The mayor of Novosibirsk, Vladimir Gorodetsky, admitted that the “Monstration” event, which was invented and first carried out in 2004 by artist Artem Loskutov, has already become a tradition for the city. The online magazine about Siberia Sib.fm reported this on Friday. “I think that for several years now “Monstration” has become such a traditional, everyday action,” Gorodetsky said at a press conference.

Where in Russia is everything scarier? The Prosecutor General's Office has revealed crime statistics in the country. Photo: Anton Denisov / RIA Novosti On April 4, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation presented a website dedicated to crime statistics. The data published there allows us to learn a lot - for example, about the number of crimes in January 2013 committed by persons under the influence of alcohol in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.

The number of people killed in the collapse of a residential building in a suburb of Mumbai has risen to 72. Between 40 and 70 people were hospitalized with injuries. reported this on April 6 Reuters . Among the dead were 19 children, BBC News clarifies. At the same time, rescuers continue to find victims among the rubble. At the same time, they manage to find survivors. So, on Saturday morning they found a woman who had spent 36 hours among the rubble.

Russian tennis players Igor Kunitsyn and Viktor Baluda lost their doubles match to the British Colin Fleming and Jonathan Murray with a score of 1:6, 4:6, 2:6 in the Davis Cup Euro-African zone match, which takes place in Coventry, England. reported this on Saturday Interfax . After two days of play, the score became 2:1 in favor of the Russian team. The fate of the match will be decided in singles matches that will take place on Sunday.

The Supreme Court of Vienna began a judicial investigation into the case of the former ambassador of Kazakhstan to Austria, the former son-in-law of the President of the Republic Rakhat Aliyev. The Kazakh newspaper Vremya wrote about this on Saturday, citing its own correspondent. According to the publication, Aliyev did not appear at the trial.

According to the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, about 600 people took part in the opposition rally in the center of Moscow, including over a hundred media representatives and bloggers. reported this on Saturday Interfax . At the same time, the organizers of the rally in support of those involved in the criminal case regarding the riots on Bolotnaya Square previously stated that about one and a half thousand people came to it.

In June 2013, the film “World War Z” (original title “World War Z”) will be released with Brad Pitt and a budget of $175 million. At the moment, by and large, the film is ready, but at the end of March, Paramount studio management unexpectedly made some changes to the script. The scene in which the characters argue about the origin of the virus that started the zombie apocalypse and come to the conclusion that it originated in China has been edited.

In the center of Moscow, in Novopushkinsky Square, an authorized rally began in support of those involved in the criminal case regarding the riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012. As Interfax reports , the square is filled with supporters of various opposition movements and civil activists. According to Sergei Udaltsov’s Twitter account, which is now run by his supporters, about one and a half thousand people came to the rally.

Actor Wesley Snipes was released from prison in Pennsylvania, the Associated Press reported on Saturday . Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison for evading taxes from 1999 to 2004 in the amount of $2.7 million. Charges of fraud and conspiracy to deceive the IRS were dropped. The verdict was handed down in 2008, but while appeals were being considered, Snipes continued to act. The actor, who tried to prove that he was deprived of a fair trial, went to jail in December 2010.

The head of the Russian Federal Service for Labor and Employment (Rostrud), 66-year-old Yuri Gertsiy, wrote a letter of resignation. this to the Interfax agency on Friday. An official representative of the department reported Hertsy has headed Rostrud since July 2008, when the former head of the department, Maxim Topilin, was appointed Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation. Before that, he worked as Topilin's deputy.

“A Just Russia” intends to submit to the State Duma a bill on the annual payment of a thirteenth pension to pensioners who have reached the age of 70. Party leader Sergei Mironov announced this on Saturday before the start of the Congress of Deputies of the SR, Interfax reports . The required budget for this is 120 billion rubles, Mironov noted. “It's not that much money.

On Saturday, April 6, the third biathlon “Race of Champions” took place in Moscow. The competition, which concludes the season, aroused great interest among fans - about 18 thousand people gathered in the stands of the Olimpiysky sports complex. The spectators, among whom was a Lenta.ru correspondent, witnessed a “family” victory - Anastasia Kuzmina excelled in the women’s mass start, and her brother Anton Shipulin celebrated the victory in the men’s mass start.

The British Foreign Office warned that several terrorist attacks could occur in the Somali capital Mogadishu in the near future, Reuters reported on Friday, citing a statement from the ministry. Diplomats did not provide details about who might be preparing these terrorist attacks or where the information about them came from. It is noted that preparations have entered the final stage. The British Foreign Office has advised Britons to avoid any travel to Somalia.

“Ethics don’t bother me” Yevgeny Levkovich’s belated interview with Konstantin Ernst turned into a scandal Evgeny Levkovich. Photo: Vasily Popov / Lenta.ru On Thursday, April 4, an interview with Konstantin Ernst appeared on the website of the Snob project, which the general director of Channel One himself at one time forbade publication.

Police officers outside a kindergarten in Cologne on April 5, 2013. . Photo: Marius Becker/AP The director of a kindergarten in Cologne, who was taken hostage by a man armed with a knife, has been released. German media reported this on Friday. The siege of a children's institution in the Korweiler district in the north of the city lasted almost the entire day.