Photo: Dmitry Baltermantz March 13 - 100 years since the birth of Sergei Mikhalkov, the writer and poet, the author of the Uncle Stepa and the hymns of the USSR and the Russian Federation. President Vladimir Putin began to celebrate the anniversary of the poet earlier - he came to the Dachu family of Mikhalkov in the village of Sokolina Gora.

The 66th Cannes International Film Festival has announced that it will open on May 15 with the out-of-competition premiere of Australian director Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. This is the fifth film adaptation of the famous novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

More than a hundred photographs of violations were collected by townspeople during a walk organized by the “Beautiful Balashikha” movement. The walk took place along one of the main streets of the city, Lenin Avenue, from the beginning to the final stop in the Balashikha-3 area. Among the most common problems, we should note a large number of illegal advertising, damage to building facades and, of course, traditional winter violations - ice, uncollected snow.

Yesterday I participated in another round table dedicated to the mergers of schools and kindergartens in Moscow. I have already written about the previous such meeting , which was organized by the December 5 party , the Teacher trade union and the Union of Schools . I was also preparing a large press report on mergers .

“The official representative of the supreme shaman of Tuva, Andrei Dondukov, returned from India and told the whole truth about the fall of the celestial body.” (http://www.utro.ru/articles/2013/02/22/1102891.shtml) I am amazed at the knowledge of the man of the earth. Or rather, from his ignorance, from his deep disrespect for his land. After all, only among Russian spiritual leaders can one find so much nonsense. They go to India for knowledge.

The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, submitted a submission to the Higher Qualification Board of Judges (HQJC) to give consent to bring to criminal liability the judge of the Arbitration Court of the Krasnodar Territory, Sergei Rusov. “Bastrykin’s corresponding submission has been submitted to the Higher Qualification Committee,” official representative of the RF Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin told Interfax.

The text and photo of the protocol, the signing of which ended the two -day hunger strike in Udmurtia As promised yesterday, I post the text and photos of the protocol, the signing of which yesterday ended the two -day hunger strike in Udmurtia. I repeat that almost all the requirements of the hunger strike participants were adopted by officials.

01. Island of the Dead. Mon Repos. Vyborg. 02. Swan Lake. 03. Anti-tuberculosis sanatorium. Another wonderful Leningrad weekend. Everything a person needs was present: frost, vodka, sun, freedom of movement, warm company. 04. Near Monrepos park. An extraordinary place with an interesting history. 05. 06. 07. In winter, getting to the Isle of the Dead is quite easy. 08. 09. On the island is the ancestral tomb of the Nikolai family, who once owned these places. 10. 11.

A dozen and a half cars collided in the Moscow region, the press service of the regional traffic police department told Interfax. According to him, on Wednesday, on the 35th kilometer of the Novorizhskoe highway, a traffic accident involving 14 cars occurred. No one was injured in the accident. The agency's interlocutor noted that a sudden change in weather contributed to the accident and called on drivers to be careful. Interfax-Moscow

Photo: PublicPost Collage Margarita Charykova is 24 years old and is accused of drug trafficking. Her relatives say that she needed drugs to relieve pain - Margarita has not had a rectum since birth, and she has not been to the toilet for three months; in a pre-trial detention center this is impossible for her. The girl is rotting alive, her mother and lawyer, with whom PublicPost spoke, are sure.

Photo: Reuters Return to the project "Lingva Frank" If you do not take into account the lyrics, but turn to the facts, it turns out that the life of the Russian diaspora in Georgia over the past 200 years is closely connected with the wars. In 1783, a St. George treatise was concluded - Georgia needed protection from Turkey and Iran, Russia - an ally in the Caucasian War.

In Biysk (Altai Territory), a criminal case has been opened into the beating of a 12-year-old boy on a route bus, a representative of the press center of the regional police department told the Interfax agency. The boy's parents contacted the police, saying that the incident occurred on March 2 on route bus No. 23. “According to preliminary data, at one of the stops three drunk men got on the bus and beat up a minor teenager.

The Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee has launched a training program for Winter Olympic Games volunteers. We need 25 thousand volunteers, while the organizers have already received 200 thousand applications from volunteers. Volunteers will undergo training in several stages: from March to July - the general course "My Games", from September to December - "My Work", from January to February 2014 - "My Object". They will also intensively study English and cram Olympic vocabulary.

FKU Uprdor "Pribaikalye" in 2013 received funding for the construction, overhaul, repair and maintenance of federal roads passing through the territory of the Irkutsk region in the amount of about 6 billion rubles, the head of "Pribaikalye" Oleg Shandruk said at a press conference on Wednesday in the press -center of the Interfax agency in Irkutsk. It was previously reported that in 2012, Pribaikalye received 5.3 billion rubles from the federal budget.

Camera recordings from the scene of an accident involving Hieromonk Elijah, who lost control of the car on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow last summer and hit three people, have disappeared, said lawyer Igor Trunov, Kommersant FM reports. “The driver behaved disgracefully on the road,” said Trunov. “He was driving at a speed of 140 km/h. He blinked at everyone so that he would be let through, like a special motorcade.