On the eve of the first anniversary The change of power in Moscow, the former capital's mayor Yuri Luzhkov gave an interview with Radio Liberty . You can make a lot of complaints about the mayor Luzhkov. It is enough to recall the scope of corruption in Moscow, which has repeatedly been mentioned in Radio Liberty programs. But this time, the main topic of conversation with Luzhkov became his relationships with former subordinates.

My story about Cossacks and Buddhism would be incomplete if I had not mentioned that many famous lamas left the Cossack birth. Including the most famous Buryat Lama - the imperishable Hamba Lama Itigelov. In the family of the director of the institute, Pandito Hambo Lama Itigelov Yanzhima Vasilyeva, the grandchildren of the famous Lama, a porcelain tray in a silver rimmed is stored.

Andrey Piontkovsky The Presnensky court of Moscow registered a lawsuit to protect the honor and dignity in which the former mayor Yuri Luzhkov demands a million rubles from the head of the presidential administration. Luzhkov is outraged by Sergey Naryshkin’s statement about the prohibitive level of corruption in Moscow at a time when he was the mayor. In an interview with Izvestia, Luzhkov said: "The pursuit of the former mayor of Moscow is being carried out.

The court in the Belarusian city of Gomel on Thursday sentenced the participant in the Internet community “Revolution through Social Networks” by Ilya Mironov by ten days of administrative arrest.

Alexander GOSTEV In Argentina, to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity committed during the reign of military junta in 1976-1983, 11 former officers of the armed forces and police were sentenced. Among the convicts - the former naval officer Alfredo Astis, known as the "blond angel of death" - he was found guilty of torture, murders and abduction of people. All convicts were employees of the Esma secret prison in Buenos Aires, where about 5 thousand political prisoners died.

The place of the murder of Galina Starovoitova The Office of the Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region confirmed today that an investigation into a criminal case of the murder of the State Duma deputy Galina Starovotova in 1998 was resumed. According to the official representative of the department, the investigation was resumed in connection with the need for additional investigative actions. Which exactly he did not specify.

Terror, threats, corruption: report “Reporters without borders” on the situation with freedom of speech in the North Caucasus. Azerbaijan at the UN Security Council. How will this affect politics in the region? The anniversary of the first multi -party elections in Georgia in 1990.

Tennis. The final tournament WTA Red group Vera Zvonareva (Russia) - Karolin Voznyatski (Denmark) - 6: 2, 4: 6, 6: 3 Russian woman Maria Sharapova starred from the final WTA tournament after the defeat from the Chinese woman Lee. Karolin Voznyatski, despite the defeat from the faith of Zvonareva, secured first place in the final WTA rating for 2011.

Boris Akunin The Investigative Committee became interested in Boris Akunin's book "The whole world of theater." Employees of the department checked her for the presence of signs of extremism, but found nothing. The interest of investigators in the book of Grigory Chkhartishvili (pseudonym - Boris Akunin) "The whole world of the theater" turned into a political joke.

John Beiner The speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress Republican John Beiner reproached Russia in an effort to "restore power and influence in the Soviet style" and called on the Barack Obama administration to occupy a tougher line towards the Kremlin. Having performed in the Washington Heritage Foundation, John Beiner expressed concern about the consequences of the expected return of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to the president of the country.

While the St. Petersburg Police is far from tolerance In St. Petersburg, a textbook of tolerance for the police was released. It is called the "Petersburg policeman. The basis of tolerant behavior." Employees of the Russian State University named after Herzen by order of the city government prepared a textbook. The first section of the textbook - "Ethnic confessional situation in modern St.