investigators.

Yesterday the bodies of two women were found in Kazan. In addition to traces of the terrible murder, investigators found “Free! Pussy Riot” written in blood on the wall in the apartment.

In Chelyabinsk, local art activists hung a figure on the wall of the building, depicting one of the members of the Pussy Riot group. The girl’s waist sculpture in Balaclava appeared on Friday night on the wall of the building at the intersection of Sverdlovsky Prospekt and Lenin Avenue near the Aloe Field store. According to the "New Region", the figure is made of polyethylene stretched onto the wire frame.

Good day, dear representatives of the media! I have information that in the village. Crimes against people and animals occur in Cheryomukhino, Priozersk district. Ditrikhs Yuri Vladimirovich mocks elderly defenseless people, constantly threatening those living in the village. people by cutting off water, gas and electricity. His aggressive Drathar dog walks without a leash or muzzle, scaring older people.

Photo: Reuters The High Court of London rejected Boris Berezovsky's $5 billion claim against Roman Abramovich. The hearings ended in January 2012. As previously reported, Judge Elizabeth Gloster, who took a break for 7 months, promised to make public the essence of the solution to the conflict between former business partners.

Photo: Reuters Zeki about the zone A selection of monologues of former convicts "What is waiting for Pussy Riot in the zone" provoked a chain reaction. Several women contacted us - former prisoners - and said that they have something to add. They want to tell their stories, share experience, and we are going to make from this series - the memories of former prisoners about everyday life, morals, psychology and relationships in jail and colonies, so far - female.

Dear Sergey Alexandrovich! August 30 was 40 days since the death of Valentina Gerasimova, the woman who set herself on fire in the United Russia reception office in Novosibirsk. On this day, people came to the site of the tragedy to honor the memory of the deceased, without any political background. I knew Valentina Gerasimova personally, she came to see me, we tried to solve her problem together, but she chose to go a different route.

Original text: http://www2.citypaper.com/special/story.asp?id=10313 The solo career of Leah Gilmore, like the blues itself, like a magnet between two opposite poles: a carefree flirting and incredible religiosity, almost fanaticism. The singer from Baltimore, successfully performs in both hypostles - showing her universal talent. Of course, there are many binding threads and coincidence between styles as blues and gospel, but conflict is always present.