The Federal Bailiff Service intends to personally recover 17 billion rubles from Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. In May, the Meshchansky court sentenced the former heads of YUKOS and MENATEP, and in addition satisfied the claim against them by the Federal Tax Service. As part of this case, the court decided to confiscate 17 billion 395 million rubles from the convicted and transfer them to the budget.

Another escalation of talk about a “national referendum on the topic of unification with Belarus.” The referendum has already been held with consistent success - in 2002, 2003, it seems, and in 1999. That is, they didn’t conduct it, but they announced it – but what’s the difference, in essence? "I want her again." - “Have you already had it?” - “No, I already wanted to.” This time the motives are as simple as a moo - in March, Old Man and his people again choose Old Man - Old Man.

Our last meeting with Boris Berezovsky took place a little over two years ago in London. I said then: “Thank you, Boris Abramovich, for what you arranged for us.” He grinned in response: “Do you think Primakov would be better? And then don’t demonize me so much. It wasn’t me who proposed this candidacy to Yeltsin... Yumashev or Voloshin, but definitely not me.” Today Boris Abramovich Berezovsky turns 60. This is the date when it seems customary to sum up some results.

From archival materials “The trend of new isolationism and the restoration of the oligarchic style of government are two dangerous paths that lead the country to the abyss.” V.Yu. Surkov, deputy. Head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation. Moscow, December 2005 “Not for long, Prince Ivan Vasilievich Shuisky enjoyed the authorities ...

The initiators of the award emphasized that after the recent events in France, “Notre Dame Mosque” has already gone through three editions and has become one of the most discussed works in the genre of social science fiction.

The new law on public organizations has come into effect. The American Eurasia Foundation is curtailing its work in Russia. The acceleration of the procedure was influenced, in particular, by a television program recently shown on the Rossiya channel. The program "Special Correspondent" alleged that the fund received money from the British, and it was transferred through an agent of British intelligence.

“On the one hand, they say that the Russian Orthodox Church is almost the second CPSU, and its influence needs to be blocked... And on the other... that we have only 2% of deeply believers...,” the bishop said in the program "The Shepherd's Word" It’s true: religious statistics in Russia are often used for ideological purposes, primarily by the leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church. And what, exactly, is Metropolitan Kirill hinting at?

This year Samara is preparing to celebrate its 420th anniversary, and in 2007 the city can celebrate a new milestone - its 650th anniversary. The initiator of the campaign to clarify the founding date of Samara was the deputy of the regional Duma, historian Mikhail Matveev. He proposed to consider the birth of the city in 1357, when the future Samara was visited by Moscow Metropolitan Alexy I on the way to the Horde.

In an article published in Kommersant, Andrei Illarionov notes that state-owned companies have turned “into the shock weapons of the corporatist state and have moved on to massive interventions in the private sector.” The best way to combat this situation is to start a campaign of civil non-participation in state affairs. Thus, according to Illarionov, Russians will be able to begin restoring lost civil, political, and economic freedoms.

The main task of a public body, which really does not have a mechanism to influence the authorities, is to build interaction with the media so that all its statements can be used as an instrument of influence. It was in this spirit that Elena Zelinskaya, Deputy Head of the OP Commission on Communications, Information Policy and Freedom of Speech in the Media, spoke today. There shouldn’t be any particular problems with this - there are only a few independent media left in the country.

One of the main shareholders of Group Menatep, Leonid Nevzlin, who is now in Israel, has been put on the international wanted list by Russian law enforcement agencies. The Prosecutor General's Office accuses Nevzlin of organizing a murder and organizing attempted murders. At the same time, the Prosecutor General’s Office still refuses to provide Nevzin’s lawyers with materials on their client’s case.