A resident of Nizhny Novgorod appeared in court on charges of murdering a friend due to differences in musical tastes. Senior Assistant Prosecutor of the Sormovsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Olga Gagarina told the Interfax agency that on July 6, in an apartment in one of the houses on Ivanova Street, two friends were drinking alcohol while listening to the music of the band Deep Purple, which the owner played.

Photo: ITAR-TASS During the 18 years of President Lukashenko's rule, much in Belarus has remained completely unchanged. Almost like in the USSR, the state here is still embarrassed to take money for medicine, transport and housing and communal services. For a long time this was justified: Old Man was loved because he “protected” the poor, pensioners and large families. This is why he is still loved to this day.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Journalists modestly call the Anatomy of Protest - 2 Konstantin Lebedev as an assistant coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov arrested on the basis of the transfer of NTV. He, together with Sergey Udaltsov, Leonid Razvozzhaev and other unidentified persons, the Investigative Committee accused of preparing the riots . After interrogation in the UK, by the decision of the Basmanny Court, only Lebedev was arrested until December 16.

Top management of Toyota met with the authorities of the Moscow region with a proposal to build a plant in the region to recycle old cars, according to the Moscow region website. The delegation of the Moscow region government, headed by the vice-governor and chairman of the Moscow region government Andrei Sharov, had a meeting with the management of Toyota Motor Corporation. The Japanese proposed building a plant for recycling old cars in the Moscow region.

I’m going to Vladikavkaz to meet a woman who, in a short time, has turned for me from a distant professional reference into a dear person. I knew her name from my first year at the journalism department, but only met her in person last spring in Paris.

Photo: Reuters A week before the parliamentary elections in Ukraine, the opposition seriously quarreled. Boxer Vitali Klitschko's party "UDAR" refuses to create a coalition with Yulia Tymoshenko's opposition bloc until there are election results. Now Klitschko is accused of collaborating with the presidential Party of Regions, which, judging by the polls, will win the elections anyway.

One of the heroes of our revealing series “Golden Pretzels of United Russia,” Alexei Knyshov, had to part with his parliamentary mandate. He wrote about this today on his blog.

In any society, there is a certain group of people (animals) who need the legitimization of violence. In the minds of these individuals there is a constant search for opportunities to destroy, break, destroy, or cause a pogrom. But! This must be done under the approval of some group. Usually this group consists of brats who have never met a worthy rebuff in their lives, city crazy people, parasites, etc. This group definitely needs a mass action, a rally, a march - it doesn’t matter.

Photo: ITAR-TASS State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev (SR) announced that he refuses to participate in the elections to the Opposition Coordination Council. “The organizing committee has ended. It was not possible to convince my colleagues, and there was no quorum today. Therefore: yes, I am withdrawing from the elections,” Ponomarev wrote on Twitter. A former candidate for the Opposition Coordination Council told PublicPost why he withdrew his candidacy from the elections. - Why did you do this?

Employees of the National Library of Bashkiria discovered a rare edition of the Gospel among the Christian religious books in Turkic languages ​​in Arabic script stored in the collections, according to the website of the National Library of the Republic named after Zaki Validi. The sacred book was found by employees of the department of manuscripts and rare publications among the 40 thousand copies included in the library’s collection.

Over the past 10 months, a lot has been said (including by the author of this post) that Moscow liberal leaders leaked the protest and made it “ivy”, safe for the authorities. And for many, it has long become extremely clear that the Moscow protest was heading “somewhere in the wrong direction.” A fundamentally different situation has developed in Nizhny Novgorod.

Well, here I am 30. Now I’m one of those “who cares about...”. Now the time has come to savor the phrase “where are my 16 years” and dreamily look at the ceiling. But it seems that I would hardly want to return to my 16, 19 or even my recent 25. I feel good at 30. Each period of life has its own meaning and is remembered in its own way. They say that your reckless youth ended yesterday, and now you need to become more respectable.

So, Konstantin Lebedev, a member of the RSD close to Sergei Udaltsov, was arrested. Arrested and accused, as they say, of “crazy things”: preparing an armed seizure of power in Russia, dismembering the country, seizing power in Kaliningrad and Vladivostok (and, it seems, preparing to storm the most important military-strategic object of the country - the Ivan the Great Bell Tower ).

New "alleys of glory of officials", like mushrooms after rain, appear in Volgograd. As the leader of the movement “For good roads” Alexei Ulyanov writes, from October 16, inscriptions on the central carriageways of the city with the instructions of the surnames of officials of the regional and city government - Bozhenov, Efimov, Sorgar, Putin, Vasiliev - and questions “where are the roads?”, “Why are we paying taxes?” etc.

Victor Fedorovich! Yesterday, in the mobile prison into which you turned my treatment ward, I saw on all your television channels video recordings of my prison life, filmed with hidden video cameras. Considering the extreme immorality of this act of yours, I decided to write you an open letter. First, I confirm the authenticity of these materials to 90%. Especially in the part that concerns my physical therapy classes with a rehabilitation doctor in the medical treatment room.