On April 21, a famous critic, literary critic, historian of Russian literature of the twentieth century Benedict Mikhailovich Sarnov passed away. He was 88 years old The New Times publishes articles that Sarnov has written for the magazine since 2007, and excerpts from his books: Benedict Sarnov: Prosecutor General is studying from Comrade Stalin The Petrel of the Revolution Who is smarter: Lenin or balls?

On April 21, the founder of Vkontakte Pavel Durov was dismissed from the post of general director of the social network. According to Durov, the formal reason was that the review of his own statement of departure was not executed by the rules. “Thus, today VKontakte goes under the full control of Igor Sechin and Alisher Usmanov,” Durov wrote on his page on the social network.

On April 21, the founder of VKontakte *Pavel Durov was dismissed from the post of general director of the social network. According to Durov, the formal reason was that the review of his own statement of departure was not executed by the rules. Thus, today VKontakte goes under the full control of Igor Sechin and Alisher Usmanov, ”Durov wrote on his page on the social network.

The dean of the Faculty of World Economy and the World Policy of the Higher School, the honorary chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, whose reports, as they write in the West, lie down to Putin, about the goals that the Russian government sets himself for themselves Sergey Karaganov as amended.

On April 22, the Federal Penitentiary Service stated that it would conduct an audit on the fact of a possible violation by oppositionist Alexei Navalny conditions for serving house arrest due to publication in his blog Alexey Navalny (left) and his lawyer Vadim Kobzev near the building of the Grandmother's Court on April 22, 2014 Navalny published on social networks a statement regarding the criminal case, in which he goes as an accused.

On April 21, the founder of Vkontakte Pavel Durov was fired from the post of general director of the social network. According to Durov, the formal reason was that the review of his own statement of departure was not executed by the rules. “Thus, today VKontakte goes under the full control of Igor Sechin and Alisher Usmanov *,” Durov wrote on his page on the social network.

1954 poster. Artist Viktor Ivanov In February 2014, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov announced two visits to China planned by Vladimir Putin this year: in May-to Shanghai, and then to Beijing, along the way (or on the way back from-did not specify the sand) for the Twentieth Summit in the Australian Brisben, planned for the November. But since February, too much has changed in the world.