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).

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.

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.

On my blog dedicated to modern banking, I have already posted several conversations with a very unusual social thinker, Alexander Vidnov. Since the topics of these conversations began to clearly go beyond banking topics, I decided to move them here. In Russia, the population has not yet developed the habit of taking out loans, like in the West... Our habits are different and the structural situation is different. There are things that are clearly visible.

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.

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.

On April 25, the 28th regular meeting of the Duma was held in the Tambov City Duma. The deputies considered the following issues: changes to the city budget, reports from the Tambov City Administration on the use of municipal property and the results of privatization of objects, amendments to the Regulations of the Tambov City Duma, etc. On issue 6, “On the report of the Tambov City Administration on the results of the privatization of municipal property of the city of Tambov for 2011,” I.P.

...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.

A schoolboy in Dagestan died after being shot in the head by a police officer, according to a message posted on the website of the Investigative Committee on Thursday. “According to preliminary data, on the night of April 26, 2012, a high school student from the Karatinskaya school died in a hospital in the city of Makhachkala.

Where are the screamers and sad people now? They became noisy and disappeared at a young age... And the silent ones became leaders. Because silence is golden. Yesterday I learned that a campaign to discredit my humble person will soon begin on the Internet. Apparently, my activity related to the First Moscow Cadet Corps seriously annoyed Moscow education officials. The head of the Moscow Department of Education, Kalina, never answered my calls and happily went on vacation.

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.

The Primorsky Transport Prosecutor's Office began checking the implementation of the legislation of the Russian Federation regulating the rules for transporting passengers by air, in connection with the refusal of Vladivostok Air OJSC to transport a disabled girl, Marina Barlukova.