The Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Samara Region has tightened the article in the case of Vitaly Pankratov from “causing death by negligence” to “causing grievous bodily harm resulting in death.” The press service of the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the region reports that the Industrial District Court of Samara will again consider this high-profile case.

The mayor of the Texas city of West, Tommy Musk, said that 14 people were killed during an explosion at the West Fertilizer fertilizer plant, Reuters reports. Four of the dead were firefighters who came to extinguish the fire at the plant before the explosion. 35-40 people were missing after the explosion, including five firefighters. A powerful explosion occurred at the West Fertilizer fertilizer plant in Texas.

The Sarapul City Court of Udmurtia will consider a criminal case against two local residents who created a makeshift laboratory for the production of psychotropic substances using budget funds. The Udmurtia prosecutor's office reported on Friday that residents of the city of Sarapul Vasily Korotkikh and Evgeny Falaleev are accused of producing a psychotropic substance and preparing for its sale. In addition, one of the accomplices is also accused of fraud.

They decided not to hold a May Day demonstration in the Pavlovsky district of the Krasnodar Territory, since this holiday coincides with the Orthodox Holy Week. The press secretary of the district head, Dmitry Bakulin, told the Interfax-Yug agency on Friday that on May 1, Spring and Labor Day, residents of the district will not go out for demonstrations and public festivities. The traditional goods fair on this day has also been cancelled.

Lengthy negotiations between Serbia and Kosovo ended with the signing of an agreement to resolve relations, reports Reuters . The agreement was concluded in Brussels by the head of the regional government of Kosovo, Hashim Thaci, and the Prime Minister of Serbia, Ivica Dacic. It was initialed through the mediation of the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton. “Finally, white smoke! Habemus pactum!

There is so much football-related news around our football that we have to admit: even if someone gets bored writing about 2:0 and 3:1, there will still be topics for conversation. With interest. Because our football figures behave so clumsily that there is enough reason for heated discussions.

Young scientists from the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the SB RAS have established what factors determine the rate of “shuffling” of genes in the genomes of mammals and expect to shed light on the mechanism of formation of new species.

Hot water in Moscow apartments in the summer will be turned off for no more than 10 days, and in some houses - for 3-5 days, the official portal of the mayor and government of the capital reports , citing the head of the city's fuel and energy department, Pavel Livinsky. The first shutdowns in apartment buildings will begin after the holidays, on May 13, the report says.

The Industrial District Court of Samara on Friday issued a verdict against a businessman accused of producing fake receipts for payment for housing and communal services in the amount of more than 700 million rubles, said the federal judge of the Industrial District Court of Samara Vadim Seliverstov.

Samara police officers detained five men suspected of drug trafficking; one of the police officers was injured while trying to stop the detainees’ car, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Samara Region reports. “The night before, on Demokraticheskaya Street, a traffic police inspector stopped a VAZ-2115, in which there were five men suspected of drug trafficking.

"The Place Beyond the Pines" (directed by Derek Cienfrance). The concept of the second full-length film by the talented director Derek Cienfrance looks very ambitious. In The Place Beyond the Pines he has three full storylines, each of which is essentially a separate story. But together they should form a kind of elegy about fate and its mysterious ways.

State Duma deputy from the Communist Party faction Konstantin Shirshov has been formally charged with attempted fraud, the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia reports . According to investigators, Shirshov tried to sell the mandate of a State Duma deputy to an entrepreneur for 7.5 million euros. To do this, on July 7, 2011, he met with a businessman at the National Hotel and received 66 million rubles from him.

The idea of ​​what art and non-art are, of the intransigibility of the border between creativity and reality, was overturned by the avant-garde artists of the 20th century - futurists, dadaists, surrealists, oberiuts... Their theories spoke about the exhaustion of the traditional arsenal of artistic forms and that art should create in the real world. Their practices were based on provocation and scandal, but at the same time they did not shy away from political and social pathos.

This is the umpteenth time that unremarkable individuals who have undeservedly found themselves in power are trying to impose someone else’s choice on the residents of Ingushetia. The leadership of the republic intends to make its own people the main hostage of its decision tomorrow, assigning them the role of a captive spectator in this theatrical production. There will be no frank conversation and debate at this congress, just as there will be no right to direct elections.

Belgorod in Russia has long been nicknamed the Russian city of European standards, this city received this name for a reason. At a time when chaos and widespread landfills were still reigned in most cities in Russia, there was already cleanliness and order in Belgorod.