"Snowden Asks Putin a Question on Call-In Show", “Russia's New Culture War”, “Poor conditions hamper search for missing South Korea ferry passengers”, “Girl, 12, becomes Britain's youngest mother”, “President Nazarbayev signs law on road traffic"

themoscownews.com. "Snowden Asks Putin a Question on Call-In Show"-U.S. intelligence leaker Edward Snowden, who received asylum in Russia last year, appeared in a video call during President Vladimir Putin's televised call-in show, asking him a question about surveillance in Russia.

“Russia's New Culture War” - I've seen this before. Not in my lifetime, no. I saw it unfold before my astonished eyes in crumbling, yellowing newspaper clippings from the late 1920s and early 1930s. I saw it in stack after stack of microfiche materials. I saw it in the letters, poems, stories, plays and memoirs of those who lived through the nightmare of a culture collapsing on itself and its citizens.

euronews.com. “Poor conditions hamper search for missing South Korea ferry passengers” - Rescuers have been hammering on the upturned hull of a capsized South Korean ferry, looking for a response from nearly 300 mostly high school students still missing.

inform.kz. “President Nazarbayev signs amendments to law on road traffic” - Head of State Nursultan Nazarbayev has signed the Law "On amendments to some legislative acts of the Republic of Kazakhstan on issues of road traffic" aimed at strengthening responsibility for traffic offences and bringing legislative acts in accordance with the Law "On road traffic", the president's press service says. The text of the law is to be published in press.

“Public consent is becoming one of the main conditions for achieving strategic goals of Kazakhstan – Secretary of State Dzhaksybekov” - Today in the Museum of the First President of Kazakhstan an enlarged meeting of the Council of the Assembly of Peoples of Kazakhstan (APK) was held.

“Man falls into concrete mixer, dies” - A 21-year-old working man died on Wednesday at the Kostanay concrete plant after the fall into the concrete mixer, the press service of the Kazakh Emergency Situations Ministry said. 

“Kazakhstan permanent representative to International Organizations in Vienna met with Dean of International Anti-Corruption Academy” -Mr. Kairat Sarybay, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Kazakhstan to the International Organizations in Vienna, met with Mr. Martin Kreutner, the Dean of the International Anti-Corruption Academy (Academy) and the Executive Secretary of the Academy's Assembly of Parties, on the occasion of presentation of his Letter of Credence.

telegraph.co.uk. “Girl, 12, becomes Britain's youngest mother” - The girl, a pupil in year seven, had the baby last Sunday with her boyfriend, who is just 13 and a year nine student at another school. A couple have become Britain's youngest parents after a girl aged just 12 years and three months gave birth to her 13-year-old boyfriend's baby, The Telegraph reports.

express.co.uk. “David Beckham to launch a new brand of whiskey” - After retiring from soccer in 2013, one of the world's most famous players David Beckham is going to launch a new brand of scotch whiskey, according to Rosbalt.