The case of the ex-chief of intelligence of the Airborne Forces, Colonel Pavel Popovskikh, accused of involvement in the murder of Kholodov, was closed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. However, the Prosecutor General's Office stated that he was found guilty by the court of exceeding official powers and therefore does not have the right to rehabilitation and compensation for moral and material damage, which he demanded through the court.

The Izvestia newspaper-a balloped, crowded, oburied, similar to the expensive Dutch prostitute, which does not hide the name of the pimp (in our case, Gazprom-Media OJSC), published an excerpt from the new novel by Vladimir Sorokin, 23,000, which was a book next week at the Zakharov Publishing House. I have not seen the book, and all the following cannot be considered a review in any way.

However, the level of tolerance in regions where Orthodox Christians and Muslims live together is much higher than in the country as a whole. Sociologists from Western Michigan University Vyacheslav Karpov and Elena Lisovskaya came to these conclusions. They also found out that religious intolerance in Russia is not a religious phenomenon, since it does not depend on the degree of a person’s involvement in religious practice.

Under President Putin or his successor, the country will not be able to move towards liberal democracy. According to the former head of Menatep, which he expressed in an interview with the German Frankfurter Allgemeine, the authorities in Russia are not only “full of political cynicism, but also criminal.” Platon Lebedev named “common theft” as the true reason for the defeat of Russia’s largest oil company.

The Forbidden fruit is sweet. On the eve of the New Year holidays, the Moscow government remembered this and decided to lift the ban on fireworks on New Year’s introduced a couple of weeks ago. The stricter the taboo, the more radical its violations will be. After all, Muscovites will not refuse the usual firecrackers and fireworks under any circumstances.

Vladimir Putin came to the meeting as an honored guest, but not everyone showed him hospitality. A few minutes before his speech, Australian Prime Minister John Howard addressed the participants of the first East Asia Summit with a call to hold negotiations in the previous format and to suspend Russia's entry into the East Asian Community. Meanwhile, other members of the “club of sixteen” do not rule out that Russia may join the East Asian Community as early as next year.

Patriarch Theophilos made his first visit since his enthronement to Greece, where he enlisted the support of the country’s authorities. According to Greek radio ERA, Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Panagiotis Skandalakis proposed establishing an advisory body in Athens that would guarantee transparency in transactions with the assets of the patriarchy.

Eleven Russian sailors accused of oil smuggling were freed in a Nigerian courtroom on Wednesday. The lawyers managed to agree on a reduced guilty verdict. As a result, the court found the sailors guilty and sentenced them to six months in prison. But since they had already spent more than two years in pre-trial detention, immediately after the verdict was announced, the sailors were released from custody. Already on December 25-26 they should fly home.

A month ago, the whole country watched on TV for the heroic captain Yarantsev, who caught a fish by Spitsbergen and fled from the Norwegian fish guard, taking with him a couple of hostages from among the Norwegian civil servants. The trailer "Electron" was engaged in poaching. He was convicted of this quite sane state. Having escaped with the hostages, he also added to the list of his crimes and thawing.

In the Kremlin Conspiracy against the prime minister December 14, 2005 Alexander Ryklin Putin Kremlin cannot wait anymore. The absence of a clear signal from the guarantor (in the broadest sense of this term) regarding his personal plans for his life after 2008 gave rise to confusion in the souls of dozens and hundreds of dignitaries and clerks, which are now the stronghold of the Putin regime.