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The student takes place among the burning tires next to the gas station in Macassar during a protest, directed against the plans of the state of the state to raise gasoline prices. March 22, 2012. The government of Indonesia is going to raise gasoline prices, at least a third, which can lead to inflation.

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The latest appointments

On March 23, President Dmitry Medvedev ahead of schedule terminated the powers of the governor of the Saratov region Pavel Ipatov. The New Times predicted this resignation exactly two months ago (see No. 1-2 of January 23, 2012). The long -standing conflict with Vyacheslav Volodin, who is mastered in the chair in the chair of the chief ideologist of the Kremlin, ruined. However, formally, Ipatov left of his own free will, and analysts do not exclude that he can continue his career in Rosatom.

In parallel, under the carpet of the presidential administration, there were fights for the chair of the Governor of the Moscow Region Boris Gromov, who were leaving in June from his post. On March 26, the term allotted by the law for consultations between AP and United Russia expires. Who will lead one of the key regions of the country? The short-list of potential applicants included several ministers of the government: head of the Ministry of Emergencies Sergey Shoigu, Minister of Transport Igor Levitin, Victor Basargin (Ministry of Regional Development). The names of the head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin and the former speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov were also called.

Banana football throwing bananas in black football players from the stands of Russian stadiums continues. Last year, the tropical fruit flew during the match in Samara in the defender of the Makhachkala Anji Brazilian Roberto Carlos (Vandal was identified by the Club Security Service only recently). Now, already in Moscow, at the Lokomotiv stadium, another defender of the Dagestan team Congolese Christopher Samba came under the “shelling”. Meanwhile, Russia continues to prepare for the 2018 World Cup, one of the motto of which is the struggle against racism in the stands.

The Russian Italian Tonino Guerra, who died last week, was one of those rare screenwriters who are known no less than the directors for whom they compose. “Zabriski Point”, “Photo Equipment” of Antonioni, “Amarkord” Fellini - Guerra wrote half of the classics of the 20th century. In the 70s, he met in Moscow with Eleanor Yablochkina, married and began to call himself "Russian in his wife." He worked with Andrei Tarkovsky, Vladimir Naumov, Andrei Khrzhanovsky, Yuri Lyubimov - and became part of Russian culture.

President Medvedev appointed three special representatives of his special representatives in controversial territories from the international legal point of view: in Abkhazia-the Kuban governor Alexander Tkachev, in South Ossetian-the North Ossetian President Taimuraz Mamsurov, and the traffic police-Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. It is noteworthy that it was Tkachev at one time under the pretext of the “Mediterranean flush” (!) He did not let the Abkhazian tangerines into Russia, Mamsurov - he planted activists of the headquarters of the Yugoosetan opposition, but Rogozin - he simply began his career take -off in the nationalist “homeland”.

(On elections in Abkhazia and South Ossetia - on page 41)

The end of the "Avenger"

23-year-old Muhammad Mera, a French citizen with Algerian roots, kept the whole country in suspense for 10 days: on March 11 and 15, he shot three military personnel in Montoban, the 19th in Toulouse-a teacher-male school and three more children (in the photo). On March 22, as a result of a 32-hour police siege of the apartment in which he was hiding, a terrorist who had a connection with Al-Qaeda was destroyed. But the problem of terrorism remains.

The army is tired

On March 22, in Mali, the military removed the President Amadu Tumani Tour from the power of President, arrested a number of ministers and introduced a commandant hour. The president of the tour, who ruled since 2002, was not going to run for a new term and was supposed to resign after the April elections. However, the army, which recently demanded an increase in allocations to fight the rebels in the north of the country, apparently tired of waiting ...