In the photo: Veliky Novgorod, Kremlin In September 2013, the mayor’s elections will be held in Veliky Novgorod. Already now it is possible to identify certain centers of force in the form of potential candidates for the mayor from leading political parties and the FIG of the city. Of course, the forecast is long -term, requiring clarifications closer to the date of the election, however, the main contours of future events can be determined now.

The branch of IDGC of the South, JSC - Astrakhanenergo, expects in 2012 that the investment program worth about 600 million rubles will be implemented in full, reported the acting. General Director of IDGC of the South Vladimir Vashkevich at a meeting with the Governor of the Astrakhan Region Alexander Zhilkin.

I'll keep it short today. 1) Wednesday morning (yesterday) began with a statement received from prisoner Evgeniy Terekhin regarding the use of violence. He accuses the same Schegol and another employee of IK-6 Kopeisk Makarov. It's sickening to retell it. Are they by any chance latent homosexuals with a sadistic bent? Evgeny has been on a hunger strike since November 19. ((This was confirmed, by the way, by members of the Public Monitoring Committee who visited him.

The leadership of Dagestan has agreed with the Ministry of Defense to increase the conscription quota for the republic, Izvestia writes. The decision was made after a meeting between the head of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, State Duma deputy Gadzhimet Safaraliev told the publication.

North Ossetian police detained two residents of Ingushetia who sold archaeological finds of gold and silver from the 8th-9th centuries. “Operational information was received that two residents of Ingushetia were trying to sell antique gold items on the territory of our republic.

One of the main functions of the KGB of the USSR was the tracking of dissent, its identification and neutralization. In Russia, the emphasis shifted with an ideological guide, which used to be an attempt on a system, to anti -state acts. The emphasis has shifted, the function has gone, but the dissenting of the FSB is now easier to suppress now, since it was not state security that the dissent began to threaten, but to the public.

After the State Duma adopted openly reactionary amendments to Federal Law No. 54 “On meetings, rallies, demonstrations, processions and pickets” at the beginning of this summer, increasing fines for participation in actions not coordinated with the administration by hundreds of times, it might seem that further tightening legislation on holding public events is nowhere to be found.

Photo: ITAR-TASS/PublicPost In Kazakhstan, under the pretext of fighting extremism, independent media are closed. In total, about 30 websites, 9 newspapers and 2 TV channels may be banned. PublicPost found out from the editor of the Respublika website, subject to ban, Evgenia Mazhitova, where so much extremism in the republic came from.

On November 28, the “valiant” Voronezh Regional Duma adopted in the first reading the “gubernatorial” law “On Certain Issues of Conducting Public Events.” The opinions of the public and experts in the field of freedom of assembly, proposed by the Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Zrazhevskaya and the human rights organizations ECOSOCIS and the Interregional Human Rights Group , were ignored.

Patriarch Kirill is a prominent political figure during the presidential-prime period of V.V. Putin... Something like this, probably, someday there will be a note on Wikipedia (if this resource survives the period of permanent aggravation of the aesthetic feelings of Rospotrebnadzor) about the current primate of the Orthodox Church. These are the thoughts that arise if you carefully consider the results of a public opinion poll conducted by the Levada Center on November 23-26.

In less than a month, on December 26, a repeat vote on the election of a city manager will take place in Ozersk. Let me remind you that last time, in October, local deputies, with the support of townspeople who staged a picket in front of the city hall, “rolled” the candidacy approved by the governor of the Chelyabinsk region. More about this - Riot in a closed city .

On November 28, in the Babushkinsky district of Moscow, a meeting of residents with deputy Marina Ovchinnikova was held. The reason for the meeting was the persistent, simply manic desire of the local authorities to destroy the only public garden in the microdistrict with beautiful trees and playgrounds, which, in addition, has the status of a legally protected natural complex, and it is completely illegal to build another temple in its place.

Photo: PublicPost Collage Everyone wants to have their own space navigation system. The USA has GPS, Russia has GLONASS. By 2020, Europe plans to launch Galileo, and China plans to launch Beidou. Even Japan is working on its QZSS, and India is working on its IRNSS, although they do not expect global coverage. Even in such a truncated form, the navigation system is a useful, strategic and extremely expensive thing. It requires a fleet of reliable orbitals and a network of ground stations.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Former President Medvedev served as prime minister for the first six months and gave an extensive interview about this to the Kommersant newspaper. Medvedev told a lot of things: about relations with Georgia, the USA and the opposition, about United Russia and the future of the economies of Russia and Europe, about pensions, privatization and how he is concerned about the Magnitsky law.

I still can’t resist, but I beg you to try to understand me correctly. In no case do I want to shout out my own opinion regarding the specific verdict to Mirzaev in the general chorus. Now it’s completely and exclusively about something else. This is the moment that caught my attention. Regarding this verdict, the following thoughts have recently been expressed in various forms.