Georgia's refusal to fulfill its obligations under the Open Skies Treaty (OST) violates the rights of the Russian Federation and creates a precedent that could lead to the collapse of the agreement, the Russian Foreign Ministry says. “In practical terms, the decision taken by the Georgian side means that Georgia will not allow observation flights over its territory with the participation of the Russian Federation.

Putin will leave United Russia. After the inauguration, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev will perform another castling, the press writes. State Duma deputy from the United Russia party Sergei Zheleznyak commented on this information to Kommersant FM host Oksana Barykina.

The editor-in-chief of Ogonyok talks about why personal cars are a political issue in Russia It’s hard to imagine what kind of undercover fuss the future president started by announcing the transfer of officials to modest cars The head of the presidential administration once admitted: during the years of his work there was no more difficult appointment than the head of the traffic police. For some reason, cars are big politics in our country.

The Moscow Arbitration Court registered the application of Federation Tower Management CJSC, a structure of the Potok 8 company (formerly Mirax Group), created for the construction project of the Federation complex in Moscow City, about its own bankruptcy, a court representative told RAPSI on April 16 . The application was received by the court on April 10; the date for considering its validity has not yet been set. RAPSI does not yet have the applicant’s comment.

The work to solve the murder of Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya is close to completion, the Main Criminal Investigation Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on April 16, citing the words of the deputy head of the department, Igor Shutov.

Ogonyok spoke about the phenomenon of glorification of terrorists with a former CIA psychologist and director of the International Center for the Study of Terrorism Olga Filina The transformation of criminals into heroes has been a sad reality since the time of Herostratus, but only today this phenomenon has taken on such proportions that it threatens to blur the value guidelines of Western civilization.

On April 12, after the arrival of Sergei Mironov in Astrakhan, the Socialist Revolutionary Oleg Shein and his like-minded people announced a softening of the conditions of the hunger strike against the results of the city mayor elections

2K 1 min. ... Former candidate for mayor of Astrakhan Oleg Shein and leader of the A Just Russia party Sergei Mironov arrived at the Central Election Commission to study video recordings from polling stations in Astrakhan together with its members. Kommersant FM correspondent Ulyana Malashenko told the details to presenter Alexey Korneev. – Upon arrival at the CEC, did politicians make any statements? –– They spent literally a few minutes with journalists.

Natural gas consumption in EU countries in 2011 decreased by 10.7%. This was reported by the Eurogas Association. The reason is warmer weather and a change in the relative profitability of using gas and coal in thermal power plants in Europe. In total, 27 EU countries consumed 470.7 billion cubic meters of gas in 2011, reports the Eurogas association, which unites the gas industry associations of EU countries.

90 YEARS AGO Approve post. Organizing Bureau dated April 18 with the following changes: the newspapers "Voice of Russia" and "Sots. Vestnik" (publications of the Russian emigration - "Vlast" ) should be issued in the amount of 20 copies each, correspondingly reducing the total amount of the estimate for issuing foreign newspapers. From the minutes of the Politburo meeting N3, 1922. Materials prepared by Svetlana Kuznetsova and Evgeny Zhirnov

The radio station's fifth anniversary was celebrated to the fullest Last week, a reception was held at Gostiny Dvor to mark the fifth anniversary of the radio station Business FM (BFM). Since the owner of the Rumedia holding, which includes BFM, Vladimir Lisin, decided to attend the event, and even personally invited his friends to the celebration, the celebration turned out to be so magnificent, as if they were celebrating not a semicircular anniversary, but an impressive date.

Dmitry Gubin knows how to teach today's youth Young people who are masters of an iPhone and iPad know nothing about Modigliani, Planck, Pitirim (and even Vladimir) Sorokin. The next generation turned out to be barbarians in Rome. But this doesn’t bother me at all (a Roman in this sense) Dmitry Gubin Can you instantly tell whether Russia has a land border with Turkmenistan, Mongolia or Sweden? Does the question of which mountain range (Altai, Tibet or Alps) is higher make you laugh?

257 1 min. ... World Amateur Radio Day is celebrated on April 18th. It was on this day in 1925 in Paris that enthusiasts created the “International Amateur Radio Union”, designed to unite all people passionate about amateur radio communications. That is, those who are engaged in the design, construction, modification, operation of radio receivers, radio transmitters and radio stations. Bus service in Moscow opened 90 years ago, on April 18, 1922.

In Moscow, at the Multimedia Art Museum, two exhibitions dedicated to the work of Ingmar Bergman are opening - the multimedia installation "The Man Who Asked Difficult Questions" about the Swedish island of Fore, where the director lived, and the photo project "Image Maker", which seemed to Andrei Plakhov a good reason to talk about the visual world of Ingmar Bergman. The cold northern sea and two black boulders are two small islands of land. This is a typically Scandinavian landscape.

Deputies and officials reported on cars, dachas, temple and plots in Congo State Duma deputies and Moscow officials published information on income and property for 2011. The richest parliamentarians are still members of the United Russia faction. And Moscow officials, as it turned out, earn more than their colleagues in the federal government.