Russian President Dmitry Medvedev proposed to approve the Governor of Viktor Nazarov, G. Gazprom Interregiongaz Omsk, by the Governor of the Omsk Region by the Legislative Assembly of the Omsk Region. The next term of powers of the current governor Leonid Polezhaev, heading the region since 1991, has been expired this year.

The head of the International Red Cross Committee arrived in Damascus in an attempt to achieve a daily announcement of a two -hour truce in order to take out the wounded and deliver humanitarian aid. On Monday, the UN envoy and the League of the Arab states in Syria Kofi Annan said that the Syrian President Bashar Assad promised to withdraw troops from cities until April 10 and stop fire from the 12th.

In Moscow, the owner of the building in the Kachalovsky market was detained, where 17 people were killed as a result of a fire. This is the general director of the Start-2 enterprise Vladimir Lykov. According to a representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia, investigators interrogate him as a suspect under an article on violation of fire safety rules. The issue of his arrest is being resolved.

In San Francisco on Monday, the police detained about 80 OCCupy activists who occupied an empty building and, according to the authorities who were about to stay there for a long time. According to the local press, the police took the building by storm, breaking through the barricade erected by activists at the entrance. According to representatives of the police, there are no victims. The building of the former music school, owned by the Catholic diocese, was busy protesters on Sunday.

In Ingushetia, in a car in which five militants were traveling, killed on Tuesday evening in a shootout with the police, a powerful home -made explosive device was found and neutralized. Earlier it was reported that not five, but four militants were killed in a shootout in Nazran. The police stopped them to verify documents, but fire was opened from the car. The identities of the dead are established. No one was injured from the police.

Mikhail Vinogradov President Dmitry Medvedev met with representatives of the so -called non -playing opposition, where he signed the law on simplifying the registration of political parties. About whether there is a sense in such periodic meetings, the Moscow political expert Mikhail Vinogradov argues. - The fact of the appearance of the direct connection of the non -systemic opposition and the top leadership of the country is a good deed or only an imitation of real policy?

7 people were killed and 3 were injured during shooting at the University of Christian in the American city of Auckland, California. According to Radio Liberty correspondent Vladimir Morozov, the witnesses of the tragedy say that during classes, a former medical student who said: “Build, I’ll kill you all now.” He shot at the nearest student point -blank. Then he opened random shooting at the rest.

In Cheboksary on Tuesday, about 200 representatives of the Communist Party, LDPR, Fair Russia and Yabloko, as well as the non -systemic opposition, held a protest against the government. The audience opposed the political pressure in the State Council of Chuvashia, the seizure of power by one party and the deprivation of the right of voting oppositionists.

Russian Facebook group "We were on Bolotnaya and we will still" became the finalist of the international competition The jury of the international contest of blogs and network communities of The Bobs , which is conducted by the German television and radio company Deutsche Welle, published a list of finalists, among which there are Russian -speaking projects.

One of the creations of the British artist Damien Hurst can be perceived as a reminder of bloodshed in Syria. The situation in Syria, where there is a real war with the use of artillery and armored vehicles, nevertheless, ceased to be in the focus of world media attention itself - bloodshed has been continuing there for a year, and for the press it is important primarily what has begun today or will happen tomorrow.

The situation in Syria is so critical that President Bashar Assad is unlikely to be able to stay in power for a long time, the uncle of the Syrian leader, the former vice-president of the country, Rifat Assad, believes. In an interview with Bibisi, Rifat Assad, who has been living in exile from the mid-80s, however, noted that a peace process of transferring power should be ensured in Syria. Assad Sr. himself is known for the brutal suppression in 1982 by the uprising in the city of Hama.

Fresh "Big City". Sad. Dreams have not come true. No million came out and did not overthrow the despot. The explanation is: here is the polling station, 2 thousand inhabitants. Third of the old woman, a third of the alcoholics, the rest of Putinoids. Ho-ho ... Political science of picket vests ... Moscow, like every big city, is mainly the city of servants. The difference from Paris or New York is that they serve each other and the outside world.