News from Dagestan is increasingly reminiscent of military reports. Only from the beginning of May there were 10 terrorist attacks in the republic. But this is official information, and in the conversations, the security forces admit: there were twice as many terrorist attacks. Total corruption and the struggle of clans for power only warm up panic moods.

Who votes for the resignation of the prime minister “Putin must leave” - under this appeal, published on the website Putinavotstavku.ru, by the end of May more than 46 thousand people put their signatures. The New Times, using the methods adopted in the statistics of political research, analyzed this data Of the 35,018 analyzed signatures that appeared under the slogan, “Putin must leave”, 80% of Russian citizens occur, 8% - at near and far abroad, 12% did not indicate the place of residence.

Putin's student friends were lucky in life In the past 10 years, the Russian power elite has been formed mainly of three groups of people. Of those who studied with Vladimir Putin in Leningrad; who served with him with various divisions of the KGB; Who worked with him at the City Hall of St. Petersburg and ended up among the founders of the Lake Cooperative. Today-about classmates of the Prime Minister. In 1975, from the walls of the Leningrad State University.

On May 26, a representative delegation of police chiefs from cities in Arizona, Texas, California, Utah, Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Maryland met in Washington with US Attorney General Eric Holder and complained to him about Arizona Governor Jan Brewer.

To whom and how much will the disaster cost in the well BP An investigation of the causes of the accident in the British Petroleum drilling well in the Gulf of Mexico revealed a scandalous fact: within an hour before the explosion, the automation issued warnings about danger three times, but BP managers did not react to them. This is stated in the preliminary report of the specially created commission of the US Congress.

Video message from the police department During the action in defense of the 31st articles of the Constitution in Moscow, one of the first was the 84-year-old veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Vladimir Mikhailovich, 84-year-old veteran.

The RF Investigative Committee has canceled the decision to refuse to initiate proceedings against the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who were investigating the case of Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer for the Hermitage Capital Management investment fund, Vladimir Markin, the official representative of the department, said on Thursday.

The court approved claims of the antimonopoly service to oil companies The Federal Antimonopoly Service has achieved a sensational victory in the High Arbitration Court over one of the largest oil companies. TNK-BP must pay a fine of 1.1 billion rubles for the establishment of monopoline high prices for gasoline in the summer of 2008.

At the age of 78, after a serious long illness, the outstanding poet of the sixties Andrei Voznesensky died. Voznesensky died at home. Four years ago, the poet suffered the first stroke, the second, after which he could not recover, at the beginning of this year. It is known that Voznesensky lived and worked in Moscow in Peredelkino, next to the dacha-museum of Boris Pasternak, created on his initiative. His first book of poems and poems "Mosaic" was published in Vladimir in 1960.