The sanctions of Western countries and international organizations are not enough to put pressure on Russia in order to convince it to change its position in relation to Ukraine. It is necessary to introduce more stringent measures, according to the president of the international organization Freedom House David Kramer. "I hope that the United States and Canada will soon introduce additional sanctions. Western countries should impose more stringent sanctions against the Russian Federation.

The Swiss Guard, serving in Rome on guard of the Holy See, acquired a specially trained hawk to protect the pigeons of the world from the attack of birds of prey. The hawk, which received the nickname Sylvia, took a course of study in northern Italy. The scope of poultry wings is 120 centimeters. The Vatican hope that the bird will be able to protect the papal pigeons, which are traditionally produced in the Vatican, from attacks by other predators, reports The Guardian .

“Dubna, April, I’m standing in line for a ticket to a concert of a jazz octet singing a cappella. Someone pronounces the name “Makarevich” - apparently in the context of the ticket price. And suddenly a woman of post-Balzac age, with a carefully styled hairstyle , the hall jumps up at the news: “Makarevich?!

In the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, a daring but unsuccessful attempt to rob. Right in front of the television camera, when the victim gave an interview on the street, the attacker tore a gold chain from her neck, writes O Tempo . The camera of the RJTV television channel recorded a close -up of how the young man ran up to a woman, grabbed a precious decoration and rushed away. To cut off possible pursuers, the robber ran across the road with a dense stream of cars.

Before the elections in the Russian regions on a single voting day, on September 14, another five months remain, and the Central Election Commission has already begun active training. The chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) of the Russian Federation Vladimir Churov called on his colleagues to hold the future elections "honestly and openly", and in case of violations he promised to coat himself with chains to the Kremlin and declare a hunger strike, writes "Russian newspaper" .

It is no secret that the vast majority of drivers always timid when the traffic police inspector sends their cars to his sidelines. Moreover, it is precisely the most law -abiding drivers who are most nervous. But this can and should fight, believes the Moscow Komsomolets , whose auto experts wrote informal recommendations for drivers who fall into such awkward situations.

The St. Petersburg Metropolitan decided this year to revive the medieval Orthodox tradition of celebrating the Palm Sunday - the “marching on the Office”, canceled by the founder of the city on the Neva Peter I, according to Fontanka.ru . Thus, in tsarist Russia, the Lord’s entrance to Jerusalem was celebrated with the participation of the Supreme Secular and Church authorities before the abolition of Patriarchate Peter I.

Leo Voronin “All our deputies are as clean as falcons - now they have neither accounts nor assets abroad, at least this follows from the tax returns they filed. I will not shout: “I don’t believe it!”, although the worm of doubt is crawling. Perhaps indeed, they closed everything and everything, and did not transfer it to dummy legal entities through all sorts of offshore schemes.

The weakening of the ruble for a short time can help to improve the Russian economy, however, prolonged volatility in the financial markets will increase the outflow of capital. So believes the chief economist of the World Bank of Europe and Central Asia Hans Timmer. “The weakening of the ruble is a good strategy that allows you to solve many tasks of a complex period, without creating additional problems associated with volatility in the financial markets,” Timmer said.

Professor Guan Zhu, teaching at the University of Texas, got into a fantastic accident, which recorded the video camera he installed for about a year. The death in the form of a multi -ton truck with a cement who had sharply overturned and flew towards him literally looked into his eyes. However, the professor and his Toyota Sienna got off by some miracle, consider only "scratches" and fright. According to The Daily Mail , Guan Zhu was even able to smile and laugh immediately after the incident.

The head of the State Duma Committee, Irina Yarovaya, recently proposed developing uniform literature and Russian language textbooks for Russian schools, which would not only give knowledge in these subjects, but also formed the correct worldview. The proposal sounded in the framework of parliamentary hearings on the topic "Russian Historical Tradition: Content of the History Textbook".

The organizers of the campaign entitled "Save Mos Espa" plan to raise about 190 thousand dollars to restore the unique artificial city, created specifically for the filming of the prequels of the cult film "Star Wars". Save from the sand the hometown of Anakin Skywalker (who later became Darth Vader) urgently, because about 10% of the decorations are already buried under the dunes or destroyed.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, on the federal road "Caucasus", an accident occurred, as a result of which the deputy chief of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies in Ingushetia died. At the wheel of the car was the deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia in North Ossetia. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to the informed source. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Republic named after the deceased was not named, the agency notes.

The Mufti of Tatarstan Kamil Samil Samigullin appealed to the regulation of the gas and oil industries of the Federal Tariffs (FST) of the Russian Federation with a request to consider the possibility of approving at the legislative level of preferential wholesale prices for gas for religious organizations that now pay for the prices established for commercial enterprises, Kommersant reports.

Seven billion rubles from the budget provided for in 2014 for overhaul of St. Petersburg houses will be mastered bypassing the law on public procurement, Fontanka.Ru found out. According to the St. Petersburg publication, the district administrations announced competitions for reconstruction of facades, replacement of elevators and panting of roofs on their sites, and not on the official website of public procurement, as required by federal norms.