Isaac's Cathedral A group of citizens opposing the transfer of the Isaac's Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Church filed a new lawsuit against the St. Petersburg authorities on the illegality of this decision. One of the initiators of the lawsuit, the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky said that the lawsuit was filed in the Smolninsky District Court. The defendant is the Committee of Property Relations of the city.

In Russia, over the past five years, the number of drug addicts among minors increased by 60 percent. This was stated on Friday by the secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev. At the same time, according to Patrushev, the total number of people who use drugs has not changed in the country during this period and amounts to 640 thousand people.

"Feast is the best image of happiness": images of meal in theology and culture / Ed. Svetlana Panich and Irina Language. - M.: BBI Publishing House, 2016. - XII +264 p. Formally - a collection of reports read at the symposium (I want to imagine that, in accordance with the name of the event, around the set table). But in fact - a conversation.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

In the city of Dimitrovgrad, the Ulyanovsk region, a riot and a mass attempt to suicide prisoners occurred in a correctional colony No. 3. This was reported by local media with reference to sources. According to the portal "Ulyanovsk faces", late in the evening of March 1, 20 prisoners opened their veins, one - stuck a nail in his throat. The publication writes that the cause of the incident was a conflict in the colony, which lasted for a long time.

The International Biathlon Union (IBU) deprived Russia of the World Cup planned for 2021. Tyumen, which has already lost the World Cup this year, will not hold world championship. On February 8, an extraordinary IBU Congress was held, at which the organization’s executive committee proposed the Union of Biathlonists of Russia (SBR) voluntarily refuse to hold the 2021 World Cup in Tyumen until February 24, 2017.

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Looking from Lviv: Theater, Revolution, War. Conversation with Ukrainian director Vladimir Kuchinsky ** Memory of Ali Fedoseeva (1932-2017). Interview with journalist Alei Fedoseeva (1995, Munich). *** Turkish tales. *** “My favorite records” with St. Petersburg satirik Andrei Maksimkov.

New investigation of the Corruption Fund.

Conservatory and creative universities, whose employees have not paid salaries since the beginning of the year, began to receive the missing funds. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Ministry of Culture of Russia. The Kemerovo Institute of Culture confirmed that the employees received a salary in January in full, but clarified that it was paid at the expense of extra -budgetary funds.

The Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel intends to visit Washington on March 14. It is expected that her meeting with US President Donald Trump will take place - for the first time after his election to the presidency. Merkel plans to come to the United States are reported by news agencies with reference to American and German officials. After his took office on January 20, Trump from European political leaders met only with the Prime Minister of Great Britain Teresa May.

Correctional colony, illustrative photo The Saratov Regional Court justified three employees of the local colony convicted of the case of beating a prisoner in 2009, in connection with the "non -establishment of a crime event." This was reported on the court website. In November of last year, the court recognized Vadim Dolgov, Alexander Berezhnov and Vitaly Velvererev guilty of abuse of authority and awarded them real terms of up to four years in prison.

New investigation of the Corruption Fund On March 2, 2017, the Corruption Fund (FBK) published an investigation into Dmitry Medvedev’s elite real estate in Russia and abroad, which, as approved in the publication, was acquired illegally. The founder of the Foundation Alexei Navalny accused the Prime Minister of creating a "multi-level corruption scheme" based on charitable foundations controlled by his proxies.

The book of Pavel Polyan "Historiomore" - about how politicians cripple history Geographer, historian and philologist Pavel Polyan presented in the St. Petersburg Museum of Anna Akhmatova his new book “Historiomore, or Treepanation of Memory” - about how politicians cripple history, reinterizing it for their benefit.