Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order to allocate in 2013 to support NPOs involved in socially significant projects and participating in the development of civil society, 2 billion 320 million rubles. The corresponding order signed by Vladimir Putin was published on the website of the Russian President. It is noted that financing of NGOs will be distributed on a competitive basis.

In St. Petersburg on Saturday on Lenin Square at the Finland station, a protest was held against the growth of tariffs for housing services, RIA Novosti reports. The organizers of the action were the Parties of the Rot Front, Labor Russia, the Russian Communist Labor Party and the Left Front movement.

The number of victims as a result of an explosion and a fire at the Heat Electryan in the Donetsk region of Ukraine has grown up to eight people, RIA Novosti reports. One of the injured burns, seven - were poisoned by carbon monoxide. In Ce, they are currently hospitalized, there is no threat to their life. Earlier it was reported that during a fire, one person died and three were injured at the TPP.

The Kremlin should pay extra Khodorkovsky, it is not for nothing that he was spending time in places of imprisonment. Moreover, if the copyright in Russia were respected, then a significant increase in prison earnings could come out of this. In less than a few years, the Kremlin decided to turn left, as he actually predicted Khodorkovskaya in his sensational article . The ONF conference in Rostov gives reason to believe that in Moscow they practically began reformatting United Russia.

The head of the International Public Fund of Socio-Economic and Political Studies, the first president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev said that in Russia it was necessary to resume the “perestroika”, RIA Novosti reports. The last leader of the USSR told about this on Saturday in Moscow at an open lecture, a joint project of the RIA Novosti agency and the documentary cinema center.

In Ukraine, a fire was liquidated at the Uglegorsk TPP in the city of Svetlodarsk, Donetsk region, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine reports. As a result of the incident, one person died and five were injured. The fire was extinguished on March 30 at 5 hours 40 minutes. 40 units of special equipment were involved in extinguishing the fire. The fire and rescue service from the smoky environment saved ten people.

Major banks, including Bank of America (BARC) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM), won a lawsuit from regulators over manipulation of the weighted average interbank lending rate (LIBOR), Bloomberg reports . The court recognized that the new claims are excessive given the fact that some of the defendants have already paid fines to various government agencies for violations.

Peter is their own Dmitry Medvedev Photo: Er.ru Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev for a long time was one of the main propagandists of the application of blogs and social networks in the work of civil servants. He also called on citizens of the country more actively using the Internet to “establish a dialogue of power and society”. Officials joined this initiative sluggish and reluctantly, ordinary Russians are more active.

Actor and director Valery Zolotukhin died in Moscow at 72 years after a serious illness. The death of Valery Zolotukhin was informed by his son, priest Dionysius Zolotukhin. This information on the air of the Echo of Moscow was confirmed by the head of the Department of Culture of the Capital, Sergei Kapkov. In recent months, Valery Zolotukhin has been seriously ill.

The traffic police chose the nesting doll as a symbol of the All-Russian campaign “Haste!”, The press service of the State traffic inspectorate reports. The authors of the campaign explained that the nesting doll is the most famous and recognizable way of Russia.

In the capital of Udmurtia Izhevsk, several hundred local residents took part in a rally against the social and economic policy of the authorities of the republic, as well as the situation in the housing and communal services of the region, Interfax reports. Among the rally seagues are the local branch of the Communist Party and the “patriots of Russia”, as well as other political movements.

The chief prosecutor of Georgia, Archil Kbilashvili, denied reports that a criminal case has been instituted against the singer Soso Pavliashvili in Moscow. The prosecutor’s office noted that in the Avtandil Aduashvili murder case in the testimony of one of the detainees, “there is a hint of Soso Pavliashvili”, but the investigation does not yet consider this a sufficient factor for the initiation of a criminal case against the singer.

Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev for a long time was one of the main propagandists of the application of blogs and social networks in the work of civil servants. He also called on citizens of the country more actively using the Internet to “establish a dialogue of power and society”. Officials joined this initiative sluggish and reluctantly, ordinary Russians are more active. And, apparently, some results of this process Dmitry Anatolyevich did not arrange.

Employees of the University of Jones Hopkins (Baltimore) found out how the owls can turn their heads by almost 270 degrees and at the same time not to block the blood flow to the brain and not damage the blood vessels of the neck. A group of scientists under the leadership of Fabian de Kok-Mercado analyzed the anatomical features of a dozen birds. Scientists have investigated the bone structure and circulatory system of polar and large eared owls, as well as motley illegally.

At Red Square in Moscow, the police for the second weekend in a row delayed the participants of the so-called “protest festivities” in defense of “Prisoners of May 6”. As eyewitnesses on Twitter reported, on Saturday morning, access to Red Square was blocked. Later, the FSO explained the closure of Red Square with the need to dismantle an ice rink, and then remove the area from garbage and snow .