In Moscow, a court for the third time lifted the seizure of the property of former Yukos vice-president Vasily Aleksanyan, who died more than a year ago. The Simonovsky Court of Moscow on Tuesday lifted the seizure of the property of the late defendant in the “YUKOS case” Vasily Aleksanyan and thus granted the lawyer’s request, RAPSI reports.

After Lady Gaga's concert in St. Petersburg, deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Vitaly Milonov proposed checking her show for the presence of homosexual propaganda. Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Vitaly Milonov intends to ask the prosecutor's office to check the performance of singer Lady Gaga for violations of the city law “On the prohibition of propaganda of homosexuality among minors,” the parliamentarian’s press service reports.

Apparently, with the current system of government in Russia, even in conditions of a rigid vertical system, conflicts between governors and mayors of donor cities are inevitable. It would seem that just recently the head of the region publicly announced his support for the new city manager of Kostroma, Viktor Yemets.

Muslims who believe the end of the world on December 21 is real are apostates, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said on his official portal on Tuesday. “I don’t understand how Muslims can believe this? People buy candles, saying that there will be no light. Doesn’t any of them know that if the end of the world comes, they won’t need any candles? The person who believes in such rumors , according to Muslim canons is considered an apostate,” says R. Kadyrov.

The Altai communists did not reveal military secrets to Washington's emissaries. THE COMMUNISTS ARE NOW NOT AFRAID OF THE "ORANGE REVOLUTION". The Communist Party of the Russian Federation turned out to be the only parliamentary party that sent its envoy to a meeting with political emissaries of the US Embassy in Russia, who arrived in the Altai Territory at the end of last week.

Adygea plans to allocate over 1.4 billion rubles in 2013-2020 to implement the program for the development of the republic's water management complex, the republican department for environmental protection, natural resources and emergency situations told the Interfax agency. “The republic will receive most of the funds for the implementation of the program’s activities - about 1.15 billion rubles - from the federal budget, the rest will come from the budget of Adygea.

The days of the revolution became the apotheosis of street art. Everyone - from ordinary demonstrators to professional artists - practiced their creativity with incredible enthusiasm: they composed and drew slogans, hung pictures, and dressed themselves in whatever they could. The center of Kyiv has turned into a continuous open-air gallery. Here, for example, is snowy “street art” next to the Cabinet of Ministers. Our balls are stronger because our pants are full!

Almost two months ago, the MixVille company, together with the Charitable Foundation for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports, launched the “Sweet Joy” social project. The goal of the project: to give anyone the opportunity to please children who find themselves in difficult life situations, living in boarding schools and orphanages, with sweets. MixVille is a manufacturer of custom chocolate, French macarons and natural granola.

Photo: ITAR-TASS The head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov, called rumors about the approaching end of the world a delusion, and those who believe in them, apostates. “I don’t understand how Muslims can believe this? People buy candles, saying that there will be no light. Doesn’t any of them know that if the end of the world comes, they won’t need any candles?

Photo: ITAR-TASS Text: Alisa Ivanitskaya Russian President Vladimir Putin met with trusted officials in the regions. Within two hours, the president managed to promise to return the title of “Hero of Labor”, systematically fight corruption and called for patriotism to be cultivated on traditional grounds.

In 2012, about 2.5 billion rubles of budget funds were allocated to the agro-industrial complex of Kabardino-Balkaria, including 1 billion 754 million rubles from the federal budget. The head of the KBR, Arsen Kanokov, presented these data during a working meeting on Tuesday with the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Nikolai Fedorov, who was in the region on a two-day working visit, the press service of the head of the republic reports.

Not surprisingly, it was the head of the Center for Intersectoral Coordination, Martins Krievins. Namely, it was this office that wrote the famous National Development Plan of Latvia, according to which, in 7 years, Latvians will be riding like cheese in butter. Well, or swim like sprat in tomato sauce. Perhaps Martins believes that the very existence of such a plan is national wealth. However, not everyone wants to rejoice that Latvia is getting richer.

Photo: ITAR-TASS PublicPost and the Open Government of the Russian Federation invites our readers to take part in the discussion of the Open Government agenda for 2013. You have the opportunity to influence which issues will become priorities for the work of the expert council under the Russian government next year. A list of topics for discussion is published on our website. Please indicate in your comments which topics you think are most important.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya was born in 1926 - in the first half of the last century. She was raised by her grandmother, they lived in Kronstadt, where during the blockade she lost her only relative. In 1952, she was accepted into the Bolshoi Theater, despite the fact that she did not have a conservatory education at that time, but she had a strong and naturally trained voice. Tatyana Larina, Queen of Spades, Aida, Madama Butterfly - whose parts she has never performed.

The head of the Altai Republic, Alexander Berdnikov, does not believe in the coming “end of the world,” but assesses the discussion of this topic as free advertising for the region. “This is not the first time that humanity has been waiting for the “end of the world.” Until now, it has not come. Many now write that the only way to escape from the “end of the world” is in Altai, they are creating additional free advertising for our tourist region.