Otto Latsis never managed to recover from a serious road accident in which he was involved in mid-September. He died at the age of 72 at the Burdenko Research Institute, where he had been for a month and a half. With the departure of Latsis, Russian journalism lost another honest, conscientious professional, a true master of his craft, who had the rare gift of speaking simply and clearly about the most complex things.

In society Why do not prohibit the demonstration of nationalists November 3, 2005 Alexey Makarkin On November 4, a demonstration of nationalists will be held in Moscow, designed to become the largest in the modern history of the capital.

With the help of the new judicial body, Russia hopes to achieve the extradition of those Russians whose extradition it was previously denied. The proposal to create arbitration was supported by the Warsaw summit of the Council of Europe back in May 2005. Now the issue will be considered by the European Crime Committee. But the problem can hardly be solved by the establishment of an authority alone.

The penitentiary system is offended. They say that the information provided by the Chita department of the FSIN about the ex-head of YUKOS appears in the press in a highly distorted form. “They distorted everything and turned it upside down,” complained department representative Yunus Amayev, adding that for this he received a reprimand from the management. Revenge from the FSIN did not take long to arrive.

The monastery holds a solemn prayer service and blessing of young conscripts to serve the Fatherland. It's normal. Something else is strange: the action is organized by the Orthodox charitable foundation “Peresvet”, the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church and the office of the presidential plenipotentiary in the Central Federal District, the Federation Council, the religious committee of the Duma, the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography and the Moscow City Hall.

“Nashi” published a brochure listing the good deeds planned for November 4 and their performers from among the organization’s activists. Someone will screw in light bulbs at Moscow State University and hand out homemade pies, someone A. Bulkin from Smolensk will start singing funny songs at exactly 19.00 Moscow time. The true background of the event was revealed by the ideological leader of “Nashi” Vasily Yakemenko: “We propose to fill this holiday with content.

In society Riot of cartoons November 3, 2005 Alexander Ryklin The Vice Speaker of the State Duma Lyubov Slisk again went on the attack on television. Viewing a documentary about cannibals (the program “Suspicious recognition”) deduced Lyubov Konstantinovna out of balance , and she immediately sat down to write a document that entered into consideration of the Council of the Duma. In principle, Ms.

Thus, Viktor Shenderovich became the only candidate from the democratic forces in the by-elections to the State Duma in the University District, scheduled for December 4. One of the leaders of the “Yes” youth movement supported her decision with the results of opinion polls in the district, according to which, when choosing between Gaidar and Shenderovich, people give preference to the second candidate.

Russia, it seems, has found a national idea. Yes, it is already more or less clear what the goal should be to unite citizens and motivate them to great deeds: we will teach the world, infected with relativism, primarily the Western one, absolute moral values. This simple but noble task was formulated yesterday by Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad in his interview "Literary newspaper".

Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Andrei Denisov said that an investigation into the accusations of the former head of the US Federal Reserve System will be carried out, despite the fact that a number of documents presented in the report, according to the Russian side, are fakes.