The meeting, as reported by Vedomosti, will take place on March 24. It is possible that these are countermeasures in connection with the trip of Russian oligarchs to Kyiv to visit Viktor Yushchenko. This version is supported by the fact that the agenda for the meeting has not been formulated and no one knows what the conversation will be about.

A recent census showed that the birth rate in Russia is two times lower than what is required for population reproduction. The concerned Moscow Patriarchate held a forum in the fall “Spiritual and moral foundations of Russia’s demographic development,” where the idea of ​​an advertising campaign was born. The USSR undertook to implement it, deciding to remind citizens of the biblical commandments.

It looks like the Ukrainian parliament is playing too hard. Its regulatory committee suggested that Blokhin, a deputy from the local Communist Party, either resign as a people's representative or stop coaching the country's main football team, as required by law.

Ramzan Kadyrov was appointed head of the commission that will deal with the distribution of compensation. The appointment may seem strange to some: we know this hero of Russia as the head of a large power structure. But the fact of the matter is that his power structure is so large that, no matter what money came into the republic, they still could not pass by it.

Hooray! Public opinion has finally emerged in Russia. It will be expressed by the Public Chamber, the law on the creation of which has just been adopted by the State Duma in the third reading. Until now, there has been a terrible mess in this matter. Public opinion was expressed by some rogues. No one appointed them or gave them any powers. And they expressed it.

What Deputy Kosachev calls “Russian investments abroad” was recently called the export of capital. The Russian government has been unsuccessfully fighting this phenomenon in recent years. Having obviously realized that after the YUKOS case and other exploits of the Kremlin it is impossible to stop the flight of capital, the authorities are trying to keep at least a good face on the existing game.

The head of the Ukrainian security service, Alexander Turchynov, said that former presidential security officer Nikolai Melnichenko should soon arrive in the country. Tape recordings of Leonid Kuchma's conversations made by Melnichenko may shed light on the circumstances of the murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze, but to attach them to the case, Melnichenko's testimony is needed.

The directors of large Russian factories can be understood. In the entire history of our automotive industry, they have never had to worry about marketing their products. In Soviet times, the price of cars on the “black” market was several times higher than the nominal price. But it was impossible to buy a car on free sale. I had to sign up and wait for years. Now entire car factories are on free sale, but there are no buyers in sight, because they still produce the same cars.

By 2007, the Moscow Metro Internal Affairs Directorate will place its employees in new premises - transparent glass cubes. It is alleged that as a result, metro passengers will be able to observe the activities of law enforcement officers. There will also be transparent walls in the rooms where detainees are supposed to be. It is unlikely that this endeavor will bring the expected result. Traffic police posts are also made of glass. What's the point?

Let us remember that we are talking about the same dam in the Kerch Strait, because of which a full-scale conflict almost broke out between Russia and Ukraine a year and a half ago.

Some time ago, it was loudly announced that the ATP and Yabloko managed to agree on the unification. More than a year passed after the crushing defeat of liberals and democrats in the parliamentary elections - it is time to recover and do what it was necessary to do three years ago. However, later it turned out that there was no unification yet and it is only about negotiations, where the parties express the conditions under which they will go to this association.