The Kievskaya Pravda correspondent was killed five years ago in the Tarashchansky forest, not far from Kyiv. The scandal erupted when an intelligence officer who had gone to the West released an audio recording in which someone whose voice sounded like the voice of then Ukrainian President Kuchma called for punishment of the uncontrolled journalist. Two of those now suspected of murdering the journalist are intelligence service colonels.

“Is it possible that some criminal in uniform will finally be imprisoned this time?” - a naive man in the street may ask when he hears that Putin is going to bring something to the end. We explain to the naive man in the street: it was not civilians who beat up the police, but the other way around, which is why no one will put anyone in jail. At best, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Bashkiria will be removed, and even then it is unlikely.

The report specifically noted that the development of democracy in Russia is under threat. As examples, the drafters of the document cited the increasing centralization of federal power, the rejection of direct elections of governors, and bureaucratic control over the press. The report also talks about discrimination in Russia against homosexuals, who, in particular, have problems finding a job.

The Moscow City Court acquitted doctors accused of trying to take kidneys from a still living patient for transplantation. Trying to support their wild accusations, law enforcement agencies even went so far as to leak operational materials to the press, in particular recordings of overheard telephone conversations. However, the case still fell apart. But during the entire time the investigation was ongoing, not a single organ transplant operation was performed in Moscow.

“On the eve of the 60th anniversary of Russia’s victory in the Great Patriotic War, a number of regional youth organizations took the initiative...” Yakemenko said in a statement. In fact, one person came up with the initiative - the deputy head of Putin's administration, Vladislav Surkov. As for the goals of the new movement, they are simply amazing.

Last Sunday, on the TVC channel in the program of Alexei Pushkov, the postscript was held about Mikhail Kasyanov. The plot was about the fact that the former prime minister reached the political arena, his motives were analyzed, and possible prospects were considered. To everyone who ever watched this program and familiar with the television work of Mr. Pushkov, it is unnecessary to retell that this peculiar journalist thinks about Kasyanov himself, about his presidential ambitions and plans.

In the Kremlin Zits-President March 1, 2005 Anton Oresh We who write about politics are unhappy people. Because we write about what is not. Because what is is not politics. We write about the presidential election, although there are no longer there. In extreme cases, there may be the choice of the president, but not an election. To everything that is meant by this concept, three years. So many.

Excited citizens may calm down. Contrary to the content of the American-Russian statement posted on the official Kremlin site, the Foreign’s legs will not be at domestic nuclear facilities. Last Saturday, the text of the joint statement of the presidents of Russia and the United States on the strengthening of nuclear security appeared on www.kremlin.ru.

Let us recall that at the end of last week, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov sent a message to the head of state in which he criticized both the above-mentioned law itself and the new procedure for delimiting powers between the center and the regions. At the same time, information appeared that the president took this step of Luzhkov “favorably.” Now, from the words of the Moscow mayor, we have learned that Vladimir Putin really paid attention to his arguments.

We who write about politics are unhappy people. Because we write about something that doesn’t exist. Because what exists is not politics. We write about presidential elections, although they no longer exist. As a last resort, there may be a choice of the President, but not elections. Everything that is meant by this concept is three years away. So many. Even in America, where the elections are the greatest in the world, the race does not start three years before the deadline.

Until now, the Pope has never spoken about what the repentant Mehmet Ali Agca told him when he visited him in prison at the end of 1983. However, in his just-released memoirs, he calls the assassination attempt “the last convulsion of one of the ideologies of the twentieth century.” The version that the assassination attempt was prepared by the Bulgarian special services, closely associated with the KGB, was considered at one time, but was rejected.

Fradkov can be understood: he is tasked with doubling GDP, and the proposed VAT reduction will increase the rate of economic growth by 1.5-2% of GDP per year. However, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin is confident that it is impossible to reduce VAT now. He even wrote a letter to the Prime Minister, from which it follows that this measure will lead to a significant decrease in budget revenues, which, in turn, will turn it into a deficit one.

Kremlin manipulators believed that they had managed to resolve the conflict surrounding the presidential elections in Abkhazia without losses. Under pressure from Moscow, recent opponents were put together into a single team: one of the competitors became president, the other became vice-president. Obviously, this design looks shaky. If contradictions cannot be resolved politically - through elections - they are resolved with bullets. The shooting was not long in coming.