Photo: Sergey Brovko/Kommersant After a break, hearings in the Kirovles case resumed in Kirov. Witness Andrei Votinov, who in 2009 worked as an adviser to the governor of the Kirov region, gave his testimony. He tried to read out a statement about Opalev’s false testimony, in his opinion, but the judge did not allow him to do so. PublicPost broadcast from the courtroom.

On Thursday there was a meeting of deputies of the North-West District of Moscow with Mayor Sergei Sobyanin. At the end of the week, I will write in detail about the meeting and post a video of my question and answer to it, and in general there were many entertaining points at the meeting.

In the North Caucasus, especially in the territories of Dagestan, Chechnya and Ingushetia, there is a permanent, almost open war between religious extremists and secular authorities. The goal is not hidden: separation from Russia and the creation of an Islamic (Sharia) state in these territories. Call it what you want: Emirate, Caliphate. This is the maximum program. And the “minimum” program: if secession doesn’t work out, then at least Sharia. And it’s a no brainer that this will never happen.

In Khabarovsk there is one tent and one bus - a canteen for homeless people. And to help one person without a fixed place of residence, 1 thousand rubles a year are allocated from the budget. Last year, 133 thousand rubles were spent on each homeless dog in Khabarovsk to catch it, sterilize it and chip it. This is the mathematics in Albert Bityutsky’s blog . A little more math for those who like to count.

Few people heard the name of the Reconian deserts and even fewer those who were there. We are used to the gilded dome of the capital's churches and the well -groomed fences of ancient monasteries - but we do not know at all that it was once no less magnificent ... In the depths of the Novgorod swamps, on the hill, two sides of the river stands ... Eh, I did not think that someday I would write about the monastery.

I couldn’t get past one of the posts on Facebook. A group of people, let's call them volunteers, proposes to create a movement in defense of heterosexual couples. You heard right. The guys are seriously concerned that sexual minorities have far outperformed straight people in the fight for their rights. In a rather lengthy article about the harmonious existence of same- and bi-sex couples, volunteers argue that heterosexual relationships need to be popularized. The idea is as follows.

Photo: Oleg Pashuk/RIA Novosti On May 18, four convicts escaped from a correctional colony in the Irkutsk region. The fugitives are being sought in two areas. On May 19, 40 square kilometers were explored in detail, even a helicopter was used. However, no trace of the prisoners has yet been found. PublicPost finds out whether it is so easy to escape from a Russian prison and who usually comes up with the idea to bring freedom closer in this way.

It seems to me that we all somehow got carried away by talking about the need to separate flies from cutlets. They say that there is football and football players, whose main task is to play and please us with the result, and there are fans who do nothing but intrigue big football: either they will throw a firecracker, or in some other way they will disrupt the match.

I would like to appeal to all entrepreneurs, we are all under attack. Such a concept as “Raider takeover” has become an integral part of our lives. Enter, there are a lot of victims, the courts are full of cases on a variety of statements and articles, but nowhere is this concept truly heard, since it is not in the criminal code. Meanwhile, the concept of raiding and hostile takeover has long been present in a number of other countries.

Everyone is shouting: the Unified State Exam should be abolished because it simplifies education. And what’s surprising here: those who wanted simplification in the pedagogical process have always been much more than those who understood its complexity and diversity. We all argue about shapes and tools, trying to figure out which ones are right. Nonsense. What is better for a surgeon - a scalpel or tweezers? Yes, everything will do, you just need to know when to use what.