NPO check card in Russia On the first of August, the human rights fund "So-Tak-Tak" from Novosibirsk lost in court of appeal, trying to appeal the decision of the Ministry of Justice to include " foreign agents " in the register . And this means that the organization will have to pay a fine of 200 thousand rubles - for not wanting to register voluntarily. Viktor Yukechev, the director of the fund, for the same reason owes the state 50 thousand.

Archive: conversation with the author of the book about free mason Alexander Pyatigorsky

A tattoo of signs for the initiates, from the zone of subcultures (army, prison, rockers, punks) went out into the streets, became universal fashion. What do tattoos are talking about, and how do people use their body to write messages to the city and the world? Guests: Oksana Frost, culturalist, associate professor of MVSSHSEN and Ekaterina Vorobyova, graduate student of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

How does Malobrodsky combine and disconnect the people of the theater? Yuri Muravitsky, director, playwright; Irina Kuzmina, leading expert of the project of the International Department of STD; Alena Karas, theater critic; Grigory Papish, music manager and producer; Boris Filanovsky, composer; Anatoly Golubovsky, producer, sociologist

Who said Terrr is big? The expression has become so familiar as if it had always lived. Meanwhile, he has a completely accurate date of birth - 1974, when the book of Robert Conquest was published in the fictional Florentine publishing house of Edizione Aurora. Before its printing, a dispute flared up: is the epithet "big" correctly? Rather, great or somehow, but not so ordinary.

Myths and legends of the Great City Archival project "Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago." The most interesting and significant from the Archive of the Radio Freedom of twenty years ago. Incomplete story. Still living hopes. Could Russia go the other way? When our old New York was a new Amsterdam. Says Charles Goering - historian, director of the US -Niderland Society. Author and presenter Marina Efimova. For the first time on the air of May 13, 1997.

In July, the three-week searches of two dogs named Yoda and Anubis organized a whole volunteer movement around them, which arose from a spontaneously overgrown telegram channel. The story of how Anton Yukin was looking for missing pets - in the film by Andrei Kiselev and Maria Pavlova. At first there were six dogs-someone threw them out into the street in a cardboard box.

Polish part of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha In the Belovezhskaya Pushcha in the east of Poland, hundreds of people gathered to protest against the large -scale deforestation, which the government ordered. The deforestation in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha, one of the last primitive forests of Europe and the UNESCO World Heritage Object, is the subject of a hot political dispute regarding logging, about which the ruling party "Law and Justice" ordered.

In 168 BC, the Roman consul Guy Popillius Lenat presented a kind of ultimatum to the Asian king Antiochus IV , who was about to storm the capital of Egypt Alexandria. Popillius arrived with the decree of the Senate, who decided to prevent this attack, Antiochus hesitated with the final answer. Then Popillius pulled a circle around Antioch with a cane on the sand and stated that the king would not cross it until he gave an answer.

Archive photo In Ingushetia, unknown people fired at the car employee of the patrol service of Malgobek Tambiev. The policeman died. His daughter, who was also in the car, was wounded. The attack occurred on the night of August 13 on the road leading to North Ossetia. This was reported by Interfax. Criminals are currently underway.

Charlotsville, Virginia, August 12, 2017 In the American city of Charlotsville (Virginia), several people were injured when a car crashed into a crowd of protesters. One person died, about two dozen were injured, the Voice of America said . The incident occurred on Saturday. The police arrested 20-year-old James Fields, who, supposedly, was driving a car. He was charged with murder.

Prisoner, beaten in the Krasnoyarsk colony 31 The Krasnoyarsk Public Supervisory Commission announced mass complaints of torture from convicts from colony No. 31. Moreover, these are not the first appeals to social activists - over the past two years, the prisoners have repeatedly spoke about the brutal handling of them. Inspections of law enforcement agencies did not lead to anything: not a single case of violence was confirmed.

The population of Russia does not yet really believe in the long-term stability of the national currency, still in their savings relying on the dollar and euro. And Radio Liberty continues its project, in which its correspondents track the prices for some food and non -food goods and services throughout the year to compare their dynamics with official statistics. In Russia, two cities were selected for the experiment - Moscow and Pskov.

Levan Quirquelia Eighteen -year -old Levan Quirquelia is trying to defend his development of a school electronic diary, which has become one of the most popular applications among schoolchildren.

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