On October 7, 2012, Vladimir Putin turned 60 years old, 12 of which he has been at the pinnacle of power. The president's supporters and opponents congratulated him as best they could. Today the Moscow City Court considered a cassation appeal against the verdict filed by defenders of the punk group Pussy Riot.

The English and Spanish language websites of the Russia Today TV channel were subjected to DDoS attacks. According to the TV channel's press service, the hacker group AntiLeaks, which also attacked Julian Assange's WikiLeaks project a week ago, claimed responsibility for the attack. "The distributed attack began at about 9:00 Moscow time. As a result, it was decided to disable the attacked IP address of the RT TV channel," the press service said.

On Sakhalin, the Poronaisky City Court awarded nine-year-old Valentin Chuvashov and his mother 1.2 million rubles in moral damages from Russian Railways after the boy was hit by a train and lost both legs. According to the court, the railway company must pay the boy 700,000 rubles and another 500,000 rubles to his mother. The Sakhalin Transport Prosecutor sought the compensation, the press service of the transport prosecutor's office reported. Russian Railways may appeal the verdict.

Bentley will present the Continental GT Speed ​​7 coupe at the Moscow Motor Show photo British Bentley will hold the world premiere of its flagship model Continental GT Speed ​​at the Moscow Motor Show. The luxury coupe will be Bentley's fastest production car, capable of accelerating from 0 to 100 km/h in 4.2 seconds and reaching a top speed of 330 km/h.

August 17, 2012, 16:27 / Auto Drivers can get their “allowed ppm” back The proposal was supported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Health, and even the initiator of the “prohibition” driving Dmitry Medvedev is ready to discuss this issue, says the author of the amendments, deputy Vyacheslav Lysakov Alexey Nikolsky M.

The authorities of St. Petersburg have found an investor who can save OAO "Petersburg House of Books" from a pre-bankruptcy state, the city's vice-governor Vasily Kichedzhi reported. According to him, the investor, whose name he did not disclose, is capable of paying off OAO "Petersburg House of Books"' debt of 176 million rubles within one year.

Large retail chains invite not only permanent employees to work, but also students for the holidays, she said. Due to the shortage of engineers and workers, vacancies are open at the Samara enterprises "Samara Transformer" and "Volgaburmash". Samara branches of the companies " VimpelCom ", " MegaFon " and " Rostelecom " are constantly looking for IT specialists.

"Renaissance Capital" "Renaissance" has lowered its recommendation for Tatneft GDRs from "buy" to "hold", the target price ($44) remains the same. Since May 24, these securities have risen in price by 33%, outpacing the entire sector. Tatneft's low growth potential does not allow it to retain the "buy" recommendation, Renaissance writes. The EBITDA and net profit forecast for 2012 has been lowered by 6 and 2%, respectively.

The US's global leadership is similarly reflected by the number of Nobel laureates or the global box office of Hollywood films. Medal failure Sergei Medvedev 17.08.2012, 31 (313) The fanfares and tambourines of the Olympics died down, and medal standings disappeared from the front lines of news feeds.

The successful practice of disputes with tax authorities over accelerated depreciation of equipment for the telecommunications business may change – on August 15, a panel of three judges of the Supreme Arbitration Court (SAC) referred the dispute between Synterra and the Interregional Inspectorate of the Federal Tax Service No. 7 to the presidium. According to the inspection, Sinterra illegally applied depreciation benefits.

In the Kirov Region, officials are going to step up the fight for clean streets by publishing photos of citizens who litter. This proposal was put forward by Deputy Chairman of the Regional Government Alexander Pereskokov at a meeting on the results of the inspection of improvement work in the Sovetsky, Pizhansky and Yaransky districts.

outnow.ch Seidl is a flexible filmmaker, moving freely from documentary filming to poetic images. But in both the document and poetry, he is truly occupied with only one pose, common among human beings. Seidl recognizes it not because it is exclusively cinematic, but because it is universal. And he is able to recognize it under any camouflage. Everyone can be bent over at any second of their life. It is this second that Seidl captures with his lens and stretches into cinematic eternity.

Since the beginning of the week, the Young Guard of United Russia has been conducting training sessions in a camp near Lipetsk. If last year the participants were explained what a people's front is, this year they are being taught how to work with the opposition, the media, and campaign in pre-election regions.

In Kyiv, the Pechersk District Court sentenced former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko to two years of restricted freedom, finding him guilty in his second criminal case.

Businessman and former Russian presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov has given a negative assessment of the possible consequences of the sentence for members of the punk group Pussy Riot, who were sentenced to two years in prison for publicly performing the punk prayer "Mother of God, Drive Putin Away!" "There would have been no hysteria if it had not been for these months of imprisonment. A strategic mistake was made.