The new stage of the “Mabetex case,” which made a splash in 2002 in connection with the arrest of Pavel Borodin (money allocated for restoration was transferred to the accounts of the Swiss company), promises no less resonance. Among the defendants are the former head of Rosvooruzhenie, Evgeny Ananyev, and the daughter of Pavel Borodin, Ekaterina Siletskaya.

With the help of an English lawyer, the Russian authorities intend to prove that there is no political motive in the criminal prosecution of YUKOS. But Temerko’s chances of staying in London are good.

About 20 NBP activists addressed State Duma deputies and members of the Federation Council with a statement ((http://nbp-info.ru/archiv/131204/081105_sf.html)), calling for attention to the anti-people activities of President Putin. They accused the head of state of 10 crimes against Russia and its citizens.

A year and a half after the death of Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov, his grandson was born, named after his grandfather. On this occasion, a national holiday was declared in the republic. The newborn Kadyrov Jr. can already be called a big man. It's not just the big name: the boy, according to news agency reports, weighs five and a half kilograms.

Around Russia Flame of Paris November 8, 2005 Alexander Golts Well, everything is like in output times. On November 7, Soviet television necessarily gave a report from the Parisian suburbs of Saint-Denis, which was part of the so-called “red belt” of the French capital. Thirty years ago, it was a working suburbs, which traditionally voted for the Communist Party and celebrated commemorative dates of the Soviet calendar. Today, immigrants live there, mainly from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.

According to participants in a new survey by the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, corruption took root most deeply in Russian regional administrations (40.9%) and in law enforcement agencies (33.8%). The least corrupt are political parties (3.4%) and the media (2.3%). Almost half of those surveyed consider it necessary to introduce more effective measures to combat bribery, including the death penalty.

Today, a bust of Felix Dzerzhinsky reappeared in the courtyard of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate. It was dismantled in August 1991 after the failure of the State Emergency Committee. The decision to restore the monument was made at their council by veterans of the Moscow police. Not otherwise, the return of old symbols is intended to crown the formation of a rigid vertical of power. As it turns out, the people for the most part are not against it.

In the economy All in the center November 8, 2005 Evgeny Yasin Starting next year, the federal government intends to introduce the bar of the maximum permissible growth of tariffs in the field of housing and communal services. The Minister of Economic Development, German Gref, promised to prepare proposals for tariff limits until November 20, and by December 15 they should already go through the Duma and become law.

And deputy life is good for everyone, except for one thing: they don’t let you control television! Well, they won’t give it to you, even if you crack it! And they, the people’s representatives, who sincerely consider themselves to be the authorities in this country, want it so much... But they don’t give it!

Build a temple in every microdistrict. Introduce “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” into schools. “Cut” the minaret at the reconstructed mosque of the Council of Muftis and generally restore Moscow urban planning traditions, when Orthodox churches were the dominant features of the capital.