Five activists, including the artist Pyotr Pavlensky, held an action in the center of St. Petersburg in support of participants in anti -government speeches in Ukraine. The action was organized on the small stable bridge, not far from the Savior-on-blood. There the tires burned, the state flags of Ukraine fluttered and the roar of yellow strikes was heard. The participants of the event called these sounds a song of liberation and revolution.

This is what Kyiv Maidan looked this morning - the center of protest performances in Ukraine Almost the entire leadership of the Security Service of Ukraine arbitrarily left the place of service, the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada said today to monitor the activities of this department, Valentin Nalyvaichenko. According to him, the security service was left without communication, without leadership, without plans to protect nuclear facilities, Dneprogs and everything else.

Promotion at the monument to the woman in Irkutsk In Irkutsk, members of the public movement “Autonomous action” celebrated the Day of the Defender of the Fatherland as an action at the monument to Babr (this is an animal - a symbol of Irkutsk). Irkutsk activists called their event "Deserter Day." Young people say that they are against the obligatory call for military service and compare this process with slavery.

On the central square of Kirovograd, a monument is dismantled to the Soviet figure Sergei Kirov, in whose honor the city was named in 1934. According to Interfax, at the initiative of Professor Kiev-Mogilyan Academy Vladimir Panchenko, an open-air museum will be created in the city, where the dismantled monuments to Soviet leaders will be located. City Veca decided to rename Kirov Square in the city in the Square of the Heroes of the Maidan.

Yulia Tymoshenko at the site of the death of Maidan activists in Kyiv after liberation from the colony In Ukraine, investigations have already begun in relation to a number of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the regional internal affairs departments on the facts of their actions during the latest events in the country , said the acting head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov.

The ex-prime minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko discussed on Sunday with the US Ambassador Jeffrey Payette and the head of the European Union’s Ambassador to Yanom Tombin Way, the country's exits from the crisis. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to the press service of the "Fatherland". The ambassadors congratulated Tymoshenko on his liberation and wished them a speedy recovery.

Kharkov Mayor Gennady Kernes presents the Party of Regions The mayor of Kharkov Gennady Kernes believes that the issue of dismantling the monument to Lenin in Square Freedom should be resolved exclusively in the framework of the law.

Bookstore in Minsk Russian as not native What books do Belarusian and Uzbek schoolchildren read? What is more important: social order or political will? How does the mentality affect syntactic features? We discuss grammatical differences and lexical parallels in the "class hour" with the teachers of the Russian language and literature Inna Vinnik (Snov secondary school, Belarus) and Lyudmila Melnikova (Academic Lyceum No. 5 at the University of Bukhara, Uzbekistan).

About 60 people came to the monument to the great Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko near the Petrogradskaya metro station to honor the memory of those who died in Kyiv on the Maidan. This was reported by the Radio Liberty correspondent in St. Petersburg Tatyana Voltskaya. The initiators of the action were activists of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party, they distributed information about it through social networks.

US Presidential Assistant Suzan Rice Suzan Rice Advisor to National Security, Susan Rice, said on Sunday that "the commissioning of Russian troops to Ukraine will be a serious mistake" for Russia and that the split of Ukraine is not in the interests of Russia, Europe or the USA.

Alexander Perevkov - winner of the ski marathon at the games in Sochi The Russian team won 1 place in the medal standings of the Olympics in Sochi. 13 gold medals, 11 silver, 9 bronze. According to the total number of medals, Russia is also the first. The national team has already won medals more than at the most successful 1994 Winter Olympiad in Lillehammer. It's time to start summing up. To begin with, you can analyze the list of Russian "gold".

Is it necessary to equate the "imperial" black-and-white flag, the flag of nationalists, to the state symbols of Russia? What could be dangerous such a legislative initiative of the St. Petersburg deputy Vitaly Milonov? How will he meet Elton John, traveling on tour in the fall to St. Petersburg? This was a conversation with the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Vitaly Milonov and historian, journalist Daniil Kotsyubinsky.

Comerist-Skitale. Arkady Averchenko in foreign lands. Conversation with Anna Khlebina, co -author of the book about the Prague years of the famous comedian. The study by A. Khlebina and V. Milenko is based on archival searches and rare publications in the periodicals of the 1910-1920s.