In Belgorod, the first monument to Alexander Solzhenitsyn was opened yesterday. The monument is installed on the Alley of the Nobel laureates of the Belgorod State University, where there are already monuments to Ivan Bunin and Mikhail Sholokhov. The regional governor Yevgeny Savchenko, who spoke at the ceremony, is convinced that monuments and other Nobel Prize winners, Joseph Brodsky and Boris Pasternak should appear on the Alley.

The court in New Jersey issued a verdict about the constitutionality of same-sex marriages in the state and instructed the state authorities to begin to register same-sex marriages from October 21. According to Judge Mary Jaycobson, who made this decision, the right of same -sex couples to marry was determined by the state constitution that guarantees equal rights to the state residents.

In Moscow, on charges of receiving a major bribe, the director of the Department of the Accounts Chamber of Russia Alexander Mikhailik was arrested. According to the Kommersant newspaper, Mikhailik was detained by police officers on Thursday night after he received three million rubles from a member of the Federation Council from the Novgorod Region Alexander Korovnikov.

US Secretary of State Kerry said he was pleased with the "new positive tone" of negotiations with Iran under the nuclear program of this country. Kerry made this statement on Thursday after a short meeting of the eye of Foreign Minister Iran Mohammed Javad Zarif in New York.

Protest promotions on both sides of the prison grate. We talked about this in the program "The City of Time" with Ekaterina Samutsevich and lawyer Irina Khrunova. Presenter-Vladimir Kara-Murza.

Picket in support of the photographer Denis Sinyakov at the building of the Investigative Committee in Moscow The chief editors and journalists of a number of Russian media published an open letter in support of the photojournalist Denis Sinyakov, who was on the Greenpeace icebreaker detained by Russian border guards in the Barents Sea. They called on the first persons of the state to observe the law and not to leave this situation without attention.

A festive cake - in the house with the very garage where it all began. Menlo Park, California, September 26, 2013 Exactly 15 years ago, a search site appeared on the Internet, which now use 11 thousand people per second It is difficult to imagine a modern world without Google . During 2012, according to the company itself, the search through Google was carried out almost 115 billion times.

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78 percent of Russians support the return to the ballots of the column "against all." These are the results of a sociological survey published today on the Levada Center website. In addition, almost half of the Russians advocate the possibility of creating electoral blocks. According to the survey, 68 percent of the respondents would support proposals for amending the legislation to the referendum.

Lee Rigby Two accused of killing a British soldier in London did not admit their guilt. The suspects are 28-year-old Michael Adibodjo and 22-year-old Michael Aduboval at today's court session in London also rejected the accusations of trying to kill a policeman. On May 22, the two attackers attacked with knives and a machete of the 25-year-old British troops Lee Rigby in the Vulich region in the southeast of London. He died of numerous chopped wounds.

“Samizdat smugglers” of the story of how Western European Slavists helped to publish in the West the unpredicting Russian literature verses by Alexander Mezhirov (on the 90th anniversary of the poet’s birth) philologists-classics about their calling

John Kerry and Samantha Power during the discussion of the Syria resolution in New York Experts of the organization for the ban on chemical weapons on Tuesday will begin to check the Syrian chemical arsenal. This was reported by Reuters. Tonight in the Hague, representatives of this organization will discuss the plan of disarmament of Syria and will vote on this issue.

International campaign for the liberation of activists of the Greenpeace environmental organization. How will the Russian authorities behave? Russia and the United States agreed on a joint draft resolution on monitoring Syrian chemical weapons. Will this help stop the civil war? The Belarusian Independent Theater holds successful tour in the UK. Why is this troupe not allowed to act in their homeland?

The most striking event of the day, obviously, is the action of solidarity with the Arctic Sunrise arrested on the ship by photographer Denis Sinyakov Black Square. Sinyakov is a journalist, not a pirate, but this is not clear to law enforcement agencies. Another thing is also incomprehensible: why does the Russian government inflate the incident around the Greenpeace action, which will probably turn into a new international campaign against the Kremlin policy.