The rehabilitation centers of drug addicts, although they seem to do a good work, often find themselves in the center of scandals. The most odious are structures close to the City without drugs. A year and a half ago, in March 2009, the Dolphin Center in the city of Krasnokamsk was famous throughout the country. One of the patients came to the police and said that in Dolphin people were held by force and tortured - in particular, they are handcuffed to beds.

In Moscow, employees of the St. Petersburg Center for Combating Extremism were detained by activists of the War Art group . Two members of the group Leonid Nikolaev and Oleg Vorotnikov (known under the names of Lenya Fucked and the thief), as eyewitnesses say, put bags on their heads, put them in a car and took him to St. Petersburg. In relation to Nikolaev, Vorotnikov and the “unidentified group of persons”, a criminal case was opened under Article 213 of the Criminal Code (“Hooliganism”).

The condition of the journalist Oleg Kashin, cruelly beaten on November 5, is stable, but difficult. On Tuesday, November 16, Irina Muranova, head of the 36th city hospital of Moscow, told RIA to the news to the news . The journalist is still in intensive care and is already communicating with loved ones, though he can not talk long for long. But it is possible that in the coming days he will have to transfer another operation - on his leg.

The Russian authorities again undertook to block the country. According to the newspaper Vedomosti with reference to sources in the government, the cabinet and the presidential administration propose to concentrate the population in 20 three million agglomerations. In fact, this is a new territorial structure of the country, which will replace 83 constitutional subjects of the Federation and eight vertical districts.

During the construction of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (VSO), the state -owned company Transneft stolen four billion dollars. About this on Tuesday, November 16, wrote in his blog the Transneft's minorityatary Alexei Navalny. Navalny, who owns several privileged shares of Transneft, refers to materials prepared by OJSC AK Transneft at the request of the Accounts Chamber No. Za-11-03-69/11-03. The document is about violations during the construction of the pipeline. “They stole.

Journalist Oleg Kashin, on whom the attack was committed , came to his senses and gave the first testimony. As expected: he did not say anything new. And without his words it was clear that there were two attackers. And that they looked like football fans. That is, in principle, they were very much like representatives of one of those groups of youth who fell into orbit of pro -government youth movements.

The defense of the editor -in -chief of Khimkinskaya Pravda Mikhail Beketov, accused of slander, appealed the court decision. On Tuesday, November 16, reports RAPSI with reference to the lawyer of the journalist Andrei Stolbunov. “The court and investigation applied the so -called objective imputation, not proving whether there is the fault of Beketov without even dealing with this issue,” the defender said. In this case, according to the lawyer, this is not permissible.

I have lived all my life in a city that sometimes I don’t find out: bring me here by car, land - even not far from the center - and I'm not sure that I will find the way home. A month ago, a new metal -plastic appeared on Komsomolsky Prospekt (I can’t call a “sculpture”). At first, I tried to pass by faster - it looks very vile. But time passed, and I, since I often walked past, began to look closely - what is it? What new monster was hooked on the main street of the city?

On November 17, at the Christie's auction in Paris, they plan to sell a chandelier from the Pavlovsky Palace in St. Petersburg. This is stated in the message on the official website of the auction house. The chandelier since the beginning of the twentieth century is part of a private French collection. She fell abroad after the revolution, when the Soviet government sold objects from imperial residence in order to help out the currency to finance its regime.

A criminal case has been instituted against the leadership of the Russian Federation of basketball. It is suspected of "causing material damage to basketball clubs in especially large sizes." On Tuesday, November 16, writes the newspaper " Soviet Sport " with reference to the head of the apparatus of the RFB Karen Poghosyan. The case was opened under part 3 of Article 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“causing property damage by deception or abuse of trust”).

The British Crown Prince William and his friend Kate Middleton will be married in 2011. This was officially announced by representatives of the royal family, reports Guardian on Tuesday, November 16. The novel began back in 2003. A couple was engaged in Kenya in October this year during a joint rest. Prince William is the heir to the British throne, Kate Middleton is from a family not belonging to the British nobility.

The Russian author’s society - at the request of the playwright Vasily Sigarev - sued the leadership of the Perm Theater “At the bridge” for non -payment of fees. The artistic director of the theater Sergey Fedotov recognizes the duty, but partly. In his opinion, the accumulation of an unpaid amount “contributed” by RAO itself, due to the complex bureaucratic chain of which the process of payments slows down.

On Tuesday, November 16, a flood was recorded in St. Petersburg. The water level in the Neva rose 180 centimeters higher than normal, RIA Novosti reports with reference to an employee of the Ministry of Emergencies in St. Petersburg. The flood in the city is recorded even when the water level rises more than 160 centimeters above zero of the Kronstadt footstead. In addition, a storm warning has been announced in the city-the power of the southwestern wind reaches 16-18 meters per second.

On Tuesday, November 16, the US President Barack Obama “I sing about you: a message to my daughters” will be released in the United States. The book was written with the help of his daughters Malia and Sasha before the politician of the presidential post, reports CNN . The "Message to the daughters" is intended for children over three years old.

The mayor of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetsky was dismissed from the post of chairman of the Kyiv city state administration. The Decree was signed by President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych on Tuesday, November 16. Alexander Popov, deputy Chernovetsky, was appointed to this position. The law provides that the chairman of the Kyiv city state administration is appointed by the president. Leonid Chernovetsky retained the position of Kyiv mayor, which provides mainly representative functions.