Photo: PublicPost Nikolai Bystrov spent his childhood and youth in the Kuban, and his youth in the mountains of Afghanistan. For 18 years now he has been back in his homeland - if you consider the place where you were born to be your homeland. And if your homeland is where you became yourself, then Islamuddin Bystrov lost it irrevocably - just as millions of Russians lost their Russia in 1917.

The publication of genuine versions of the Unified State Examination on the Internet, in addition to the obvious harm, performed a non-obvious and unexpectedly positive function.

Before the start of today’s big meeting about the Unified State Exam, Putin would like to sum up some results. The leitmotif of the entire Unified State Exam campaign this year is: “Get in! The Unified State Exam assignments are already online!” The bosses, management and other responsible persons are outraged. There are now the usual year after year conversations about morality. Last year, if I remember correctly, even the patriarch got involved.

Three men drowned in the Buren River in the Kaa-Khemsky district of Tuva, reports the press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region. On Thursday around 15:30 local time, four men were relaxing on the river bank. They drank alcohol. When one of them staggered and fell into the river, the rest rushed into the water after him to save him. All three were carried away by the strong current of the river, one of them swam about 100 meters and was able to get ashore.

Half of the members of the Presidential Council for Human Rights wrote an apology letter to the former rector of the Russian Economic School, Sergei Guriev. The document was signed by 31 of the 62 members of the HRC, four were against it.

The judge of the magistrate court district No. 206 of St. Petersburg recognized the autonomous non-profit organization "LGBT film festival "Side by Side" - the organizer of the film festival of the same name - as a "foreign agent". The court ordered the organization to pay an administrative fine of 500 thousand rubles. The decision can be appealed within 10 days. The international LGBT film festival "Side by Side" started in the summer of 2007 in St. Petersburg.

A game called Call of Taburetka has been created on the Internet, in which it is proposed to destroy Georgian gays using a stool, Computerra reports. Two weeks ago in Tbilisi, 20 thousand Orthodox activists chased several dozen LGBT activists who were trying to hold a rally in defense of their rights. Among the opponents of the "gay pride" was a priest who was waving a stool. A video of the dispersal of the LGBT event was posted on YouTube.

Two young men in Tbilisi insulted Russian President Putin and ended up in police custody, Georgia Online reports. They were detained on Wednesday, June 5, near the building of the Palace of Trade Unions, where the congress of the Social Democrats for the Development of Georgia party was held with the participation of the head of government Bidzina Ivanishvili. “Today, for the first time, a Georgian citizen was detained in the center of Tbilisi for a bad mention of Putin.

Photo: Evgeny Biyatov/RIA Novosti Preliminary hearings on the Bolotnaya case have begun at the Moscow City Court; they are being held behind closed doors. 12 defendants appeared in court - those who, according to investigators, participated in mass riots and called for them, and also attacked police officers.

People dressed as cucumbers, tomatoes and onions staged a rally near the Moscow City Court, where today a criminal case on the riots on Bolotnaya Square on May 6 last year began, RAPSI reports. One of the participants in the action said that he represents the art group “Not Vegetables” and came to the court to express his position on the “Bolotnaya Case”. “We trust the court. If it collects enough evidence, the defendants should be punished under the Criminal Code,” he said.

Photo: Dmitry Lebedev/Kommersant The Makhachkala administration is asking to place Said Amirov under house arrest, Dagestani deputies are asking Vladimir Putin to take the matter under personal control, and bloggers are already making up jokes about the disgraced mayor. The mayor of Makhachkala was detained on June 1. A day earlier, his nephew Yusup Dzhaparov, deputy mayor of Kaspiysk, was also detained.

The cause of meningitis in dozens of kindergarten students in Rostov-on-Don could be tick bites or an infection contracted on vacation abroad, said the Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Russian Federation, Pavel Astakhov. “The reason could be: a tick, an adult patient carrying the disease, an infection acquired after a vacation trip abroad (Egypt, Turkey),” the children’s ombudsman wrote on Twitter.

Oil companies that came to the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug less than 50 years ago consider themselves the rightful owners of these territories. They have pushed the original owners of the taiga - local reindeer herders and fishermen who have lived here for many centuries - to the brink of survival, and are now taking away the last shreds of undeveloped nature from them. During our trip to oil spill sites, we met the Khanty.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila announced the divorce. They told a correspondent of the Rossiya 24 TV channel about the divorce after they attended the premiere of Yuri Bashmet’s ballet “Esmeralda” together at the State Kremlin Palace. “This was our common decision, our marriage is over,” Putin said.

The emergency situation in the Moscow metro shows once again one simple thing: everything in the city is working to the limit. At the limit of throughput, when one failure can immediately lead to collapse. One or two minor accidents on the Moscow Ring Road lead to the ring becoming completely stuck. Gets up for the clock. Closing roads for the sake of another official - the road will not move soon.