On April 20, a wave of early passing of the Unified State Exam started in Russia. It began with mandatory testing in the Russian language and will last ten days, ITAR-TASS reports. During this time, students will also have to take an English, French, German, Spanish, geography or physics elective on April 22; and on April 25 – mathematics. On the 30th, those who did not have time to do so for good reasons on time are allowed to take exams in all general education subjects.

Not long ago, serious passions flared up around the main University of the country. Everyone was involved in the dispute - students, teachers and even the church. More precisely, the church turned out to be the root cause of all these passions. The essence of the conflict is that MSU students opposed the construction of a temple on the territory of the university.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that parks and public gardens will be created on the site of former industrial zones. According to him, first of all this concerns factory territories that are adjacent to the Moscow River. In addition, the capital’s mayor expressed dissatisfaction with the existing “green zones” - he believes that they are in poor condition, RIA Novosti reports.

How not to get lost among the many new outsourcing services? Increasingly, many new outsourcing services are appearing in the business environment, which simplify the activities of an enterprise, helping it stay afloat and achieve real success.

Vladimir Putin said that the authorities are not going to “chicken” the Internet in the country. He stated this live on the Rossiya 24 channel. The prime minister told a Soviet joke about how the Central Committee differs from the Cheka: “The Central Committee tsks, but the Cheka tsks.” “No one is going to make any noise,” Putin assured. At the same time, he noted that “the main resources are not in our hands - over the hill, or rather, overseas.

The state company Russian Railways plans to launch high-speed trains from the Spanish company Talgo from Moscow to Kyiv by 2014, the journey time of which will be six hours. RIA Novosti reports this. Russian Railways and Talgo signed an agreement at the end of February for the purchase and maintenance of Talgo trains. It is expected that the final supply agreement will be concluded in June of this year.

The main sensation of this election campaign was the victory of the previously little-known nationalist party “True Finns”. They received 19 percent of the vote and took third place. First place goes to the conservative National Coalition Party, which received more than 20 percent of the vote. The top five winners also included the Social Democratic Party, the Finnish Center, the Finnish Left Union, the Green Union, the Swedish People's Party and the Christian Democrats.

The State Duma Committee on Transport, headed by deputy Sergei Shishkarev, proposed limiting the use of “roaring motorcycles” at the legislative level. It is not specified which motorcycles we are talking about. Interfax reports this. According to United Russia deputy Mikhail Nenashev, noisy vehicles “ignore the rights of citizens.” The parliamentarian noted that with the onset of the warm season in Moscow, St. Petersburg and large cities, this problem becomes especially relevant.

A politician from Yekaterinburg, Maxim Goloviznin, secretary of the council of the Sverdlovsk regional branch of A Just Russia, died in the capital. Friends of the deceased blame workers at the Moscow Research Institute for his death. Vishnevsky, who refused to help a dying man. It is reported that 41-year-old Maxim Goloviznin came to the capital for the All-Russian congress of A Just Russia. He felt sick on Lyusinovskaya Street when he and his friends were stuck in a traffic jam.

Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov has increased his stake in the English football club Arsenal, reports the Associated Press. The businessman already owned a 27% stake in the Gunners. Now he has purchased six more pieces, paying $115,000 for them. Let us note that American billionaire Stan Krenke intends to acquire a controlling stake. In the near future he will pay $1,200,000,000 for 62.89% of the Londoners' shares.

The sanitary service of the Russian Federation discovered smuggled shipments of Georgian Borjomi mineral water, which several years ago was banned for import and sale in Russia due to quality claims. Blocks of water bottles were found at various food markets in a number of regions of the country, and, in particular, in Moscow, Interfax reports. It has been established that the products penetrate into Russian territory from Belarus. An investigation is underway.

This is exactly the amount the government of this small republic requested from the federal center “for the development of the region.” The corresponding draft development program for the North Caucasus Federal District has already been sent to the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation. The Chechens want to receive this half a trillion rubles from the federal budget in installments until 2025 and spend it on the economic and social development of the republic.

Presidential Administration Manager Vladimir Kozhin announced the total number of capital officials who have a special signal on their car, Kommersant writes. According to him, about nine hundred people have such privileges. “Whether it’s a lot or a little, it’s probably a lot for Moscow. And in any case, there will be a gradual reduction,” Kozhin said.

Orthodox Christians are now experiencing the most important days of spring - Holy Week, the last six days before Easter, is in full swing. This is not part of Great Lent, as is often mistakenly believed, but a completely separate, more strict week. It is customary to fast during it much more strictly, both spiritually and physically. Each day of Holy Week is not just fasting, but special, dedicated to some event of the last days of the earthly life of Jesus Christ.

fukushima.gif Many workers complain of difficulty sleeping and talk about the risk of depression or even death. A medical examination of the liquidators of the accident at the Japanese nuclear power plant Fukushima-1 revealed that they are in a state of chronic stress, ITAR-TASS reports. As Takeshi Tanigawa, a professor at Ehime University who conducted the study, said, many complain of difficulty sleeping and talk about the danger of depression or even death.