It is customary to look at literature from three different points of view today. Someone prefers to see in it no more than one of the areas of show business, living according to the same laws as, say, pop music or television. It is more pleasant for someone to drive everything that is happening in a tough logical scheme, looking for certain directions and trends in the book labyrinth.

After two years of misadventures in Nigeria, Russian sailors finally found themselves in their homeland. Today they arrived in Moscow. At a press conference on Wednesday morning, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Ara Abrahamyan, who took an active part in the release of the sailors, said that his charges intend to make financial claims against the Greek company that owns the ship African Pride.

On Wednesday, at a meeting of the Moscow City Duma, a resolution was adopted on the introduction of compulsory 11-year education. Muscovites will have to complete secondary education before the age of 18. According to the head of the Department of Education, Lyubov Kezina, 76% of 9th grade students are currently continuing their studies at school. At the same time, Kezina noted that the adoption of amendments to the law does not mean that everyone will be required to enroll in 10th grade.

OPEN LETTER To the President of Russia PUTIN Vladimir Vladimirovich To the President of Ukraine Yushchenko Viktor Andreevich Expressing deep concern about the growing tension in Russian-Ukrainian relations, on behalf of the Congress of Russian Communities I appeal to you to use the powers given to you by the peoples of Russia and Ukraine to normalize these relations on the basis of the centuries-old traditions of friendship and fraternal mutual assistance of the consanguineous peoples of Russia

In the economy Their own among strangers, a stranger among their December 28, 2005 Maxim Blunt In less than a week before the end of the year, Andrei Illarionov, Advisor to the President for Economic Affairs, announced his resignation. He did this in his characteristic manner - having convened a press conference and expressing everything that he thinks about the economic policy and the current state of the Russian state.

In the economy Subbed December 28, 2005 Alexander Ryklin I have great respect to Mr. Illarionov. I can’t even clearly formulate why. Yes, and all the decent people familiar to me are greatly respected by Mr. Illarionov. I am not familiar personally with Mr. Illarionov. But those who are familiar with him claim that this is an extremely decent and reasonable person. Separately, it attracts the talent in it non -standard to express original views and judgments. Take, for example, how Mr.

The Russian President approved changes to the law “On the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation”. From now on, the Chamber is endowed, in particular, with the right to involve citizens, public associations and media representatives in discussing issues related to the observance of freedom of speech, the implementation of the right to disseminate information, ensuring guarantees of freedom of speech and freedom of the media, as well as to develop recommendations on these issues.

The head of the special parliamentary commission to investigate the circumstances of the terrorist attack in Beslan, Alexander Torshin, made a report on the preliminary results of the commission’s work. No discoveries have been made.

The Moscow prosecutor's office drew attention to serious violations in the work of pre-trial detention centers in the capital.

The international human rights organization Human Rights Watch called the bill on public organizations approved yesterday by the Federation Council “catastrophic” for the protection of human rights in Russia. Amendments to the law do not cancel the extremely negative impact that it will have on Russian human rights organizations, according to a press release posted on the organization’s website.

In memory of the events of October 13-14, the New Year in Nalchik will be held according to a different, more restrained program from the usual (during the October bandit attack on the city, 35 law enforcement officers were killed, 10 civilians and more than 100 people were injured). There will be no holiday concerts or fireworks.

The West intends to seriously address the problem of developing democracy in the post-Soviet space. The export of democratic values ​​is one of the main directions of transatlantic cooperation between the US and the EU for the next year. This statement was recently made by US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns.

I have great respect to Mr. Illarionov. I can’t even clearly formulate why. Yes, and all the decent people familiar to me are greatly respected by Mr. Illarionov. I am not familiar personally with Mr. Illarionov. But those who are familiar with him claim that this is an extremely decent and reasonable person. Separately, it attracts the talent in it non -standard to express original views and judgments. Take, for example, how Mr. Illarionov commented on his own resignation.