At a meeting of the State Duma, deputy Sergei Abeltsev proposed contacting the competent authorities with a demand to take measures for the return of the former minister, who is awaiting extradition to the United States in Switzerland. “And if this is impossible, give instructions to the special services to destroy the “nuclear businessman”, who is also a secret carrier.

Comrades, the last time I ask: who ordered Friedman?! It is impossible, in fact, so mocking a person. After all, how much time already-consider, from the moment of the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky-whatever the newspaper is cutting, which button on the television remote control is no, from everywhere it will be followed by the “alpha groups” followed by Yukos.

Disengagement continues in the Russian Orthodox Church. Until recently, the official information center of the Russian Orthodox Church was the press service of the Department for External Church Relations, headed by Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad. But at the beginning of 2005, the press service of the Moscow Patriarchate itself was created (www.patriarchia.ru), which, presumably, will now be the official voice of the Church.

The Kremlin's worldwide celebration of May 9 did not quite work out. And it’s not just about Moscow, which is closed for special services. Not only in the geopolitical revelations of Defense Minister Ivanov, who stated that you cannot occupy what belongs to you. The fact is that Russia and the whole world celebrated victory in two different wars.

The Kommersant newspaper publishes a message from Ivan Mironov, a defendant in the case of the assassination attempt on Anatoly Chubais, who is on the run. In addition to declaring his innocence, Mironov sets out his own version of what happened.

Over the past year and a half, a woman was killed and seven people were injured as a result of four explosions in Voronezh. The 28-year-old terrorist was detained on May 8; during a search, two fake passports were confiscated from him. He had already shown the FSB officers a hiding place in the city forest belt, confessed and named the organizers of the terrorist attacks. They are wanted. The name of the detainee has not yet been released as the investigation is ongoing.

It seems that the Russian Orthodox Church has finally realized that there are no more Catholics, despite all their sweeping actions such as the founding of dioceses in Russia, but the ranks of Pentecostals are rapidly growing. Nothing surprising: the church is active, committed to social service, attracting more and more new people to it. What can you do?

Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy Konstantin Pulikovsky is forming a list of candidates for the post of governor of Chukotka. The Gazeta newspaper is confident that billionaire Roman Abramovich will remain in office, while Vremya Novostei predicts his departure. One way or another, the oil tycoon invented a universal safety formula.

The military is preparing for a siege.

Soldiers who left their unit told a Trud correspondent about this. It is significant that the multi-level system of extortions described by the fugitive soldiers exists in the 42nd division. The transfer of this particular unit stationed in Chechnya to a contract was declared the most important priority of the Ministry of Defense in 2004.

According to Kremlin officials, the purpose of the presidential instructions is more than good: to limit as much as possible bureaucratic arbitrariness when foreigners acquire controlling stakes in domestic enterprises. Just don’t be surprised if departments try to interpret the concept of “security” as broadly as possible. And the sausage factory will become a strategic facility ensuring food security. After all, it is much easier to extract bribes from our entrepreneurs.

Analyzing the opinion of the expert community about the future of Russia, you come to a disappointing conclusion: the vast majority believes that if you do not urgently take any measures, in ten years, or even much earlier, the country will crawl into a crisis, the result of which will be final degradation, depopulation and, not excluded, decay and occupation. There are, however, those who, without denying the findings of the majority, believes that it is too late to do anything; Their minority.