Eliminating a fire on a drilling rig in the Kungur region of the Kama region, according to rescuers, may take a week. According to the press service of the main regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, a paramilitary unit that specializes in eliminating such emergencies was brought in to extinguish the fire. The situation is under control. According to rescuers, there is currently a flaring of associated gas at the mouth of the drilling rig.

In one of the premises of the Ekaterinburg Palace of Culture named after. Gorky, which is located on Pervomaiskaya Street, 24, a strange stucco sign was found on the wall, very similar to the Masonic symbol - a compass and square. They intersect in such a way that the pattern resembles a five-pointed star. A snapshot of this drawing was published on the forum of the city portal E1 by a user under the nickname Demiurg. “Masonic sign!

The first governor of the Sverdlovsk region, Eduard Rossel, admitted that he was pleased with the appointment of Evgeny Kuyvashev as acting governor of the region. He said this today at a meeting with Kuyvashev, which took place in the presence of journalists. “It even lifted my spirits. In all seriousness. This is the first time I'm talking about this. Now there is a meaning to live, there is a meaning to work,” Rossel said.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service allowed the Development Corporation to acquire 54.7% of the shares of OJSC Polar Quartz, which belong to the government of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the FAS told URA.Ru. "Polar Quartz" has two shareholders - the government of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug (owns 54.7% of shares) and Development Corporation OJSC (owns 45.27%). After the transaction, the share of Development Corporation will reach 100%.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin appointed former Sverdlovsk Deputy Prime Minister Mikhail Maksimov as first deputy chief of staff of the mayor and government of the capital, federal news agencies report. “Mikhail Maksimov was accepted into the state civil service of the city of Moscow and appointed from May 14, 2012 to the position of first deputy chief of staff of the mayor and government of Moscow,” says the Moscow government.

In the Chelyabinsk region, in the village of Uvildy, about 1.5 million rubles were stolen from an ATM in a rural store located some hundred meters from the departmental sanatorium of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The UTair airline, whose ATR-72 plane crashed near Tyumen, killing 33 people, this year, perhaps for the first time, did not receive a single award at the most prestigious domestic aviation award, “Wings of Russia.” As reported on the official website of the award, UTair claimed the title of best in four main categories: “Airline of the Year – passenger carrier on domestic routes in group I, traffic volume of more than 3 billion pkm”, “Airline of the year – passenger carrier on international

Specialists of the Sverdlovenergo branch had to contact law enforcement agencies and the administration of Nizhny Tagil to solve the problem with local residents who opposed the construction of power lines leading to the new 110 kV Prirechnaya substation near houses on Ermaka Street and organized a spontaneous rally about this .

Governor of Prikamye Viktor Basargin continues to study the farm he inherited. Today, May 16, together with the head and city manager of Perm Igor Sapko and Anatoly Makhovikov, he drove along the roads of the regional center. As URA.Ru was told by the press service of the head of the region, in particular, Basargin looked at the progress of the overhaul of Malkova Street. Work on the section from the Cosmonaut Highway to Engels began in the fall of 2011.

47-year-old police warrant officer Oleg Arsibekov, who killed his own son, will remain free. As the URA.Ru correspondent reports, the day before there was a meeting of the Verkhoturye Court, which determined the preventive measure of house arrest for the killer. The investigation insisted on arresting Arsibekov.

In Krasnodar, the opening of an exhibition on religious themes, Icons, curated by the famous cultural figure Marat Gelman, was disrupted, and Gelman himself was almost beaten.

The Chelyabinsk “white metallurgists” once again distinguished themselves throughout the country. The hosts of the “School of Scandal” program on the NTV channel, Avdotya Smirnova and Tatyana Tolstaya, began their next episode by talking about how admiration for the “Vysota 239” workshop of ChelPipe cannot be considered hidden advertising.

In Ugra, they were again unprepared for the holiday season, leaving the main road in a ruined state.

In Yekaterinburg, on Repina Street, opposite Kommunarov Square today, at 15:40, a curious accident occurred involving a regular bus and 8 cars at once, which, nevertheless, quite darkened the lives of both the participants in the accident and those drivers who had to go around All this is disgrace, reports “Nightly News”.

On May 29, deputies of the Kurgan Regional Duma will consider amendments to the region’s charter regarding the return of popular elections for governor. It is expected that adjustments to the main legal document of the Trans-Ural region will be adopted in two readings at once, the URA.Ru correspondent reports. According to the amendments, a Russian citizen who has reached the age of 30 can become the head of the Trans-Ural region.