A traffic police inspector in the city of Syzran, Samara region, is suspected of beating a driver. According to the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the region, a criminal case has been opened against him under paragraph "a" of Part 3 of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (exceeding official powers with the use of violence).

The Tomsk Investigation Department has stopped investigating the case initiated into the death of a seven-year-old boy on whom a football goal fell on a sports ground. According to the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Tomsk Region, the investigation established that the child’s death was the result of an accident. The tragedy occurred in Tomsk on the evening of November 17, 2011.

The current head of Rosmolodezh, Vasily Yakemenko, risks becoming the hero of another sex scandal. Journalists from Novaya Gazeta , based on data from sensational Internet leaks, put forward a version according to which he may have personally ordered elite prostitutes for high-ranking officials through metropolitan pimps widely known in narrow circles. The management of Russian Space Systems OJSC (RSS) invited the head of Roscosmos, Vladimir Popovkin, to resign from his post.

In the Vologda region, police officers detained an accomplice of a colony prisoner who escaped by helicopter on Thursday morning, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told Interfax . “Police officers detained one of the accomplices in the escape. He turned out to be a local resident born in 1987, who was driving a Nissan car in which the fugitive was transported,” said a representative of the department.

Roizman writes that he was invited to NTV to record the “NTV People” program, where they will discuss the film “Anatomy of a Protest.” They invited the opposition to try to prove that what was shown in the film was not true. And, of course, they will “give the floor to the opposite side.” After recording, NTV will edit the program as they wish. Therefore, Roizman refused. Here's how to explain to our "oppositionists" that if a boycott means a boycott, and there is no point in showing off on NTV.

In general, I don’t often write about the most important and painful things, but sometimes it comes flooding in, it hits my head, and if I have a piece of paper at hand (read: a social network), I can throw it out. And not just leave it as a stone under your heart. The most painful thing for me is the profession of a director. Otherwise everything is fine.

They intend to speak out against the hypocrisy of Western stars who receive huge fees in Russia for speaking to homophobes On the evening of March 21, an emergency meeting of the Organizing Committee of the Slavic Gay Pride was held via videoconference with the participation of activists from Moscow, St. Petersburg and Minsk in connection with statements by the American singer Madonna about her attitude to the law adopted in St.

“They're not afraid of you guys. They are afraid of their image of you...” is the first part of a famous quote from the classic movie Easy Rider.

An explosion of an unidentified explosive device occurred on a highway in the Nazran district of Ingushetia on Thursday evening. As a result of the incident, the acting director of the republican branch of the Social Insurance Fund, Alikhan Tsechoev, and his driver were injured, a source in the law enforcement agencies of Ingushetia told Interfax .

Most Russian citizens have no idea about the difference between a presidential republic and a parliamentary one; The presence of independent media is of little interest to the average fan of entertainment programs on Channel 1 or revelations on NTV.

Oleg Shein says that his hunger strike is aimed at achieving victory, and not just to provide PR One of the leaders of the A Just Russia party, former State Duma deputy Oleg Shein, and his like-minded people do not intend to stop their hunger strike demanding the cancellation of the results of the elections for the mayor and city council of Astrakhan.

In 1492, Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, known since then as Pope Alexander VI, was elected head of the Catholic Church. The same one whose children were Caesar and Lucrezia Borgia. Even against the backdrop of the non-Victorian morals in the Vatican of that time, the pontiff’s reputation was, to put it mildly, extravagant. Numerous mistresses with whom he cohabited quite openly during the period of his cardinalship and papacy (that is, in violation of celibacy). Eight children from five of them.

New data have been released (for 2011) from The World Factbook, the famous CIA yearbook, which enjoys more authority among Western audiences than statistics from, say, the UN or the World Bank. How might The World Factbook data be of interest to Russian readers? For example, by the fact that, through them, we can assess our position in the world and check the election statements of our political leaders, for example, Putin, about the existing and future economic achievements of Russia.

Advice for a new blogger. If you want your post to be noticed, choose the right title. It must contain the obligatory bright word, which is the one that is most talked about in the press. It is better if the word refers to nationality, religion, politics. Example words: “Putin”, “Caucasians”, “elections”, “nationalists”, “electorate”. In order for a doctor’s post to be read, he must write about housing and communal services or Wahhabism.

The Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, Andrei Fursenko, proposes, taking into account the demographic situation in the country, to reduce the number of places in universities financed from the state budget. That is, "state employees". At a meeting with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday, he noted that such a structural reform should become one of the sources of a significant increase in the salaries of higher education teaching staff.