In the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, United Russia suffered a crushing defeat, which, of course, cannot but rejoice. It seems that the voter has finally figured out whose interests this organization actually represents.

One can imagine the pleasure with which deputies will give a public flogging to the government regarding the monetization of benefits. It is unlikely that Mikhail Fradkov himself, without a team from the Kremlin, decided to become an object of execution, so, apparently, a scapegoat has already been found at the top. However, it is difficult to imagine that the government's demonstrative beating will calm those who were robbed.

This year, the annual World Economic Forum in Davos was held under the motto "We will take responsibility for complex elections." The main topics for discussion were: the situation in Iraq, the Middle Eastern settlement, the problems of financial stability, the economic prospects of developing countries.

After the death of Togolese President Gnassimbe Eyadema, who had consistently won elections since April 1967, the military appointed the ruler's son to replace him. By law, the duties of the president were to be performed by the speaker of parliament for two months before new elections. When Togo was pointed out for its blatant departure from its own laws and principles of democracy, local legislators immediately corrected themselves.

According to sources in the law enforcement agencies of Chechnya, the militants are indeed following Aslan Maskhadov’s order to cease hostilities until the end of February: no significant incidents have occurred in recent days. This indirectly confirms the fact that Maskhadov is still an influential figure in Chechnya. And the demarche against Basayev can be exclusively propaganda: they say, the terrorist is alive and well, preparing to appear before the tribunal.

Thus, the head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev, explained the reason for future friction between Moscow and Kiev. The deputy is confident that if accession takes place, cooperation between the Russian and Ukrainian military-industrial complex should be stopped in order to avoid “technology leakage.” But if the “technology” belongs to Russia and is properly patented, no Western company will risk using it without Moscow’s consent.

The criminals left, as the first president of Russia once used to say under similar circumstances, literally “barefoot in the snow.” It is clear from television news reports that the local police simply do not know how to properly act in these cases. Firstly, all the neighboring houses are intact. This means that artillery was not used. But this is not enough - they didn’t even think of sending a tank.

On February 14, the arbitration will consider a complaint from the Federal Property Management Agency, which believes that the lease agreement for 75 years is too much, and the rent is not high enough. It’s interesting why officials caught it only when the East Line group had already invested about $500 million in Domodedovo, turning it into the most modern air terminal complex in Russia.

If the United States or Israel strikes Iranian nuclear facilities, Tehran will “accelerate its nuclear program,” Hassan Rouhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said. At the same time, it remains a mystery what exactly Tehran is threatening. After all, Iranian officials (and Russian ones after them) insist on the exclusively peaceful nature of this nuclear program.

In society Church on a civilian February 7, 2005 Svetlana Solodovnik The church unites a huge number of people. Therefore, she, “maybe first of all, should contribute to the self -organization of our society,” said Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill in the television program “The Word of the Pastor”, shown last weekend on the first channel. And it’s hard to argue with this.

In the whole story with a letter to the General Prosecutor's Office demanding a ban on Jewish organizations, the withdrawal of this letter, the sluggish discussion of it by the Duma and the promise of the authors to send the letter again, slightly edited, the tour on NTV of the thoroughly forgotten “hero” of 1993 and the convinced caveman anti-Semite Makashov - in all There is only one thing surprising about this story: the lack of reaction from our liberal politicians.

It must be said that the opposition, represented by Committee 2008, Yabloko and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, has collected a fairly powerful evidence base indicating that the Duma elections in 2003 were dishonest. We are talking about violations during the counting of votes and during the election campaign, when, according to the plaintiffs, state television channels provided pro-Kremlin parties with much more airtime than opposition ones.

That's what. I have not written here for two and a half years. In the sense, it wasn’t precisely here that he wrote - this “here” was not there, it was only now formed - but in general he did not write anywhere. Some were interested in: "Why?" He answered directly, frankly and essentially: "Because it is disgusting and strange to me." A joke about a boy who first spoke at a very mature age, starting with a statement that “the scrambled eggs are burnt” - remember?

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shared with reporters his views on how the work of a diplomat has changed. It turns out that she has become more open. “This is not only a matter of style, this is a requirement of the time,” the minister explained. “The pace of international life is such that now engaging in the Byzantine diplomatic process is an unaffordable luxury. This probably slightly reduces the diplomacy of diplomacy, excuse the tautology.