A wave of May Day demonstrations swept through the country. Judging by the television picture, thousands of joyful people together and with undisguised optimism walked through the streets and squares of dozens of cities, declared their wishes and demands, and then quickly diverged the houses and estates, where the appetite barbecue and the “white” in the decanter were already in anticipation. So showed the TV. And what really? In our Kirov, everything was wrong.

It started out fun - in the company of fellow musicians. On April 20, the bear danced dashingly in the Moscow club "A2" at the Lyapis Trubetskoy concert. “Lapis” are well-known rebels; they gladly supported the fight for northern nature and helped collect signatures against oil production in the Arctic. © Greenpeace Rapper Vladi from the group “Casta” then joined the bearish protest. As a sign of solidarity, he even gave the white-pawed one his signature hat.

Photo: Still from the series In Germany and Holland, the re-run of the detective television series "Inspector Derrick" has been cancelled. According to Echo of Moscow, the reason for this decision was information about the Nazi past of the late actor Horst Tappert, who played the main role in the series. According to German media reports, Tappert served in an SS Panzer division during World War II. The serial film aired on the ZDF TV channel from 1974 to 1998, almost 300 episodes were aired.

The first day of May in the capital is a time of numerous processions, intense political passions and traditional police reinforcement. While the authorities are driving away state employees, and the left is making the main demonstration of the year, calling for a proletarian revolution, the ultra-right is ugly trying to exploit an event that does not belong to them; Of the political forces, only liberals are chronically silent.

I just returned from Sailor's Silence. I saw Nikolai Kavkazsky, Sergei Krivov, Leonid Razvozzhaev. They are all interested in what will happen in Moscow on May 6th. Krivov is cheerful, freshly shaven. Works with a criminal case and prepares for a trial as if for a battle. Nicholas of the Caucasus is pale and somewhat tired. He's been in the prison hospital for three weeks now, but he hasn't been told his diagnosis. He complained that he had been asking for a second mattress for two weeks.

I saw the video on the Internet and couldn’t help but publish it on my LiveJournal. Done cool. It would be nice for everyone to see this before the September elections (including Khimki officials). Preliminary commentary on Khimki (vocabulary must be appropriate). The formation of PECs for a period of five years took place in Khimki in January, and they have already forgotten about it.

Photo: Reuters Strong forest fires are raging in the southern states of the United States. The largest is registered in California, there the ignition area has already exceeded 700 hectares. Photo: Reuters The spread of fire is facilitated by heat, a strong wind and a long absence of rains. Photo: Reuters In the Riverside district there is an emergency evacuation of residents, as well as tourists from the California National Park. Fires affected the wine-making areas north of San Francisco.

I have known about Lebedev’s cooperation with the investigation for a long time, almost from the very beginning of his arrest. By the way, he was immediately informed through his lawyers that Razvozzhaev refused his “confession,” so all statements that he began to cooperate with the Investigative Committee precisely because of Leonid’s testimony are an obvious lie.

It's been 5 days since my closest person... Mom. She lived 86 years, 3 months, 20 hours and 22 minutes of life on earth. She was born 86 years ago into the Dagaev family, an old family of rural teachers and merchants of the Efremovsky district of the Tula province. There is still a Dagaevsky bridge in Efremov. My brother “dug up”: when our ancestor wanted to buy, it seems, the status of a tradesman, he was given a condition - to build a bridge in the city. Built.

Photo: Alla Vlaskina/Publicpost At the educational conference "Lymud", political scientist Mark Urnov told why Russia supports the illusion of a "great power", what political regime the country needs and what is good corruption. PublicPost publishes the whole lecture and quotes, by pressing which you can start viewing a lecture from a certain moment. Russia and great power I propose to talk about two virtual alternatives.

Photo: RIA Novosti On the night of May 2-3, snow fell in Yekaterinburg. According to the E1 portal , weather forecasters promise that it will melt during the day, and by the evening the temperature is expected to reach +13. Photo: RIA Novosti At the same time, according to the Hydrometeorological Center, the weather in the Urals will not get better in the coming days. Until May 9, precipitation is likely almost every day in all regions of the Urals Federal District.

The chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, once again criticized the long Russian holidays - this time in May. “You can’t rest for so long, it’s a disgrace,” he said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy. According to Onishchenko, Russians cannot effectively manage their free time, spending it “throwing donuts from a lying position under the TV.” “This is the kind of fun that, unfortunately, there is a lot of and is being added every year.

An American KS-135 tanker crashed in Kyrgyzstan, not far from the border with Kazakhstan. As Interfax was told by the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kyrgyzstan, the plane crashed in a mountainous, inaccessible area. Operational groups of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and firefighters are already working on the spot. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the wreckage of the plane that exploded in the air and caught fire is scattered over a large area.

Photo: Reuters Russia again fell into the top ten "index of impunity" - a rating compiled by the International Non -governmental organization "Committee for the Protection of Journalists." The rating determines the percentage of the number of unsolved murders of journalists to the population of the country. In the list of 12 countries, Russia, as well as last year, took ninth place.

The May Day demonstration became a grandiose event for Vladivostok. Several tens of thousands of townspeople marched across the bridge over the Golden Horn in honor of the Spring and Labor Festival. The May Day demonstration on the bridge over the Golden Horn from the Opera and Ballet Theater began at 11:00. City cyclists were the first to overcome the planned route to Korabelnaya Embankment.