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.

Photo: Mikhail Krivitsky. Collage PublicPost Members of United Russia in the Abansky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory said they were ready to leave the party if the head of the district, Mikhail Krivitsky, was not removed from his post. Such an appeal to Dmitry Medvedev as the leader of United Russia was published on the Open Letter website on behalf of supposedly 60 United Russia members of the Abansky region.

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development have agreed on a bill on a single tax on the cadastral value of real estate, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Tuesday, March 19. At the federal level, it was decided to fix the maximum rate - from 0.1% or 0.5% for other buildings; single tax deduction - 20 square meters per object, regardless of the number of owners. All other parameters - the general rate, additional deductions - will be determined by the regions.

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.

It so happened that in passing (as part of a conversation on the forum) he gave an interview to our city blog http://zheldor-city.livejournal.com . The occasion was the visit to Zheleznodorozhny of the editor-in-chief of Moskovsky Komsomolets and chairman of the Public Chamber of the Moscow Region, Pavel Nikolaevich Gusev. Gusev is a legendary personality and personifies one of the best publications in the country.

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.

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.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation found violations of the law in the adoption of children by foreign citizens in the Northwestern Federal District, the department's press service reported on Tuesday.

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: Reuters United Russia has reputation problems due to a number of the last scandals, but it is too early to bury the party, political scientists say. United Russia does not believe in the dissolution of the State Duma, which is already called one of the scenarios of the development of events.

Photo: Reuters Pope Francis has officially ascended the throne at the Vatican. In St. Peter's Square he was presented with the symbols of faith: the "fisherman's ring" and a pallium made of lamb's wool. Photo: Reuters Saint Peter is the first Pope, and the “fisherman’s ring” is a reminder that Christ invited Peter the fisherman to become a “fisher of men.” Pope Francis asked that a ring be made for him from silver, rather than the traditional gold one, to save money.

The Cyprus Parliament has again, for the second day in a row, postponed the vote on the adoption of a one-time tax on deposits. This time it has been postponed to Wednesday, The Telegraph reports, citing Greek and Cypriot media. On March 16, the Cyprus government announced the introduction of a tax on all bank deposits. It was initially assumed that 6.75% would be written off for deposits under €100,000, and 9.9% for all others.

Photo: Alexey Nikolsky/RIA Novosti The editor -in -chief of the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper Pavel Gusev in an interview with Publicpost for the first time commented on a scandal that was overwhelmed around a recent publication about the deputies of United Russia. On March 16, “MK” published a column of Grigory Jansa ”Political prostitution changed the floor” about the political throwings of the State Duma deputies from “United Russia” by Olga Batalina, Ekaterina Lakhova and Irina Yarova.