The Minister for Hajj and Religious Minorities of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Muhammad Yakub Qureshi, last week announced a reward of 11.5 million US dollars on the head of the author of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. The BJP, the ruling party until the 2004 elections, demanded Qureshi's arrest. With his statement, he violated the country's constitution, the party leadership says.

As it became known on Wednesday, Zarema Muzhakhoeva was sent to the Mozhaisk women's colony. The verdict in the case came into force in August 2004, but due to the fact that Muzhakhoeva testified in a number of criminal cases (including the case of Nurpashi Kulaev, who participated in the seizure of a school in Beslan), her sending to the colony was delayed almost by one and half year.

With his overly bold statements and... O. Prime Minister of Chechnya incurred the wrath of the Kremlin. Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak asked the Prosecutor General's Office to check the activities of Ramzan Kadyrov. The reason was Kadyrov’s loud promise to expel Danish humanitarian organizations from the republic after the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers.

In the village of Lagunnoye on the South Kuril Island of Kunashir, Sakhalin Region, a soldier of the apartment maintenance unit of a machine gun and artillery regiment was killed. According to the medical report, the death of Private Vladislav Saltaganov was caused by a traumatic brain injury, which was allegedly received from a blow with a shovel. Two other conscripts are suspected of murder and are wanted.

On January 31, a document sent from the patriarchate prohibited the community from holding a parish meeting to extend the powers of the parish council. This means paralysis of the life of the community (including blocking of the current account). The Patriarchate cited information from the Federal Registration Service about the upcoming exclusion of the temple from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities as the basis for its decision.

Well, hello, comrade. Have you noticed that for five years we have been meeting only on the eve of the 23rd? Life is life where you go. It seems that we live in one city, but everything is not enough. But this holiday is our. Yes, I know, I know that the heroic Red Army did not win any victories that day in 1918. What they handed over that day to the Germans Pskov and Narva. And Comrade Stalin came up with a brief course about victories.

The State Duma decided to request information from the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications about the legality, reasons and grounds for the closure in connection with the cartoon scandal of the Volgograd and Vologda newspapers. The author of the protocol order, which was approved by the State Duma today, was independent deputy Vladimir Ryzhkov.

The bill defines the concept of “terrorism” as “the ideology of violence and the practice of influencing decision-making by state authorities, local governments or international organizations associated with intimidation of the population and (or) other forms of illegal violent actions.” According to the new bill, it is allowed to use the armed forces to suppress terrorist attacks on aircraft, which, if there is a particular threat, can be destroyed.

In the regions A simple Chechen guy February 22, 2006 Alexander Ryklin The Supreme Commissar of the UN Human Rights Louise Arbur is a woman, without a doubt, quite heroic. She had seen a lot of things on her human rights century: she was the UN Rodant and Yugoslavia tribunal prosecutor, once tried without a Serbian visa to penetrate the territory of Kosovo from Macedonia to investigate the crimes of the Serbian military, issued the arrest of Slobodan Miloshevich.

A professional politician lives as if behind a fluid-permeable glass. His political image (that they say about him what they write), in essence, lives separately from him. How many times in the past time, on the pathos of the NTV birthday in the Slavic-Radisson, I watched them, peacefully talking with glasses in their hands ... well-fed people who have successed their lives. The electors heated by them, meanwhile, converged on the streets almost hand -to -hand. At first it shocked me.