The Chechen parliamentary elections cannot be viewed from the standpoint of classical democracy. It was not in the republic, it is not and will not be. But elections provide an opportunity to discuss the inviolability of local customs, regardless of the century or social system. Any self-respecting expert who writes about Chechnya knows the word “teip”.

The reason is simple: there are fewer and fewer believers, church communities are shrinking, and therefore, very soon financial problems arise or the need for a church building disappears altogether. The country has an abundance of temple buildings, built mainly in the post-war period and in need of major repairs. Some churches are handed over to Orthodox communities that are growing due to the influx of immigrants - anything is better than tearing them down.

Russia, Lithuania and Sweden entered into an agreement on exclusive economic zones and establishing the point of their intersection on the continental shelf of the Baltic Sea - in the Gotland Trench, 141 km from the coast. If geological exploration data is confirmed, then in only one field D-6, which is 22 km from the coast of the Kaliningrad region, oil production in 2006 could reach 650 thousand tons. This much is now being mined throughout the region.

The power, in which most of the characters - immigrants from the KGB, inevitably suffer from conspiracyology. These characters are bad or good, they bear the imprint of the culture of the organization that has grown them, the experience that they acquired in it. Therefore, if a citizen hides with foreigners, then he is a potential spy, if a human rights organization receives grants from abroad, then it must serve the interests of philanthropists, and not declared goals.

Nikita Belykh, Chairman of the Federal Political Council of the Union of Right Forces, about the situation in Moscow on the eve of the elections to the Moscow City Duma: I am contacting you on the eve of the elections to the Moscow City Duma. This appeal is not planned, emergency, extraordinary. Because on the eve of the elections in Moscow there were emergency circumstances.

If the widow of the governor of the Altai Territory, Galina Evdokimova, goes to court with a corresponding request, the authorities are ready to find out the origin of the letter distributed on Monday through the media on her behalf. The message criticized the progress of the investigation into the death of the head of the region, and accused the authorities of trying to hide the true causes of the accident. As it turned out, Evdokimova knew nothing about the letter.

In connection with the introduction in Russia of a two-level system of higher professional education (bachelor - master), it is planned to reduce the number of state standards of higher professional education. And religious leaders ((http://religion.sova-center.ru/events/13B7455/13E1BC8/669A39C) are afraid that the newly adopted “theology” standard, which allows theology to be taught in secular universities, will be the first to fall under the knife.

Mikhail Trepashkin was left in custody because he “has not yet taken the path of correction.” This is how, last week, the Tagilstroevsky District Court of Nizhny Tagil motivated the refusal to release him on parole. But, as Novye Izvestia writes today, Trepashkin’s lawyers are sure: the authorities are simply looking for any, even the most ridiculous, reason to keep him in custody.

The peace of Kovalevskaya (369 district) is a young woman with a pleasant intelligent face. She looks at me as it is appropriate to the judge - cold, impartial, but at the same time carefully. I set out in detail the essence of the matter. It seems to me that my arguments are absolutely undeniable. It seems to me that in Russia people who protested against fascism cannot be condemned. Moreover, I see extremely important that the form of this protest was absolutely not aggressive.

“Why are we worse than any European city? When we are given a specific task, has there ever been a case where it was not completed?” - Yuri Luzhkov asked a rhetorical question, speaking at a conference of the Moscow Federation of Trade Unions, and immediately promised to increase the average salary of Muscovites to 32-35 thousand rubles by 2010 (now this figure is two times lower). The mayor did not specify from what funds such a large-scale indexation of rates will be carried out.

The scandal that is brewing in the interfaith community after book publication Executive Secretary of the Interreligious Council of Russia (IRC) Roman Silantiev, “The Recent History of the Islamic Community of Russia,” may well destroy the fragile interfaith peace in our country.

“If there was only revenge, then only he would be pursued, but they would not pursue the property of the best company in the country,” this was the opinion expressed by the mother of the ex-head of YUKOS, Marina Khodorkovskaya, in an interview with the online newspaper Grani.ru. To finally get Western help in this matter, it is necessary to convey to the US leadership the idea that the totalitarian regime in Russia poses a danger to the whole world, she believes. Just don't overdo it.