Authorities in Texas (USA) will not press charges against an American couple, Laura and Alan Shatto, whose three-year-old adopted child from Russia, Max Shatto (Maxim Kuzmin), died on January 21, reports BBC News . "The jury determined that there was not enough evidence to charge them with anything," Ector County Texas Prosecutor Bobby Bland said at a news conference.

Photo: Reuters The business community in Cyprus and ordinary citizens protest against the introduction of deposits in banks. The Communist Party called for a referendum. “We feel like in wartime,” said the president of the Limassol industrial and trading chamber (the second largest city of Cyprus-approx. Ed.) Filoky) Andreu. “As if the Turks have invaded the Turks again. Only now we are fighting with weapons, but with financial instruments.

How I feel sorry for you! As long as they don't mock you! What kind of “stupidisms” they squeeze into you! There are many reasons for the current illiterate speech - here is the craze for computers, which excludes the reading of fiction, and modern schooling, which does little to promote the education of literate youth. And now, even more so, nothing good can be expected with the introduction of so-called educational standards and services.

Good news today, March 19, came from Naro-Fominsk near Moscow: the city court judge Izmailov acquitted activist Tatyana Pavlova. Let us recall that on February 12, 2013, judge of the Naro-Fominsk court Stepan Shimorin awarded Pavlova a fine of 50 thousand rubles for allegedly blocking Gospitalnaya Street in the village. Selyatino during an action of public control of residents protecting the forest.

On Tuesday, at a meeting of the government of the Belgorod region, Governor Yevgeny Savchenko proposed writing off 70% of the tax from the Cypriot accounts of Russians, the Belru.rf portal reports. "Nobody's money is missing?" - Savchenko joked, opening the meeting.

The recent interview of the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov with Vladimir Pozner left an indelible impression on my soul. First of all, the obvious discrepancy between what was said and reality. I’m not talking about free education, this was discussed last time, I’m talking about the high quality of our education. The first remark that immediately suggests itself concerns the very criteria for characterizing good and bad.

The United Russia faction in the State Duma has prepared a statement on the inadmissibility of the media’s abuse of the right to freedom of speech. “Freedom of speech, guaranteed to citizens of Russia by Article 29 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, is one of the most important achievements of democracy. Freedom of the media is ensured by constitutional guarantees, the activities of journalists are not limited by censorship.

As a result of damage to a gas pipe in the center of Moscow, a gas fire occurred, a law enforcement source told Interfax. In Gagarinsky Lane, near house No. 21, a gas pipeline was damaged during excavation work. The gas ignited, and a torch five meters high began to shoot into the air. Cables in a dug pit and construction formwork also caught fire. Fire crews arrived at the scene.

The criminal case into the death of Hermitage Capital lawyer Sergei Magnitsky has been discontinued, Kommersant FM reports with reference to the Investigative Committee of Russia. Relatives of the late Magnitsky say they will appeal the decision. Magnitsky was not subjected to violence in the pre-trial detention center; he was kept in the same conditions as other prisoners, the Investigative Committee said in a press release .

A court in Nizhny Novgorod sentenced a driver who, while drunk, hit a bus stop full of people, to six years in prison. The driver was found guilty under Part 6 of Article 264 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Violation of traffic rules and operation of vehicles by a person in a state of intoxication, resulting in the death of two or more persons through negligence”), Interfax reports. The defendant partially admitted guilt.

I was an observer from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation at polling station No. 178. It was known in advance that there would be falsifications, and this is already obvious. When I came to the polling station, the chairman of the commission said that “she has been working in elections for many years, and they have never had any violations.” Already alarming.

Two cars collided and caught fire on one of the Izhevsk highways. The press service of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Udmurtia told the Interfax-Povolzhye agency on Tuesday that an accident involving a UAZ car and a Daewoo occurred around midnight. As a result, three passengers of the vehicles died, one of the drivers was hospitalized, the agency’s interlocutor specified. Interfax-Povolzhye

Photo: Vladimir Fedorenko/RIA Novosti The State Duma adopted the statement "On the inadmissibility of abuse of the media by the right to freedom of speech" in relation to the editor -in -chief of the newspaper "Moscow Komsomolets" Pavel Gusev. The application was supported by 300 deputies of the United Russia faction and the LDPR. 97 deputies spoke out against.

The Leninsky District Court of Cheboksary (Chuvashia) satisfied the claim of civil activists Denis Olenov and Olga Ivanova against the city administration for compensation for moral damages for the administration’s refusal to approve the holding of the “Strategy-31” rally in July last year. “The court found the administration to have violated the constitutional rights of citizens and awarded D. Olenov and O.

A criminal case under Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Negligence” was opened in the Pskov region after the adoption of brothers Maxim and Kirill Kuzmin. “Social services did not provide complete information about the boys’ biological relatives to the court, which was considering the issue of adoption of children by US citizens,” the Investigative Committee said in a press release .