Computers are being confiscated from the Novaya Gazeta editorial office in Samara, Gazeta.Ru reports. This work is carried out by employees of the regional police department, the official version: “inspection of financial and economic activities in order to determine the presence of unlicensed software.” But here is a plausible version: the daughter of Novaya Gazeta (S) editor Sergei Kurt-Adzhiev, Anastasia, is one of the organizers of the “March of Dissent” in Samara.

Thousands of standardized graves; in even rows - slabs, crosses... The spread of dates of birth lying here is several decades, all dates of death fit into three summer months of 1944. This is a German military cemetery in Normandy, on the road from Cherbourg to Bayeux. Let me clarify: one of the six German military cemeteries in Normandy, among a dozen others: English, American, Canadian and even one Polish - the earth could not contain those who died that summer...

The readings were organized by the Heritage College of Biblical Training for Ministries and the Society of Friends of the Holy Scriptures. Theme: “Christ - the fulfillment of the law and the prophets.” The conference is attended by biblical scholars, translators, historians, literary scholars, teachers of theological seminaries and theological universities.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Ye Xiaoweion, head of the PRC State Administration for Religious Affairs, emphasized that this is a major event in the life of the country, “reform and innovation in the field of religion.” Indeed, progress - until recently, religious activity was banned in China, although, according to official data, there are now approximately 100 million Buddhists, 17 million Muslims, 12 million Protestants and 4 million Catholics in China.

Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov proposes to rename Maly Kislovsky Lane, where the Estonian Embassy is located, to Dmitry Ganin Street - in honor of the Russian citizen who died in Tallinn during the recent unrest. In Estonia, they are sure that during a fight that broke out between looters who were robbing a store, someone stabbed Ganin with a knife (on April 27, he died from knife wounds).

Doctors tried to deny hospitalization to Marina Shkudova, a participant in the hunger strike of defrauded shareholders, who was taken to Hospital No. 67 due to poor health, citing the lack of available beds. “We arrived here in the evening around ten. The doctor at the emergency department kept telling me that there were no places. He did not refuse to take due to his condition - he said that there were no places. But now I’m lying in the ward and there is room.

The cause of the crash of an Mi-8 helicopter with 15 special forces soldiers in Chechnya on April 27 was a piloting error. This was reported by a source in the investigation. Meanwhile, the remains of all the servicemen who died in the disaster have been identified. “As part of forensic medical examinations...

Now, as you know, we have another “Russia” - “Great”, with the direct participation of Dmitry Rogozin. He recently inadvertently stated that if the “Great Russians” are denied registration, they will have to switch to plan “B”. The head of the LDPR Duma faction, Igor Lebedev, immediately sent a request to the Prosecutor General’s Office whether Berezovsky was financing this party. The request was supported by United Russia.

It seems that we have found another nation with which we should immediately quarrel because of an incorrect attitude towards the great history of Russia. Officials from the tourism committee decided to re-educate Chinese tour guides. As the newspaper “Your Day” writes, while sightseeing in the Moscow Kremlin, guides talk about Russia as “a barbarian kingdom that illegally took the Far East and Siberia from China.” The Federal Tourism Agency was concerned about this.

Kommersant newspaper journalist Pavel Sedakov and two people from the film crew of the Ren-Tv television company, detained the day before in Samara. “At the department, we were taken separately from room to room for about 2.5 hours. In response to the remark that we need to produce materials on time, the police officers said that they had been given instructions to check everyone involved in the upcoming march,” Sedakov said.

Events in Ukraine are changing so rapidly that a compromise seemed hardly achievable at the end of April, now looms again on the horizon. Yushchenko and Yanukovych suddenly appeared on the front pages and on television screens hand in hand, smiling, facing each other, with joyful speeches that a sensational compromise had been reached, early elections would take place, the only question was when and how.