Yegor Gaidar, director of the Institute for the Economy in Transition, on Russia’s current financial policy: The state of the Russian budget allows us to assert that in the next few years the country will successfully control the economic situation and will be able to avoid serious crises. This is evidenced by the fairly responsible and conservative financial policy of previous years.

Women make up 37% of delegates and 45% of participants in this ecumenical association. It is not surprising: after several Orthodox churches (Bulgarian, Georgian) left the WCC, the weight of Protestants in it is growing, and in some Protestant denominations the female priesthood is already allowed. A delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church arrived at the assembly led by Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria.

In uniform Without shame and conscience February 16, 2006 Alexander Golts All the weeks, while the story with an ordinary Sychev, crippled by his colleagues, some part of society was warming the hope that this wild incident would have wake up the conscience of the leaders of the military department, force them to admit that the army decomposes, that radical changes are needed.

Pupils of Vologda schools will study social studies according to the charter of United Russia and using examples from its activities. According to the Vedomosti newspaper, by order of the regional branch of the party, a methodological manual was published for a social studies lesson in 11th grade. The trick is that the manual, published with the money of the United Russia, is considered auxiliary literature, and therefore does not require the approval of educational authorities.

There is a characteristic sign of schizophrenia - the excessive breadth of definitions. For example, if you ask the schizophrenic, what a pencil is, he will answer that this is a mass gravitating to the center of the Earth. Pencil, for sure, gravitates to the center of the Earth. But this is not his distinguishing feature. Yesterday, Minister of Defense Sergei Ivanov, on the parliamentary hour, made a speech that should be of undoubted interest for political psychiatrists. In the speech of Mr.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow rejected the cassation appeal of the defenders of the head of Menatep, who insisted on changing Lebedev’s place of imprisonment. Meanwhile, the Khamovnichesky Court of the capital refused to interrogate Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the case of a story on the Ren-TV channel, which said that after Platon Lebedev was placed in the Matrosskaya Tishina punishment cell in August 2005, Khodorkovsky went on a hunger strike.

In the regions The only right path February 16, 2006 Alexander Cherkasov “The investigation, comrades, is on the only right path,” it seems that one of the heroes of the Dovlatov “zone” said. But in the end, the perpetrators were not found there ... About the same thing is happening now in real life. From the very beginning of the “Second Chechen War,” human rights activists attracted the attention of the authorities and the public to the “disappearance” of people and extrajudicial executions.

Alexander Milinkevich will present his election program in Moscow. Its widespread advertising in Belarus turned out to be impossible after the Central Election Commission of the republic banned the publication of candidates' programs in independent Belarusian media. The Union of Right Forces helped Milinkevich organize the presentation.

Vladimir Putin today signed a decree on measures to counter terrorism, which provides for the creation of a national anti-terrorism committee. In accordance with the document, operational headquarters will be established in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to manage counter-terrorism operations. The committee will be headed by the director of the FSB of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev.

On February 15, the Georgian parliament adopted a resolution where the actions of Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia are regarded as an “attempt at annexation” and demanded their withdrawal and replacement with the OSCE contingent. “I will try to convince the Russian side of the need for the steps of a peaceful settlement that Georgia proposes,” said Georgy Khaindrava.

In Vladimir, the price of a pack of salt reached 60 rubles (versus the usual 4.5-5.5 rubles). In just a few days, a month's supply of salt was bought up. Prices for sugar continue to rise, and therefore for many bakery products. According to data from the regions, demand increased after information in a number of media about a reduction in salt supplies from Ukraine.