Earlier, a complaint related to searches in the offices of Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s defenders was sent to the Constitutional Court. Now the Moscow Bar Association intends to protest the legality of similar actions by the authorities, regardless of the persons involved in the case. Today, a request was sent to the Constitutional Court to verify the legality of searches without court approval.

The lawyer was an assistant to the deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Yuri Ivanov and represented the interests of the wife of the capital's mayor in the Interco-Agro company, a subsidiary of the Inteko company, headed by Elena Baturina. The activities of Luzhkov’s wife’s companies have long interfered with the administration of the Belgorod region.

Art - everything, modern and not very - turned out to be the main newsmaker last week. Exhibition of provocative photo collages "post -Soviet democracy. 15 years of parody »Posterist Andrei Budaev I went to the State Medical University of the State Duma in the MGVZ, and Zhirinovsky and lemons shone on the backdrop of works depicting them themselves in ugly and enormous forms on the vernisage.

United Russia submitted to the State Duma a draft law providing for the creation of tourist and recreational special economic zones in the country. Investors operating in territories recognized by the government as resort areas will be exempted from land and property taxes for 5 years, and UST rates will be reduced to 14%.

After Victor Yushchenko's victory in the presidential elections, it seemed to many that dreams of a local church were about to become a reality. Alas, it hasn’t worked out yet. But the most painful method of acquiring autocephalous status was chosen: the UAOC and the UOC-KP entered into negotiations with Constantinople behind the back of the Moscow Patriarchate. Meanwhile, the success of the “Ukrainian project” is impossible without the consolidation of believers. And it’s far away.

Around Russia And why is Poland not friends with Russia? October 12, 2005 Julia Latynina All Russian state television channels with a sigh of indignation reported the results of the elections in neighboring Poland . Both of the winners who entered the final not only adhere to right -handed views (which for some time is not comme il faut), but they are not going to be friends with Russia. That is, they are not going to at all. For them, Russia is not on a political map.

Not long ago, the media circulated the news that the Russian Orthodox Church was starting a new commercial project: shops would be built “within walking distance” from the churches, where the Moscow Patriarchate would be allocated space. Now the amendments to the tourism law are ready. No wonder: transporting pilgrims is a lucrative business.

The words made in the title of the article can cause bewilderment and even indignation. How? Racism in Russia? In the country with a centuries -old tradition of interethnic marriages and active mixing of cultures and languages? Where for decades, the Soviet ideology of internationalism has been vaccinated for people, which affirmed the equality of races, nationalities and cultures? Where is Alexander Pushkin considered the greatest national poet with his Ethiopian roots?

In society Break again October 12, 2005 George Satarov They shake “open Russia” - a fund founded by Khodorkovsky and implements a bunch of useful programs. They do not purchase foreign football teams and do not return royal eggs to the country. They are overlapping rural schools, help to increase the professional level of regional journalists, contribute to the formation of modern elites in the regions, and develop the Russian scout movement.

Members of the LDPR party, the authors of the law on the dominance of Russian citizens in sports clubs, expressed concern that, for example, in the Dynamo football club the “foreign presence” is 73%, and in Spartak it is 49%. But the majority of parliamentarians did not share their concerns: they are ready to support domestic sports without looking at their passports. Only 85 out of the required 226 deputies voted for the adoption of the bill.

Impressed by the activity of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions, which today gathered thousands of state employees to rallies throughout Russia, Dmitry Rogozin proposed that the organization unite in the State Duma elections. “The trade unions must decide: either they will flutter and imitate activity, or they will go over to the side of the real opposition parties,” he said.