President Dmitry Medvedev, at a meeting with United Russia activists, said that he would join the party and announced that he had never been a liberal. Yesterday Medvedev met with the party activist Edra and quickly disavowed his liberalism, demanding more anger from the party members in the tireless struggle for their happiness and the opportunity for the population not to rest completely.

The Argayashsky District Court of the Chelyabinsk Region on Saturday sentenced local businessman Vildar Yakupov, who distributed banned extremist publications during courses on studying the fundamentals of Islam.

Deputies of the Kostroma Regional Duma voted on Saturday on the issue of vesting Sergei Sitnikov with the powers of governor. According to the press service of the regional administration, Sitnikov’s candidacy was unanimously supported by all 29 deputies of the regional Duma who participated in the meeting. Later on Saturday, Sergei Sitnikov, endowed with the powers of the governor of the Kostroma region, took the oath of office and officially took office.

Preparations for the celebration of Victory Day in Volgograd have entered the final stage. The city's operational services have been transferred to an enhanced operating mode. During public events, the sale of alcohol will be limited, and a ban on the sale of drinks in glass containers and cooking over an open fire will be introduced. But this time access to all holiday venues will be completely free, reports Volgograd.Ru .

A faulty carriage paralyzed tram traffic in the southeast of Moscow on Saturday, an Interfax correspondent reports. During the day, tram traffic was temporarily suspended in the Krutitsky Val area, where trams routes 40, 43 and 35 operate. This was caused by a breakdown of one of the cars on Simonovsky Val. An emergency crew has arrived at the scene of the incident to repair the faulty tram. Several dozen other trams are on the tracks waiting to resume service.

Residents of the village of Kadom, evacuated due to rising water levels in the Moksha River, are returning to their homes, reports the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Ryazan Region. “In the village of Kadom, over the past 24 hours, the water level in the Moksha River has dropped by 8 centimeters and is 762 centimeters. 6 streets, 67 residential buildings with a population of 83 people (including 8 children) remain flooded.

Yesterday my friend Olga Shalina was arrested. Center E operatives detained her in the Chertanovo district of Moscow in a church where she had come for the christening of her nephews. This event went unnoticed. Everyone preferred to discuss the release of political prisoner Sergei Mokhnatkin’s cat. Meanwhile, there will be no trial of Olga; she will immediately go to a pre-trial detention center, and from there to a colony.

Yes, in Vladivostok, a bridge under construction across the Zolotoy Rog Bay, on the Churkin side, caught fire. By the way, last year there was a fire there, an opal was burning

On April 26, a meeting of the Land Allocation Commission was held under the chairmanship of the Chief Architect of the WGO Administration O.V. Popova. Among other issues, the allocation of a site for the construction of a new autocross track to replace the old one, located in the area of ​​the "Tarelka" reservoir, was discussed. In addition to the members of the commission, the meeting was attended by the head of the city branch of the RAF D.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan has convicted militant Mussa Bayramukov.

President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the early termination of powers of the Governor of the Perm Territory Oleg Chirkunov at the latter’s own request, the Kremlin press service reported on Saturday. By the same decree, Viktor Basargin was appointed acting governor of the region. At the same time, Medvedev dismissed Basargin from the post of Minister of Regional Development of Russia.

The ceremony of welcoming the Olympic flag will take place on Theater Square in Anapa on Sunday, April 29. “More than 2 thousand students of Anapa sports schools and the best athletes of the resort will be involved in the ceremony of welcoming the Olympic flag,” the press service of the mayor’s office told Interfax . According to the agency's interlocutor, the flag will arrive at the resort from the Temryuk region, where it was located during April.

The Tashir group of companies, the developer of the aquarium in the shopping and entertainment center, is conducting its own investigation into information that a group of disabled schoolchildren were allegedly not allowed into the aquarium, the group’s PR manager Marina Gaze told Interfax on Saturday. “We are currently conducting our own micro-investigation into the incident, which is widely discussed in blogs and the media.

First, the good: The Moscow City Court, based on a unanimous verdict of not guilty by the jury, completely acquitted the pianist and former teacher of the Central Music School (CMS) Anatoly Ryabov. Let me remind you that 66-year-old Ryabov was accused of raping minors. Article 132 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “up to twenty years”. It would seem that justice has triumphed.

The Pervomaisky District Court of Penza on Saturday sentenced a city resident to two years in a penal colony for fraud related to the production of forged regional court documents. The court proved three episodes of fraud, the press service of the district court told Interfax .