“The city hall is not working. Emergency!" - such a wording was invented by one of the young "muscles" that they closed the entrance to the building of the Elista city hall and the Elista city assembly with their bodies. A large crowd of people had gathered at the entrance. Women and men, some in silence, and some bursting into abuse, turned around and left. The police didn't intervene... “The city hall is not working.

The judges managed not to notice that they are underpaid by millions? You may know that I have been dealing with the topic of zones and prison for more than a year. And even - alas - not the first five-year plan, and there is a lot of personal stuff here. Why I confess: because it will be about the innermost. About money. We all know that there is no normal, honest court in Russia. Regular readers of the column know this from experience, while casual readers know it from feelings.

The Gagarin Hockey Cup will be awarded tomorrow in Omsk to either Avangard or Dynamo - it is not divided into two. It's a pity The Gagarin Hockey Cup will be awarded tomorrow in Omsk to either Avangard or Dynamo - it is not divided into two. It's a pity At the beginning of the week, it became clear what this hard-working final series was missing - a big scandal and fresh wind.

At the election of the Omsk mayor, the administrative resource will be opposed by the enthusiasm of the "hamsters" The virtual mayor of the city of Omsk, as it was not difficult to predict, was the Moscow blogger Ilya Varlamov. The only one who made him real competition out of nine of his rivals in the online primaries is also a blogger, but a local teacher of OmSTU Igor Fedorov...

The deputy who committed the accident left the child to die on the road, and the next morning, before he had time to sober up, he told his fellow villagers that he had not been driving The deputy who committed the accident left the child to die on the road, and the next morning, before he had time to sober up, he told his fellow villagers that he had not been driving...

236 people voted for the document (91 against). “The State Duma has taken a serious step in the democratization of the country,” concluded Vladimir Pligin, head of the relevant State Duma committee on constitutional legislation and state building. “This is not a filter, this is a distiller that has removed all the useful substances. The law is beautiful, but it does not allow anyone except the ruling party to be elected,” said Just Russia MP Mikhail Serdyuk.

"Citizen Observer" analyzed the recordings of video broadcasts from 108 polling stations in Astrakhan and the reports of observers participating in the viewing of video materials.

For the first time, the General Staff acknowledged the presence of a nuclear threat to Iran and North Korea, RIA Novosti reports . “The analysis that we conducted together with the Americans confirms that yes, there is such a possibility, the threat exists, and we agreed that it is necessary to create missile defense,” said Army General Nikolai Makarov, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, in an interview with the TV channel Russia Today.

The Meshchansky Court of Moscow has arrested Eduard Sandrukyan, the former head of the Transport Investigation Department for the Central Federal District of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, on suspicion of taking a bribe of $900,000, Yulia Kataeva, spokeswoman for the told Interfax . Meshchansky Court, Earlier, Vladimir Markin, a representative of the RF IC, said that Sandrukyan had been detained.

Vyacheslav Glazychev - about the diversity of Russia, the growth of Moscow, demographic contraction and about a person as a source of profit The growth of megacities, the extinction of the village, the change in the quality of the habitat - these and other tectonic shifts, which are not always visible to the eye, are commented by Vyacheslav GLAZYCHEV, a recognized specialist in the problems of the urban environment, history and design theory.

today . told Interfax In the capital of Kalmykia, Elista, a group of people blocked the city hall building and tried to take it by storm, Mingiyan Yashaev, acting head of the city of Elista, According to Yashaev, the stormers of the building, together with a group of deputies, are trying to bring Artur Dordzhiev, who was not approved for the post of mayor, to the mayor's office. The first attempt to storm the building was repulsed by the police.

According to the amendment to the Federal Law "On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in a Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation", initiated by LDPR deputy Sergei Ivanov, a single voting day in regional and municipal elections will fall on the fourth Sunday of March. 383 deputies voted for the document.

Yulia Tymoshenko, leader of the Ukrainian opposition, went on a hunger strike today. This was announced by her defender, People's Deputy Sergei Vlasenko. “This is a protest against what is happening in the country, a protest against what is happening to her personally,” Mr. Vlasenko said. Also today, the opposition faction "BYuT-Batkivshchyna" made a statement regarding the fact that Yulia Tymoshenko was transported against her will to the hospital and severely beaten.

Civic activity in the Russian Federation has created conditions under which persistent pressure on it can be useful for the Russian Federation itself, and for the world community. The Council of Europe has never been able to exert a noticeable influence on Russia. A very clear example is the long-term attempts to influence the Kremlin's "Chechen" policy...