The leader of the Yabloko faction in the St. Petersburg parliament Grigory Yavlinsky began to receive a criminal threat in connection with his anti -corruption initiatives, Interfax reports. As the party chairman Sergei Mitrokhin said at a press conference in St. Petersburg, Grigory Yavlinsky recently began to receive a criminal and criminal threat. Threats, according to Mitrokhin, come from the "some deputies" of the Legislative Assembly, the names of which he refused to call.

Russia will avoid a repetition of the economic crisis, which covered the country in 2008-2009, said Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, which will be published on Tuesday. The interview will announce the website of the newspaper and the press service of the government. "There is no need to store stew, soap and matches with salt!" - Medvedev reassured Russians after a meeting in Sochi, which was dedicated to the results of the Cabinet of Ministers for a year.

The cause of the death of director Alexei Balabanov, who died on May 18, was acute heart failure, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the Lenfilm film studio. According to the source of the agency, recently the director has worked a lot, which is why the heart could not stand it. Balabanov will be buried on May 21 at the Smolensk cemetery of St. Petersburg. The funeral service to the Prince-Vladimir Cathedral is scheduled for 12:00.

Vyacheslav Satin left the post of vice-governor of the Penza region . This was announced on May 20 by the chairman of the regional government, Yuri Krivov, reports Penzainform . Kriva specified that Satin resigned "due to a number of objective circumstances." The duties of the vice-governor in belonged are assigned to the deputy chairman of the regional government Valery Savina.

In mid -May, the names of the Joseph Greenberg prize, awarded by the Association of Linguistic Typology , became known. This award is awarded for the best dissertation in the field of typology - a linguistic direction that studies the language diversity and language universals. As a rule, the bonus is awarded every two or four years; This year, work was submitted to the competition protected from 2009 to 2012.

As a result of the collision of two balloons in the sky above the popular tourist region of Cappadocia, an elderly tourist from Brazil died, 24 people were injured, the Anadolu state news agency reports. There were no Russians among the injured tourists, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey. Most tourists who were on balls arrived from Spain and South America. They received heavy fractures after falling from a height.

The head of the Moscow Department of Culture and the ex-director of the Gorky Central Poland, Sergey Kapkov, promised to soon return to the park the legendary Green Theater, Interfax reports. At a meeting of members of the Mosgordumi Commission on Culture and Mass Communications with representatives of the State Duma Committee Sergey Kapkov, he said that the fence fencing the Green Theater will be removed and its repair will begin.

The Iraklion court arrested a 20-year-old animator from Holland Sirino Schravera, who had fed 20 stab wounds an 11-year-old boy from Russia on Crete Island, RIA Novosti reports. After the trial, he was sent to the psychiatric department of the prison. The judicial investigator requested a psychiatric examination. During the meeting, lawyer Frankosmos Lanmsbrino apologized for the act, committed by the Shriver and noted that his client could not logically answer any question.

Deputies from United Russia began the development of the Migration Code, writes Kommersant . In their opinion, he should replace a number of applicable laws and solve a number of strategic problems in the migration sphere.

The Deputy Mayor of Moscow on Social Development Leonid Pechatnikov, during a press conference, refused to answer the question of the correspondent of the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda due to the scandalous article by Columnist Ulyana Skobeida, RIA Novosti reports. During the press conference, the journalist of the Communist Party asked Pechatnikov the question of problems in Moscow schools.

In Moscow, a fire on the construction market "Mill" at 41 kilometers near the MKAD near the metro station, the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies reported. According to preliminary information, there are no victims. Information about the fire entered the rescuers remote at 16:36. The fire occurred in one of the market pavilions. The fire area is currently 700 square meters. m, although previously reported 400 square meters. m. The fire is assigned a second level of complexity.

In the Pacific Ocean off the east coast of the Kamchatka peninsula, an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 occurred. The underground impetus was registered on Monday, May 20, at 06:44 local time (22:44 on May 19 in Moscow), Vesti.ru website notes. The epicenter of the earthquake was in the ocean 174 kilometers east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, its hearth healed at a depth of 40 kilometers under the seabed. Residents of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky felt the soil fluctuations with a force of 3-4 points.

The voices of the Azerbaijani spectators, cast at the Eurovision Song Contest-2013 for the Russian performer Dina Garipova, were not counted . This statement was distributed by the director of public television of Azerbaijan Dzhamil Guliev. The statement says that television has at the disposal of mobile operators, according to which Garipova took second place following the results of SMS voting.

The home arrest of the head of the Rosbank board Vladimir Golubkov will be controlled using an electronic bracelet. This was announced by the representative of the FSIN Sergey Tsygankov, reports RIA Novosti . Tsygankov specified that since May 18, Golubkov was registered in one of the criminal-executive inspections of Moscow. Recall, on May 17, the Presnensky court of Moscow authorized house arrest of the head of the Rosbank board.

PEN PECHENKIN, General Director of the Flyrtiana ICF, General Director of the Permkino Goskino Center, discussed with the director of the Department of Cinematography and Modernization Programs under the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Telnov Permkino projects, and in particular the initiative of the development of the Perm Film Commission. According to Telnov, “the Federal Commission should develop as the amount of regional commissions that today exist only in St.