The Echo of Moscow radio station asked its listeners: “What question would you ask the president at a press conference?” I know what question I would ask: “Mr. President, you such Media and such Journalists, like those who sit in this hall, are needed? Maybe it’s cheaper and easier to have one Gromov as a stand for a microphone? ” Curious, what would the president answer?

In response to government accusations against non-governmental public organizations of collaborating with Western intelligence, activists from the Memorial society and the For Human Rights movement decided to hold a protest.

Two powerful explosions on two – main and reserve – branches of the Mozdok-Tbilisi gas pipeline destroyed the last traces of the Russian-Georgian dialogue. However, these marks already looked like the roots of teeth destroyed by scurvy.

The leader of the Rodina faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergey Glazyev about the role of the Central Bank in the Russian economy: The State Duma took note that there is much more money in Russia than thoughts on their effective use by approving the decree “On the main directions of the Unified State Monetary Policy for 2006”.

After the scandalous incident of ((http://ej.ru/comments/entry/2867/ bullying)) against private Andrei Sychev in Chelyabinsk, military commanders decided to conduct mass inspections in order to identify facts of hazing in parts of the Russian army throughout the country. Today, the military prosecutor's office of the Novosibirsk region opened a criminal case against senior sergeant Stepan Khodorov, who beat a colleague in the regional capital.

After undergoing treatment after a car accident, Chechen Prime Minister Sergei Abramov will leave his post and will not return to Grozny. By the fall of 2006, power in the republic, which today is actually in the hands of Ramzan Kadyrov, may pass to the current acting. The premiere is already official. He will turn 30 on October 5th. From this age, Kommersant recalls, the constitution of Chechnya allows citizens to hold the presidential post.

The mayor of Nefteyugansk, deputy of the Tyumen Regional Duma Viktor Tkachev, accused of exceeding official powers, was sentenced to four years in prison with a probationary period of two years. The work of the investigation was greatly facilitated by Tkachev’s confession at a meeting in the city court last Friday: Tkachev admitted that in January 2003 he entered into an agreement to transfer municipal property into the ownership of a certain commercial company.

The Minister of Defense tells us that hazing is not everywhere, that 80 percent of the parts live without any grandfature. Nobody, of course, believes in numbers, but what does the minister want to say? That in general everything is not bad? What are certain shortcomings, of course, are there, but it is worthless to hide on the negative? That is, the minister could present a fair amount of not raped, not mutilated soldiers as evidence The army entrusted to him is very wow .

The environmental community is celebrating the victory: on January 24, the conclusion of the state environmental assessment of the feasibility study for the Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean (ESPO) trunk pipeline project was published.

The war in Chechnya can be considered almost over. As Vladimir Putin said, now “it is quite possible to talk about the end of the counter-terrorism operation.” Touching on another pressing topic related to the Russian army, the head of state expressed his attitude to the scandal of bullying of private Andrei Sychev.

Kirill Frolov was heading to Simferopol to give a lecture at the Tauride National University on the topic “Cultural and civilizational development of Ukraine and Russia.” He has been interested in this issue for a long time; after Yushchenko’s victory in the presidential elections, the SPG issued the statement “Ukraine is on the verge of occupation.” So the head of the press service of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Mr.

Nikolai Svanidze, journalist, member of the Public Chamber about his trip to Chelyabinsk on the case of private Andrei Sychev: The purpose of our trip to Chelyabinsk was to find out the circumstances of the tragic events in early January of this year, when Private Andrei Sychev was injured. We planned to find out the situation in the army as a whole, the mood regarding hazing. Maybe even listen to some proposals for its eradication. All this is ideal.

According to the Property Fund of the Republic of Crimea, 96 facilities used by Russians on the peninsula are not listed in the annex to the intergovernmental Ukrainian-Russian agreement on the distribution of fleet property. Thus, the mid-February scandal related to control over the lighthouses in Yalta and Cape Sarych, which are used by the Russian Black Sea Fleet, continued. Kyiv and Moscow agreed to sit down at the negotiating table on these issues in mid-February 2006.