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The meeting in the Tver court of Moscow in a criminal case against the lawyer of the Hermitage Capital Foundation Sergei Magnitsky ended a few minutes after the opening. Radio Liberty correspondent Maryana Torocheshnikov reports from the scene: The hearings were postponed until March 22. In the Magnitsky-Brauder case, 60 volumes. - Maryana t (@whosearyou) March 11, 2013 The lawyers sent the application by mail-the court did not appear. The prosecutor considers this to be delayed by the process.

Mikhail Shishkin Then not animals with a wild howl in a stormy flow rushed. This is the weekend in Russia, and the so -called "Nashist bots" rushed to bring to the top Russian and world trends of Twitter curses to the writer Mikhail Shishkin. Mikhail Shishkin I already wrote about the technology of such work.

Kopeki, - laughs Pekhtin) @ navalny Main United Russia, Yarovaya lives in an apartment for $ 3 million (oh, how surprised we are) ... J.MP/YBAXH1 - Dmitry Gudkov (@gudkovd) March 11, 2013

Seven days a week at exactly 12 o’clock - about what happened today and what else should happen. The day is in full swing, we follow the events.

Yesterday we followed the voting progress in the city of Uzlovaya Tula region . There were elections of twenty deputies of the city assembly. Independent observers from the Voter Voter Protection Association, the Union of Observers of Russia (Sonar) and other organizations reported provocations, illegal removal from sites, and violations during the vote. Today on Twitter, public controllers continue to share their impressions.

In the Falkland Islands, a referendum will be completed after 3 hours, in which 1672 residents of the archipelago entitled to vote will answer the question: "" "Do you have a desire to maintain the status of the British overseas territory ?" Member of the local legislative assembly Gavin Short says that almost all Falklanders come to polling stations, waving British flags: Your browser does not support HTML5 Gavin Short about the moods of the Folklanders The capital of the Port Stanley

From Sweden came the news of the death of Princess Lilian , the widow of Prince Bertil , the Duke of the Hallandsky - a member of the Swedish royal house, the uncle of the current king of Charles XVI Gustav. Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland The Duchess was 97 years old, and in recent years she suffered from Alzheimer's disease . Princess Lilian, nee Lilian Davis, was a lady of very modest origin.

The performance of the singer Beyoncé Brief story "Plywood" Alexander Genis: Solomon, what is they talking about Broadway? Solomon Volkov: Broadway they talk about the "faner." Alexander Genis: It's already funny Solomon Volkov: I thought I would surprise you, Sasha. So, on Broadway they say about the “faner” in connection with the article on this topic, which appeared in the influential conservative weekly “Nashnl Revoy”.

The already shook relations between the United States and Afghanistan fell to the lowest mark, ”writes Wall Street Journal due to the statements with which the President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai made last Sunday. According to Karzay, the United States actually do not want to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, when the validity of the international coalition mandate is completed.

So today it looks from the air of Fukushima-1 NPP, which suffered from a destructive earthquake and tsunami two years ago. In Japan at 14:46 (the exact time when the earthquake occurred, 9:46 Moscow time), a minute of silence was declared in memory of the dead. According to official figures, as a result of the tragedy, more than 20 thousand people died and went missing. About 315 thousand still live in temporary dwellings or with relatives.

In Lithuania, the day of the restoration of independence is celebrated - March 11, 1990, the relevant act adopted the Supreme Council in Vilnius. The source of statehood of the 20th century in Vilnius is considered an interwar republic; In the USSR, Lithuania became the first republic to proclaim independence. The public discussion in Vilnius and Kaunas this year is focused on the topics of historical continuity, the Soviet past republic and the national self -identification of Lithuanians.

March 11. Author: Kirill Kobrin The current Western historical knowledge is doomed to this: to talk about the tender feelings of ancient people and gods, who did not have in the arsenal of the feelings of the word “tenderness” itself. To compare erotic pompei frescoes with the orgies of football stars, and millions of poor fellows, eagerly clinging to online porn, with a slave who observes the love joys of the Lord (then the slaves were not considered to be people).