The prosecutor's office of the Murmansk region demanded that regional Internet providers ban access to the scandalous video film "The Innocence of Muslims." “The prosecutor’s office took measures aimed at blocking communication service providers from accessing Internet users to the scandalous video film “Innocence of Muslims,” which was originally posted on the YouTube video hosting service,” the department’s press service said in a statement.

I have spent the last few days pleasantly in the company of Andre Vlcek, a writer, journalist and director , living on a plane between Nairobi and Jakarta. It turns out that Vlchek, the son of a Czech nuclear physicist, is a native of our city and spent his childhood in Leningrad. In 1968, his family returned to Czechoslovakia, successfully timing their arrival to coincide with interesting events.

In the Moscow district of Mitino on Wednesday evening there was a protest against the construction of a mosque. Three protesters were detained and will be brought to administrative responsibility. Three demonstrators detained on Wednesday in the Moscow district of Mitino during a protest against the construction of a mosque have been brought to administrative responsibility, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow told Interfax .

Photo: Lana Parastaeva South Ossetia was first visited by Spren Jared Dabwido, the president of Nauru, the fourth country (after Russia, Venezuela and Nicaragua) to recognize the independence of the Transcaucasian republic on December 16, 2009. Before him, of the heads of state who recognized the independence of the republic, only the then Russian President Dmitry Medvedev visited South Ossetia - in July 2009.

Lawyers for sambo wrestler Rasul Mirzaev filed a lawsuit against the father of Ivan Agafonov, who died after a clash with the athlete, to protect the honor and dignity of one of Mirzaev’s defense witnesses, Alla Kosogorova, who was named the defendant’s girlfriend during the trial, Interfax reports.

Photo: Mila Dubrovina/PublicPost A group of Cossacks and activists of the Eurasian Youth Union (ESM) tried to block the entrance to the exhibition of Evgenia Maltseva and Viktor Bondarenko “Spiritual Warfare” in the Gelman Gallery at Winzavod, but were dispersed by police and riot police, a PublicPost correspondent reports. “The faithful Muscovites were insulted by the works of this artist, so we came to protest,” said one of the protesters.

In Adler on August 19, bailiffs destroyed the house of Sergei Khlystov. Its site in the Imereti Lowland is located in the center of Olympic construction. Khlystov’s daughter Tatyana Samokhval told PublicPost how a house on Khadyzhenskaya Street, in which five adults and two small children lived, was demolished. “I remember very well how we sat on the grass in the center of Sochi at night and waited for the results. Then there was still a concert in the city.

The works of British graffiti artist and art provocateur Banksy will be exhibited at the Moscow Manege Museum and Exhibition Association presumably in 2013. Banksy, whose real name and exact place of birth are unknown, became famous for using stencils to paint his paintings on a variety of buildings in urban landscapes. Some of his works are even cut out of the walls of buildings. Although Banksy has not yet exhibited in Russia, he has already shown interest in the Russian protest art scene.

John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, will honor Russian punk band Pussy Riot with the Lennon-Ono Peace Prize at a ceremony Friday in New York. Petru Verzilov, the husband of one of the convicted members of the group, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, said that he will go to the award ceremony with his 4-year-old daughter Gera, who will receive the award. “We are very happy about this fact. The prize will be received by Gera Verzilova, Nadya and I’s 4-year-old daughter,” he said.

The Vladimir region was the first Russian region to pass a law banning the sale, distribution and use of so-called “laughing gas” - nitrous oxide, the press service of the regional legislative assembly reported on Thursday. Deputies of the regional parliament made this decision the day before at the next session. Illegal distribution of laughing gas will now be punishable by a fine of 4 to 100 thousand rubles. Fines from 3 to 4 thousand rubles have been introduced for the use of nitrous oxide.

Businessman Alexey Kozlov, who was denied parole in early September, appealed the court's decision. As the businessman's lawyer Alkhas Abgadzhava told Interfax on Thursday, Kozlov filed a complaint against the refusal of parole. He added that he also intends to file a cassation appeal in the near future. The convict's complaint will be considered by the Ivanovo Regional Court.

More than a hundred people are looking for four convicts from correctional colony No. 34 in the village of Vozhsky, Udora district of Komi, who got lost in the forest while picking berries and mushrooms, the press service of the regional GUFSIN told Interfax on Thursday. Currently, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Komi, Ust-Vymsky, Udora and Lensky Departments of Internal Affairs are targeted for search.

At the Khabarovsk airport, after a bird hit the engine, an Airbus-320 plane flying from Vladivostok to Moscow made an emergency landing, a source in the air traffic control services of the local air hub told Interfax. “The plane made an emergency landing at Khabarovsk airport at 10.01 Moscow time. According to preliminary data, a bird hit the plane’s engine blades during takeoff,” the source said. Before landing, the plane circled over the airport for some time, running out of fuel.

The Khorinsky District Court of Buryatia will consider a claim to recover damages of 155.5 million rubles from local resident Andrei Andreev, who caused a major forest fire in the spring of this year, the press service of the republican prosecutor's office reported on Thursday. According to the department, on May 16, A.

Photo: collage PublicPost Russian human rights organizations have lost the source of financing from the American USAID International Development Agency, which ceases its work in Russia at the request of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . The US State Agency helps the US State Department to pursue American foreign policy, finances projects in more than 100 countries. As a rule, these projects are aimed at developing a market economy, democracy, civil society and social infrastructure.