A methane outbreak occurred at the Yubileiny mine in the Kemerovo region. According to the latest data, 38 miners died. 179 – saved. In this case, seven miners were injured. All of them are hospitalized. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the bodies of 14 dead have been brought to the surface so far. There were 217 people in the mine at the time of the methane explosion.

The Prosecutor General's Office rebelled against the idea of ​​creating an Investigative Committee. The corresponding law has already been adopted by the State Duma and is awaiting approval by the Federation Council. Deputy Prosecutor General Sabir Kekhlerov said that the law on the creation of an investigative committee at the Prosecutor General’s Office “contradicts the Constitution and international norms,” writes Kommersant.

It seems that the Russian president has developed a disease that is affecting ever wider sections of his compatriots. The main symptom of this disease is investment itch. The internal ban on spending funds from the Stabilization Fund, which had been a thorn in Vladimir Putin’s brain, disappeared at the beginning of this year.

I was a law student when this issue was discussed 30 years ago, and we never found anything unconstitutional in the idea of ​​creating an Investigative Committee. Maybe Mr. Deputy Prosecutor General doesn’t like some specific norms, but it’s hard for me to talk about it now, I haven’t seen the draft. They need to be corrected if they violate the Constitution. We need to understand why this Committee is being created.

When a “polonium scandal” erupted in Britain and Germany a few months ago, when it became clear that Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned, and his killers left traces in London and Hamburg, official and official domestic commentators recommended not a hurry with conclusions. "In the UK, and in Germany, and in Russia there is a consequence, so let's wait when professionals say their word." Well, now we waited.

In the capital's Yuzhnoye Butovo district on Thursday, May 24, a rally of local residents was dispersed. As a result of a clash with the police, Moscow City Duma deputy and leader of the Yabloko faction Sergei Mitrokhin was injured. The rally was coordinated with the prefecture, but for some reason, immediately after the start of the rally, valiant policemen appeared and, according to tradition, began to detain and disperse everyone.

ROCOR priest Andrew Phillips proposes the creation of a World Council of Orthodoxy, which, in his opinion, should play the role of “its own center for meetings and discussions... it’s absurd, you see, that in order to meet with each other, Orthodox Christians should be members of non-Orthodox organizations, be it in the World Council of Churches or the Conference of European Churches,” writes Father Andrew in an article published on the radical website Pravaya.ru.