“I understand why the opposition is periodically blamed for the fact that it was unable to magically restore democracy in the country. This is also because new people who had no experience of long and painstaking civic activity since the beginning of Putin’s years came to the active opposition - such people, inspired Bolotnoy, we hoped that a couple more rallies and everything would happen by itself.

The main wave of unified state exams was launched in Russia on Monday - the first exam in the Russian language is surrendered by residents of the Far East. According to preliminary data, about 860 thousand people are planning to take part in the Russian Federation, of which about 750 thousand graduates of this year, and other categories - about 110 thousand, the Rosobrnadzor press service told Interfax .

The administration of the Leningrad region can move from the center of St. Petersburg to Gatchina, which will be declared the regional capital. Recently, Vladimir Putin held a meeting there and inspired local officials to move. On Tuesday, the Governor of the Leningrad Region Alexander Drozdenko is planned a press conference on the anniversary of his appointment.

The magazine "Session" published on his website the last scenario of director Alexei Balabanov "My brother died", on whom he did not have time to complete the work. One of his sons Fedor Balabanov said that he wanted to film the unfinished script of his father. “Of course, I can’t take it off like him - I have an economic education. But I’m sure that there will be an old school director, with whom we can turn the script into a film ...

The Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a new criminal case related to the activities of Mirax Group. According to Kommersant , it is based on the story of the construction of the Pollars business center on the Derbenevskaya embankment of the capital, which, according to police officers, was built instead of the Center for Social and Physical Rehabilitation of Polish-Military Athletes, which was allowed by the Moscow government.

In Moscow, a list of finalists of the National Literary Prize "Big Book" of the eighth season is announced. It was compiled by 11 works written by authors in Russian, RIA Novosti reports.

The daughter of the hostess of the Laki Kar car dealerships, Victoria Gryvkovskaya, Yana lost her second Porsche Panamera car in six months. In November, her mansion was robbed and at the same time burned two chic cars - Ferrari F 430 Spider and Porsche Panamera. Yana Gryvkovskaya bought a new car, but his century was not enough.

Huge fines for parking in Moscow can be lower. This will happen if a new initiative of the deputy Vyacheslav Lysakov ("United Russia") is adopted - the main supporter of the abolition of the norm about "zero ppm". Now he was thinking about why traveling to a pedestrian crossing costs drivers 3 thousand rubles, and only one for travel to the red light. And he hopes to deal with this not towards increasing fines - for the first time in recent years.

The number of those arrested in the case of the murder of a British soldier in the southeast of London increased to eight people. The latter at the moment arrested a 22-year-old man who had previously been detained by employees of the terrorism department, Sky News reports. Previously, law enforcement agencies took into account the five suspects in conspiracy for the purpose of murder.

At the end of last week, the Istanbul court ordered three new high -rise buildings. Argumentizing his decision, the court explained that the three skyscrapers in the Zeyitinburn area spoil the appearance of the city. The fact is that when looking from the Bosphorus, three high -rise buildings are immediately behind the minarets of the famous Istanbul mosque "Suleimania". Skyscrapers reach a height of 37, 32 and 27 floors, Newsru Israel reports.

The Investigative Committee is studying materials on the holding of a party for schoolchildren from 12 years of age in one of the entertainment institutions, at which the children competed in erotic competitions.

Ramzan Kadyrov made structural changes in his government: he abolished three ministries at once and created the united at their base, putting an “experienced leader” in his head. The decision was made on Sunday evening, which was then informed by the site of the head of the Chechen Republic. The Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of National Policy, Press and Information and the Ministry of Interaction of the Government of the Czech Republic with civil society were liquidated.

In the Turkish capital of Ankara, Islamic radicals, armed with knives, attacked participants in the mass protest, which took place in the subway. About a hundred pairs were publicly and at the same time kissed in protest against the ban on such actions. As a result, at least one person received stab wounds. At the time of the action last Saturday, a group of Islamists from about 20 people attacked the kissing people at the Kurtulus metro station.

All protest festivities detained in the center of Moscow were released after drawing up protocols. The protocols were drawn up about administrative offenses, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow.

“Let’s imagine for a second that citizen Katz was elected to the real Duma. Not to the amusing booth named after Surkov-Volodin and not to the toy municipal assembly of one of the Moscow microdistricts, but to the real, legitimate, legally and fairly elected State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Who would he see when entering the meeting room?