The adverse prophecies are gradually justified, which economists gave in the development of the situation with the Russian budget - at the beginning of the year the treasury expenses exceeded the income, and the government does not yet know how to stabilize the situation. To date, the budget deficit, according to the Ministry of Finance, is more than 259 billion rubles (2.7% of GDP).

The General Director of Public Television (VSK) Anatoly Lysenko said on Friday at a press conference in ITAR-TASS that he was against the allocation of airtime for individual religious denominations. His opinion was a response to a letter that was sent to him by the leadership of the Council of the Muftis of Russia . It contained a request to allocate 15% of the airtime for programs with a Muslim theme. Information about this letter on March 12 appeared in the media.

Power engineers began to fulfill President Vladimir Putin on solving the problem of tremendous debts for electricity in the regions of the North Caucasus. I.O. The general director of the Interregional Distribution Network Company (IDGC) of the North Caucasus, Peter Seltsovsky, held a number of meetings with the heads of the republics, which made decisions designed to significantly increase payment discipline in the region, reports RBC Daily .

The Spanish police are looking for three participants in group rape committed at the Kosta del Sol resort. According to the description of the injured tourist from the UK, one of the criminals, who are immigrants from the east, turned about 70 years old. The attack on a 31-year-old tourist was committed in the early morning on Sunday in the city of Benalmaden, writes The Daily Mail newspaper. That night, the woman visited entertainment institutions with her boyfriend.

The deputy of the British House of Commons Eric Joyce, who, due to a fight in the parliamentary bar, had to "deeply repent" and even leave the Labor Party , took up the old one. Another drunken brawl, which he arranged again in a bar, located in the parliament building, ended in arrest, reports Sky News . The conflict occurred in the Sports and Social Club parliamentary bar, where only deputies with their guests are allowed.

The assistant to the president on economic issues instead of the Elvira Nabiullina, which goes to the Central Bank, will most likely be the ex-head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova. She had a lot of experience and her appointment would be logical, a source in the presidential administration told Vedomosti . Golikova was a key deputy minister of finance, headed by the Ministry of Health and Social Development.

Among the rather large volume of personal data of prominent Americans, stolen recently by unknown attackers and laid out in open access,, among other things, the full credit history of the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates. According to Haker.ru , credit history includes statistics on costs on credit cards, payments for all loans issued, as well as basic information about a person: date of birth, address, all past addresses, name, all past names, places of work, etc.

Employees of the National Research University "Higher School of Economics" (NRU HSE) studied the political views of the inhabitants of one of the Russian colonies and discovered the amazing criticality of thinking and the amazing freedom for the living conditions of the Eycians. The results of the study by the Moscow News newspaper were told by the head of the Laboratory of Political Studies of the Higher Superior Valery Kasamar and her subordinate - junior researcher Anna Sorokina.

“March 2, 2013. The social march, which took place in conditions of complete disregard by the Constitutional Court (who, by the way, had previously promised information support for the action), gathered from 3 to 5 thousand people. About one and a half thousand march participants remained at the rally.

The main investigative department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region opened a criminal case of the theft of more than 300 million rubles from the banking account of the Zenit striker and the Russian national team Alexander Kerzhakov. This was announced on Friday by Interfax athlete Igor Reshetnikov. According to him, a famous football player could become a victim of fraudsters whom he met abroad.

In the city of Ozersk, the Chelyabinsk region on Friday, 22 people were poisoned by unknown gas. As it was later established, the leak occurred during the disposal of batteries at one of the enterprises due to the emergency, Interfax reports with reference to the governor of the region Mikhail Yurevich. The release occurred next to the Mayak plant, and at first the suspicion fell on it.

Mechanized parking for about 100 parking spaces in the center of Moscow will be built right in historical buildings recognized as monuments of architecture. This newspaper Izvestia was announced by the chairman of the Moskomstroyinvest Konstantin Timofeev. The first such parking lot can be an old building in Pechatnikov Lane - a profitable house of the 19th century. “The only option to turn the existing building in the center into parking is to integrate a mechanized parking lot inside.

On Friday, in Khanty-Mansiysk, at the final stage of the Biathlon World Cup, a male sprint race of 10 km with two firing lines took place. A confident victory in her with accurate shooting was won by Frenchman Martin Fourcade. The company on the catwalk was the owner of a large crystal globe by the Italians Lucas Hofer and the German Andreas Birnbacher, who also closed all the targets, but the course lagged behind the phenomenal Frenchman for 40 and 44 seconds, respectively.

The recent short -term journey of Dmitry Gudkov in the United States, which became the reason for the exclusion of him and the father of Gennady Gudkov from “Fair Russia”, was condemned not only in his native party. All the Duma factions, as it turned out, extremely negatively perceived the fact of communication between the opposition with American human rights activists and legislators. Now Gudkova, while still a deputy, are going to check almost for treason.

The law enforcement agencies of St. Petersburg confirmed the fact of the detention of a blogger and photographer Dmitry Aleshkovsky at the Pulkovo airport the night before during his interview with LGBT activists. However, they explained their actions not at all “homophobia”, about which the blogger previously wrote. According to the police, young people were detained for illegal shooting at a regime facility, reports Fontanka.ru .