Yesterday the rector of the New Economic School Sergei Guriev resigned. In addition, he asked to be excluded from the list of candidates for the Supervisory Board of Sberbank, RIA-Novosti reports. The Investigative Committee confirmed that some time ago Guriev was interrogated in the Yukos case. Many associate Guriev's decision with claims from the UK.

Estimates of historical figures - and there is in many ways the arrangement of national priorities Estimates of historical figures - and there is in many ways the arrangement of national priorities The trio of "winners" identified by Russian citizens in a recent poll by the Levada Center as the best rulers of the country in the 20th century - Brezhnev, Lenin, Stalin - have already caused a lot of diverse, mostly emotional responses.

Deputy Minister of Education and Science Igor Fedyukin, who revealed the fraud with dissertations, resigned Deputy Minister of Education and Science Igor Fedyukin, who revealed the fraud with dissertations, resigned In a normal country, like the United States, a person who has been exposed resigns. Take Watergate and the resignation of Richard Nixon. In the Russian Federation, everything is turned upside down, so the one who exposed it resigns.

It is foolish to blame children for cheating the Unified State Examination in a country where statesmen cheat dissertations. But the problem of fake dissertations is terrible not only because of banal corruption or forgery - they found something to scare Russia, which stands on corruption and forgery, like St. Petersburg in the swamps.

What can you not hear enough in the reserved seat on Kirov! And after all, what is sad - it can come in handy I am writing this column on the Moscow-Kirov train. We are going to a trial with Alexei Navalny in a big company.

The Ministry of Energy proposed to exclude Kudepstinskaya TPP from the Olympic construction program. Prior to that, a camp of local residents protesting against the thermal power plant was dispersed and beaten. The Sochi mayor's office is trying to hold a fake election for the leadership of the protesters. But it is already clear that all measures proved useless: the people of Sochi won the first major victory.

"Odyssey" of the famous Robert Wilson will pass through Moscow? Negotiations with the National Theater of Greece on the tour of Wilson's performance in Moscow in the autumn of 2013 are being held by the Stanislavsky Season festival. It would be great if the Odyssey's world tour would also pass through Moscow...

How to search and find in a non -time time positive The film about the president was at least somehow motivated by the context. The Putin’s anniversary in Entaywach’s execution was an attempt to calm passions, incented by an in -long format of “Anatomy of Protest”. The best author than Takmenev, claiming (with the permission of the authorities) for personal playful opposition as part of the official, cannot be found.

There is no sentence in the case of a vessel that sank on the Volga and the death of 122 people will satisfy the victims There is no verdict in the case of a vessel that sank on the Volga and the death of 122 people will not satisfy the victims ... In Kazan, it began, interrupted for three weeks and again resumed the court in the case of the collapse of the tourist diesel-electrode of the Bulgaria, which happened on the Volga on July 10, 2011.

Criminal chronicle of the Chekhov district of the Moscow Region The criminal chronicles of the Chekhov district of the Moscow Region: high-ranking gunners, cubes in the garden, serial robbers from security forces, internecine war in the administration, a mysterious landfill, a priest-raider and pastor.

The meeting in the Zamoskvoretsky court turned out to be short. Witnesses for the prosecution again did not appear in court - the builder Abdurakhmanov, who found a fragment of a construction knife, and the tractor driver Fedorenko, who saw the fight. Let me remind you that Igor Kharchenko is accused of attacking two nationalists on July 4, 2010 as part of an organized group of unidentified persons, committing hooliganism and inflicting grievous bodily harm on them.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov refused the offer of the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov to take his place, Interfax reports . “Many offers, I choose. You can’t agree with the first one, can you?” Surkov said. Shortly after Surkov's resignation, Kadyrov declared that the former deputy prime minister was his "named brother" and recalled that Surkov was born and spent his childhood in the Chechen village of Duba-Yurt.

In the museum of A.S. Pushkin on Prechistenka, the ceremony of presenting the New Pushkin Prize. For the cumulative creative contribution to national culture in 2013, it was awarded to the poet, deputy editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Oleg Khlebnikov. On May 26, Pushkin's birthday (according to the old style), Dmitry Bykov introduced the laureate, and Andrey Bitov, Chairman of the Award Council, presided over the ceremony.

As a result of a conflict between passengers of the Moscow metro, one person was stabbed to death, RIA Novosti reports . “At about three o’clock in the afternoon, a conflict arose between two passengers in a subway car in the section near the Semenovskaya station, during which one stabbed the other,” a source in law enforcement agencies of the capital said. The wounded man died, and the attacker was detained. Details of the case have not been released at this time.

On May 24, the website of the US State Department published information about the lifting of sanctions against the Belarusian company Beltechexport. This company is the main Belarusian official (and unofficial) arms dealer. Its head, Vladimir Peftiev, is one of Lukashenka's main "purses", in respect of whom personal visa sanctions from the US and the EU continue to apply.