Punch group Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikov during a court session Nadezhda Tolokonnikova is ready to continue the hunger strike, which she interrupted the day before for health reasons if her main requirements are not met. This is, in particular, about the investigation of the conditions for the maintenance of women in the Mordovian colony No. 14, ensuring the safety of working prisoners who will testify about the situation in the correctional institution.

The Saudi newspaper Al-Vatan placed a caricature: Uncle Sam takes Bashar Assad a bomb with a chemical filling, and he calmly leaves for his bloody affairs with a Russian missile in his hand. Caricaturist is right: solving the problem of Syrian poisonous substances will not save the Syrians from death. This week, the BBC showed a large plot about Syrian children who became victims of air bombing. A government plane (Russian -made) flew in and threw a bomb on school.

The first two of the 30 arrested participants in the Greenpeace campaign against oil production in the Arctic today are charged with piracy. This was reported on Twitter with reference to the lawyer "Greenpeace" by Mikhail Craidlin. We are talking about a citizen of Brazil and the citizen of Great Britain. Environmentalists consider accusations of piracy absurd.

Television journalist Evgeny Kiselev The television journalist Yevgeny Kiselev, who has been working in Ukraine since 2008, wrote a statement of care of his own free will from the post of head of the information service of the Inter. He held this position since February last year. In addition, from the end of last summer, Yevgeny Kiselev conducted the final information and analytical program of the Channel “Details of the Week”.

Arctic Sunrise ship detained by the Russian authorities Greenpeace activists, detained by the Gazprom drill platform, were officially accused of piracy In Murmansk, Greenpeace activists are officially charged with piracy. They provide for punishment in the form of imprisonment for up to 15 years. Greenpeace lawyers call accusations absurd.

The New York apartment of the creator of the largest financial pyramid of Bernard Madoff is put up for sale for more than $ 17 million. It is reported by CNBC. Two-level 7-room apartment on Manhattan three years ago The government bought Magnate al Kan. Then he paid only eight million dollars for it, but now he expects to help out twice as much thanks to the repair and restoration of prices in the US real estate market.

On Tuesday, one of the most famous US opera theaters, New York City Opera, announced his closure and intention to apply to the court with a request to recognize him bankrupt. The theater experienced financial difficulties for several years, and as its representative reported, the last campaign for emergency filming ended in failure. The city authorities decided not to come to the aid of the theater.

In the Polish city of Gdansk, unknown people drank a hand at the monument to former US President Ronald Reagan. This was announced by the Diletant.ru portal with reference to the Polish Cultural Center in Kaliningrad. It is reported that the left hand of the bronze monument to Reagan was drank, most likely on Monday at night. The statue of the Pope John Paul II standing nearby, of course, was not injured.

The court in Greece on Wednesday freed from the guards of three deputies of the parliament from the right-wing (often not called neo-Nazi) Golden Dawn party , accused of involvement in the murder of an anti-fascist activist and musician Pavlos Fissas .

Residents of Baikalsk require new jobs. Photo by Ekaterina Vertinskaya Employees of the Baikal Pulp and Light Plant held a picket opposite the building of the Government of the Irkutsk Region. People demanded the creation of new jobs. In connection with the closure of the enterprise, 300 people resigned by agreement, and almost 500 employees were reduced. Until the end of 2013, they will also be left without work.

The Russian authorities are ready to tighten the laws on non -profit organizations and foreign agents again Almost a year after the adoption of the Federal Law "On Non -Profit Organizations", which entered into force on November 21, 2012, the Russian government continues to attack the NPOs. The Federation Council, together with the Prosecutor General, intends to amend the bill "On Non -Profit Organizations", which may even more limit the sources of their financing.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogg Rasmussen called on Russia to reconsider the decision to recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia. In his statement on Wednesday, FOG Rasmussen expressed concern about the actions of Russian border guards, which establish barriers from barbed wire on the administrative borders between the self -proclaimed republics and Georgia.

The famous American writer, author of bestseller Tom Clans, died in a hospital at the age of 66, the American media reported on Wednesday. Clansy died in the hospital in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, near Washington. Clans became known thanks to the bestsellers dedicated to the Cold War and the events after it detailed from a technical point of view. Clans also wrote scripts for a number of computer games.

US National Intelligence Director James Clapper Approximately 70 percent of American intelligence officers were sent on vacation without maintenance, this was announced by US National Intelligence Director James Clapper, speaking at the hearing in the Senate Committee on Legal Affairs. In connection with the closure of the US government, due to the budget crisis, a situation has developed that Clapper described as a “damage to the US National Security.