The Kurgan City Court sentenced a 69-year-old local resident and his 30-year-old girlfriend accused of attempted illegal drug sales on an especially large scale, the press service of the Federal Drug Control Service of the Russian Federation for the Kurgan Region reported on Tuesday. According to the press service, this is not the pensioner’s first conviction. In February 2011, he was sentenced to 3.5 years of suspended imprisonment for illegal possession of drugs on an especially large scale.

Photo: ITAR-TASS A resident of Orenburg wrote a statement to the Federal Antimonopoly Service - he stated that the Friendship of Peoples fountain and the Geology pavilion at the All-Russian Exhibition Center, as well as the brands Coca-Cola, Opium and Levi`S, promote drugs. Orenburg resident Vladimir Savinkov examined hemp leaves in the central sculptural element of the fountain - “Sheaf of Plenty”.

Despite the fact that the month has not yet ended, we have already decided to take stock of the first month of this year, no matter how modest they were. We did not tighten with the second part either, so meet! Today there are a lot of photos and videos, several exhibitions and a little fresh videos from Russia. Nice viewing! Collections of fresh graffiti work from colleagues from the publication Urban Roots.

Winter sketch from Trifonov Monastery. Also see the spring photo surveillance from the monastery. All photos are here .

The megaphones in the campaign machine of the Kirov Communists had not yet had time to cool down, through which the rally participants in Sovetsk shouted about the decay of the foundations of state power themselves in the region and the transformation of this power under the Governor of the White into a semi -criminal forge of the persons, the next morning of the next day, the regional regional building with the still existing head of the region came to visit the fighters of colleagues

The story of Kolmanovsky, who was fired following his participation in Friday’s gay action at the State Duma, gives reason to moralize. No, not about the moral character of the school director, what Arkhangelsky did at Echo of Moscow, but about who the teacher is. About a hundred years ago, albeit negatively, Rozanov accurately noticed that society expects a teacher to constantly and unchangeably follow, no, not a profession, not a craft, but a title.

The poet Mayakovsky outlived Mayakovsky the man by almost a hundred years. And the fate of his museum on Lubyanka - one of the three most visited Moscow museums - is now in the spotlight no less than the poet’s yellow jacket and his calls to throw Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Pushkin off the ship of modernity.

Photo: ITAR-TASS The searches are taking place in the government building of the Kirov region, in the office of Governor Nikita Belykh, the website of the local branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation reported on Tuesday, January 29. In addition, operatives are searching the government dacha on Black Lake, where the chairman of the government of the Kirov region spends his free time.

January 24, 2013 To the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin Kremlin, Moscow, Russia Dear President Putin, On January 1, 2013, with the entry into force of new adoption legislation, our lives were turned upside down. We understand that Russia is a sovereign state that makes decisions and laws based on the interests of its citizens. However, we implore you to hear our plea and our story.

Law enforcement agencies of Chuvashia are establishing the circumstances of an accident in which a car with a drunk driver at the wheel, hiding from traffic police officers, crashed into another car, as a result of which one person died and three more were injured. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the republic reports that on Tuesday night the traffic police crew in Cheboksary tried to stop a VAZ-2112 car.

The leader of A Just Russia, Sergei Mironov, once again called for the resignation of Education Minister Dmitry Livanov. According to a Rosbalt correspondent, he stated this while speaking in the State Duma. “What the new Minister of Education is doing seems to me to be real sabotage. And if we remember the president’s words about spiritual bonds, then we see Mr. Livanov with an ax in his hands, chopping these bonds, chopping as best he can.

Now imagine the level of democracy in the Kirov region: two news items from Kirov publications, which were the first to report about the searches at the Belykhs, made it to the top of Yandex. These are the local editorial offices of Echo and Komsomolskaya Pravda. Both “Echo” and “Komsa” immediately after publication (read: “after the call”) deleted their news, and now their links lead nowhere. So much for a democratic governor. Link times Link two

Photo: ITAR-TASS Channel One responded to the deputies' request about Vladimir Pozner's salary , explaining that the TV presenter is not on the staff and is not the highest paid employee. At the same time, the general director of the channel, Konstantin Ernst, emphasized that the size of the salary in no way depends on citizenship, writes Kommersant .

Photo: ITAR-TASS Tomsk journalist Stanislav Mikryukov, who was facing deportation from Russia, was given his residence permit in the country back. The issue of a residence permit remains unresolved. “The head of the Federal Migration Service of the Tomsk Region, Alexander Romanov, partially satisfied my complaint,” Mikryukov told PublicPost.

Photo: collage PublicPost Publicpost opens the discussion club: several times a month we will collect experts, public figures, bloggers and journalists to discuss the most relevant topics and events. The first meeting is devoted to the development of a law on facilitating the adoption of orphans in Russia. The discussion was adopted by the head of the Volunteers charitable foundation to help orphans, Elena Alshanskaya, Andrei Bepischev, a graduate of the orphanage and other experts.