The Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science published on the Internet an open access options for the USE-2015 tasks, which were used during the early wave of exams this year. "Graduates who will pass the USE of 2015 in the main period, thereby have the opportunity to get acquainted with the options for the early stage in order to better prepare for state exams, " Interfax quotes the message of Rosobrnadzor.

After the ban on American peanuts, the experts of the Rosselkhoznadzor continued to verify the products available on the Russian market. In Nizhny Tagil, a batch of arachis weighing 19 tons is intercepted. The samples taken showed an excess of cadmium in the limit content of cadmium.

A copy of the Banner of Victory was deployed in Simferopol at the walls of the Crimean parliament near the monument to the soldiers who released the peninsula in the spring of 1944. The action was attended by the leadership of the republic, Crimean militias and schoolchildren.

The head of the press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) Vasily Anisimov in an interview, published on Wednesday on the website of the Orthodox Society "Radonezh", speaking of the continued military conflict in Ukraine criticized the country's authorities.

Eleven people died as a result of forest and steppe fires in the Trans -Baikal Territory. This, as Interfax reports, reports the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Region on Wednesday.

The American boxer Floyd Mayweather is ready to hold a rare with the Philippine Manny Paciao after his opponent recover from the injury of shoulder. Mayweather himself said this in an interview with ESPN . "I will fight with Pacquiao a year after his operation," Mayweather said. On May 3, in Las Vegas (USA, Nevada), the boxers held a 12-raundal “battle of the century”, which ended with the victory of the American by points by unanimous decision of the judges (118: 110, 116: 112, 116: 112).

In the first quarter of 2015, the Russian advertising market was reduced by 17% compared to last year’s indicator, to 63.5 billion rubles excluding VAT, experts of the Association of Communication Agencies of Russia calculated. All segments of the advertising market, in addition to contextual advertising, showed negative dynamics, the AKAR report said. The volumes of advertising on television (the largest market segment) fell by 22%, to 30.1-30.6 billion rubles.

Tariffs for housing and communal services in Russia for April 2015 increased by 0.3% after an increase of 0.1% in March, 0.4% in February and 0.6% in January, Rosstat said on Wednesday. From January to April, tariffs increased by 1.4%. In January -April 2014, the figure was less - 0.4%, and in general, last year they increased by 9.4%. Until 2012, the main growth of tariffs for housing and communal services was traditionally in the first month of the year.

In the implementation of the State Program "Housing for the Russian Family", in the framework of which in four years in the country it is necessary to build 25 million square meters. m of economy class houses, there are problems - there is not enough state money for it, Kommersant writes.

In the Rostov region, a criminal case has been instituted against a pensioner who is suspected of killing a spouse. The 74-year-old resident of the city of Salsk himself was given a guess, he claims that he killed his wife at her request to stop her torment due to cancer. Currently, the man is under the no to leave. The tragedy in the proletarian district of the region was played on Monday, May 4, the website of the Investigative Committee reports.

The Primate of the Coptic Orthodox Church Pope and the Patriarch of Alexandria Theodore II (Tavadros) at a meeting with youth in the Coptic cultural center in Amsterdam stated that the possibility of choosing the third Sunday of April as a single date for Easter for all Christian faiths is being considered, the Blagovers-Info reports with a link to the information of the FIDES agency.

The President of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Nikolai Tolstoy does not intend to make up current powers before the organization’s conference, said the first vice-president of the RFU, Nikita Simonyan. “Nikolai Alexandrovich is not going to resign, he told me about this yesterday, ” R -Sport told Simonyan.

On Wednesday morning, law enforcement agencies of the capital received a message about a suspicious subject in the building of the Kursk station. This information was later confirmed. When checking the territory, the sappers found an explosive device: a grenade without a fuse. Currently, the search for the owner of a dangerous find is going on, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies.

French investigators from the Nanter prosecutor’s office announced the end of the investigation of the circumstances of the death of the ex-head of the Palestinian autonomy of Yasir Arafat. The final conclusions of the investigation have not yet been announced, but it is known that the version of the poisoning of the politician by radioactive materials was rejected. The prosecutor’s office has three months to decide on the closure of the case or transfer it to the court, Arutz Sheva clarifies.

Turkish restorers seriously damaged more than ten ancient Roman mosaics from the world's largest museum of the Mosaic of the city of Antakya Hatai Province in southern Turkey, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Hurriyet newspaper. The scandal erupted after the local mosaic master Mehmet Dashkapan attracted the attention of the press to this. "The valuable finds of the Roman period were damaged. They turned into caricatures on themselves.