The monthly audience of the ICQ messenger decreased by more than 30% both in Russia and around the world. This has become the most noticeable loss of the service of its users over the past few years, follows from the financial report of Mail.ru Group for the first half of 2012. According to the internal data of Mail.ru Group, the world monthly ICQ audience in June 2012 amounted to 20.5 million people, and a year earlier a similar indicator was 30.8 million users.

Text: Anastasia Petrova A charity rock concert in support of Pussy Riot, Taisiya Osipova and the Bolotnaya prisoners is scheduled to take place in St. Petersburg on September 9. The organizers fear that the club, on the stage of which DDT, “TV” and Gleb Samoilov will play, will be closed.

Last summer turned out to be hot for events in the country's football life. Revealing the growing intolerance among the citizens of this unfortunate country, fans have quietly become fans. Fans - to put it mildly. The most “advanced” ones, for example, wanted to take away the banner from the Turkish fans who visited the match of their team “Fenerbahçe” in Moscow. I mean the fans of Spartak (Moscow), who demonstratively burned a poster with a portrait of K. Ataturk.

The Arbitration Court of Dagestan upheld the decision of the republican department of the FAS, which imposed a fine of 300 thousand rubles on Dagestan United Grid Company LLC (DOSC LLC) for violating the law “On Protection of Competition,” the press service of the antimonopoly authority reported on Wednesday.

Andrey Kuraev, having met the FEMEN group in Ukraine, was very upset. And there are reasons for this. These reasons lie in the foundations of ethics and morality but, unfortunately, not of the Gospel. Why does Andrey Kuraev, as an Orthodox man, speak to the harlots of the FEMEN group not in the language of Jesus Christ, but in the rude and harsh manner of a Pharisee? If it were possible to stone these women, then, probably, it would be possible to do it with pleasure right on the air.

Officials at the “middle” and “minor” levels very quickly adopt the experience of their “higher” comrades. If earlier, without fulfilling their duties (for one reason or another), they tried to hide their miscalculations, now, when the central government calls any person who dares to tell the truth, fights against corrupt officials and a mess, they are declared a Western hireling, rocking the boat, these officials They don’t stand on ceremony, and they also declare these people enemies...

The Ministry of Forestry of Udmurtia has prepared documents for making a decision on the introduction of an emergency regime in the region due to the drying out of forests that pose a fire hazard, Airat, head of the department of forest protection and protection, state forest control and supervision, State Fire Supervision of the Ministry of Forestry of Udmurtia, told the Interfax-Volga region agency Taziev.

The fact that the reaction to our Leonid Martynyuk report "The Life of a Slave on Galers " in power and citizens will be different, few doubted. But so much. Judge for yourself. On behalf of the authorities, Putin’s spokesman D. Peskov said that the report has little creativity , and the fact that Putin had 20 palaces, 43 aircraft, 15 helicopters and a collection of hours worth six annual salaries, is all nonsense, because state property.

In the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia on Wednesday, September 5, unknown persons fired at a convoy of servicemen of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

On September 5, in Kirov, on suspicion of participation in the riots on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow, on May 6, a freelance correspondent of the Vyatka Observer newspaper 26-year-old Leonid Kovyazin was detained, who, on the instructions of the editorial office, who shot the reports on the events in Bolotnaya.

Photo: Reuters The FBI denies that the personal data of users of Apple mobile devices, or rather codes identifying 12 million gadgets, were open from the laptop of an employee of the organization. On Monday, the Antisec hacker group announced this, posting a file with codes on the Pastebin website. The message emphasizes that only part of the information of the owners of the devices was published: the full names of the owners, their phone numbers and addresses are wiped.

Photo: Atsamaz Dzivaev/PublicPost Text: Polina Eremenko The story of an abandoned nursing home in the village of Ugleuralsky was of great interest to federal and local media. The picture they paint looks terrifying even by Russian standards: 19 lonely grandmothers turned out to be useless and forgotten. When I arrived in a village 180 km from Perm, I expected to plunge into pitch darkness. There is darkness there - it surrounds the nursing home.

A group of white Siberian crane chicks - Siberian Cranes - are preparing to fly out for the winter. A motor hang glider will become a guide for the sterling chicks, who have grown up under human supervision and do not know the way. Together with him, white cranes will cover 1.8 thousand km to the border with Kazakhstan, there they will integrate into a flock of gray brothers and, already in such company, will reach India, where they will spend the winter.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Vladimir Putin intends to take part in the Flight of Hope project in Yamal, aimed at preserving a rare species of cranes - the Siberian Crane, Interfax reports. The President will have to try himself as the leader of a flock of captive-bred Siberian Cranes listed in the Red Book.

On September 4, the third preliminary hearing on the “Zhuravlev Case” took place in the Novocherkassk City Court behind closed doors (details here ). During the first hearing, it became clear that the indictment sent to the court differed significantly in design from the copy presented by the prosecutor to the accused and his defense attorney. In connection with the revealed discrepancy, the judge scheduled a new hearing for August 22, during which investigator P.A.