On April 15, Easter festivities were held on the white lake. The holiday was organized by the administration of Tomsk, the Tomsk diocese, the company "attraction".

Photo: ITAR-TASS President Dmitry Medvedev awarded the general director of the NTV television company Vladimir Kulistikov by the Order for Merit to the Fatherland, III degree with the wording "For great merits in the development of modern television technologies." The award occurred after the release of the scandalous film "Anatomy of Protest" with the "revelation" of the protest movement in Russia.

The Makaryevsky District Court of the Kostroma Region issued a verdict in a criminal case against a local resident accused of murdering two newborn children. As reported on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office, the 39-year-old defendant was found guilty under Article 106 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Murder of a newborn child by a mother”) and sentenced to five years in prison.

An authorized picket of oppositionists in support of the former candidate for mayor of Astrakhan Oleg Shein, who went on a hunger strike, took place on Monday, April 16, in the center of Tomsk, an Interfax agency correspondent reported. According to the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, 18 people took part in the event. The organizers of the action recorded the presence of about 40 pickets.

In Yekaterinburg, an investigation is underway into the fact that a police officer caused bodily harm to a young boy. According to preliminary data, the woman hit the boy while standing up for her daughter. “At the end of March 2012, in one of the courtyards in the city of Yekaterinburg, a conflict occurred between a woman working as a police dog handler and an 11-year-old boy, during which a police officer struck the boy several times in the stomach.

Minister of Industry and Energy of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Denis Pashkov is accused of fraud on an especially large scale. As the portal Sibnovosti.ru reports with reference to the press service of the regional investigative department, the official has already been charged as part of a criminal investigation into the theft of budget funds worth more than 29 million rubles under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Once upon a time I started to do one project. This is a multimedia map called "Lost Ossetia." Lost, because the abandoned villages of North Ossetia are applied to the map, and also because there are almost all cultural monuments on the map, the bulk of which is not in the best condition. Few people get to our places, and no one goes to the highlands in the highlands. And therefore, at least in my posts I will slowly show you what North Ossetia is.

A criminal case under three articles has been initiated against the director of the psychoneurological boarding school Sergei Vachaev in Chuvashia. He was charged under Part 4 of Article 160 (“Misappropriation or embezzlement on an especially large scale”), Part 1 of Article 286 (“Excess of official powers”) and Part 1 of Article 292 (“Forgery of official duties”).

The torch of the World Harmony Run relay will arrive in Vladivostok from the Japanese city of Akita in May as part of its Asia-Pacific branch, Interfax reported on Monday, April 16, citing the press service of the Primorye administration. According to the regional department of physical education and sports, participants in the world race will cover more than 560 kilometers in Primorye.

Photo: Reuters The head of the Roman Catholic Church Pope Benedict XVI celebrates his 85th anniversary on April 16. In Catholic temples, services about the health and prosperity of the supreme pontiff are held. Joseph Ratzinger, the 256th Pope, has been holding the Holy throne for 7 years. He became the oldest pontiff at the time of election from the 18th century and the first pope in German descent over the past thousand years, replacing Pole Karol Voityla in 2005.

Photo: Sanatorium named after Ordzhonikidze in Sochi, 1969. ITAR-TASS In the old film, Gennady Kazan about the old Khottabych, gradually re -torn genie flew, grabbing the pioneer Volka and his classmate to Zhenya Bogorad, into the Soviet paradise, a sanatorium on the Black Sea. To where the heroes of labor, like patricians, roamed between the marble columns, moving the floors of the official robes, and the poisonous oleander glored around and the wind sang.

On the bright holiday of Easter, Holiness Patriarch Kirill found time to visit, perhaps, of our most disadvantaged compatriots. According to the media, on the afternoon of April 15, 2012, on the feast of the bright of Christ of the Resurrection, His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill visited the Filimonki social adaptation center at a neuropsychiatric boarding school No. 5 (Moscow Region, Leninsky district, p/about Valuevo, n. Filimonki).

Two suspects have been arrested in the Sverdlovsk region for a ten-year-old murder. As stated in a message published on the website of the Investigative Committee, the murder was discovered during the investigation of a criminal case against the vice-mayor of Yekaterinburg Viktor Konteev.

Novosibirsk artist Artem Loskutov notified the Novosibirsk mayor's office about holding another "monstration" on May 1 in Novosibirsk. “We announced the same route as last year - from Kalinin Square to Pervomaisky Square, the gathering time for participants is 13.00, however, as the mayor’s office said, it may be moved if Krasny Prospekt is busy,” Loskutov told the Interfax agency " .

According to the investigation, as a result of the explosion of a Ford Focus car on Akushinsky Avenue in Makhachkala, the head of the Khunzakh interdistrict department of the Russian FSB Directorate for Dagestan was wounded, and his wife died, the Investigative Committee's Investigative Directorate for Dagestan told Interfax . “An investigation team is working on the spot, the circumstances are being clarified,” the agency’s interlocutor said.