The director of the Murom orphanage N1, Martin Sargsyan, will appear in court on charges of exceeding official powers with the use of violence and the threat of its use (clause a, part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the press service of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Vladimir Region reported in Wednesday. According to the case materials, 21 pupils of the orphanage suffered from the actions of M. Sargsyan at different times.

About 100 St. Petersburg police officers have been dismissed from the force for drug use, the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg, Sergei Umnov, said on Wednesday, speaking to deputies of the city Legislative Assembly. According to the head of the St. Petersburg headquarters, as a result of the inspections, a number of unpleasant facts were revealed. “About 100 people were identified who used drugs,” Umnov noted.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Alexey Navalny is going to take part in the "Russian march" again. “As far as I know, Alexei has been going to the“ Russian March ”since 2007 and is not going to change anything,” Anna Vedita said Publicpost, Publicpost. Navalny has long supported nationalists, which is why in 2007 he was expelled from the Yabloko party. At the same time, together with the writer Zachar Prilepin, he created the National Democratic Movement "People".

Mikhail Prokhorov, who recently announced his final retirement from business into politics , said that one of the country's main problems is the lack of professionals.

The organizers of the “Russian March” decided that the route of the action on November 4 will pass through the center of Moscow, said the leader of the “Russians” association Dmitry Demushkin. “The organizing committee decided to choose the city center. This is in order to break out of the Lyublino reservation, despite the fact that the route there is longer and more convenient,” Demushkin told Interfax.

There are more and more signs of a crisis emerging in the Russian economy. The same crisis that began in 2008 and never went away, but was only hidden in the fog of a false revival of markets. There has been a decline in consumption in Russia. The population took out too many loans, which in 2010-2012 was a form of stimulating demand. The state especially tried to support it in the housing market.

The head of Rusnano, Anatoly Chubais, did not rule out that he will go on a space journey as part of cooperation with the Virgin Group, reports Ekho Moskvy . Chubais himself stated this at the Open Innovations forum in Moscow. In turn, the founder of the Virgin Group, Sir Richard Branson, said that Anatoly Chubais only needs to say “yes” to fly.

Oppositionists are fleeing Russia. Solidarity movement activist Mikhail Maglov asked for political asylum in Ukraine. He told PublicPost how and why he ended up in Kiev and how he is trying to prevent the story of Leonid Razvozzhaev from repeating itself. — Why did you leave Russia? It became completely unsafe there. On May 6 I was at Bolotka. I walked with the procession and then calmly left there.

On Wednesday, November 7, 2012, in honor of the 95th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, a procession and rally will be held in Moscow. The action will be attended by leaders of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, deputies of the State Duma, Moscow City Duma, local government, regional parliaments, communists of the Moscow city and Moscow regional branches, representatives of public organizations.

These days, while I was waiting for a hurricane Sandy in Washington, involuntarily came to the mind of analogies with a recent tragedy in Crimean. And there and there - a storm and strong rains. And there and there people died. On this, however, the similarities end. Numbers. Krymsk: the population is 57 thousand people, the wind speed is about 45 km/h, the water rise is 4-7 m, 149 died according to official figures (or 260 per 100 thousand of the population).

The investigative authorities of Tatarstan disseminated information about the initiation of a criminal case into the death of a detainee at the Yudino police department. The article is “exceeding official powers.” There are no accused or suspects in the case yet. Let us remind you that a week ago the Kazan Human Rights Center distributed a video. The video shows how a man is taken into the cell of the Yudino police station.

In the mid-1990s, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, with 540 thousand people, outnumbered all other parties combined. Over the past period of time, “General Secretary” Zyuganov managed to do something that no enemy could have done - over the course of 10 years, he reduced the ranks of the communists by 400 thousand, reducing this force to a moribund group of senile and paralytic people.

Photo: collage PublicPost Return to the special project "Elections in the USA. Likbez" The hurricane "Sandy" forced Obama and Romney to suspend the election campaign. A hurricane agitates for them - and he, rather, on the side of Obama. Many are sure: a hurricane is a gift for Obama, who has the opportunity to prove himself as an effective manager. “Obama gave the whole country clear instructions from how to behave. It created the feeling that everything was safe ...

The wizard Vladimir Churov wrote a wonderful text for the US presidential elections. The chairman of the Russian Central Election Commission opened the eyes of Rossiyskaya Gazeta readers to the fact that elections in America are being held with a lot of violations.

The first organizational meeting of the Assembly of Deputies of the city of Bogoroditsk took place. Of the 20 deputies, United Russia has 16 mandates, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has 2 mandates, the LDPR and A Just Russia have one each. However, the Social Revolutionaries have not yet decided whether they will accept a mandate at all, and if so, who it will be personally.