Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is serving a sentence in a colony in Segezha, made a statement with which he responded to proposals to take part in the elections to the Coordination Council of the Opposition, and also expressed his understanding of the tasks that the representative body of the protest movement elected on October 21 will solve: “A number of people I respect approached me with a proposal to nominate their candidacy for the Coordination Council of Protest Actions, which will be elected

A criminal case has been opened into the killing of dogs in a park in the west of Moscow, Yulia Makartseva, official representative of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Western District, told Interfax.

I think I have the right to speak harshly. Because he was the only employee of the Russian Orthodox Church who was not afraid to become an expert for the defense in the Pussy Riot case, to come to the hamsud, and was ready at any second to speak out in defense of the girls. It didn't work out. They didn't give a word. Gave out many interviews. He said what he would like to say to Judge Syrova.

Musicians love and appreciate street art no less than others. They draw inspiration from street art and actively collaborate with independent artists: they involve them in the creation of video clips, stage designs for performances and album covers. The group Blur, for example, in 2003 ensured that Banksy himself drew the cover for their album Think Tank .

Photo: Reuters The American corporation Apple has started selling the iPhone 5 smartphone. The first buyers who will be able to purchase the new product are lined up in Australia. Photo: Reuters The Apple brand store in Sydney was occupied by fans of the Apple brand: some set up tents nearby last Tuesday, reports BBCNews . There are currently long queues for the iPhone 5.

Two residents of the Kasli district of the Chelyabinsk region stumbled upon a cache with a large batch of marijuana in the forest, the press service of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia for the Chelyabinsk region reported on Friday. The men went into the forest to pick mushrooms and accidentally found a cache of drugs. They reported their discovery to the helpline of the Snezhinsky interdistrict department of the State Drug Control Service.

The administration of the city of Irkutsk held the contest "Sculptures of one day" among local designers and architects. The “sculpture of one day” is a temporary street installation that will not decorate the city for long, which may not be so bad. The authors of the work are art studios, advertising agencies and the design department of the local institute.

If you approach the Leningradsky railway station along the Nikolaevskaya Railway, then from the train window you can see the large building of the Circular Depot with a domed roof and the water tower next to it. Activists from Arkhnadzor have been fighting with officials from Russian Railways for several years over this ensemble.

Photo: Reuters After Japan bought the disputed Senkaku Islands from a private owner (in China, a chain of three islands is called Diaoyu), relations between the peoples of the two countries deteriorated at the everyday level. The Chinese are abandoning Japanese cars and stopping publishing books about Japan, and Japanese corporations are stopping their production in the Middle Kingdom.

In Volgograd, many Internet users can no longer watch videos on YouTube and write on the social network VKontakte, Interfax reports. These sites were closed by the local provider Sprint Network in pursuance of instructions from Roskomnadzor. A scan of this letter is all that subscribers see instead of blocked sites, Internet users report on Twitter.

Photo: Reuters A temporary shutdown of YouTube in Omsk was a signal for an attack on video hosting and other Russian regions. One after another, local providers began to receive letters from republican, regional, regional, city and district prosecutors.

Photo: Vladimir Akimenkov during the consideration of his case in the Bassmanny Court. Dmitry Lebedev/Kommersant Those involved in the Bolotnaya case are in need of urgent medical attention. The lawyer for Left Front activist Vladimir Akimenkov and Moscow State University student Yaroslav Belousov told PublicPost that he has been seeking examinations for his clients to no avail. On September 20, a petition was published on the Internet demanding the rescue of Vladimir Akimenkov.

For Obama - women, minorities, youth and low-income voters. 94% of African Americans are ready to vote for Barack Obama, and 0% for Romney. And not just because Obama is not white—African Americans traditionally do not like Republicans. Twice as many Latinos support Obama as Romney (60% to 30%). Every year the Latin American electorate becomes more valuable: in 2010 they made up 14.2% of the population, by 2011 - already 16.7% .

Photo: Reuters Author of the article: Alisa Ivanitskaya The 22nd annual ceremony of presenting the Anti-Nobel Prize (Ignobel or Shnobel) for discoveries that “first make you laugh and then think” was traditionally held at the Sanders Theater at Harvard University in the USA. To applause and laughter, the Ignobel of the World was awarded to the Chelyabinsk company SKN for its technology of turning old ammunition into diamonds. “Ladies, if you need diamonds, we’ll meet you after the ceremony.

In the building of the Nakhodka City Court on Friday afternoon, an escort service employee, according to preliminary data, committed suicide, reports the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Primorsky Territory. According to the department, a 37-year-old escort service officer shot himself in the head with a service weapon.