Five days a week at exactly 12 o’clock - about what happened today and what else should happen. The day is in full swing, we follow the events.

The most interesting theme of the day for comments is the performance in London in front of the limited audience Vladislav Surkov (he is now in the rank of Deputy Prime Minister of the government, but there was no ideologist in the heart), discussed in Russia by an unlimited audience. Sovereign democracy, personal success in business, the attractiveness of the Skolkovo project is a wide, as they say, a range of actual issues.

According to the conclusions of the American human rights organization Freedom House, on World Press Freedom Day, Russians can only hope that Russian information funds will become free. But there are fewer grounds for such hopes every year. Authoritarian leaders, radical groups, economic difficulties have become the main enemies of the free press around the world last year.

Former Pope Benedict XVI returned to the Vatican on Thursday - two months after voluntary abdication. From now on, the Vatican, where the ex-pontifica flew by helicopter from the summer papal residence to Castel Gandolfo, will become a permanent place of his residence. Papa Benedict XVI says goodbye to the flock - February 27, 2013 Joseph Ratzinger was met by his successor, the current Pontiff Francis. "Honorary Papa" Benedict was the last time in public more than a month ago.

The new scene of the Mariinsky Theater is one of the most controversial long-standing of St. Petersburg. Its construction continued for 8 years and was accompanied by constant scandals, starting from indignation caused by extravagant competitive projects, to problems related to soil construction - these problems were solved only thanks to the colossal cost of construction.

Why are we annoyed by cases of excessive sacrifice When Putin in 2007 informed foreign journalists that “after the death of Mahatma Gandhi there is no one to talk to”, everyone was indignant at his arrogance, and I remember that he was obviously a humanoid combat robot, because, what would he have to talk about with Gandhi, surrounded by a halo of holiness?

Freedom time - the final issue of the opposition does not allow the march in Moscow on May 6 the action “One day - one name”: the story of the “Prisoner of the Bolotnaya” by Sergey Krivov, the new building of the Mariinsky Theater: architectural experiment or urban planning error?

Representatives of the Coordinating Council of the opposition agreed with the Moscow City Council regarding the campaign on May 6, dedicated to the anniversary of events in Bolotnaya Square. The city authorities allowed the representatives of the CSR to hold a rally on Bolotnaya Square in the evening of May 6: the collection from 18.00, the beginning of the rally is scheduled for 19.00. The application, approved by the mayor, suggests up to 30 thousand participants.

Representatives of the Coordinating Council of the opposition agreed with the Moscow City Council regarding the campaign on May 6, dedicated to the anniversary of events in Bolotnaya Square. The capital's authorities agreed on a rally in Bolotnaya Square, the organizers were denied the procession. Meanwhile, in Russia, the action "One day - one name" continues - in support of the detainees and convicts in the case of riots in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow last May 6 last year.

James Joyce When the Irish writer James Joyce lived in Trieste before the First World War, he taught the English language of one Slovenian young man As you know, Joyce needed, therefore the voluntary exile had to earn lessons. Among the students (and then friends) was the local businessman Ettore Schmits, under the name Italo, who was famous later as an Italian writer.