Still, something is wrong with this spring: it’s snowing, children are disappearing, people are throwing stones at diplomatic missions, and there’s some kind of unhealthy interest in monuments. So in Nizhny Novgorod, a man was detained suspected of stealing elements of the Maryina Roshcha memorial. The monument is located at the burial site of soldiers who died in hospitals during the Great Patriotic War.

The Union of Right Forces will today send a complaint to the Constitutional Court in connection with the party's withdrawal from the regional elections held in March in Dagestan, the Pskov and Vologda regions. The court will have to decide whether the norm according to which, in the event of a refusal to register one regional group of deputies, the entire party list is removed from the elections, is consistent with the Constitution.

The construction site came close to the temple. An architectural monument of the 17th century, which is called the “pearl of Zamoskvorechye”, is under threat. Apartments in a non-existent building are almost sold out, although sq. a meter of housing here costs 12 thousand dollars - after all, a view of the Kremlin. The necessary papers were passed through all Moscow authorities. It was only saved by the intervention of Rosokhrankultura, which immediately found violations in the project.

On the night of May 3, unknown hooligans threw stones at the Russian Embassy in Stockholm, RIA Novosti reports. The building suffered minor damage, and four diplomatic vehicles parked were also damaged. And it happened like this: yesterday Nashi activists, in a patriotic frenzy, mixed up the ambassadors - they wanted to offend the Estonian, but for some reason they tore off the car mirror from the Swedish one.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the son and brother of FSB head Nikolai Patrushev with state awards, Kommersant writes. For labor success and many years of work, 62-year-old Viktor Patrushev, who works at MegaFon JSC, received the Order of Friendship, and 26-year-old adviser to the head of the Board of Directors of Rosneft Andrei Patrushev was awarded the Order of Honor. The youngest son of the head of the FSB at Rosneft informally oversees the work of the information department.

Catholic Fyodor Gaaz is a doctor who lived in Russia in the 19th century and dedicated his life to serving prisoners. Today's missionaries look up to him. Today, in Russian correctional institutions, there are 1,100 religious communities of various faiths for 862 thousand prisoners.

Estonia is disappointed with the visit of the Russian State Duma delegation. “They have not yet reached the plane on which they were supposed to fly to Estonia, and they have already declared that the Estonian government needs to be changed,” said Ene Ergma, speaker of the Estonian Parliament.

Unknown people threw stones at the Estonian Embassy in Moscow. However, the pro-Kremlin youth movement, which has been enthusiastically picketing the Estonian consulate for several days, does not want to be held accountable for the stones. “We believe that these are provocateurs; neither we, Young Russia, nor the Nashi movement accept such methods of struggle,” said Alexander Kalugin, press secretary of the Young Russia movement.

The organizers of the picket in defense of the director of the rural school, Alexander Ponosov, near the building of the Vereshchaginsky court in Perm are in the police custody - they are accused of holding an unauthorized action. Today the court is once again considering the sensational case of Ponosov, a teacher accused of using unlicensed software. The initial decision to close the case due to the “insignificance of the damage caused” did not please anyone.

Without waiting for the promised censorship on the Internet, “well-wishers” act with their proven methods. Now the Ekho Moskvy website has come under hacker attacks - as a result, the page is inaccessible to most users. The first time this happened on May 1 at three o'clock in the afternoon, since then the site has been operating intermittently, although some users still manage to get to its pages.

There is no doubt that what the Estonian authorities are doing is abomination and bestiality. An attempt to consolidate a nation by digging up coffins and defaming the dead is an absolutely undignified thing. But let me note that by doing all these nasty things, Tallinn is essentially consistently implementing Moscow’s foreign policy strategy. Which, let me remind you, is that within their own country the authorities can do whatever they see fit, without paying attention to the reaction abroad.