After long negotiations with the city administration in Yakutsk, on May 8, a bust of Joseph Stalin will be inaugurated on the territory of a private company. “Activists of the Council of Veterans of Yakutia negotiated with the Almazy Anabara company for a year.

A new holiday - the holiday of the flowering of the maral - began on Monday in the Altai Territory, becoming the official opening of the tourist season in the region, the press service of the regional administration reports. According to experts, Ledebur rhododendron (maral) is endemic to Altai and grows only in its foothill areas, the report says.

The ability of a material to withstand impact (rapid tension-compression) is determined by its ability to absorb energy without collapsing. Kevlar, for example, can withstand up to 80 J/g, some types of spider webs can withstand 300 or more, and nanotubes and graphene sheets can withstand even more, up to 970 J/g. A new approach to creating impact-resistant materials was recently proposed by Italian researcher Nicola Pano.

Dagestan expects an increase in the volume of gross regional product (GRP) in 2013 compared to 2012 by 10.9% - up to 399.12 billion rubles, the Interfax-South agency was told in the Ministry of Economy of the republic.

Prisoner Mamuka Chkhapelia in a prison in the city of Minusinsk cut off his tongue because he was beaten, the BBC Russian service reports. Chhapelia mutilated himself on April 18, his sister said. Today, his lawyer, member of the Expert Council under the Commissioner for Human Rights, Valery Shukhardin, met with the convict. The lawyer said that his client was beaten every day by several other prisoners. The beatings demanded that Chkhapelia cooperate with the prison administration.

A good school means, first of all, good teachers. Not the number of computer classes, interactive whiteboards or other equipment, but qualified teachers working according to their calling. Of course, the school needs computers, printers, and much more, but those who taught poorly with chalk and a rag will also teach poorly with an interactive whiteboard.

In the summer of the past, during the pre-election “struggle”, the head of Kaliningrad, Mr. Yaroshuk, said a lot and in detail that our city should be made convenient and comfortable for living. The phrase often flocked from his mouth: "The city needs pedestrian zones." The theses flew to public activists: "Let's discuss. What streets do you think should be transferred to the category of pedestrian?" From different sides, certain options were sprinkled addressed to him.

Traffic on Bolotnaya Square and Bolotnaya Street will be limited due to mass protests, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the Department of Transport and Development of Road Transport Infrastructure in Moscow. “On Monday from 16:00 until the end of the event, during mass actions, traffic will be limited on Bolotnaya Square and Bolotnaya Street,” the press service reported.

On Bolotnaya Square, 25-year-old Maxim Melkov, a volunteer who was assembling the stage before the rally, died, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Moscow told Interfax. “On Monday on Bolotnaya Square, while installing acoustic equipment on stage, a sound speaker fell on a worker. As a result of the accident, the man died,” said a press service employee.

The documents that wore a secrecy vulture posted the Ministry of Defense on their website in the Pobednaya May project. Among the documents, for example, the list of trophy banners thrown to the foot of the mausoleum at the parade on June 24, 1945 and much more.

On the May holidays I went to Utrish with friends. I think there are not many people in the region who have not heard of this iconic place. But for those who are not in the know, I’ll clarify that this is a nature reserve (until recently a nature reserve), located not far from Anapa. A very picturesque area and a place of pilgrimage for hippies, informals, nudists and ordinary tourist people.

On May 4, at the Patriarch's Ponds, the public movement "Angry Citizens" held a flash mob for the carp that died this winter. Believe it or not, there were carp here. The fact is that huge carp lived on the Patriarch’s Ponds for six years. Unfortunately, the contractor did not complete the work on introducing oxygen into the water on time, and as a result, all the fish that lived here and required oxygen died.

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Have you heard Semyon Slepakov’s song about a thieving official? Urgent, just immediately search for it on YouTube and listen. Because this is the best possible description of what the state structure - the local branch of Rosselkhoz - is doing in the Primorsky Territory and, of course, on Sakhalin. Or rather, its head Sergei Dymov . “I used to steal carefully, but now I’ve become completely insolent.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation has developed a bill according to which every “creative worker” will have to undergo a competition every five years to confirm their professional worth. Anyone who does not confirm may be fired even if they have an open-ended contract, Kommersant wrote on Monday. This bill was developed back in 2012 and was discussed in the State Duma at a round table meeting of the Duma Committee on Culture.