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The municipal deputy of the Moscow district Schukino Maxim Katz left the Coordinating Council of the Russian opposition. He reported this on his blog in the "Live Journal". In an interview with Radio, Freedom Katz said that in the coordination council (CSR) there were many "structural problems" associated with the complex system of election into this body.

The soaked reputation of the institution of scientific degrees in Russia, many of which turned out to be awarded on the basis of false or insolvent dissertations, largely reflects the sad situation in world science: in pursuit of the number of publications and loud conclusions, scientists are often not too selective in research methods. This concerns the natural sciences: biology, medicine, climatology.

The Department of Supervision of Education and Science (Rosobrnadzor) recognized that the materials of the Unified State Exam were on the Internet as a result of a deliberate "leak". Today, on the day of the Russian language exam, the Rosobrnadzor specialists registered several cases of the appearance of test questions and answers on the Internet in the Far East. The department’s website reports that school graduates repeatedly reprinted the correct answers to the exam questions.

Vladimir Putin at a meeting with businessmen in Voronezh May 23, 2013 Vladimir Kara-Murza: At the end of last week, Vladimir Putin, at a meeting in Voronezh with a business community, announced that the idea of an amnesty of the entrepreneurs is still raw, imperfect, and there will not yet amnesty. Since then, a discussion of this topic has been in the press.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the European Union at a meeting in Brussels did not manage to reach the consent on the issue of a new joint embargo for the supply of weapons. Some EU members, in particular, Great Britain and France, achieve the cancellation of the embargo in order to begin to supply weapons of the Syrian opposition, fighting against the regime of President Bashar al -Assad. Austria and some other states do not agree with this.

Hands "Hands off the Small Business" in St. Petersburg May 26 On May 26, on the day of the entrepreneur, rallies of employees of small and medium -sized enterprises and activists of opposition movements with the requirements of the fight against corruption, reduction of taxes and amnesties for convicts under economic articles were held. In St. Petersburg in the rally in defense of entrepreneurship and private property organized by the city branch of Solidarity, the St.

Alexander Genis: On the eve of the opening of the Venetian Biennale, the main, perhaps, a show of contemporary art, we met in our New York studio with a member of Biennale Vitaliy Komar in order to talk about the fate of fine art in different camps of different periods. Vitaly, what are you going to Venice with?

Angelina Jolie In the clinic of the American city of San Diego, on Sunday from breast cancer, aunt of the Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie died. 61-year-old Debbie Martin was the younger sister of Mother Jolie, who also died of cancer in 2007. The news of the death of Martin came about two weeks after Angelina Jolie announced the double mastctomy she underwent - operations to remove the mammary glands.

Frame from the film "Life Adele" The "golden palm branch" of the 66th Cannes Film Festival ended on Sunday "Life of Adele, the first and second" Abladetif Keshish, the author of "Cuscus and Barabulka." The jury of the festival was headed by Stephen Spielberg. The result was predictable: there was no such universal consensus even last year about Michael Hanek's "love".

Vitaly Komar. "Lenin with the crown" Alexander Genis: On the eve of the opening of the Venetian Biennale, the main, perhaps, a show of contemporary art, we met in our New York studio with a member of Biennale Vitaliy Komar in order to talk about the fate of fine art in different camps of different periods. Vitaly, what are you going to Venice with?

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, called a “good guy” shot by police in the United States. Ibrahim Todashev was considered a friend of one of the Tsarnaev brothers, involved, according to American investigators, to a recent terrorist attack in Boston. Todashev was shot dead on May 22 during interrogation. After the incident, information was officially extended that the interrogated person attacked one of the investigators.

More recently, people stood in line to choose members of the COP. October 2012 Why did Maxim Katz leave the coordination council of the opposition? About this with the deputy of the municipal assembly of the Schukino district, Moscow was talked by Lyubov Chizhova. - This is not because I was disappointed in the opposition, because everything is bad, that these are all loafers, etc., as some are trying to imagine now. This is absolutely not why.