In connection with the beating of Elista city assembly deputy Valery Skargin, a criminal case has been opened under Part 2 of Article 112 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Intentional infliction of moderate harm to health”), the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kalmykia told Interfax on Wednesday. Currently, operational search activities are being carried out. An investigation is underway.

The author is a teacher of Russian language and literature Tatyana Ivanova, who in January 2012 reported fraud in the parliamentary elections in St. Petersburg. Now she is the defendant in a libel suit filed by the head of the education department of one of the city’s districts, Natalya Nazarova, who, according to Ivanova, was one of the initiators of the falsifications. Read more. The Unified State Exam is an extremely controversial phenomenon.

A few days ago, the new Minister of Internal Affairs, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, said that on May 6 the police did not use special equipment, and the police worked as tolerantly as possible in extreme conditions in order to ensure the safety of the majority of participants in the protests and prevent any violations of public order. Did the riot police and the 2nd special regiment exceed their official authority and was everything as professional as Kolokoltsev says? Let's start the analysis.

This morning, several gentlemen in formal suits came to Alena Rudko, coordinator of the Citizen Observer project in Rostov-on-Don, and handed her a summons demanding that she immediately appear at the regional prosecutor's office.

A resident of Yoshkar-Ola was sentenced to five years in prison to be served in a maximum security colony for kidnapping a minor girl he liked, the press service of the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Mari El reported on Wednesday.

The day before, State Duma deputies from A Just Russia I. Ponomarev and G. Gudkov introduced an “alternative draft law on rallies” to the State Duma. This could be good news against the backdrop of a clear lack of coordinated public activity on the draft of draconian sanctions for participation and organization of actions. But the proposed draft also contains a threat to freedom of assembly in the Russian Federation.

In the Novokhopyorsky district of the Voronezh region, not far from one of the cleanest rivers in Europe, Khoper, and only 20 km. From the Novokhopersky Nature Reserve, which has all-Russian status, it is planned to begin the development of nickel deposits discovered here back in the 1960s. On Sunday, May 27, rallies were held in Uryupinsk and Novokhopersk, each of which attracted approximately three thousand people.

About the locality 1. Name: Sverdlovsk region, Nevyansk, Malysheva street 1 2. When and under what circumstances was it founded: 1701, launch of a plant on the Neiva River, Nikita Demidov, built by decree of Peter I. 3. Geographical features: the city is located on both sides of the Neiva River, there is a protected site called the Nevyansky Pond. (there are 6 protected sites in the district) 4. Number of residents: Nevyansk - 20,000, Nevyansk urban district - 40,000 5.

My wife was still in the maternity hospital when I went to the registry office to draw up Katrina’s birth certificate. Simple aunts of the Soviet type, writing down their daughter’s name on the birth certificate, asked me several times if they had heard it correctly. I did not explain to them the background to the appearance of this name, since I assumed that these women might not understand my motives, and I had neither the time nor the energy to enter into a discussion with them.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Text: Natalya Konradova The author is the editor of the social sciences department of the magazine "Around the World". Once the poet Abay Kunanbayev managed to stand on a par with the poet Alexander Pushkin. The townspeople suddenly discovered him and began to walk ideologically around Moscow. This is not so easy to do: there are too many monuments in Moscow, so we can assume that there are none at all.

The problem of queues in kindergartens in Ryazan has existed for several years. First, the Ryazan authorities promised to solve it by 2012, then by 2013. Soon, they will probably promise by 2014. And so on ad infinitum. A couple of weeks ago, several young parents contacted me who could not place their children in kindergartens in Dashkovo-Pesochnya - there was a catastrophic shortage of places.

So, why did the Republic of Kazakhstan become a leader in a number of scientific areas, while Russia lagged behind? My personal opinion as a specialist working in the West, the East, and Russia. Several factors played a role. The most important thing is the basic one: the manic habit of keeping everything secret. It has long been a running joke in our scientific circles that the biggest secret is that in reality there are no secrets.

As promised, we publish the list of "16 brave" - ​​16 people who publicly and openly agreed to be the donors of our Fund for the fight against corruption: 1. Vladimir Ashurkov, Executive Director of the Fund. 2. Roman Borisovich, vice president of Rosgosstrakh LLC. 3. Dmitry Bykov, writer. 4. Sergey Grechishkin, financier. 5. Sergey Guriev, rector of the Russian Economic School (he even explains in detail: why I gave money to Navalny ). 6.

Boris, where were you on May 26 at 14:00? Where were Ryzhkov, Navalny, Chirikova, Akunin, Parkhomenko, Bykov, Parfyonov, Udaltsova, Sobchak, Kasparov, Limonov, Ponomarev, when suppressed, nightmarish, regulated Russian entrepreneurs held a rally on Pushkinskaya on their professional “holiday”? Only Gudkov Jr. showed up. For a full minute and a half I took the rap for you all... Or are we not citizens of this country? Or do we have a sweeter life than others?

We have long ago arrived at such a state of society that examples from any sphere of life can be painlessly applied to any other spheres. If there is a conversation about extortions on the roads or bribes in bureaucratic offices, they will immediately mention everyday corruption among doctors or teachers. If you start complaining about the chaos in one area or another, a similar example will be cited from anywhere.