Acting Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin submitted to the Moscow City Election Commission the documents necessary to nominate him as a candidate for the position of mayor. On Monday afternoon, in the meeting room of the Moscow City Election Commission, Sobyanin presented the commission members with a passport, an application for self-nomination as a candidate, information on income for 2012 and a number of other necessary documents.

Photo: Ramil Sitdikov/RIA Novosti On the fifteenth day of the hearing in the Kirovles case, Alexey Navalny was supposed to be brought by bailiffs, but he arrived on his own. Defendants Navalny and Ofitserov gave evidence, their lawyers filed a third challenge to the judge. PublicPost continues broadcasting from the Leninsky Court in the city of Kirov.

Acting Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin considers it necessary to develop a memorandum on fair elections for the capital's mayor. “One of the first tasks that the headquarters faces today is to develop a general memorandum on fair elections for the mayor of Moscow, which would be signed by all candidates who are running for this position today,” Sergei Sobyanin said on Monday after submitting documents to the election commission .

After long discussions and public discussions, on Tuesday, June 11, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted law 6.13.1 on the “Prohibition of propaganda of homosexuality among minors” simultaneously in the second and third readings. This law is part of the actively developing state trend in the fight against dissent.

Boris Nemtsov, co-chairman of RPR-Parnas, which nominated Alexei Navalny for the Moscow mayoral election, said that neither his colleagues nor the party candidate would sign the memorandum on fair elections proposed by Sergei Sobyanin. “It sounds like a mockery. The fact is that Sobyanin is one of the leaders of the party of swindlers and thieves who have been rigging elections over the past years.

Two girls hugging were detained in the St. Petersburg metro at the request of indignant passengers, Piter.tv reports, citing eyewitnesses. Two girls were riding in an embrace in a St. Petersburg metro car. The passengers demanded that they stop hugging, to which they refused. Then the passengers reported what was happening to the train driver via loudspeaker. The train was stopped at the nearest station, and the metro police were called.

In his 2010 Nobel Prize speech, physicist Andre Geim noted that rapid progress in the study of graphene “would not have been possible without Misha Katsnelson, who provided us with the theoretical support that an experimentalist could only dream of.” In 2013, Mikhail Katsnelson’s contribution to the “graphene revolution” received a worthy assessment.

Photo: Atsamaz Dzivaev/PublicPost Igor Hristolyubov came from the Altai Territory to conquer Moscow more than twenty years ago. He graduated from Stroganov, but did not receive recognition - he preferred the career of an unrecognized genius to commercial orders. Now he lives in the basement and makes sculptures in the shape of fallen leaves from all kinds of garbage. About the top and the basement I'm homeless. I'm 56 years old and I have nothing.

Alexei Navalny's brother Oleg is being searched. “Oh, the news has arrived. My brother’s house is being searched,” wrote the oppositionist, who is currently at a court hearing in the Kirovles case in Kirov, on Twitter. In December 2012, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a member of the Opposition Coordination Council, Alexei Navalny, and his brother Oleg. According to investigators, the brothers fraudulently stole 55 million rubles in the cargo transportation industry.