“I believe that the time has come to remove the taboo from the topic of aggressiveness dissolved in the world of Islam. I believe that we should in every possible way encourage Muslim intellectuals to carry out disinfecting work in their own environment, selecting and creating peaceful interpretations of the militant verses of the Koran...”, he noted .

He began to do this after a proposal from a member of the Danish Parliament, a Palestinian by origin, Nasser Khader, to create a union of democratically minded Muslims. Designed to become an alternative to associations of orthodox adherents of Islam, the organization has already received support from the Danish population: a week after its creation, more than three and a half thousand people signed up for it.

From time to time, public people pronounce - when in their hearts, and when with cold calculation - phrases that stick to them for a long time. Here is a fresh example of this kind of aphorisms: “Instead of being in places not so remote, they are in the highest places in the ranking of Forbes magazine.” This was not some kind of passionarium-oligarhona-navigate like Dmitry Rogozin, but the liberal Svetoch German Gref.

The activities of chaplains will be coordinated by a special department created within the Ministry of Defense. Funding for priests is planned to be divided between the Ministry of Defense and religious organizations. Candidates for the post of chief military priest of Russia (with the rank of general) will be able to be proposed by the leaders of traditional faiths, but he will be approved by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Rumors about the resignation of Mikhail Fradkov arise once every six months, but so far the Prime Minister remains in his chair. Despite the fact that the relationship between him and Alexei Kudrin has already reached a boiling point. In Russia, however, such issues are resolved on the basis of political rather than economic expediency (the latter implies the need for the coordinated work of the government).

According to the results of January, inflation in Russia amounted to 2.4%. The picture is very similar to the one that we observed last year. Then the inflation in the first month amounted to 2.6%, and a year earlier - 1.8%. In January, there is always an inflation peak. This is a seasonal phenomenon, since December is a month of large money extradition and most of this money is spent in January.

On Tuesday, the State Duma will host a meeting on the issue of hazing, in which chief military prosecutor Alexander Savenkov, Deputy Minister of Defense Nikolai Pankov and member of the Public Chamber, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, will take part. And on February 15, the head of the defense department will make a report on military discipline.

Having completed the investigation into the murder of Border Service General Vitaly Gamov, the prosecutor's office of the Sakhalin region sent the materials to the regional court. The defendants in the case were Alexey Anikin, Sergey Malyutin and Alexey Britov, who, according to the prosecution, are the perpetrators of the crime. In particular, they are charged with premeditated murder and attempted premeditated murder.

Yuri Budanov may be released on parole this year. This was announced by Nikolai Zhukov, head of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Volga Federal District. In July 2003, Budanov was sentenced to 10 years in prison to be served in a maximum security colony. A year later, his lawyers filed a petition for pardon, which was later withdrawn, not without pressure from the Chechen leadership.

Georgia decided not to wait for a formal agreement with the Russian side on the withdrawal of troops and began to act at its own discretion. On Tuesday night, police detained two trucks with food for peacekeepers en route to the South Ossetian village of Tsinagari. People were thrown out of their cars, and the cars themselves were driven to the city of Gori.