In Belgorod, Sergei Pomazun shot six people. The criminal was caught for more than a day , and the whole city said goodbye to the dead. In the Moscow region, 38 people were burned alive - patients and employees of a psychiatric hospital. Vladimir Putin held a record straight line - he answered questions for 4 hours and 47 minutes.

The President of Russia broke his own records: the duration of the conversation with the people during the last “direct line” is 4 hours 47 minutes. The number of issues received from Russians is more than three million. By tradition, it was not without a special Putin humor. Vladimir Vladimirovich joked about Chubais, looking for differences between wives and lovers, called Kudrin a Sachk who did not want to work. However, many defendants in the direct line were not laughing.

And again cats. On April 27-28, the Technopark hosts the X International Exhibition “Cat Magic”. More than one hundred purebred cats of twenty different breeds participate in the exhibition. Original

Photo: Reuters The State Duma may introduce a fine for publicly “justifying and approving homosexuality” and “forming among minors a distorted idea of ​​the social equivalence of traditional and non-traditional marriage relationships,” Kommersant reports. The publication writes that the corresponding amendments to the bill banning “homosexual propaganda” were developed by the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children.

The actions of Norwegian social services, which seized three daughters from a Russian-Lithuanian family, will be immediately appealed in court, said the Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation Pavel Astakhov. “The Commissioner held negotiations with the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Norway V.A. Pavlovsky and the head of the consular department on the situation with Tatyana Bendikene’s daughters.

Photo: Reuters Members of the British royal family and heirs to the throne arrived in Hardtforshire (near London) for the opening of the Warner Bros. film studio, writes CBS News . During the visit, everyone was busy with their own things. Pregnant Duchess Catherine (popularly Kate Middleton) finally met with the author of the Harry Potter books, JK Rowling. Harry Potter seems to be Kate's favorite. On occasion, she even tried out a “magic wand”: the heroes of the books used them.

Who said we don't have freedom of speech? The director of a private school in the Moscow region said that two years ago he had to pay 220,000 rubles on a receipt for a bad joke in the presence of the city’s chief fireman. A year ago, for trying to speak out in the presence of a consumer inspector, an unscheduled overhaul of the catering unit was forced to be made in the amount of 360,000 rubles. There is freedom of speech in Russia, but it is very expensive. Original

Photo: RIA Novosti Vladimir Putin signed a law according to which it is possible to reopen a criminal case or review a court decision already made in the case. Previously, there was a provision in the Criminal Procedure Code that made it possible to refuse to reopen a criminal case if the court had already made a decision on it - even if new aggravating circumstances were discovered.

It so happened that " on duty " I often have to deal with metamorphoses. Big or smaller, but, as I hope, always for the better. Perhaps that is why I have been attracted to films about stylishly and other metamorphoses for many years (which I once wrote about here , and here ). The process in such films in most cases develops in a good standard, increasing.

Vladimir Putin, in an interview with the Vesti program with Sergei Brilev on the Russia-1 TV channel, said that there are no grounds for bringing officials to criminal liability in connection with the death of Hermitage Capital auditor Sergei Magnitsky in a pre-trial detention center. “There was no malice, no negligence. A tragedy occurred. So, no one dies in American prisons, or what?

The state has found what the main problem with our school is - now let’s put the children in uniform, and life will become beautiful and amazing. Hallelujah! I'll start with my own experience. When I studied at the school, which was, on the one hand, one of the best at that time in Moscow, and on the other, always distinguished by very democratic morals, no one even mentioned the uniform. We had one small privilege compared to many other schools.

The Orthodox youth of the regional capital will hold a festive action for Palm Sunday, reports IA AmurMedia with reference to the official website of the Khabarovsk diocese. On April 27 and 28, activists of the youth movement of the Khabarovsk Diocese "Course - East" will hold an action dedicated to the festival of the Lord's entrance to Jerusalem or Palm Sunday.

During the navigation period, the St. Petersburg Metro will organize a night train that will run between stations on different banks of the Neva, Interfax reports. “Test operation of night traffic will begin on the May holidays. The shuttle train will run between the Admiralteyskaya (on the left bank, near Palace Square) and Sportivnaya (on the right, near the Petrovsky stadium) stations,” the press wrote on Twitter. -Secretary of the Governor of St. Petersburg Andrey Kibitov.

A month has passed since I left the “matrix” of “offices” of the Russian Orthodox Church (MP). “There are still marks on my legs and arms that attached me to virtual reality.” I state that there is life outside the “offices” of the Russian Orthodox Church (MP). My decision was supported by a large number of strangers.

Almost three dozen oppositionists and civil activists were detained on Saturday in Moscow on Red Square, Sergei Davidis, a member of the Solidarity movement bureau, told Interfax. “27 people were detained, among them there are Solidarity activists, in particular Nadezhda Mityushkina and Denis Yudin,” Davidis said. According to him, the opposition decided to hold celebrations with white ribbons, but were detained. “There were no reasons for the arrests. They did not commit any illegal actions.