The Moscow authorities terminated a number of investment contracts in order to preserve the historical center of the capital, said Alexander Kibovsky, head of the Moscow Cultural Heritage Department. "Over the past year, the Moscow government has terminated the construction of more than 2 million square meters.

The Moscow authorities intend to return the Soviet scheme for the struggle against non-payers for housing and communal services. Officials offer to shift the burden of payment from employees of budget organizations to their employers. Experts doubt that the plan will work. According to RBC Daily , the Department of Housing and Communal Services made an appropriate initiative, and later it was supported by the capital's mayor.

The vice-governor of the Leningrad Region Rashid Ismagilov was dismissed from his post for making a business according to the results of a prosecutor’s audit, the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation reports.

The traffic police responded to public figures and human rights activists, who stated that almost all situations on the recently published traffic police schemes are interpreted in favor of the most stringent punishment, and the inspection does not have the right to interpret the law. All the accusations of the traffic police were rejected. "These posters were prepared by us on the basis of Decree No. 2 of Decree No.

British critics, unlike an enthusiastic public, very negatively accepted the ballet of the St. Petersburg Theater under the leadership of Boris Eifman, who began the first London tours on Tuesday in the English National Opera of ENO with the production of 2005 Anna Karenina, RIA Novosti reports. On Wednesday, many newspapers on their sites published reviews, the vast majority of which are more skepticism than positive assessments.

On April 5, at a sermon during a worship in St. Peter's Cathedral, Pope Benedict XVI expressed his attitude to the call to allow the ordination of women to priests, which sounded from the lips of a number of representatives of the Catholic clergy of European countries and Australia.

Plans for creating under the Ulyanovsk transshipment and transit point for NATO may become one of the trump cards of nationalists who, with the adoption of a new law on parties, dream of legalizing in politics. Moreover, if some attack power for the "trade in Russian lands", then others - Tatar nationalists - these plans in every possible way support.

An amazing video in which an 86-year-old gymnast lifts a storm of applause in the auditorium with the execution of complex somersaults on the bars, gained popularity among users of the famous Youtube file hosting manner. The video captures the demonstration of a pensioner named Joanna Kaas in the break of the World Cup Competition in Sports Gymnastics in the German Cottbus.

Residents of Volgograd achieved the return of direct elections of the mayor. The Governor of the Volgograd Region Sergey Bozhenov, who took his post in February this year, promised on Thursday that the vote would take place on the second Sunday of October 2012. According to him, the decision on the appointment of the election date must be adopted within a month, deputies of the City Duma, reports RBC .

President of the country of Malawi, which is located in the south of Africa, 78-year-old Bingy Vu Mutarika was taken to the hospital of the capital of the country of Lilongwe in serious condition. It is reported by Reuters. The Malavian president had a temporary cardiac arrest, he was hospitalized in an unconscious state. The state of Malawi, notes ITAR-TASS, one of the poorest countries in the world.

Anatoly Bershtein "...after the fall of Byzantium, Moscow picked up the imperial crown, tried it on itself and declared that it was the “Third Rome.” And added the extremely significant - “And there will never be a fourth.” It was then that Russian messianism was born. And Russian exceptionalism.

The rebels-TOCHENTS OF THE GROUND OF THE POLY Movement for the liberation of Azavad (NDOA) announced one-sided termination of "military operations" in the north of Mali. This is stated in a common separatist message.

The SRT company, which is responsible for the “charged” modifications of the Chrysler concern modifications, introduced the next-generation Viper Supercover to Motorshow in New York. The model received a new chassis, the rigidity of which, compared to the predecessor, increased by 50 percent, another rear suspension, anewed steel frame and a body panels made of aluminum and carbon, reports Motor.ru .

In Samara, the young man crashed to death, deciding to ride on the railing in one of the shopping centers on Thursday night. The circumstances of his death are studied by the regional Investigative Committee, the website of this department reports. According to the investigation, the company of four was on the fourth floor of the Viva Land shopping and entertainment complex, playing billiards.

Is there a place in the modern city for real climbers? Architects from the Polish studio UGO Architecture answer this question in the affirmative and offer to build in Barcelona, ​​Spain, a unique hostel called Barcelona Rock. According to Archinovosti.ru , one thing is clear for sure if this tower appears in Barcelona - tourist routes will be replenished with another object.