The public council at the Ministry of Education and Science did not consider our open appeal . We were not very surprised - these comments I received to an open letter: " You would still write Hitler to hell! " " For this, these so -called" Public Councils "exist - in order to drain uncomfortable issues, discussing only whatever power ." But we do not give up !!!

The owner of Basic Element Oleg Deripaska can give Olympstroy a cargo port built in the Imereti Valley worth 6 billion rubles, Kommersant reports. The port turned out to be unprofitable due to the redistribution of cargo in favor of railways and roads. Olimpstroy and the Ministry of Transport insisted on the construction of a cargo port in Imeretinka. Basel, as reported by Kommersant , agreed to invest in this project under certain conditions, which have changed in two or three years.

Tomorrow Eduard Limonov turns 70 years old. I always considered him one of the largest modern writers, whose contribution to Russian literature has yet to be appreciated. Perhaps this is not one of the largest. Moreover, this applies to both his prose and verses. Despite the fact that his left-radical political views are not at all close to me, and many statements of recent times are not especially close.

Local historians from Nalchik Maria and Viktor Kotlyarov report that the remains of a mammoth were found in Kabardino-Balkaria. “In the clay cliff near the confluence of the Kurp and Sukhoi Kurp rivers, we found mammoth tusks. The more than the meter part of one of them, who was at the bottom of the slope, managed to photograph (without conservation, the tusk crumbled into many small pieces right before our eyes), the second remains walled up in clay,” Viktor Kotlyarov told the agency.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Alexey German - the eldest passed away at the age of 75. The author of the films "My Friend Ivan Lapshin", "Khrustalev, the car!", One of the favorite directors of Andrei Tarkovsky, the only Russian film director who apologized to the Cannes, and the father of Alexei German - the youngest. Publicpost collected statements by Alexei German about life, profession, cinema and remembered his creative path.

Photo: collage PublicPost Liberals and conservatives make decisions using different parts of the brain. And by the way a person makes a choice, you can determine his political addictions. British scientists came to this conclusion during the study . The politics has two shores, and they will never converge. The confrontation between liberals and conservatives probably has the same long story as political life itself. A great many works are devoted to this topic.

Photo: ITAR-TASS On February 21, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, one of the most famous and widely read modern Russian writers, turns 70 years old. Lyudmila Ulitskaya, a graduate of the Faculty of Biology of Moscow State University, an employee of the Institute of General Genetics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, was fired in 1970 for distributing samizdat and got a job in the literary department of the Jewish Chamber Theater.

Under the rumble of the revelations of property owners abroad, and part -time members of the United Russia party, we are offered to get acquainted with another resident of the city of Miami . That's just the inhabitants of Veliky Novgorod should not be introduced to him. He is familiar to us. Here it is, the key to the success of "Fair Russia" in the 2011 elections.

Spring is coming. Coming soon. And while we in the north are still only dreaming of summer warmth, it has already arrived in the south of Russia. The snow melts, the earth and last year's grass are exposed. She's in the way... How can I get rid of her? How? Burn it - and that's the end of it. And many people think so. And a tourniquet. They burn grass, they burn reeds. It’s cool: once and in twenty minutes a whole hectare is free. Only there is a problem. And not alone.

Photo: Reuters Updated at 19:00: According to updated data, 15 people should arrive from Vienna to Moscow, Elena Burtina, deputy head of the civil assistance public organization, told PublicPost: “At the airport, three of our volunteers are waiting for these people. We don’t know the details of those arriving, but several Chechens living in Austria should "were warning the deportees that human rights activists would meet them at Domodedovo.

Here journalists persistently ask me about fear. My grandmother’s brother, Yegor Yakovlevich Romanov, was shot by the Bolsheviks in 1918 simply because he was returning from World War I in a tsarist uniform. All that remains of him in the family archive is a photograph from around 1916 - a very young boy with a kind, naive face, wearing a cap with the name of the ship (training ship "Peter the Great").

Vladimir Putin instructed the government to adopt acts that would provide for the right of consumers to pay for utilities based on the results of periodic checks of meter readings, rather than taking readings from them every month, the president’s website reported Thursday.

The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, said that financial and economic experts were involved in each of the plots of the theft case at the Ministry of Defense.

Perhaps the child was poisoned by dogs. This story began on the early morning of Monday February 18, when almost all of America thanked its presidents in another day off. The bell rang out of Washington, from the Voice of America, with the question: "Does something English or Russian-speaking Texas know about the adopted boy from Russia Maxim Kuzmin, who received the new name Max Shatto in America?" Texas did not know anything about Maxim (Max).

Photo: Ilya Pitalev/Kommersant The Academy of Russian Television Award " TEFI " ceases to exist. On Thursday, the President of the Television Academy, Mikhail Shvydkoy, said that he considers it inappropriate to hold the national television competition “TEFI” in conditions where a significant number of manufacturers are withdrawing their works. A few days earlier, the All-Russian State Television and Radio Company officially announced its withdrawal from the television academy.