The United States still does not have a firm understanding of what Syria is the opposition. This was recognized by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Speaking at the hearing in one of the subcommittee of the Committee of the House of Representatives of the US Congress, she ran parallels between the recent situation in Libya and the situation in Syria and compared the opposition forces of these two countries, ITAR-TASS reports.

House of Legends of World Basketball Michael Jordan in American Illinois is put up for sale for $ 29 million. A modern three -story mansion with nine beds, 15 bathrooms rooms and five fireplace are located in the city of Hayland Park - In fact, the suburbs of Chicago. On the territory adjacent to the house, there are a pool, Tennis court, golf field, three garages and a guest house.

On March 1, the Court of Appeal of the Thrace repeatedly considered the case of the Vatopeda abbot Ephraim, the monk Arseny and the chairman of the court of first instance, Maria Psalty and sentenced them to punishment in the form of 6 months of imprisonment with a delay of 3 years. All these persons were found guilty of a delay in the publication of a court decision on the exchange of monastery property on Lake Vistonid.

In 2011, Russia's largest developers built about 5.3 million square meters. m, or 8.4% of all housing delivered in the country. The majority of houses were erected by the SU-155 group of ex-Moscow City Hall official Mikhail Balakin and PIK Suleiman Kerimov, Kommersant reports. According to Rosstat, last year 62.3 million square meters were commissioned in Russia. m of housing, of which 8.4% was accounted for by nine development companies, according to the INFOLine-Analytics agency.

In the State Duma of the Russian Federation, work is underway on a bill to reduce age, from which adolescents can be sent to the colony. According to the corpus delicti for which they are now attracted from 16 years old, it is proposed to send in jail from the age of 14. Where today they are punished from 14 years old (murder, abduction of a person, theft, taking a hostage, rape and other violent and property crimes), the bar can be reduced to 12 years old, writes RBC Daily .

Relatives of the 33-year-old Muscovite Vladimir Shmeilov, who died last summer after a fight near the Kolomenskaya metro station, achieved the resumption of the investigation of the case. According to loved ones, the natives of the Caucasus scored Vladimir to death when he stood up for the girl. The investigator, who conducted the initial investigation, considered the detainees the suspects by innocent and released them to freedom.

Leonid Kaganov “As a result, we have a nationwide fear of elections: it seems that Russia will collapse if the divine heir is replaced by a mere mortal. All candidates seem unworthy, everyone looks like enemies. The people do not trust themselves - they are afraid that an independent choice will end in disaster or enemy captivity.

Russian troops won the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Now, without exception, all the military, dismissed in the reserve and waiting for the receipt of apartments laid down by the law, will receive compensation for the hire of residential premises during this expectation, writes Gazeta.ru . Previously, this right was used only by those who managed to register as those in need of improving housing conditions until January 1, 2005.

On Thursday, in Omsk, the court put an end to the criminal case on the brutal murder of an informant, introduced into a gang of skinheads-neonacists. The criminals calculated the police agent, subjected him to brutal tortures, and after rape they killed. The nationalists dismembered the corpse of the victim and carried it to the trash. 20-year-old Ewald Raats received the most strict punishment.

In the Republic of Tatarstan, a preliminary investigation of a criminal case was completed against a student of a pedagogical college. The student beat the girls, extorting money from them. A 17-year-old resident of the city of Menzelinsk will appear before the court, the official website of the Republican Investigation Department reports. According to the investigation, in the evening of January 8 in Menzelinsk, two 13-year-old girls met two girls during a walk.

noskoff “Almost everywhere in court decisions there is a “technical error” in favor of United Russia. That is, the court and the prosecutor’s office accepted the position of the election commissions: they say that observers from the SR terrorized the PEC members so much that they gave them a completed copy of the protocol before filling out the original! This is stupid. It's like putting a blank sheet of paper into a photocopier and expecting a completed copy to come out.

Ex-Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romny won another victory over other US presidential candidates from the Republican Party based on voting at the voters' meetings in Vaiming, RIA Novosti reports. According to the media participating in the vote count, Romny received the support of 39% of voters. Voting in various state districts took place throughout February and ended on Wednesday. In second place is the former Senator Rick Santorum with 33%.

The Japanese design company Air Danshin Systems Inc has developed a system that allows structures to rise above the ground and “soar” over it during the earthquake, reports the online resource about the modern design of iHabitat.com . According to Air Danshin, the created technology is not only effective, but also cheaper than other existing methods in the field of protection of houses from earthquakes, the publication notes.

In the Tomsk region, a sentence was sentenced to a sexual pervert, who raped two pupils of a boarding school. Almost fifty criminal episodes appear in the case. The court in Tomsk found a local resident guilty of sexual violence against adolescents and sentenced him to imprisonment for a period of 12 years, Interfax reports with reference to the deputy prosecutor of the Oktyabrsky district of Tomsk Elena Grishanov.

Against the Moscow Holy Filaret Orthodox-Christian Institute, the next campaign was started. It has already become familiar to the fact that on the SPI website , news related to the Pokrovka HOA, 29, which has gained scandalous fame after numerous attempts to illegally select the premises occupied by the institute. The most loud last year was the attack in April 2011 representatives of the HOA on employees and students of the SPI.