“Those who make a peaceful revolution impossible, Makes violent revolution inevitable." (John Kennedy) The real summer heat is still far away, but the peat fire of popular discontent and protest is expanding. Here he went inside Chistoprudny and Patriarch's, and now he broke out into the wild in the form of violent clashes with riot police on Bolotnaya. After some time, Bulvarny flashed into a ring of fire, appearing as the intelligent reading people of Moscow.

On May 15, the Tuapse District Court began preliminary hearings in the case of damage to a fence illegally erected around the dacha of the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Tkachev, located in Blue Bay (the village of Bzhid). Members of the Ecological Watch council for the North Caucasus, Suren Ghazaryan and Evgeny Vitishko, are accused of damaging property.

Ksenia Sobchak, Leonid Parfenov and Vasya Oblomov on behalf of the Russian people address President Vladimir Putin in their new song. The first song of this trio, “Bye, Bear,” was recorded in February and immediately became popular on the Internet. The clip in which Sobchak, Parfenov and Oblomov said goodbye to President Dmitry Medvedev was reposted by bloggers and online publications. And the vests that the trio members wore became popular clothing among many oppositionists.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Text: Evgeniy Natelashvili On International Reading Day , a publisher, a librarian, a literary critic and the founder of an intelligent bookshop reveal what a library should be like for children. Anna Narinskaya, literary critic, special correspondent for Kommersant Publishing House Firstly, I don’t see much difference between a children’s library and a library in general. Both the Internet and multimedia should be in any library.

New criminal cases of corruption have been opened against the former deputy head of the Federal Drug Control Service for the Vologda Region and his subordinates, official representative of the RF Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin reported, Interfax reports. According to him, the officers are suspected of accepting bribes, theft, acquiring property obtained by crime, and illegally selling drugs.

Photo: Veronika Komarova/Publicpost Municipal deputies from United Russia actually disrupted the vote on the fate of the protest camp in the square near Kudrinskaya Square. Opposition deputies, who in the council - the majority, were going to give the camp the status of the festival and transfer it to Tverskaya Boulevard. This would allow the whiteworms to officially conduct lectures and seminars, as well as put up tents, dry closets and field kitchens.

Photo: Valentina Romanova/PublicPost In St. Petersburg, a trial began against teacher of Russian language and literature Tatyana Ivanova, who spoke in January about fraud in the parliamentary elections . The person involved in her story accused Ivanova of libel and demands 100,000 rubles. A variety of people, strangers to her, came to court to support the teacher. Story. In January, T. Ivanova, the chairman of one of the precinct election commissions and the former head teacher of school No.

Russian businessman Viktor Bout, who was sentenced in the United States to 25 years in prison for attempting to sell weapons to Colombian militants, may return to Russia. “If we had a request from Russia for Mr. Bout to serve his sentence in his homeland, we would consider it. If there is a request,” said US Attorney General Eric Holder in an interview published on Thursday, May 17, in Rossiyskaya Gazeta " .

Judging by the fact that the United Russia deputies did not abandon their suicidal intention to pass a draconian law on rallies with some exorbitant fines, we have to conclude that they did not understand the good advice. By good advice I mean the “Control Walk” on May 13th. Please note, gentlemen, deputies: if you do this stupid thing, you can consider the “Control Walk” an easy and uncrowded warm-up.

Yesterday there was just a massive crowd of people on Barrikadnaya - about two thousand for sure. In the evening, the cops pulled up and, as usual, according to their stupid cop habit, they drank water, food and money. They just walked up to the kitchen bench, picked it up and left. Here the people could no longer stand it. The cops blocked the road. Those, according to their stupid cop habit, began to twist. And the people exploded. People stopped being silent.

Photo: Reuters On May 17, in the Petrovsky Park of St. Petersburg there will be a rally of the LGBT community dedicated to the International Day of Combat Homophobia. The event will perform "representatives of civil society and democratic parties", and then 510 multi -colored balloons will be launched into the sky.

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Friends, you can resist, but Happy International Day Against Homophobia to everyone. Someone will think that for a person who is not directly involved in the LGBT community, I am paying too much attention to this problem, but I will take this opportunity to explain why this seems so important to me (to the approval/condemnation of gay pride parades, as well as this has nothing to do with discussions about the nature of homosexuality or its consequences).

And yet, I think that regional media journalists are committing a professional crime by intentionally or unintentionally neglecting information about what is happening in the federal center and thereby keeping people in the provinces in the dark about what may be waiting for them (all of us). Thus depriving you of the opportunity to make choices regarding your own future.

Photo: Reuters One of the most prestigious film festivals in the world has started in Cannes. The press conference of the jury on the occasion of the opening of the 65th festival was attended by its chairman, Italian director Nanni Moretti, as well as directors Andrea Arnold, Alexander Payne, Raoul Peck, actresses Diane Kruger, Hiam Abbas, Emmanuelle Devos, actor Ewan McGregor and couturier Jean- Paul Gautier. The opening ceremony was hosted by Berenice Bejo, star of the film "The Artist".