Andrey Fursenko will become the Kremlin curator of the Skolkovo Foundation Assistant to the President of Russia and ex-Minister of Education Andrei Fursenko will oversee the Skolkovo Foundation by the presidential administration. This was confirmed on Wednesday in an interview with reporters, the president of the Foundation Victor Vekselberg. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on this information to Interfax. Fursenko himself refrained from comments.

A search at Navalny’s headquarters in Kirov - looking for extremist materials (May 9, 2013) In the Leninsky District Court of Kirov, hearings in the case of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, accused of embezzlement of forest, continue . According to Radio Liberty, in the morning near the court building, pickets are held in support of Navalny.

Russian President Vladimir Putin today in Sochi meets the leaders of the four party factions of the State Duma. On the eve of the meeting, the leaders of the factions said that, in particular, preparations for elections of various levels that are scheduled for September 8th. The Communists intend to raise the question of the resignation of the Minister of Education Dmitry Livanov.

In Baghdad and in the north of Iraq during explosions on Wednesday, more than twenty people died. The police said that several mined cars were undermined in the Shiite regions of Baghdad. Earlier on the same day, two cars with explosives exploded in the city of Kirkuk. Also in the north of the country in the city of Mosul a policeman died - he was blown up by a mine. In the city of Tarmiya, north of Baghdad, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle with explosives attacked a policeman, both died.

Human rights activists, politicians, economists, figures of science and culture, concerned about the state of human rights in Russia, as well as citizens who suffered from the arbitrariness of the authorities, speak of rights and freedoms.

After flooding in Krymsk in July last year In the Abinsky District Court of the Krasnodar Territory, where on Wednesday, a hearing began the case of negligence of officials during a flood in Krymsk in the summer of 2012, one of the defendants became bad. The ex-head of the Crimean Vladimir Ulanovsky caused an ambulance. Earlier, another defendant - the former head of the Crimean district of the region, Vasily Krutko partially pleaded guilty.

In the process of Kirovles case, the interrogations of witnesses are continuing American citizens who are deprived of the opportunity to adopt Russian children, they call Moscow about mercy by the premiere of the film "Great Gatsby" Opening the International Cannes Film Festival

In the American state of Tennessee, the Federal appeal court refused to provide asylum to spouses from Germany who are engaged in the formation of their children at home and for this reason were forced to leave their homeland. The laws of Germany are prohibited by the so -called home schools, and all school -age children are required to study in ordinary schools.

The action in the Verkhovna Rada in defense of Yulia Tymoshenko. May 15. In Kyiv, as part of the pre -trial investigation in the murder of the influential Donetsk businessman Yevgeny Shcherban, an interrogation of the key witness - Peter Kirichenko almost 17 years ago. The prosecutor's office accuses the two former premits of Ukraine of organizing this crime - Pavel Lazarenko and now prisoner Yulia Tymoshenko.

The Center for Public Initiatives not only declared reasonable, kind and eternal, like the ruling party during the election Kostroma enlighteners will try to ruin The trial in the case of the Kostroma Center for Public Initiatives, which the authorities demand to recognize as a foreign agent, is delayed. Today's court hearing in Kostroma, like April 29, lasted no more than two hours. The judge again listened to the prosecutor, attached evidence and appointed the next meeting on May 29.

Leonardo DiCaprio at the 66th Cannes Festival, May 15, 2013 The largest world film festival was opened today in the French city of Cannes with a show of the film "The Great Gatsby" based on the novel by the American writer Francis Scott Fitzgerald. The film was shot by the director with Base Lurman. The title role was acted by Leonardo DiCaprio. For twelve days, hundreds of films will be shown at the festival.