An orphanage in the Irkutsk region is on fire, the students and staff have been evacuated, Interfax was told by the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the region. “A fire in an orphanage in the city of Shelekhov occurred at 11:10 Moscow time on an area of ​​50 square meters; according to preliminary data, no one was injured,” the Ministry of Emergency Situations noted. “In total, 110 children and seven employees of the orphanage were evacuated.

The head of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, Irina Yarovaya, regarded the publications in the media directed against her as an attempt to stop the deputies’ offensive against corruption, Interfax reports. “I don’t have the slightest complaint against journalists. I understand perfectly well that they are simply carrying out the task of those who give it.

In grades 4 and 5 this week, federal monitoring to determine the subject and meta-subject skills of schoolchildren was completed. The works were posted on the website kpmo.predm.ru in pdf format, the subject works consisted of 10-12 pages of text (designed for 45 minutes), the meta-subject ones, taking into account assignments and answer forms - more than 20 (designed for 2 lessons). It took two hours and one and a half reams of paper to print materials for two classes alone.

This is probably a big risk - to develop your own style, bet on your own style, turn into hostage. I very much respect non -shisophrenic, non -fail authors. Not everyone is given and not everyone is ready to put on the concentrated and monographic development of the chosen or prompted God's manner. Immersion in the style cocoon only seems to be a kind of restriction or self -restraint. It gives rise to a very important quality of artistic extension, even artistic imperialism.

March 18, 2013 marks the 94th anniversary of the Chuvash folk artist, creator of ethnographic compositions with miniature costume sculptures, Terenty Paramonovich Dverenin (Syundyukovo village, Mariinsko-Posad district, Chuvash Republic). ...In 2005, he began making scenes and multi-figure compositions on the themes of Chuvash traditional life - based on movable wooden doll figures approx.

Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin/Kommersant Update: 03/17/2013 The State Duma Commission on Deputy Ethics will evaluate the words of Andrei Isaev to journalists. As a member of the commission, Socialist -Revolutionaries Mikhail Bryachan, told Ekhu Moscow, the decision was made after numerous media publications in this regard. The incident will be considered at a meeting on Wednesday.

Photo: Reuters Venezuela has finally said goodbye to the country's former president Hugo Chavez. On March 15, his body was buried in the Museum of the Revolution in the capital of Venezuela, Caracas. Venezuelans took to the streets of the city to make their final journey with the Comandante, as Chavez was often called. Tens of thousands of people specially came to the capital to attend this historical event. The funeral procession was broadcast on all Venezuelan television channels.

I was riding a tram, got off and walked towards Sokolniki Park, seeing dancing grannies, grandpas and just wonderful people, I couldn’t pass by!!!!

The topic of free education, already discussed in recent years, finally came to the fore by the end of the week. We were once again assured that education was, is and will be free. I think there is no reason not to believe this. And my faith is based not only on the regulatory framework (education is a duty, how can the fulfillment of the obligation also be paid?), but also on an understanding of how this free education will actually be built.

"The Mind-blowing Fantasies of Charles Swan III" (directed by Roman Coppola). The son of Francis Ford Coppola, brother of Sofia Coppola, colleague and close friend of Wes Anderson, with whom he wrote “Train to Darjeeling” and “Moonrise Kingdom,” Roman Coppola does not give up trying to establish himself as an independent creative unit. It’s not going well yet, and Roman has already gained a reputation as the most unlucky member of the famous family.

About 30 unknown masked men destroyed a cafe in Samara on Friday evening, Sergei Goldshtein, head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Samara Region, told the Interfax agency. “The attack occurred around 21:00. About 30 unknown people in masks broke into a working cafe, where there were about 50 visitors. The unknown people destroyed the cafe, broke dishes, overturned tables, but did not touch the visitors,” Goldstein said.

The author is a student of Chuvash State University Nikolai Mikhailov. "The idea to build a T-34-85 tank" came to my mind in December 2011,-Nikolai shared. - Then I built it with a scale of 1: 1.5. And I wanted to build the same tank, but already in life. I decided to implement this idea at the beginning of the New Winter. At the end of November, I waited for snow with a layer of about 20-30 cm. I had to wait a long time. Construction began at the end of 2012 and went in stages.

The head of the department of guardianship and trusteeship of the Main Public Administration of the Social Protection of the Pskov Region Valentin Chernov, whose department made out the adoption of Dima Yakovlev and Maxim Kuzmin, who died in the United States, became the hero of the blogosphere after the current show of Zelensky “Right” on RED, on which the biological mother of Maxim Kuznetsov, the cousin on the paternal line of Dima Yakovlev, Deputy Lakhova and Maria Arbatova were accused by

Another procession dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of Legionnaires took place in Riga. Representatives of national associations gathered on Dome Square, after which they marched in orderly columns with songs to the Freedom Monument, where they unfurled flags and laid flowers. This year, anti-fascists refused to picket and dress in the uniform of concentration camp prisoners.

An absentee dispute about extremism and the fight against it unfolded on the “Special Letter” portal. A published article by Aleksey Baranovsky, coordinator of the Russian Verdict human rights center, criticizes the postulates of Reserve FSB Major General Alexander Mikhailov on the burning topic of extremism, the fight against it and interethnic relations.