Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold a “direct line” with Russians this spring - the first since his re-election as head of state in 2012, Kommersant reports. “Such a line is being prepared. We will announce the exact dates a little later,” the head of state’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, clarifying that Vladimir Putin’s live communication with citizens will take place in the spring.

It’s interesting to watch the so-called ultra-budget films, because they are usually made without extravagance, without regard for the box office receipts or the opinion of the producer. This is the short film by Arseny Gonchukov “The Final Stop”. I suggest readers watch this film. So, the entire narrative in the film is clearly divided into two parts, practically unrelated to each other. The only thing they have in common plot-wise is the presence of the same main character.

Flood in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug this year is expected to be within normal limits, the press service of the regional governor reported on Friday. The zone of possible flooding includes up to 135 residential buildings, where about 4 thousand people live, in the cities of Nadym and Tarko-Sale, the villages of Urengoy and Ovgort, and about 15 economic facilities, the report says.

Hi, I'm Sklyarenko Street. I am a modest existence between Maslennikov Avenue and st. Lunacharsky. I'm already used to living in the "forgotten by God." But last year happiness happened. I have a friend. His name is Tuts (or territorial heat supply department in Samara ). In the fall of 2012, Tuts decided to make me healthy and beautiful. An authoritative contractor was invited. He made repairs of my rotten heating main for a long time. Already to the very frost. The pits were buried.

In Yaroslavl, on March 31, they will celebrate the Day of the Bear, an animal that is a symbol of the city, reports the “Council of Patrons of Yaroslavia”, the organizer of the event. The center of the holiday will be the Bogatyrskoe courtyard and the chambers of the Alyosha Popovich Dvor tourist complex opposite the Yaroslavl museum-reserve. The main object of attention will be the roaring bronze sculpture of a bear, made according to the Faberge model and installed in 2009.

PublicPost is preparing to open the second exhibition of the substantive street art “Voice of streets” in Kaliningrad (AKA Koenigsberg) on ​​April 3, 2013 in the movie “Zarya”. It will traditionally present the works of street artists from different cities of Russia, as well as master classes and lectures, at which beginners will get acquainted with the theory and new Street Arts, and professionals will share their experience.

The Investigative Committee of Russia has denied the version of the tax and legal consultant of the Hermitage Capital fund, Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a pre-trial detention center in 2009, about the involvement of police officers in the theft of 5.4 billion rubles from the budget, according to the department’s website.

State Duma deputy from the Communist Party faction Vadim Solovyov asked the Prosecutor General's Office, the Accounts Chamber and the Federal Tax Service to check whether deputies can appear in advertising, the Izvestia newspaper reported on Friday, March 22. Nowadays you can see MTS advertisements everywhere, in which the athlete Nikolai Valuev appears. After being elected to the State Duma of the sixth convocation, the former boxer formalized his cooperation with MTS as a creative activity.

Photo: Rafa Garabal/PublicPost In March, several interesting news came from the field of cloning, which were announced at the international conference TEDx DeExtinction . For example, participants in the Australian project Lazarus practically managed to resurrect long-extinct animals. We are talking about the frog Rheobatrachus silus, one of only two species of “caring” frogs - rheobatrachus, which carried their offspring in their own belly.

The government of Cyprus is transferring the country's banking system to a "state of emergency" - restricting the free movement of capital in the economy, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to the Greek newspaper Vima . The bills are currently being discussed at a meeting of the Cypriot parliament.

An investigation is underway into the suicide of an 11-year-old boy in the Povorinsky district of the Voronezh region, the investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the region reported on Friday. According to preliminary data, the child lived in a family with five other young children. On Thursday, he and his half-siblings were at home, but his parents were absent at the time.

A student of the Siberian State Industrial University (SibSIU) died in the hospital of city hospital No. 1 in Novokuznetsk (Kemerovo region), presumably from meningococcal infection. “The doctors made an assumption about the cause of death of the young man based on the clinical signs of the disease.

The Boeing 752 of the I Fly airline, which was operating the Tyumen - Bangkok flight and was forced to land at Krasnoyarsk airport, is currently preparing for departure. “The plane is refueled. Now they are removing the ramp and preparing for takeoff,” Tatyana Kaminskaya, press secretary of the Krasnoyarsk Emelyanovo airport, told the Interfax agency.

Migration service employees presented a foreign passport to the oldest resident of Krasnoyarsk, Galina Martynova, reports the press service of the Federal Migration Service for the Krasnoyarsk Territory. She received it on the eve of her 100th birthday. “Now, having received a foreign passport, she and her family are applying for a visa.

The Stavropol Territory Prosecutor's Office conducted an inspection and found that employees of the North Caucasus Resorts OJSC (KSK) indicated overstated amounts of value added tax for reimbursement from the budget, the department's press service reported on Friday.