The media explain the massive demonstrations of the overstrain of the administrative resource. In total, the FNPR march, according to the police, collected 150 thousand people, and in Russia - more than 2.3 million. Some of the activists were marked in the lists and received a green ticket for this, which then had to be exchanged for 300 rubles, one of the activists told Kommersant .

In April 2012, a new Internet magazine on historical science and society "Gifter" appeared in Runet. The chief editor of the publication is Gleb Pavlovsky. The actual part of the journal "Gifter" is a platform for publishing the works of modern historians, philosophers, publicists on the topic "History and social transformations".

The defenders of the Tsagov forest in the suburbs refused to hold the action on Red Square on Thursday, May 3. This was reported by Interfax from the words of the head of the initiative group Alexander Ustinov. According to him, “now there is no special need to hold the action,” since the Federal Forestry Agency sent citizens' appeals to the President of the Russian Federation regarding the deforestation to the environmental prosecutor's office of the Moscow Region.

The May Day procession of trade unions in the capital is a new word of power in improving the quality of street events. On Tuesday, the Kremlin arranged a real nostalgic mystery to citizens, in which the features of Soviet demonstrations organically combined with new technologies. It all started about 9 in the morning. At the Belarusian station in the neck of the 1st Tverskaya-Yamsky organizers, the “boxes” were already built-columns with participants in the demonstration.

On May 23, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan will consider Aliya Sadykova’s claim for compensation for moral damage for the illegal administrative persecution, which she was subjected to due to the fictitious report of the Dalniy police department, the RIA Novosti website reports. According to the investigation, on January 3, 2012, the department employees drew up a fictitious protocol that 21-year-old Sadykova was detained on the street for an administrative offense.

A criminal investigation was completed against Zeynab Suyunova , accused of attempted attempted a terrorist attack on Red Square in Moscow on December 31, 2010, RIA Novosti reports. Suyunova is accused under the articles “Banditism”, “Employment on a terrorist act”, “illegal acquisition of weapons, ammunition, explosives”, “illegal production of explosive devices committed by an organized group”.

On Saturday, 27 agreements between Russian and Chinese companies were signed at the Russian-Chinese forum in Moscow-$ 15 billion. The largest projects are associated with Siberia and the Far East. According to the newspaper Vedomosti (No. 79, dated May 2), one of the agreements was signed by the general director of Rusala and the Basic Element and the owner of En+ Oleg Deripaska and the Norinco President Zhao Gan.

A criminal case was opened against the leader of the “Left Front” by Sergei Udaltsov about the beating of the activist of the Ulyanovsk branch of the “Young Guard of United Russia” by Anna Pozdnyakova, Interfax reports. Udaltsov said that the case was being built on the version of Pozdnyakova that he beat her. The first meeting in the case took place today, May 2.

The head of one of the departments of the Bureau of Special Technical Events (BSTM) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Viktor Grigorov, whose income for the last year, according to the declaration, amounted to more than 28 million rubles, received this money from the sale of the apartment, Interfax reports. “Viktor Nikolaevich had a good apartment. He sold it, having received a large amount of money, ”explained BSTM representative Larisa Zhukova.

The Fund of RVK Cowlery Investments (FPI RVK) in the small innovative enterprise Estet LLC, created on the basis of the Urals Federal University named after Yeltsin and implementing the installation for degating railway tanks, will invest more than 17 million rubles, the RVC press service reports. In the Estet MIP, a high -performance installation has been developed that can bring a vacuum inside the tank to a deep vacuum state, and in addition, cool and cure pumped gas.

Great Britain refused to provide political asylum ex-heads of Moscow Bank Andrei Borodin and Dmitry Akulinin, RIA Novosti reports. “Bankers at the end of April reported that they were denied a petition of political refuge in the UK,” the agency’s source explained. There is no official confirmation of this information yet.

In the final of the Bit-Tatarstan Innovation Business Planes, held with the support of the RVK Foundation and the strategic partner of the Khimgrad Technopolis contest, 14 finalist projects were held, Venture-Revs reports. From December 2011 to mid-April 2012, more than 50 applications from all over Tatarstan, as well as from neighboring republics and regions, including residents of the IT business incubator, have received the Technopark in the field of high technologies of IT Park.

More than a hundred documents with the plans of Al-Qaeda were found in porn films. The German special services seized videos from the detainee Austrian, suspected of relations with terrorists, reports on Wednesday CNN . The police detained the 22-year-old Maksud Lodin in May last year after returning from Pakistan. A memory card with films Kick Ass and Sexy Tanja found in a man in underwear.

The world's largest social network Facebook can conduct a public placement of company shares (IPO) on May 18 of this year, and meetings with investors will begin on May 7, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters.

The International rating agency Standard & Poor's increased the long -term sovereign credit rating of Greece in local and foreign currencies to the level of CSC with SD, which corresponded to selective default. At the same time, it is emphasized that the forecast for the rating is stable , RIA Novosti reports . It is also reported that the country's short -term rating is increased to C C SD.