This night in Tallinn, excavations began on the mass grave of Soviet soldiers next to the Bronze Soldier. Construction equipment has been brought to the monument, and there is a police cordon around it. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mikhail Kamynin said that the actions of official Tallinn affected Russian-Estonian relations, apparently not for the better.

Last Friday, April 20, there was a riot in the Grozny pre-trial detention center. That is, there was a message that the prisoners were rioting, opening their veins, making demands... Upon closer examination, it became clear: indeed, two people who had just been transported from outside Chechnya had cut their hands. They cut, but above the wrists and not deeply - they only damaged the skin. The wounds were treated and bandaged. They demanded attention!

Today at noon, about a thousand people will gather in the Marble Hall of the Kremlin - they will come to listen to President Putin, who will deliver the eighth address of his presidency to the Federal Assembly. According to the Constitution, this message should be the last. However, as RIA-Novosti reports, citing sources in the Kremlin, it will not be a farewell event.

The death of Boris Yeltsin made the question of the fate of the Yeltsin elite again relevant. According to one of the conspiracy theories, there was an unspoken contract between the current president and his predecessor - not to touch Yeltsin’s long-time associates, representatives of the old elite - which has now lost force.

The Leninsky District Court of Vladikavkaz overturned the decision of the investigator of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, who refused to initiate criminal cases against members of the operational headquarters for the release of hostages during the seizure of a school in Beslan." For three years now, members of the "Mothers of Beslan" committee have been trying to bring to justice those who directly led the operation to rescue the hostages.

Today is the day of remembrance of the Chernobyl tragedy. From the very morning, Chernobyl heroes are remembered in all churches in Russia and Belarus. A funeral meeting will be held at the Mitinskoye cemetery in Moscow at 14.30 - 28 firefighters are buried here, who rushed to put out the fire without special equipment and became the first victims of the disaster. And on May 22, an All-Russian protest action for victims of the Chernobyl disaster will take place.

Its participants came to the conclusion that it was time for Orthodox Christians to get more involved with their families. In a family, a person has much more freedom than in the state, and this is where we need to start teaching a person to make choices and be responsible for them - if a person has not succeeded in the family, he is unlikely to have a chance to succeed in society. Alas, Orthodox hagiography does not provide an ideal family.

Boris Nadezhdin, Secretary of the Federal Political Council of the Union of Right Forces, on the latest message from Russian President Vladimir Putin to the Federal Assembly: I listened to the President standing up and couldn’t tear myself away from the TV. My wife is already saying: “As much as possible, let’s go swimming!” (we’re just on vacation right now). I say: “No. I can't. Putin still speaks.” In general, it’s difficult to talk seriously. What can I say...

Moscow courts will soon consider 97 administrative cases of participants in the “March of Dissent,” which took place on April 14. At the same time, every third case of an administrative offense against citizens who participated in the march was returned to the police by the courts due to violations in the preparation of documents. Of the 257 cases: 42 have already been considered, 83 have been returned to the police, 97 will be scheduled for hearing in the near future.

In Kaliningrad, the Military Memorial Company congratulated veterans on Victory Day. On the front side of the postcard, which the veterans found in their mailboxes, it is written “May 9 Victory Day!”, and on the back: “Ritual services, including military personnel; monuments (to participants of the Second World War, military operations, pensioners of the Defense Ministry and other law enforcement agencies for budget account)".

Putin's message has already caused a natural roar of approval. And, really, it’s great: he called the current “vertical” management “decentralization of power,” rejoiced at the growth of Internet users and immediately asked to quickly tighten the law on extremism. He went through the “pseudo-democrats” who want to return the past in order to “rob people” with impunity, and named the presidential library after Yeltsin.

The US dollar continues to fall on world markets. In the middle of the day, the euro came close to its absolute record against the American currency and by 17:00 Moscow time reached the level of $1.3665. The outflow of investors from the dollar was caused by new disappointing data on the dynamics of developments in the US economy.