The Public Chamber wants to protect society from Xenophobic and nationalist literature. So I want to exclaim: it's time to have time! Indeed - for a long time. So long ago that you think: is it too late? However, it’s better to be late, right? But, may dear readers forgive me, I will allow myself doubts. Of course, I am not crazy and do not claim that Mine Campf is a useful book. I'm talking about something else. Firstly, there is a technical question.

The Zonal District Court of the Altai Territory issued a guilty verdict on Friday against Oleg Shcherbinsky, the driver of the car that Governor Mikhail Evdokimov's Mercedes collided with on August 7, 2005. The court sentenced the defendant to 4 years in prison to serve the sentence in a penal colony.

As it turns out, the government did not plan to reduce the number of budget-funded places in universities out of a desire to increase cash flows from the education sector to the treasury. According to the director of the Department of Economics and Finance of the Ministry of Education and Science, Andrei Petrov, the decision was due to objective reasons and “taking into account the demographic factor” - a significant decrease in the number of school graduates.

The health condition of private Andrei Sychev, who was beaten by his colleagues at the Chelyabinsk Tank School, has worsened and is causing serious concern among doctors. He was again connected to a ventilator, gangrene spreading throughout his body. Transferring a patient in this condition to a Moscow clinic is impossible, although it is more than desirable.

According to Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mora Charter, the US side is considering the possibility of conducting visa interviews via video conference. In addition, it is planned to reduce the waiting time for interviews and receipt of a completed passport. As US Assistant Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice noted at the end of January, increasing the validity of entry visas for Russians to 5 years seems possible provided that Russia introduces a similar regime.

At the end of the last week, deputies of the State Duma had to consider in the second reading a new version of the Law "On Advertising". The version is radical. And so excellent from the currently acting that in the case of its adoption of the entire domestic advertising industry, the entire media industry associated with it, all advertisers and advertising consumers, that is, in fact, we will all have to start a new life. Since last Friday, a new life has not begun.

Russia is introducing quotas for the first time on the import of incandescent lamps into the country. China, for example, is allowed to import into the Russian Federation no more than 13 million light bulbs per year, Ukraine - no more than 8 million, and the EU countries that were leaders in this market - no more than 31 million. As Kommersant writes, the idea of ​​quotas belongs to the president of the international lighting industry holding V.A.V.S.

During the previous session of the Krasnokamensk court, which was considering the complaint of Khodorkovsky’s lawyers against the penalty imposed on him for leaving his workplace without permission, witnesses confirmed the innocence of the ex-head of YUKOS. Among them were not only convicts who were in the production workshop on the day of the breakdown of Khodorkovsky’s sewing machine, but also correctional facility employees.

The President of Turkmenistan signed a law that completely stopped the payment of pensions to disabled people, former collective farmers and other categories of elderly people. Only women with at least 20 years of work experience in the republic and men with more than 25 years of experience retained the right to state pensions. In addition, the law has retroactive effect, so pensioners who fall out of the categories listed in the document will have to return the money previously paid to them.

“The Soviet mentality is still present in the education system. If a child answers from the position of the biblical theory of the origin of the world, then he is told: “Sit down, deuce,” complained Metropolitan Clement. The Bishop is disingenuous: if a child does not know Darwin’s theory and excuses himself with the phrase “God created the world ", then he deservedly receives his D in biology.

The recent cold weather, fortunately, did not lead to serious and numerous accidents, although there were some. In Tomilino, for example, due to frost, heating and electricity were turned off for a long time. In some other cities, various kinds of problems also occurred that created difficulties and inconvenience for residents. Why is this happening? Russian citizens pay their rent and utilities quite carefully; the number of debtors does not exceed 10% of the total number of residents.

The story of citizen Alexander Koptsev, who, having eaten the bad Internet, took a knife and went to the synagogue, surprisingly disappeared from the news after a Kremlin “temnik” appeared on the Internet with detailed instructions on how to react to Koptsev. The prank of a psycho or an everyday murder never characterizes the public consciousness - it is characterized by the reaction of society to this prank. National conflicts are a symptom of the impending collapse of the empire.