Russian journalist Natalya Gevorkyan, who was one of the co -authors of the first person in 2000. Talking with Vladimir Putin, spoke about her current vision of the President of the Russian Federation. In her opinion, his old fear of betrayal significantly influenced the political situation in Russia, and the post of head of state Putin brought nothing more than a desire to get a “roof”, writes The Washington Post .

Microsoft once again demonstrated the advantages of its Windows 8 platform against the backdrop of the shortcomings of its competitors. The "humiliated" was the Apple iPad tablet, which failed to confront the ASUS Vivotab Smart, using the Windows 8 operating system, CNET reports. In the 30 -second video, all the failures of Apple voiced Siri - the IPhone Virutal Voice Assistant, iPod Touch and iPad.

The chairman of the Constitutional Court of Russia Valery Zorkin, together with his deputy, left the European (Venice) commission for democracy through law, Kommersant writes. The Venice Commission is an advisory body under the Council of Europe on Constitutional Law. It includes the councils appointed by states for four years by professors of universities and judges of senior courts, acting as independent experts.

The Ostankino court of Moscow continues to consider the case of the fight of the banker Alexander Lebedev and entrepreneur Sergey Polonsky on the set of the NTVshniki television program, and so far the process is more reminiscent of a farce than a criminal proceedings.

The American state judge Michigan Wade McCrey was in the center of the scandal in connection with accusations of sexual relations with the plaintiff. Now the minister of Themis, from whom one of the parties to the non -payment of alimony has become pregnant, is facing a loss of work, reports Newsone . The case of the 56-year-old district judge Wade McCry, who is suspected of unworthy behavior and abuse of powers, is being considered by the Michigan disciplinary judges commission.

The provocative statements of the Consul General of the Russian Federation in Simferopol about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars after the Great Patriotic War caused the resignation of Vladimir Andreev. After the indignant Tatars besieged the Russian consulate, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs agreed that Andreev’s words were incorrect. Genconsul criticized the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and stated that he was resigned, Interfax reports.

A group of American retailers repeatedly sued Visa and MasterCard payment systems, Reuters reports. The plaintiffs, including the JC Penney, Kohl`s, Target, Macy`s and SAKS retail chains in the United States, abandoned the extrajudicial agreement reached a year ago, and rejected compensation proposed by payment systems. In a new lawsuit, they require them to pay compensation and damage in a triple amount, as well as compensation for legal costs.

In the dissertation of the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko, for which he received the degree of candidate of economic sciences, 152 pages of plagiarism were revealed, the portal "My district" reports, whose journalists studied the scientific work of a prominent official.

On May 22, US President Barack Obama received from the hands of the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev the answer of Vladimir Putin to his secret message , transferred in mid -April.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow on Friday recognized the legal audits by the prosecutor's office of the Memorial human rights center, Interfax reports. During the appeal of the audit conducted at the end of March, human rights activists insisted that during it there were numerous violations, for example, representatives of the Federal Tax Service, the Ministry of Justice and the NTV television company were present. “This is a violation of the law,” said the representative of the Memorial.

Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili is not an inviolable person, and if the prosecutor’s office has questions, there is a high probability that he will be questioned, the Georgian Prime Minister Bidzin Ivanishvili said upon the end of the meeting with representatives of the diplomatic corps and international organizations.

In the southeast of the United States, an unprecedented invasion of termites of the formsan type was recorded. The Internet is full of videos and photographs taken by the inhabitants of New Orleans, Meteri (Louisiana), Mobile (Alabama) and other cities with huge insect clouds, literally closing the sky. Experts console the Americans that for spring, hordes of termites into the air are a common occurrence that should not be afraid.

The Commissioner of the Russian Foreign Ministry on human rights, democracy and the rule of law Konstantin Dolgov, commenting on the contents of the US State Department report on freedom of religion in the world , said on Friday that it is a prejudicized opus leading to the exacerbation of inter -religious problems.

The Australian police officers New South Wales printed on a 3D printer and experienced two pistols, writes The New Zealand Herald . This was announced by the police commissar Andrew Scipio during a press conference on Friday. According to him, the materials of the American company Defense Distributed worth $ 33 were used to create weapons. "The results of the tests are alarming.

The City Court of St. Petersburg recognized the mismatch of land use and development rules, where the construction of the theater of the song of Alla Pugacheva on Vasilievsky Island, the General Plan of St. Petersburg, is stipulated. The ministers of Themis came to this decision on Thursday, having examined the statement of the deputy of the Zaks Alexei Kovalev and several St. Petersburg public activists, writes Fontanka.ru .