In the blogosphere, passions flared up again over Vertyanov’s biology textbook, published by the Patriarchal Publishing and Printing Center of the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra. And then my husband, a biologist by training, read the preface to this textbook, seemingly written by academician Yu.P.

Photo: Reuters Boris Berezovsky died. This was announced on his Facebook by the son -in -law of the entrepreneur Yegor Shuppe. "Boris Berezovsky suddenly died at 11:00 (local time) in London. Coroners are now in his house," a businessman family member told Interfax . Journalist Natalya Gevorkyan confirmed the information about the death of Berezovsky on the air of "Echo of Moscow" .

The police found a 16-year-old teenager in Podolsk who kidnapped himself and demanded a ransom, reports Ekho Moskvy . A resident of Podolsk near Moscow reported her brother missing to the police. According to her, the young man called her in the middle of the night and told her that they demanded a ransom of 5 million rubles for him. The police began an investigation and found out that the 16-year-old boy was fond of alcoholic drinks, and had recently stolen money from relatives.

Photo: Alexander Vilf/RIA Novosti A rally in support of student Alexandra Lotkova, sentenced to three years in prison for shooting in the subway, took place today in Moscow. About a hundred people gathered at the Tsvetnoy Boulevard metro station, half of whom were bloggers and journalists, the Russian News Service reported .

Recently, many have been talking about how it is not good to mock the dead, but this does not stop individuals at all ... The fact that on the calendar spring is difficult to judge by the dank weather outside the window, but it is quite possible to judge by the spring exacerbations of individuals who remembered either the repentance of a hundred years ago, then advocating the renaming of the streets and squares of the names of criminals ...

The State Duma adopted amendments to the law on gubernatorial elections in the third reading. That's what we've been waiting for! Now the North Caucasus republics can cancel direct elections by decision of their parliaments. And what kind of parliaments and heads there are, everyone knows on their own and all together.

Photo: collage PublicPost The first day of spring is officially considered March 1, however, according to the astronomical calendar, it occurs later - during the day of the spring equinox March 20 (this is one of the rotary points of the solar cycle, when the daylight hours become equal to night and begins to increase - approx. Ed.). Throughout the world, the wires of winter are accompanied by traditional festivities and colorful rites.

The police released the musician and politician Sergei "Spider" Troitsky and his group "Corrosion of Metal", who were detained at the train station in Cherepovets. “The release from the dungeons of the Cherepovets pre-trial detention center of the candidate for mayor and members of the group “Corrosion of Metal” occurred thanks to the intervention of deputy Alexei Mitrofanov,” the press secretary of the musicians told PublicPost.

Photo: Anatoly Medved/RIA Novosti In St. Petersburg, on the night of Saturday, March 23, an explosion occurred that destroyed the ceilings on several floors of a residential building. Eight people were taken to hospital, one woman died. The explosion occurred at about eight o'clock in the evening in an apartment on the fourth floor of nine-story building No. 6 on Nastavnikov Avenue in the Krasnogvardeisky district of St. Petersburg.

Traffic in the center of Moscow on Saturday, March 23, will be limited due to mass events, the press service of the Moscow State Traffic Safety Inspectorate told Interfax. From 9 a.m. it will not be possible to drive along Strastnoy Boulevard, Bolshoi Putinkovsky Lane and Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street; from 11:30 a.m. the passage along Okhotny Ryad Street is blocked.

The most terrible thing in the current process of implementing GTO standards is not even the absurdity of this event. We are already accustomed to the absurd. It’s already difficult to surprise us with anything. 100 books, 100 films, military industrial complex - you can’t even remember how many there were. The lightning speed with which bosses and supervisors of all stripes rushed to implement this into practice is terrible.

Today we visited two girls in the sixth pre-trial detention center - Margarita Charykova and Alexandra Lotkova. Margarita Charykova , let me remind you, this is the girl without a rectum who is under investigation and in custody for amphetamines. She was returned from the hospital on Matroska to the sixth isolation ward. Now she is in a cell for 12 people. The shower she so badly needs is not in her cell. She was discharged, Margo says, with a temperature of 39. It didn’t get any better.

The qualifying match for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Belfast between the national teams of Russia and Northern Ireland was again canceled due to snowfall. The match was scheduled for Friday 22 March, but the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) postponed it to the next day due to bad weather . According to the schedule, the match was supposed to take place at the Windsor Park stadium, which seats 13,950 spectators. All tickets were sold.

Photo: Reuters Athlete Olga Fatkulina from the Russian national speed skating team won the 1000-meter race at the World Championships in Sochi, Interfax reports. Fatkulina overtook Dutch speed skater Irene Wust, who took second place. American Brittany Bowie finished third. Fatkulina’s gold is the fourth medal of the Russian team at the World Speed ​​Skating Championships at individual distances, which takes place at the skating rink of the future 2014 Winter Olympics.

Russian police officers will have to always be polite. Such a bill is being prepared by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Kremlin press service reports . The department is now developing a draft order on the procedure for apologizing to citizens. Moreover, the police will have to apologize in accordance with the wishes of the victim.