Vladislav Surkov is formally right, but essentially wrong... /Refusal to reform the Russian political system and a return to “sovereign democracy” is an attempt to enter the same river twice/ "I will speak Russian because I am Russian. On May 2, 2013, the media reported that Deputy Prime Minister Vladislav Surkov spoke at the London School of Economics. Information about this is also posted on PublicPost.

Photo: Reuters Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe of complicity in a plot to kill him, Interfax reports, citing Venezuelan television. "Uribe has developed a plan to kill me. He is a murderer. I already have enough evidence that he is involved in a conspiracy, among the right-wing forces in Venezuela there are people who are in contact with him to carry out this plan," he said on television .

According to the death certificate, Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev died from gunshot wounds to the torso and head, Interfax reported, citing Voice of America. These data, as noted, were announced by Peter Stefan, the owner of the Worchester funeral home, where the body of 26-year-old Tsarnaev is located. On the night of April 16, a terrorist attack took place at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Photo: Alexander Miridonov/Kommersant The Governor of the Murmansk region Marina Kovtun called the "top of the cynicity" of the "military-memorial company", which on the eve of Victory Day sent letters to veterans that the company would "give" free funerals to veterans. In addition to the funeral at the expense of the state, the VMK promised veterans also discounts on ritual services. “Similar actions are the top of cynicity on the part of the authors.

"The government removes the cream and shuts all the holes with them!" - The most successful phrase that sounded on May 1 at a rally of the Communist Party, held on Lenin Square in Khabarovsk. Standard set: red flags mixed with yellow banners of nationalists, dusty old people, slightly bruised youth, support for the struggling people of North Korea, rebuffing the American military, damned Chubais, accurate complaints to Putin.

Photo: Reuters The artist Pyotr Pavlensky, known for the rally with his mouth in support of Pussy Riot , this time decided to express his protest against the "repressive legislative system" in Russia. Pavlensky was divided naked, wrapped himself in a “cocoon” of barbed wire and lay down in front of the building of the Legislative Assembly in St. Petersburg.

On the left bank of Astana, the media center building is on fire, and black smoke is visible above the roof of the concert hall located in it, a correspondent of the Interfax-Kazakhstan agency reported. The media center houses the editorial offices of the main state media in Kazakhstan. Interfax

The police of Karaganda (the administrative center of the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan) intend to prosecute people who hung leaflets in one of the underground passages in support of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of committing terrorist attacks at the Boston Marathon. “If the persons who hung the leaflets are identified, they will be brought to administrative responsibility for damaging public property. Posting notices and other posters is a sign of littering the city.

I note that it became clear to me and not to everyone (though not everyone) after the first rally in Bolotnaya that Sobchak and other self -proclaimed leaders are very much like the Kremlin residents and provocateurs and are completely inappropriate as the leaders of the opposition.

Last Sunday, a wonderful opportunity was to walk in a pleasant company of bloggers along the streets of his native Syzran, accompanied by our famous local historian Sergei Pustsarinny Krumza . The weather had - warm, the sun, met at the Kremlin and set off. Our sorting bloggers on Sovetskaya Street began, then we turned onto the Ulyanovskaya. 1. Before us has opened an amazing view of the Krymzu River and the Ilyinsky Church. 2. Very nice and cheerful Dmitry Epikouross and Anyuta RC_ana . 3.

Was there a survey? I think few people will argue with the fact that the decision on choosing the name of the city should be made not by officials, but by the citizens themselves. But is this really so? Events to identify popular opinion were held in Tutaev twice, on March 17, 1991 and February 27, 1994, and both times the majority of townspeople (54.8% and 64.6%, respectively) opposed the renaming.

An unknown person shot and killed the deputy head of the Moscow Department of Science, Industrial Policy and Entrepreneurship in one of the residential buildings in Orel, the press center of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs told Interfax.

Photo: Reuters Following the Boston terrorist attacks , which the Tsarnaev brothers are accused of organizing, the United States begins checking foreign students who have received an American visa. This is the first measure to ensure increased security after the terrorist attacks, writes the British BBC . The decision was finally made after it turned out that one of the Kazakh students who tried to hide evidence from the investigation in the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev case had problems with a visa.