The Moscow authorities allowed the Tagan Book Festival, previously allegedly canceled due to opposition "festivities", Gazeta.ru reports with reference to the head of the Tagansky district Ilya Sviridov. According to the official, in the evening last Tuesday, the organizers of the event agreed on the terms and place of its holding at a meeting with representatives of the prefecture of the Central Administrative District and the District Council.

Tens of thousands of Montreal residents took to the streets of the city to oppose the new law on rallies. The action takes place as part of a strike of students lasting 100 days, Toronto Star reports. The organizers of the demonstration, nevertheless, followed the instructions of the law, which demanded from them to provide the authorities with the route of the procession.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday on a farm in the Bryansk region talked with American cowboys from Aidaho and Oregon about Russian livestock, RIA Novosti reports. The cowboys told the premiere that they came to Russia with their families in order to train Russian specialists with the features of cattle breeding. Medvedev asked the cowboys how things were going.

Al-Qaeda calls on its supporters to arrange the United States Electronic Jihad. This is stated in the video of the terrorist organization that fell into the hands of the FBI last year and on Wednesday was published on the website of the Senate Committee of National Security, ABC reports .

The Karachay-Cherkess Republic began shooting a feature film based on the Soviet bestseller “Caucasian captive” with financial support from OJSC “Kurortes of the North Caucasus” (KSK), the deputy general director of the company Rostislav Murzagulov told Izvestia . The picture will be released next year.

On May 23, Vladimir Putin signed decrees on the dismissal of a number of managing employees of the Presidential Administration. In particular, Yuri Laptev and Evgeny Yuryev lost their posts of the presidential adviser. Oleg Markov was relieved of his post of assistant president. This was reported on the Kremlin website . At the same time, Putin appointed Evgeny, as an assistant to the president, Abramov Alexander and Tolstoy Vladimir, by the presidential advisers with his decrees.

This year, Russia will transfer 2 million dollars to the Afrosyuz World Foundation involved in peacekeeping operations in Somalia and West Africa, the RIA Novosti website reports. This was announced on Wednesday by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, invited to an appointment on the occasion of Africa Day.

Deputies of the State Duma sent an application to the leadership of the VGTRK with a request to return the children's program “ Good night, kids! »In the regions of Western Siberia on the former airtime. The document has a copy of the document.

Former ministers who worked in the Russian government under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, after his assignment of the President of the Russian Federation, received new functions in the Kremlin administration, where they moved at the beginning of the week, the RIA Novosti website reports. Earlier on Wednesday, the ex-head of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Yuri Trutnev, was instructed to deal with questions through the State Council in the rank of the presidential assistant.

Russian President Vladimir Putin fired the director of the Emergencies Emergencies head of Yuri Sadovenko and the head of the department of personnel policy of the department Mikhail Nikolaevsky, RIA Novosti reports. Putin signed the corresponding decree on Wednesday, May 23. Sadovenko was also fired from military service. On October 18, President Dmitry Medvedev reassigned Lieutenant General Yuri Sadovenko as the head of the apparatus of the head of the Ministry of Emergencies.

South Ossetia President Leonid Tibilov appointed the leader of the opposition Alla Gioev as deputy chairman of the government of the republic, Interfax reports with reference to the corresponding decree of the president. The ex-candidate of the president of South Ossetia Gioev will oversee the social sphere. Recall that Leonid Tibilov became the president of South Ossetia on April 19, 2012. The ex-head of the local KGB Leonid Tibilov won the election of the head of state with 53.74% of the vote.

The owner of the National Reserve Bank, Alexander Lebedev, is ready to emit a debit card , the percentage of the operations on which they will go to the corruption fund of Alexei Navalny, the Izvestia newspaper writes. Lebedev will discuss the details of the transaction after the release of Navalny. He comes out tomorrow after a 15-day arrest for disobedience to the requirements of the police during “festivities” in Moscow on May 9.

The media discusses yesterday Putin’s appointment to their administration of high -ranking officials of the former government. Most of the ex-ministers moved to the Kremlin to sit down or send out in anticipation of new appointments, their colleague says, and only Nabiullina, having occupied the former post of Arkady Dvorkovich will receive a large amount of real powers: she will continue to oversee economic policy. This is written by "Vedomosti" in the material "Priest of Ministers" (No.

Additional budget revenues in the amount of 500 billion rubles are invested in the development of the economy now. Another 300 billion rubles, if they are really received, will go to the reserve fund at the end of the year. This was announced today by the chairman of the State Duma committee on budget and taxes Andrei Makarov, presenting in the State Duma in the second reading a draft amendments to the 2012 budget.

Dr. Yavor Militenov from the Institute of Bulgarian and the Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences launches a new project to catalog all the texts of life translated into the Old Slavonic language, according to the Portal P -Inakes. As a result of the work of several generations of philologists, researchers in the field of Byzantine studies have at hand numerous signs and catalogs of biblical, hagiographic and theological texts.