Russian satirist Mikhail Zadornov may avoid trial if he agrees to receive a live slap in the face from Maria Solovyenko, editor-in-chief of the Vladivostok newspaper Narodnoye Veche. The journalist also demands that she be allowed to tell an unprofessional television broadcasting organization in Russia in three minutes of air time, RAPSI reports. “This is rudeness, how much you can smack your people from the screens of central television, I have a longing for this,” Solovyenko said.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation refused to increase the excise rate on strong alcohol by 2013

Acting Governor of Karelia Andrei Nelidov was approved by the parliament of the republic at an extraordinary meeting, RIA Novosti reports. 41 deputies voted for the candidacy of the new governor, four decided to abstain. It should be reminded that on Saturday Russian President Dmitry Medvedev submitted Andrei Nelidov's candidacy for consideration by the Legislative Assembly of Karelia as the head of the republic. On June 30, the governor of Karelia Sergey Katanandov resigned from his post.

Representatives of Facebook were shown a document that testifies to the right of a New Yorker to 84% of the shares of the social network, reports Bloomberg. This is an agreement between the plaintiff of the process, Paul Celia, and the founder of the company, Mark Zuckerberg. Celia acts as an investor in the project that Mark proposed.

The June issue of Znamya magazine published the first major prose work by the poet Timur Kibirov. “Lada, or Joy. Chronicle of true and happy love "has already received recognition, at least among specialists. The novel entered the long lists of the National Bestseller (though it didn’t receive it) and Russian Booker awards. The work, according to Kibirov himself, is written in "old-fashioned" language.

The mayor of the city of Voskresensk near Moscow, Yuri Sleptsov, was detained today for taking a bribe of 200,000 rubles, RIA Novosti reports. According to the investigation, in July 2010, an organization that deals with water supply and sewerage on the territory of Voskresensk turned to Sleptsov with a request to lease to them for a period of 25 years the networks previously provided under a short-term contract.

The abnormal heat that has been established in Russia over the past two months is a consequence of global climate change, Aleksey Kokorin, head of the Climate and Energy Program at WWF Russia, told RIA Novosti. “Such long periods of summer heat were noted in our country before, for example, in 1936, but in recent years they have become much more frequent. This is the response of the climate system to human changes in the chemical composition of the atmosphere, a real chemical attack on it.

Gas exploded in a five-story residential building in the city of Kamen-on-Obi, Altai Territory, as a result, a 42-year-old woman was injured, three apartments were completely destroyed, RIA Novosti reports. The explosion occurred at 18.20 local time in one of the apartments on the fifth floor in the fifth entrance of the house down Krasnoarmeyskaya street, 67. A total of seven apartments were damaged.

Romantic comedies affect real-life partner relationships. Such conclusions were made by Australian sociologists on the basis of surveys. According to the results of the study, out of a thousand respondents, more than half answered that romantic comedies, with their traditional happy ending, destroyed their ideas about ideal relationships. One in four Australians who were able to take part in the survey said they are now expected to be able to anticipate their partner's wishes.

The apartment of GRU Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov was searched, Kvachkov himself claims. It is reported by RAPSI. The apartments of other activists of the All-Russian People's Militia named after Minin and Pozharsky were also searched in connection with the criminal case of one of the members of the organization accused of extremism. Kvachkov does not name him. According to the colonel, the security forces searched the apartments of more than a dozen activists in Moscow, St.

Four bombs were detonated at the Baksan hydroelectric power station, one explosive device was neutralized by sappers, RIA Novosti reports. The terrorists attacked the HPP at night, killed two employees of the private security department and beat two employees. The fire, which arose as a result of the explosion of bombs, was localized. It damaged two of the station's three generators.