On the one hand, sometimes you want to blow up a car parked in the middle row with the emergency stop lights on. On the other hand, courts at various levels have long ago recognized evacuation as an illegal measure. True, Luzhkov promises that this time everything will be organized without extortion and excessive extremism. Hard to believe. Especially when there are no fees. Who, then, and why will be involved in this troublesome matter?

In the Kremlin Banal blackmail October 6, 2005 Maxim Blan Just a few days ago, it seemed that the times when the Russian stock market was in a fever after each message about the searches and excavations of documents in one or another office passed. Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev are deprived of property and will spend the coming years in places not so remote. For some time you can live calmly. But no. Power departments methodically repeat their actions two years ago.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, the military department insists that rural teachers, employees of military-industrial complex enterprises, children of pensioners, graduate students, gifted young men and those whose parents need special care should be deprived of deferments. Amendments to the laws will be submitted to the State Duma at the end of October, so that foreheads can be shaved as early as 2006.

New searches and seizures conducted by the Prosecutor General's Office in banks and companies associated with YUKOS indicate that today or tomorrow Khodorkovsky and Lebedev will be accused of “legalization of criminally obtained funds.” The authorities intend to leave the disgraced oligarch in a pre-trial detention center in order to control his connections with the outside world as tightly as possible.

Alexander Osovtsov, Director of the programs of the Interregional Organization "Open Russia" I explain the searches in Open Russia by the fact that today's Russian authorities do not want to allow Mikhail Khodorkovsky to engage in any kind of social activity and show their civic position.

December thunderstorms are very rare. But, on the other hand, there is global warming. If in 1993 the turnout for the first elections to the Moscow City Duma exceeded 57% (of course, thanks to the combination with the federal elections), then in 1997 it dropped to 31, and in 2001 – to 29 percent. And now VTsIOM reports that in December 2005 as many as 57% are going to go to the polls again. Of this number, 39 will definitely go, and another 18 will most likely go.

The Izmailovsky Court of Moscow acquitted surgeon Alexander Prokofiev, accused of illegally using ketamine. According to the court, the clinic where he worked had all the necessary permits to use the psychotropic drug, and the surgeon himself did not make any profit from his activities. At the same time, he was accused under an article that carries a sentence of 7 to 15 years. However, the prosecutor's office intends to appeal the verdict.

The pre-trial investigation that was conducted against Russian Air Force pilot Valery Troyanov has been discontinued. The pilot himself has been released from house arrest. This was announced by his lawyer Vytautas Janevičius. I would like to hope that Major Troyanov’s misadventures will end there. However, there are also doubts.

In the Kremlin Smoke without fire October 6, 2005 Anton Oresh There is such a temptation. Well, there is. For everyone who was born in the USSR and to whom this USSR did nothing bad, the news about the possible unification of someone with someone in the vastness of the former union is good news. In the end, why not? We will connect with the Belarusians, merge with the Kazakhs , and there, you look, and someone else will do. Armenians are the same.

“We visited... monasteries, the St. Petersburg diocese, Valaam, Solovki,” the bishop said in an interview with RIA Novosti. “The impressions are very strong.” However, it will be possible to talk about a complete revival of church life only when “the overwhelming majority of the population returns to their roots,” and this can be helped by the rapprochement of the ROCOR and the Moscow Patriarchate. “But in our flock there is still no complete unity on this issue.