The other day it was Science Day. I didn't even notice. And, perhaps, I would not have remembered at all if I had not heard yesterday’s whispering in the corners that the management had all left for ceremonial events. Well, great scientists have a great voyage, awards and honor, all that.

Snowfalls that took place last week, as always turned out to be a surprise for the utilities of Yekaterinburg. Snow - falling, roads - the drivers - cursed, the governor of the Sverdlovsk region Evgeny Kuyvaishev PR, scolded the slowness of the administration of Yekaterinburg ( http://www.apiural.ru/news/society/90347/ ).

The story of the editor-in-chief of a regional newspaper in the Altai Republic, Alexandra Bogatyr, is typical and instructive. She was fired for criticizing the administration, then reinstated by court decision. And almost immediately they fired me. Now the disgraced editor is again preparing for trial. Read more on Irina Nesterova's blog . A farmer from the village of Marevo, Novgorod region, Vladimir Lvovsky, also criticizes the administration. There is a reason.

The difficulty of the language conflict in Moldova, perhaps like any other, is that both sides consider themselves victims. Who's the big victim? Moldovans feel disadvantaged in situations where people in professions related to communication - salespeople, waiters, taxi drivers - do not know the language.

Photo: Reuters Canadian Navy officer Jeffrey DeLisle, who was accused of spying for Russia, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. As local media reported, DeLisle was also fined 111.8 thousand dollars - the amount he received from the Russian side. The officer's prison term, taking into account the time he spent in pre-trial detention, will be 18 years and five months.

Photo: ITAR-TASS The Moscow City Court found former GRU colonel Vladimir Kvachkov guilty of attempting to organize an armed rebellion and sentenced him to 13 years in a maximum security colony. The defense intends to appeal the verdict, but does not believe in the success of the case. According to the case file, in 2009, Kvachkov met with representatives of opposition forces in various cities and invited them to take part in an armed rebellion.

Photo: Yuri Kaver/RIA Novosti The Voronezh Zoo has begun reconstruction of the territory where it intends to set up a safari park. The new vacation spot, according to the organizers, will attract Voronezh residents with its proximity to the city, special areas for cooking over an open fire, horseback riding in the summer, and reindeer sledding in the winter. An area of ​​20 hectares intended for the Voronezh Safari Park is located near the dam of the Voronezh Reservoir, in Semilukskiye Vyselki.

Photo: ITAR-TASS In Moscow, at the Congress of Parents of Russia, the creation of the “All-Russian Parental Resistance” was announced, Interfax reports. The initiators of the creation of a new public organization are the “Essence of Time” movement (headed by political scientist Sergei Kurginyan) and the “Association of Parental Committees and Communities of Russia” led by Olga Letkova.

The Basmanny Court granted the application of the investigation to change the preventive measure to the leader of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov, who was accused of organizing riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, with a subscription about a non -residence of house arrest. According to the decision of the judge Arthur Karpov, Udaltsov will be under house arrest in the apartment on the Sollnie Street in the south of Moscow until April 6, 2013.

The institutions of Russian culture in Moldova are far from flourishing. There are two unions of the Russian people: the Russian community of the Republic of Moldova and the Congress of Russian communities of the Republic of Moldova. The first is headed by the former secretary of the district committee of the CPSU - Lyudmila Laschenova, the second is a historian originally from Western Ukraine Valery Klimenko.

Photo: PublicPost Collage The online publication Openspace is closing. This became known on Friday evening. “There were no signals, so this is a pure surprise,” Openspace editor-in-chief Maxim Kovalsky commented on the news in an interview with Colta . As Kovalsky told PublicPost, on his way to work on Friday, he received a message from the owner of the resource, Vadim Belyaev, in which he said that he would come to the editorial office for a personal conversation.

“Orthodox actionism” (or the so-called street form of the Orthodox mission) has completely compromised itself in Russia. The ever-memorable father Daniil Sysoev is considered its ideologist, as is the Orthodox actionism that suffered for this. It is known that Fr. Daniil tried to preach Christianity in areas of Moscow populated by “legal” and “illegal” Muslim guest workers. Directly among them. Some people clearly did not like this “active preaching” in a foreign religious environment.

According to AmurMedia, the Khabarovsk Territory is among the top ten regions with the dirtiest drinking water. The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation has published a list of territories for whose residents drinking tap water is simply dangerous to their health, reports AmurMedia news agency with reference to RG.