Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a law on direct elections of governors. “I have just signed the law on the procedure for the election of governors,” he said at a meeting with the leaders of the Duma factions in Gorki.

Anatoly Bershtein “They say: the army is a school of life. In the Soviet army, everyone went through the school of humiliation - first they oppress you, and you tolerate it, and then it’s your turn to take it out. Only on others. They taught you to humiliate and be humiliated at the same time - what else is needed for life. Adaptation in Soviet times, some norms and traditions migrated to the army from the criminal world. All, as it turns out, took root and were completely rooted.

In the department of the President of the Russian Federation, the media reported the media about the planned extensions to the 14th corps of the Kremlin during its reconstruction. They also stated that journalists almost halved the cost of the project. “No extensions are planned. No changes in the external volumes of the building of the reconstructed 14th Kremlin Corps are provided,” Viktor Khrekov, spokeswoman for managers, told Interfax on Wednesday.

Employees of the Baikal Pulp and Drummer Plant asked Vladimir Putin to protect their interests in a dispute with the head of the "basic element" by Oleg Deripaska, the former owner of the Central Bank. According to RIA Novosti , they wrote about this in an open letter. The representative of the plant explained to the agency that Deripaska demands to return 150 million rubles to him, and the plant asks for a new installment plan.

The Russian government approved the draft of the main areas of customs and tariff policy for 2013 and for the period 2014-2015, the Deputy Minister of Economic Development said Alexei Likhachev at a briefing following the meeting of the government . He noted that the main parameter according to which the calculations of the budget revenues from imported duties are made are the weighted rate of the customs tariff, which is now unified for Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

The attack of the militants of the Taliban movement on the building in which foreign specialists in Kabul live, repelled, all the attackers are destroyed. This is stated in the statement of international security facilities in Afghanistan ISAF. The terrorists attacked a complex of buildings, known as the "Green Village", where foreign employees of a number of UN organizations and the European Union live in Afghanistan.

Three envelopes with suspicious white powder were received on Tuesday, May 1, employees of the Citigroup banking group, News Corp. Media holding, located in the New York district of Manhattan. And The Wall Street Journal. Over the past two days, a total of ten mysterious envelopes were sent in total, which also received at the Banks of Wells Fargo & Co., JP Morgan Chase & Co., in the office of the Fox News television channel, ITAR-TASS reports.

Sergei Davidis "What is all this for? Why? Who should be convinced and of what? Those who have realized that the current government is the enemy of their country and their personal enemy? Hardly. They understand everything. The participants in the demonstration are also unlikely. They know the price of a sincere outburst of enthusiasm that gathered an unprecedented number of demonstrators on Tverskaya Street, fearful of changes, the support of the regime?

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ahead of time terminated the powers of the head of the Stavropol Territory Valery Gaevsky. Instead, Valery Zernkov was appointed temporary acting governor. On the signing of the presidential decree "On the early termination of powers of the Governor of the Stavropol Territory," the press service of the head of state reports on Wednesday.

The Ministry of Economic Development has been determined by priority federal targeted programs: a third of all money allocated for them will go to the development of the defense industry, the space industry and the Far East. All socially significant programs - for healthcare, security, housing - will be reduced, and the terms of their implementation are shifted.

Astrophysicists found an ultra -massive black hole in one of the galaxies in the constellation of the dragon, which tore the elderly star - the red giant - to pieces and “ate” its remains, and published the results of their observations in the article in the journal Nature . It is believed that in the center of most galaxies there is at least one ultra -massive black hole. The reasons for the formation of these objects are not entirely clear.

Russian human rights defenders are concerned about the "expansion of persecution for religious activities and criticism of religion and religious organizations" in the country.

The Russian national hockey team, led by coach Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, goes to Sweden, where he will take part in the planet’s championship on May 4. According to the press service of the Russian hockey federation (FCH), the expanded composition of the team has undergone small changes.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation dispelled the existing myth that Russian passenger aviation has recently become more dangerous than African because of problems with technology.

The Hungarian parliament chose a new president. It was a representative of the ruling Party "Fides", a member of the European Parliament Yanosh Ader - he was supported by 286 deputies of 386, reports "Polit.ru" , referring to Reuters. Auder was able to win at the expense of the votes of his one-party members and members of the Christian-Democratic People's Party consisting in the coalition with Fides. Representatives of the extremely right party "For Best Hungary" voted against him.