Photo: work by the artist Arch "228". In Moscow, at the Zverevsky Center for Contemporary Art, the completion of the competition of works “Narcophobia. Managing Fear” took place. In their art works, the artists showed how political repression against political activists, human rights activists and young artists is carried out with the help of planting drugs. The artist under the pseudonym Arch from Murmansk won the competition with his photographic work “228”.

The Legislative Assembly of the Novosibirsk Region approved in the first reading a ban on the promotion of homosexuality among minors. Amendments should be made to the regional code of administrative offenses, Interfax reports. Similar laws are in force in St. Petersburg, Ryazan, Arkhangelsk and Kostroma regions. In Moscow, a bill is being developed to ban the promotion of sex (not only homosexual, but also heterosexual).

A strong storm with yellow-green clouds began in the southwest of Moscow. As an Interfax correspondent reports, in the southwest of Moscow, in the area of ​​the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station, the sky turned green and a yellow-green sandstorm arose. According to an eyewitness, one house cannot be seen from the neighboring one, the storm is accompanied by strong winds, more than 20 meters per second, and various boxes and plastic bottles are blown into the streets by the wind.

In this whole ongoing story with the church, I don’t understand why Kirill is doing this. Three or four months ago there were no problems. There were some shocking statements from Chaplin. But this was perceived as a private deviation. Otherwise, everything could not have been better: people go to the shrines (the belt of the Virgin Mary), everything is in order with Putin, young Orthodox Christians are more involved in social work than ever, etc.

Almost everyone can write, only a few can read. You write one thing, they read another. I know that politically active citizens will immediately be outraged, but I will say it anyway. Since we have freedom of speech and democracy. I consider the final arrival of spring to be the main political event of this year. The sun is warm, the snow is gone...

In his today and probably his last television interview, President Medvedev, when asked about pardoning Khodorkovsky, repeated almost verbatim my recent article, which was subjected to massive criticism from both the opposition and the authorities. Are THEY really changing or have they just started to carefully read the Criminal Code and the Laws of the country they rule??? Here's what was written a few weeks ago: Khodorkovsky. You will not be forcibly pardoned!

A state of emergency was introduced in the cities of Svirsk, Cheremkhovo and the Cheremkhovo district of the Irkutsk region, where it was not possible to eliminate oil pollution in the water intake area on the Angara River. “The resolutions on this were signed by the mayors of cities and districts after a meeting of the emergency commission,” Leonid Alkov, an employee of the press service of the government of the Irkutsk region, who was at the scene of the emergency, told Interfax .

On April 26, a picket was held in defense of sobriety on April 26. The action was organized by the "trade union of Russian citizens" and the movement "General Fore Tomsk." The picket took place under the slogan "stop degradation" and was aimed against beyond the availability of tobacco and alcohol in Russia. Requirements of activists: It is necessary to increase the age qualification for the sale of alcohol and tobacco products, at least up to 23 years (preferably up to 30 years).

The Moscow prosecutor's office found calls for national hatred and extremism in a story about the defense of Islamic law and the revival of Sharia courts, shown on REN TV on April 24. As noted in a message published on the website of the Prosecutor General's Office, the Moscow prosecutor's office conducted an investigation into the broadcast of a story about the creation of the "Muslim Union" by lawyer Dagir Khasavov in order to protect Islamic law and revive Sharia courts.

On Thursday, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in the Tula Region received several dozen calls from residents of a number of large cities who reported the appearance of a green coating on the windows of their houses and thought about releasing waste at one of the large chemical enterprises in the region.

The President identified the country's three main advertising agencies: the Russian Orthodox Church, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Tagansky Court.

One can list those who for several years have called for support for the liberal Medvedev. This is, first of all, Pavlovsky and his eternal boys of different sexes and ages. Not all, but the oldest and most faithful. But something else is more interesting: to keep track of who will continue to hang around Putin’s favorite jester. Now it is absolutely obvious that they will not have any ideological, principled motives.

...And you have to make a choice! Sooner or later: Christianity or Orthodoxy... In apostolic Christianity, Jesus was confessed as a MAN. Orthodoxy, as a “product” of the Roman Emperor, “appointed” the Righteous One to “be” God. Millions of people have the position: I just believe in God. This position is a dead end. Believing in God is self-deception. It is possible to believe only in that which, at least in principle, can be understood. But believing in the Incomprehensible is stupid.

Here is this nightmare story about the forced hospitalization of a 16-year-old gay man by his own father, a doctor, in a clinic for drug addicts. On the night of April 21-22 (!) I wrote to three of my acquaintances, Moscow journalists - “human rights activists” from three different publications, who do not miss a single minimally resonant action of the radical opposition, all three of them know me personally, asked try to take the operators and go there.

In the northwestern part of the Tver region, on the banks of the Mologa and Volchina rivers, our village of Maksatikha is located. For us, and we have 8,400 residents, there is no more comfortable and beautiful place. What could be better than living in a natural pine park? In 2012, Maksatikha will turn 457 years old. There are many architectural monuments located in the area.