Second higher education for mothers of many children should be made free, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said at the All-Russian forum “Russia has many children: family as one of the foundations of Russian statehood,” Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports. According to her, a woman raising several children should not only have free access to social infrastructure, education and healthcare for children, but also opportunities for her own development, education and career growth.

Photo: Reuters Microsoft founder Bill Gates has once again become the richest in the world. The ranking of billionaires is updated daily on weekdays by Bloomberg . Gates's net worth as of May 17, 2013 was $72.7 billion, about $10 billion more than in 2012. Until now, the first line of the ranking was the Mexican media tycoon Carlos Slim, he was the richest person in the world in 2010-2012. Slim, according to Bloomberg estimates, had $72.1 billion as of May 17.

Alexei Navalny’s father received a letter stating that he was being summoned for questioning by the Investigative Committee. The oppositionist himself announced this on his Twitter. “The Bastrykinites from the Investigative Committee are completely crazy: from some private email they are calling my father for interrogation and demanding that two more people “ensure the appearance”,” Navalny wrote . “When asked to send a normal summons in the normal way, they threaten to arrest me,” he noted .

Photo: Anya Ayvazyan/PublicPost Return to the project "Lingua Franca" Bloggers told why young Armenians need to learn Russian, why Armenians love Russians, and whether there are differences between the Armenian and Russian Orthodox Churches. N. Asadova: Today we will talk about Russians in Armenia.

Photo: Tabula magazine The International Day against Homophobia in Tbilisi turned into a parade of homophobes and a pogrom in the city center. More than twenty thousand residents of the capital of Georgia, led by representatives of the clergy, took to the central avenue with the intention of destroying the “gay parade”. In fact, it was about a small action by LGBT activists in defense of their rights.

Photo: Google Owners of Android smartphones have been able to pay for purchases using the Google Wallet electronic payment system for two years now. The idea is to completely forget not only about cash, but also about plastic cards: everything is saved in the phone. And soon Gmail users will receive a new service based on Google Wallet - transferring money as an attachment to an email message.

Today, Kirov came to one of the NDP leaders - Rostislav Antonov . There was a meeting with local residents and acquaintance with nationalists. At first, Rostislav talked for a long time about the work of various regional branches of the party - their human rights activities, the protection of consumer rights, a wide environmental program, and great educational work.

Opponents of the action in defense of LGBT rights, who gathered on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi on Friday morning, broke through the police cordon after learning that gay activists were rallying in Pushkin Square, Novosti Georgia reported. According to the police, more than ten people gathered in Pushkinsky Square. They campaigned for the rights of sexual minorities.

Photo: national geographic An article by Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist Ulyana Skoybeda with a subtitle about lampshades from the ancestors of liberals has grown into a full-scale scandal. Roskomnadzor issued a written warning to Komsomolskaya Pravda.

On May 17, the International Day Against Homophobia, Finnish Eurovision 2013 participant Krista Siegfrids ended her performance with a kiss from a backup dancer. The song Marry me (“Marry me”), with which Siegfrids came to Sweden, where Eurovision is being held this year, was written, according to the singer, in support of same-sex marriage. A blonde from Finland appeared on stage in a white dress that looked like a wedding dress.

A two-year-old girl fell from the window of an apartment located on the 5th floor of a multi-storey residential building in the city of Millerovo, Rostov region, the child was hospitalized, there is no threat to life. “As the police managed to find out, the woman put her daughter on the windowsill and began to look at the street with her, then got distracted to give the girl water. The baby lost her balance and fell on the mosquito net,” the press reported to Interfax-Yug on Friday.