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".

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.

Vladimir Putin is not abandoning the “direct line” format and, in addition, is returning to the practice of holding traditional large press conferences, said presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “This year there will be no direct line. This does not mean, as some media have written, that the president is abandoning this format,” Peskov told reporters. The Kremlin intends to continue to use this format of communication between the president and the population due to its demand.

The RIA Dagestan website contains interesting material about the ATK meeting in Khasavyurt with video. Among the speakers, the speech of the head of the FSB Directorate for the Republic of Dagestan was especially important and interesting.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In Dagestan, the number of abortions increases due to the undesirable sex of the child. Girls fall into disgrace. PublicPost found out the reasons for the prosperity of gender selection. Makhachkalinka Zarem Musaeva has already made two abortions from the child’s gender. “The husband is the first to want a son,” she explains Publicpost. “I really love my husband, so I want his desire for the first son to be fulfilled. Yes, they have already told me that abortions are dangerous for health.

A teacher at the Novokuznetsk branch of Kemerovo State University (Kemerovo region), Anton Voloshin, who was previously a member of the regional election committee (RVC) to the Coordination Council of the Opposition (CCO), was dismissed from the university for “activities incompatible with the status of a teacher,” the director of the branch, Vladimir Gershgorin, told Interfax. He clarified that A. Voloshin’s dismissal is not related to his membership in the election committee.

Photo: Reuters Although the rally in support of political prisoners took place in Novopushkinsky Square, paddy wagons also surrounded Pushkin Square, apparently to protect the fountain. Even the freezing rain did not stop Muscovites from going to the rally. The police rushed to stock up on hamburgers at the nearest eateries before the start, and people flocked to the square. Two metal detector frames were installed on the side of Tverskaya Street.

The Federation Council approved the government law on criminal penalties for illegally obtaining information constituting state secrets. Corresponding amendments have been made to the Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes of the Russian Federation.