Iran and Türkiye have always been famous for their struggle for leadership positions in the Middle East, and the confrontation was due not only to geopolitics

Anders Breivik, who admitted the organization of the explosion in Oslo and in the massacre of boys and girls on the island of Utoya, came to trial in the capital of Norway with an explanation of the motives of his actions. " I have committed the most spectacular and sophisticated political attack on Europe since the Second World War ," Breivik said. Our world is contradictory and like Breiviks will always be. Andres knew that he would become a symbol.

Text: Veronika Komarova During the celebration of World Museum Day (April 15) at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Stockholm, Minister of Culture Lena Adelson Lilyerut took part in the performance Mutilation génitale féminine ("Female genital mutilation" - RR) - she tried a piece of cake in the shape of a black woman.

After endless messages, posts and tweets from Astrakhan, it was impossible not to want to go there, to the city that for a week became the most interesting city in the country, where from all over Russia, from Kaliningrad to Surgut, people gathered for whom honest elections are not just two words, but something more! Since he did not have great finances, he asked Ksyusha Sobchak, who kept his promise and sent 60 people to Astrakhan at her own expense. Among them was I.

At the end of last year, the large mother of N.P. Lesovts from the village of Bira, the Jewish Autonomous Region, turned to the electronic public reception of Yabloko . She asked to influence the local authorities in order to provide her housing with steam heating - instead of electric - extremely uncomfortable and costly. “I repeatedly turned to the local administration with a request ... to install a boiler in the apartment.

Photo: ITAR-TASS The Tagansky court left in custody the activists of the punk group Pussy Riot Nadezhda Tolokonnikov, Maria Alekhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich, extending them arrest until June 24. A street festival was held in support of the group members. “Standing at the court” was marked by provocations and detentions: Orthodox activists and secular citizens threw each other into eggs, lit a smoke saber in the crowd, and street musicians dragged along the asphalt into the car gut.

Investigative journalist Pavel Shabanov published the first issue of the anti-corruption newspaper “Russian North - Belorizets”. The circulation is minimal, only 999 copies. Considering that the population of the Vologda region is 1 million 269 thousand, such a circulation is unlikely to somehow stir up public opinion. Why such a violent reaction from the local Vologda authorities? The newspaper was published, but it did not reach the reader.

The agenda of the meeting of the Moscow Regional Duma for Thursday, April 19, included the issue of changing the charter of the region, according to which the posts of governor and head of government of the Moscow region are proposed to be divided, the press service of the regional parliament told Interfax .

Somewhere at midnight we talked with lawyer Polozov about the sad affairs of Pussy Riot. So, today the Tagansky court will almost certainly approve detention as a preventive measure for Tolokonnikova, Alekhina and Samutsevich. Who would doubt it, considering that the customer of everything is not even Gundyaev, but Putin. The investigation was extended until June 24.

Modern technologies are being introduced in the Tyumen juvenile correctional colony. So, now teenagers held in the colony have the opportunity to call their parents from computers via Skype. “Twice a week, teenagers can communicate with their parents via Skype,” said Svetlana Mitichkina, assistant to the head of the Tyumen educational colony for human rights in the penitentiary system, at a press conference on Thursday.

The situation with steppe fires that threatened villages in the south-east of the Trans-Baikal Territory has stabilized, but remains difficult due to strong winds and dust storms, the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations told Interfax . Currently, firefighters are finishing extinguishing burnt houses in the village of Vasilyevsky Khutor.

The FSIN department in the Arkhangelsk region plans to begin using electronic bracelets for prisoners in the summer of 2012, the head of the regional FSIN Anatoly Kilanov said on Thursday. “To date, we have received about 80 kits. Now the equipment is being deployed and undergoing testing. It is planned that by July of this year we will begin to use the complexes,” Kilanov said.

A state of emergency was introduced in the city of Shadrinsk in the Kurgan region on Thursday due to a large fire, the press service of the forestry department for the Urals Federal District told Interfax . “A large natural fire has been recorded on defense and security lands within the city of Shadrinsk. The area of ​​the fire is already more than 25 hectares,” the agency’s interlocutor said. The number of forces and means involved in the fire extinguishing is being clarified.

For almost two months now I have been talking about my hope that among the motives for detaining hooligan feminists and keeping them in custody was the motive of ensuring their safety from lynching by the offended Orthodox community. And today, in a 19:00 news broadcast on NTV, it was said that representatives of the investigation put forward exactly this argument at the trial. And they suggested extending the arrest period... It's funny...

A difficult political situation has once again developed in the Volgograd region. Deputies of the city faction of United Russia refused to obey Governor Sergei Bozhenov, recently appointed by the ruling party and the president . The situation worsened so much that the chairman of the local duma, the leader of the Volgograd United Russia party, Vladimir Efimov, was hospitalized with a heart condition. In general, things are bad again in our serpentarium.