Novosibirsk artist Artem Loskutov, the organizer of “Monstrations” - funny and meaningless flashbombs on May 1 - was detained on suspicion of drug possession. As one of the members of the creative group “Granny after the Funeral,” which he headed, who was with Loskutov during his arrest, says in a blog post, on May 15 he refused to meet with the head of the local Center for Combating Extremism, demanding that he be sent a summons.

I think that there is no need to talk about any serious changes in presidential policy, because we very often exaggerate the figure of the head of the presidential secretariat. And the head of the presidential secretariat is a person who reflects the presidential desires and actions at the moment when Viktor Yushchenko needs certain of his functions.

The Commission under the President of the Russian Federation to counter attempts to falsify history to the detriment of the interests of Russia - this is the ominous name of the new government body established by decree of Dmitry Medvedev. Thus, the statement of the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu about the inadmissibility of doubts about who won the Great Patriotic War, a statement many laughed at, received a more than serious continuation. No laughing matter.

The state understands how to fight crime and terrorism, but it has absolutely given in to disease. While citizens have a runny nose, they have their own portion of drops or tablets. But if something more serious happened - how to find money for medicines, painkillers, operations? Medicine has become a legal way to kill those who do not have enough money to pay for treatment.

A criminal case has been opened against Nadezhda Nizovkina and Tatyana Stetsura, young human rights activists from Buryatia: the police were again offended that they were scolding them, or the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office of the republic was offended for the police - in a word, the girls are accused under the notorious Article 282, that is, of inciting hatred towards social groups - military, police and people working in investigative agencies.

The head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine, Viktor Baloga, was dismissed: on May 19, President Viktor Yushchenko issued a decree in which he relieved him of his post, thereby accepting his resignation letter, written back in April. The name of Baloga is associated with the aggravation of the conflict between the president and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, under the sign of which the political life of Ukraine has developed recently.

Perhaps those who are worried about preparing for the Sochi Olympics will improve the news a little bit that Ukraine has faced the hardest problems in organizing an equally large -scale event - the 2012 European football championship. The latest UEFA decisions on this issue can not be called anything other than the last Chinese warning. Of the four pest cities, three are currently recognized as worthless-Donetsk, Lviv and Kharkov. Only Kyiv remains.

Dmitry Medvedev is looking for himself, looking, but can’t find him. Does not work. It darts to one corner, then to another. Now I’ve decided to fight the “falsification of history.” Issued a decree. The decree has a wonderful name - “On the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation to counter attempts to falsify history to the detriment of the interests of Russia.” Attempts to falsify history in the interests of Russia will apparently be welcomed.

In society Marauders are again drawn to the topic of the war May 19, 2009 Elena Sannikova Against the backdrop of a crisis that casts more and more Russians for the poverty line, unheated schools without study guides, district hospitals without drugs, suffocating corruption, which is not able to cope with any high -ranking official for the simple reason that he himself dependent on bribes stronger than the drug addict from heroin - against the background of all this warpannaya ruin and

In uniform Control over society: Anti -crisis package of the Kremlin May 19, 2009 Irina Borogan "Daily Journal" and Agentura . Ru They begin to explore the state campaign to combat extremism, which, in our opinion, is unfolding today to obtain control over civil society and strengthen the state’s police functions.