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.

Lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina appealed the arrest of left-wing activist, defendant in the “Bolotna case” Alexei Gaskarov. “I sent an appeal against Gaskarov’s arrest to a higher authority,” Sidorkina told Interfax. She asked the Moscow City Court to overturn the district court's decision. Alexey Gaskarov was detained on April 28, 2013. The next day, the Basmanny Court arrested him for two months .

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.

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 March 2013 alone, the government of Ingushetia announced two tenders for the repair of foreign-made vehicles owned by the Special Motor Transport Enterprise under the Government of the Republic of Ingushetia. The price of the first tender is 2 million 950 thousand 968 rubles. The amount of the second tender is 2 million 765 thousand 586 rubles.

Photo: Atsamaz Dzivaev/PublicPost I wanted to become a doctor, I was afraid of my mother, I married a general’s daughter, I was imprisoned for stealing timber, I gave birth to three daughters, I lost everything, I believe that happiness is when an understanding person is next to you. About childhood I was born a frail child. They nursed me for a long time, the aunties said. My parents worked at a fish factory in Makhachkala, and we lived not far from the city.

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.

Deputy General Director for Personnel and Property Policy of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Russian Post" Antonina Kuznetsova resigned from the company on April 30 of her own free will. “We do not yet know about Antonina Kuznetsova’s new place of work,” Pochta representative Elena Didenko told Interfax. According to her, it is not yet known who will replace Kuznetsova as deputy general director for personnel and property policy. Antonina Kuznetsova has worked at Russian Post since 2009.

On May 6, an action of solidarity with political prisoners in the notorious “Bolotnaya Case” took place in Chelyabinsk.

On the occasion of a long weekend, I went to visit my father-in-law in exile at the hacienda in Artem. The trip turned out to be shocking. I went on a bicycle. 50 km one way. First there, back today. Now I know that from the center of Vladivostok to the center of Artyom it’s only two and a half hours by bike, but from Podnozhye to the center of Vladivostok I get there in three. But the purpose of the trip was not the fact of the trip itself, but the need to plow around the hacienda.

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.