PACE Chairman Rene van der Linden agreed with the comments of the Russian Orthodox Church, and appropriate amendments were made to the text of the resolution. However, having adopted a condemning resolution, the assembly was unable to obtain the necessary number of votes to approve the recommendation to the Committee of Ministers necessary for an international investigation.

Thank God, it didn’t come down to shooting. But, as news agencies report, it was very close to a full-scale conflict. The incident occurred due to an accident in which the Ural of the peacekeepers collided with the Lada of one of the local peasants. The command of the Russian unit tried to remove the truck from the scene, which was prevented by Georgian investigators. In response, the peacekeepers blocked several villages. But this “special operation” was not crowned with success.

The former Prime Minister of Ukraine is confident that Yushchenko should support her in the fight against the head of the Party of Regions, Viktor Yanukovych, just as she supported the current head of state during the presidential elections. “It’s very difficult for me, since Viktor Andreevich Yushchenko is not around,” Tymoshenko said. Meanwhile, her main opponent is also not averse to enlisting presidential support.

Yuri Luzhkov’s initiative was prompted by a statement by the chairman of the Moscow Union of Journalists, Pavel Gusev, regarding “the pressure of prefectures on journalists of district newspapers, which affects the reliability of materials.” As the mayor said on Wednesday at the ceremony of presenting the annual Moscow Prize in the field of journalism, “I will immediately sign an order according to which any call from the prefecture to the district newspaper will be followed by dismissal.”

Moscow asked the Council of Europe to conduct a comparative analysis of existing bills in the field of non-governmental organizations in Council member states. The reason for the appeal was the appearance during the winter session of comments indicating that the Russian law on NGOs does not comply with CE standards.

According to the mufti, some people want to remove him from the post of chairman of the Executive Committee of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia (TSDUM).

In the Kremlin The last briskout February 1, 2006 Alexander Ryklin Boris Yeltsin - Musa of domestic publicists. It is customary to talk about him with a slight aspiration. Many even have a gaze. It's like to recall past love. Say what were the years! You are all in white, and I am so courageous. Do you remember this shabby hotel in Syzran? .. In this place you need to start embarrassedly and stupidly smile ...

Mikhail Gorbachev sent a corresponding petition to the Nobel Committee. According to the ex-president of the USSR, “awarding the crew of the K-19 submarine the Nobel Peace Prize would be a worthy assessment of the feat, the significance of which only increases over time.” Gorbachev noted that by eliminating the accident in the submarine’s nuclear reactor on July 4, 1961, the crew prevented a major environmental disaster and international crisis.

Among those detained for participating in an unauthorized rally near the building of the FSB of Russia are the head of the movement “For Human Rights” Lev Ponomarev and the head of the Memorial human rights center Oleg Orlov. Human rights activists decided to hold this action in protest against accusations against non-governmental organizations related to the spy scandal involving employees of the British Embassy, ​​but they did not have time to obtain permission for the action.

Gazprom continues to expand its participation in the domestic media market. A new 24-hour radio station, CITY - FM Moscow Information Radio, began broadcasting at a frequency of 87.9 MHz. General Director of the Gazprom-Media holding Nikolai Senkevich noted that the new station will occupy an information niche focused on metropolitan news. Its general director is Mikhail Eidelman, former general director of Maximum radio, and most recently managing director of Amedia.

In the Kremlin The triumph of the vertical February 1, 2006 Alexander Golts The annual press conference of Vladimir Putin finally turned into a ritual, and the process of asking questions and receiving answers to them is no longer aim to inform Russian and foreign citizens about the views and affairs of the chief chief of Russia.

The pensioner asked, you know, a riddle - how to celebrate the anniversary? Will the successor risk giving Yeltsin the Order of St. Andrew the First-Called? You can’t give anything less - “For services to the Fatherland”, First degree from B.N. already there. So: or “Andrey P.” - or just with a bouquet of roses for the holiday table! In the first case, it is to “spit into the pure souls” of millions (tens of millions) of “dear Russians” who are eager to scalp their former chosen one.