The government has launched an extremely risky experiment in economic policy. It is planned to remove Siberia and the Far East from the federal legal framework. MAXIM KVASH Over the past couple of weeks, the idea of ​​​​renaming the Russian Federation into the state of Absurdistan has clearly gained many new supporters. The Russian government has proven that this path can be taken much faster and further than even the most cynical of its critics imagined.

Number 48 1 min. ... 24 hours are allotted to each hockey player who won the Gagarin Cup final to take the championship cup to his hometown, village or village. The League leadership announced that within 24 hours the newly crowned champions will be able to dispose of the trophy at their own discretion, and the League itself will help with transportation, security and presentation.

Tired of dirt, rudeness and corruption? Do you want to go to Europe? For a few days or forever? What to do in European capitals - read in the mini-guide "Money". NADEZHDA PETROVA Romance with Europe Having a ticket to London in your pocket gives a Russian person confidence in the future.

Last week, the Ministry of Finance again demanded to raise the retirement age. Vlast asked its readers how they see their retirement future. I’m still earning money, I’m far from retirement. I don’t know what it will be like. But I was a senator for more than three years, and I am entitled to a pension of about 50-70% of the senator’s salary. But I’m not going to rely only on the state; I hope I can create a decent resource for my old age myself.

PLUS-MINUS 169 1 min. ... The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) published the results of a survey of older US residents, from which it became clear that the vast majority of grandparents have more than five grandchildren. And only 9% of American grandparents have one grandson or granddaughter.

90 YEARS AGO Send Comrade Krasin (plenipotentiary and trade representative in Great Britain and People's Commissar for Foreign Trade of the RSFSR - "Vlast" ) immediately in code the following telegram: “The Politburo is confronting you with your failure to fulfill your obligations to the commission for the confiscation of valuables to report weekly on the progress of negotiations on the sale of valuables abroad.

The norms of administrative liability in Russia for violating legislation on freedom of assembly should be much more flexible, the country's President Dmitry Medvedev said during a meeting with members of the Human Rights Council.

Key figures in the gambling business, banned in Russia in the summer of 2009, have come to terms with the loss of fabulous income in different ways. The only thing that unites them now is the refusal to continue this business in the reservations allocated for the casino. ANNA VASILYEVA As we know, there are no profitable legal casinos in Russia today. None of the four zones designated in 2009 as future Las Vegas ever became them.

The All-Ukrainian Union "Batkivshchyna" party announces a significant deterioration in the health of Yulia Tymoshenko, the party's press service said in a statement. “The illegally convicted Yulia Tymoshenko has been on hunger strike for the tenth day. As it became known from informed sources, the health condition of the ex-Prime Minister has deteriorated significantly,” the report says.

Business card 20 1 min. ... The Secretary General of the Italian Confederation of Labor Trade Unions (CISL), the second most influential trade union in the country, Raffaele Bonanni, was born in a town with the loud name Bomba in Central Italy (Abruzzo region). He is 58 years old, and has been in union work for almost 35 of them. Bonanni started in the youth branch of the Italian Communist Party.

The Saudi authorities, “for reasons of humanitarianism,” decided to provide asylum to members of the family of terrorist Osama bin Laden. As noted in Riyadh, the decision to grant asylum has all legal grounds, the Associated Press reports. At the same time, it remains unknown which members of the family of the ex-head of al-Qaeda were sheltered in Saudi Arabia. It is also unknown whether the terrorist’s relatives and friends will be able to claim government benefits.

A regular author of Ogonyok presents the latest story from his family saga* Sergey Kaledin * See also “Why I live in the village” (“Ogonyok” No. 7, 2006), “Tomochka” (“Ogonyok” No. 29, 2007), “Krokha” (“Ogonyok” No. 15, 2008), "Ingermanlandka" ("Ogonyok" N 46, 2008), "Three twenty to the box office, gentlemen!" (“Ogonyok”, N 12, 2011) While sorting through my father's papers after his death, I came across a photograph of a naked woman with her hair down.

3K 5 minutes. ... The outgoing president is originally from St. Petersburg, but has been working in Moscow for a long time. We found both St. Petersburg and Moscow Dmitri Medvedevs to find out how they lived the last four years Prepared by Natalya Shergina and Sergey Melnikov The surname "Medvedev" is one of the most popular in Russia, as is the name Dmitry. Today, for example, more than 100 namesakes and namesakes of Dmitry Medvedev live in Moscow. There are several dozen of these in St.

Law enforcement agencies detained the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Primorsky Territory, Evgeny Ovechkin, suspected of stealing petroleum products worth at least 38 million rubles through fraud, RIA Novosti reported on April 29 with reference to the region’s Sustainable Control Committee. According to investigators, a criminal case has been opened against Evgeniy Ovechkin for fraud.

NOT IN CONTRIBUTION Kazakh Foreign Minister Yerzhan Kazykhanov said that the controversial American film "Borat", released in 2006, has significantly increased the attractiveness of the republic for foreign tourists. According to the minister, the number of entry visas to Kazakhstan after the release of the film increased 10 times. One of the American travel companies even organized a special “Borat tour” for its clients. Mr.