One of the main topics of yesterday was the battle for literature again. After a month ago they defended, whether it was real or polytechnological, the teaching of “holy Russian literature” in school, trouble is again. And again, the golden cockerels, guarding public opinion, are now crowing about trouble not from the West, but from the East. They want to make literature a hotbed of patriotism, the kind that was approved from above and approved by the censorship.

Photo: Ekaterina Savina/PublicPost Photo report from the picket held by the mothers, sisters and wives of those arrested in the Bolotnaya case. Other activists congratulated them on March 8 and on the fact that they “raised the best people in the country.” From left to right: Stella, mother of Denis Lutskevich; Ksenia, sister of Mikhail Kosenko; Olga, mother of Ilya Gushchin; Tatyana, mother of Andrei Barabanov; Natalya, mother of Nicholas of the Caucasus.

Due to the accident, about 250 houses in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky were left without cold water, the mayor’s office of the regional center reported on Friday. “A rupture of the main water pipeline with a diameter of 900 mm on Druzhby Street in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky occurred on Friday night, Kamchatka time. As a result, 250 houses - most of them private houses - were left without cold water.

It will not be possible to calmly elections in the Volgograd region (March 24, 2013, the missions of the deputy of the Volgograd Regional Duma for the constituency No. 5). At first, almost all the candidates were gone, disputing each other's registration, then they asked voters with gifts in violation of the law, and then, finally, it happened ... The first experience of dousing with mud of a candidate in the "chernushny" media ...

Single pickets demanding the parole of Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina are taking place today, March 8, near the building of the Federal Penitentiary Service. Supporters of the group gathered on Kaluga Square, where the FSIN building is located. The action, which began at noon, is scheduled to end at eight o'clock in the evening.

Supporters of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko gathered near the Central Clinical Hospital "Ukrzaliznytsia" No. 5 (Kharkiv), where the ex-Prime Minister is undergoing treatment, to congratulate her on March 8. As an Interfax correspondent reports, up to 500 people gathered at the site in front of the hospital entrance. People hold Batkivshchyna party flags, red heart-shaped balloons and posters “Yulia, happy March 8th”, “Freedom for Yulia!

On March 8, feminist organizations planned to hold a joint action - a march and rally “Feminism is Liberation” in the Central House of Artists area in Moscow. A preliminary notification was submitted with the number of participants up to 500 people. But the city mayor’s office considered the event uncoordinated, since the last stage of approval occurred less than three days before it began. For this formal reason, the procession was refused.

Writer Mikhail Shishkin refused to represent Russia at the largest book fair in the United States, BookExpo America 2013. Mikhail Shishkin is a popular contemporary author, winner of many awards, including Russian Booker, Big Book and National Bestseller. His most famous works are the novels "Venus's Hair" and "The Letter Book". _____________________________ Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications International Directorate of the Foundation "Presidential Center of B.N.

"Oz the Great and Powerful" (directed by Sam Raimi). This isn't actually the first big studio blockbuster of 2013. A week ago, the $200 million “Jack the Giant Slayer” from Bryan Singer and Warner opened in the States (the film will be released in Russia on March 21). And not that it was very successful: the box office for the first weekend was around 30 million dollars - this is an obvious failure.

Photo: PublicPost Collage There are 76.8 million women living in Russia, which is 53.8% of the population. 35 million work, of which 2 million are officials: employed in government bodies and government at various levels; another 11 thousand serve in the army; 4300 have officer ranks, 26 are generals; 15 have been awarded the title of Hero of Russia (since 1992). 57.2 thousand are serving sentences in FSIN institutions, including 10,644 for murder.

If Pyongyang launches a preemptive nuclear strike on South Korea, the current regime in the DPRK will disappear from the face of the Earth, according to a communiqué issued by the South Korean Ministry of Defense on Friday. “If North Korea launches a nuclear attack on South Korea, the Kim Jong-un regime will be wiped off the face of the Earth,” the South Korean defense ministry said in a statement.

A group of climbers is preparing to conquer one of the peaks of the Caucasus Range, 3,400 meters high, which is planned to be named after the deceased President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez.

I always know what exactly I will find in my mail and phone that day. In the best case - “congratulations”, in a difficult, neglected one - and these are the majority - poems from a mass mailing: “With all my heart, without verbosity, I wish you health...” and the like.

The police began to detain participants in the agreed rally “Feminism is Liberation,” which is taking place in Novopushkinsky Square in Moscow, OVD-Info reports . “Detentions in Novopushkinsky Square have grown into mass ones,” the report says.