Russian businessman Sergei Polonsky has been transferred from a prison cell to an isolation ward after he burned all his personal belongings in his cell as a sign of protest, an informed source in Cambodia told Interfax. “Polonsky, while in his cell, burned all his personal belongings, after which the prison administration decided to transfer him to the isolation ward.

Photo: Reuters Barack Obama brought a presidential oath. According to the American media, the ceremony in the White House was private. Obama swore in the fidelity of the United States on the Bible, belonging to his wife Michelle. Before that, he laid flowers to the grave of an unknown soldier in the Arlington cemetery. The ceremony was attended by Vice President Joseph Biden, the first Lady Michelle, daughter Malia and Sasha, as well as several journalists.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee and the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Chelyabinsk Region are investigating the circumstances of the death of the convict in colony N8, the press service of the regional Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia reported on Monday. According to the department, the prisoner, sentenced to 3.5 years for robbery, was found in cell No.

A few months ago I attended as an observer at a school tour of the History Olympiad among students in grades 8-9. In the last task at the competition, it was necessary to write an essay on the topic “The role of personality in history.” Stolypin, Kutuzov, Tchaikovsky, Mendeleev and others were offered as examples. A task is a task, in short.

Do you know countries where only part of the population speaks the state language, while almost everyone speaks the language of the neighboring country? This is Latvia. A catastrophic situation has developed here. Those who are called compatriots in Russia make up almost half of the population. But the worst thing is that the mentality of these people has been preserved almost unchanged since the times of the Soviet Union.

Former lawyers for members of the punk group Pussy Riot are demanding 500 thousand rubles from the Kommersant publishing house in favor of each in a claim for the protection of honor and dignity, lawyer Nikolai Polozov told Interfax on Monday. “The reason was an article entitled “Punk prayer reached Strasbourg,” said Polozov.

As already reported , after the adoption of a law prohibiting US citizens from adopting Russian orphans, seven children in St. Petersburg were left in “limbo”: court decisions on them were made back in December, but they began to enter into legal force only in January, when The so-called “Dima Yakovlev law” has already appeared. The Ministry of Education, which is responsible for this issue, was in no hurry to express an official position.

CONCLUSION for electronic cigarettes General provisions This conclusion was formed in order to comply with Article 2 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, which states that “Man, his rights and freedoms are the highest value.

The beginning of 2013 is marked by the massive emergence of new social movements reflecting civil initiatives. These appeared in the Kuban, North Caucasus and Khabarovsk Territory. And so “Conscience” appeared in Chelyabinsk. Last week, the founding Council of the regional public movement “Shared Message”, or “Conscience” for short, took place. Several hundred caring South Urals residents of different ages and professions have already joined it.

Time, events, people . Today, January 20, at 14:00 in Voronezh, a picket of opponents of the bill on the protection of homosexual propaganda, coordinated with government authorities, took place. However, along with the participants of the action, and there were 6 of them, about 150 people gathered on Nikitinskaya Square, expressing dissatisfaction and opposed to this event.

Photo: ITAR-TASS In the village of Pryazha, 40 km from Petrozavodsk, the international sled dog racing competition “On the Sampo Land” took place. Representative of the Czech Republic Pavel Pfeiffer became the absolute winner and received a Lada Granta car and two thousand dollars as a prize. He ran in a sled with eight dogs and showed the best result after two days of competition - 3 hours 28 minutes. Following him came Russian Alexander Stolyarov.

The Kursk region plans to open multifunctional centers for the provision of state and municipal services in each of 28 districts and 5 urban districts by 2014, reports the information and press committee of the regional administration. In settlements with a population of 1 to 2 thousand people, it is planned to organize the work of the involved organizations - Russian Post and Sberbank - to provide government services on a “one-window” principle.

The art bout of snowmen took place, with which I congratulate us all. On January 19, by 12:00 p.m., the guys from the site WojiZim.rf gathered dozens of novice sculptors on the Sparrow Mountains ... and it rushed. Photo report from Rosman's novel. But ... about everything in order. What do normal people do on Saturday afternoon? They rest after a labor shift, stick into the TV, write a quote from the next great on the wall, prepare tasty, guess riddles ... Yes, a lot of normal, good deeds.

Acting Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov decided to move departments located near Moscow from Moscow to Krasnogorsk, Izvestia reports . This will help save on office rent, which costs about 300 million rubles a year. It is planned to move 19 departments, including the Chamber of Control and Accounts, the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, the Main Control Directorate, as well as the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor's Office.

Photo: collage PublicPost Former Pussy Riot lawyers filed a lawsuit in the Tver court of the Kommersant newspaper and lawyer Irina Khrunova, who now protects the interests of the punk group. The reason for applying to the court-the article " Punk-Moleben came to Strasbourg ." In it, Khrunova’s lawyer claims that Pussy Riot will not be able to appeal the decision to arrest the ECHR, since at one time Feigin, Polozov and Volkov submitted all the documents.