On the square near the headquarters of the starving in Astrakhan, Oleg Shein is a tanker with water. The lawn, where in the afternoon lay mattresses of Shein support groups and where they planned to equip a tent camp tomorrow, have been poured with hot water for 10 minutes. The lawn is turned into a swamp, steam rises from the grass. “We just said to pour the lawn,” the tank driver says bewildered. They tried to post a photographer of a flooded lawn.

National leader ready to serve three more terms The greatest geopolitical catastrophe is still pounding on the heart of our eternal president. In addition, during his life he occupied all government posts that were possible, only he was not the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR.

James McCartney wants to establish a group consisting of the children of The Beatles participants In his interview with the BBC radio station, Paul McCartney James admitted that he would be very happy to become a member of the group that would consist of the sons of George Harrison, Ringo Starr and John Lennon. “I am not very sure that Zak Starki wants to do something like that, but, quite possibly, Jason will agree. I really hope so.

As told Ekho Moskvy human rights activist and activist of the Russian LGBT movement Nikolai Alekseev , those who are guided by laws prohibiting propaganda of homosexuality will be included in the list. According to Aleksev, there are now four people on the list; but it will be replenished, among other things, by the judges of St. Petersburg, where in March a law banning propaganda of homosexuality was adopted.

The president of the Spartak football club, Leonid Fedun, told Ekho Moskvy that he was negotiating with the coach of the second Russian national team, Yuri Krasnozhan. According to Fedun, he can lead Spartak next season. The current coach, Valery Karpin, is likely to finalize before the end of the championship. After that, he will remain as the general director of the club.

A graduate student from St. Petersburg intends to open Russia's first museum of monumental folk art in a remote Saratov village The village of Popovka, Khvalynsky district, Saratov region, became known in Runet as the place where the “house with a lion” is located - a wooden hut in which wall paintings made in the manner of naive art about a hundred years ago were found. An art historian from St.

According to Vedomosti, the State Duma adopted a bill to simplify the procedure for calculating and collecting interest from employers on the amount of overdue wages and other payments due to employees.

Dry cargo ship "Tikhon Semushkin" on the night of April 11 lay stern on the ground at the berth of the port "Natsrybresurs" in the village of Avacha. The reason was that on a long abandoned and plundered ship, looters unscrewed something in the engine room, as a result of which a leak opened and the car flooded. According to the Kamchatka media, the ship is carrying 98 tons of fuel oil, 4.2 tons of diesel fuel and 3.4 tons of engine oil.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Izhevsk found today two former police officers guilty of raping and beating a detainee, Interfax reports . The court sentenced one of the ex-policemen to 5 years and one month in prison with a sentence to be served in a penal colony, the second - four years of imprisonment on probation. According to the investigation, in the spring of 2011, the victim was brought to one of the police departments.

Diana TELLER, Tel Aviv: “Is it really possible to talk about our country only as a dead person - either good or not?” Diana TELLER, Tel Aviv: "Is it really possible to speak of our country only as a dead person - either good or not?". On the eve of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holocaust of European Jewry, Israeli Interior Minister Eli Yishai declared Gunther Grass, one of the outstanding writers of our time, persona non grata.

Vladimir Pligin, head of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, proposed today to change the norm of the bill on direct elections of governors, related to the determination of the winner in the elections, Interfax reports . "An amendment will be introduced, which assumes that a person who receives a majority - 50% plus one vote from the number of those who took part in the vote, can be considered elected," Pligin told reporters.

Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting of the "open government" with the participation of representatives of civil society, promised to support before the Duma their idea of ​​an amnesty under the business articles of the Criminal Code: "as a signal." Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting of the “open government” with the participation of representatives of civil society, promised to support their idea of ​​an amnesty under the business articles of the Criminal Code before the Duma: “as a signal” The idea of ​​a

A resident of Cherepovets, Mikhail Kalinin, filed an application with the Investigative Department for Krasnodar. His son, Denis Kalinin, was detained by the Krasnodar Department of Internal Affairs, after which the doctors determined that his son had injuries. “He was beaten on various parts of the body, hit in the stomach, in the groin, on the head, ears, and mocked <...> using a bottle by thrusting it into the groin area,” the statement said.

Today, in the Moskovsky District Court of St. Petersburg, in the case of the death after the arrest of a local resident, who, according to investigators, was beaten by 6 policemen, Mikhail Vasilyev, the former head of the criminal police of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Moskovsky District of St. This was reported by lawyer Dmitry Dinze, who represents the interests of the victims on the initiative of the Agora Interregional Human Rights Association.

As reported by RBC, the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, said that in previous years, the main growth of the city's economy was realized through an increase in the number of jobs. According to him, “100-150 thousand new jobs were created in the city every year, and, naturally, these jobs were not filled by Muscovites, because the city does not have such labor resources, they were replaced by labor migrants, including from countries near abroad".