Photo: Gleb Shchelkunov/Kommersant The leader of the Civic Platform party, Mikhail Prokhorov, refused to participate in the Moscow mayoral elections. “The Civic Platform party will not take part in the procedure for renewing the license of the current mayor,” Prokhorov said at a press conference at the Interfax central office. “You and I have a year to prepare for the elections to the Moscow parliament, which now does not represent the interests of Muscovites.

In Nizhny Novgorod, a thief entered an apartment, but was surprised by the poverty of the people living in it and did not take anything, a source in the region’s law enforcement agencies told Interfax. The incident occurred in the Avtozavodsky district of the city. An apartment thief picked up the keys to the front door of one of the apartments in the building on Sputnik Street and entered it.

A 24-hour general strike is taking place in Greece against the closure of state radio and television by the authorities, reports the BBC . The strike was called by the General Confederation of Labor and the Supreme Council of the Civil Servants' Union in solidarity with the 2,665 employees of the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation who were abruptly fired this week. Workers from various fields take part in it - doctors, teachers, transport workers, tax specialists and many others.

Photo: Konstantin Rodikov/RIA Novosti The Leninsky Court of Kirov is on the fourteenth day of the trial in the case of theft at the Kirovles State Unitary Enterprise. On Thursday it was planned to interrogate the defendants Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov, but Navalny did not come to court - on that day he was supposed to appear before the Investigative Committee.

The first two candidates submitted documents to the Moscow City Election Commission to participate in direct early elections for the mayor of Moscow, Kommersant reports. “Two people submitted self-nomination documents. Many parties are planning to hold their city conferences tomorrow. I think that on Monday the picture for the party candidates will be clear,” said the chairman of the election commission, Valentin Gorbunov.

PublicPost spoke with teenage actors about xenophobia, attitudes towards Caucasians and friendship between peoples. Zhenya Mikheeva, Sonya Nasedkina and Akhmad Zubairaev play in the play "Manyunya" based on the novel by Narine Abgaryan - about the friendship of Armenian and Russian families. The play was shown at the children's theater festival "Prologue-Spring". Zhenya Mikheeva (16 years old), Sonya Nasedkina (13 years old) — Tell us about your heroines.

On June 12, after the march in defense of the Bolotnaya prisoners, a small company of us went to Istra. The day before, FAR activist Vadim Korovin was brought to a special detention center to serve 10 days of administrative arrest for “disobedience to a police officer.” More about the Korovin case It seems that the head of the Department of Internal Affairs for the Istra district, police colonel Igor Vasilyev, was waiting for us: on a holiday he was at his workplace, without a uniform.

In Nizhny Novgorod, a group relaxing on a picnic was struck by lightning, one person died, and four more received burns, reports the press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the region. The incident occurred on June 12 at about 15:00 Moscow time on Korablestroiteley Avenue in the Sormovsky district of the city, where a group of Nizhny Novgorod residents were relaxing and preparing barbecue on the grill.

The Public Monitoring Commission (POC) for the Nizhny Novgorod region is checking reports of mass beatings and abuse of convicts in correctional colony No. 1, located in the village of Sukhobezvodnoye. “On the evening of June 4, 2013, the Nizhny Novgorod Public Monitoring Commission began to receive reports of the massive use of violence against convicts serving their sentences in correctional colony No.

Murtazali Rabadanov. Photo: RIA Novosti That the rector of Daggosuniversity Murtuzali Rabadanov has been appointed acting. O. Mayor of Makhachkala, the head of Dagestan, Ramazan Abdulatipov, said through his Instagram account: “This is another signal that literate and modern people should come to power in Dagestan. He gave instructions to the government, specific ministries, the presidential administration together with the new acting.

The Rusnano Corporation has proposed covering Moscow roads with asphalt from recycled car tires, reports M24.ru. Asphalt with rubber crumbs has already been laid on Pyatnitskaya Street, the experiment can be continued on other streets of Moscow. To make such a coating, you need to grind the tires to powder. Such roads are more stable and can be repaired 1.5 times less often, Rusnano promises.