I can directly see how an ominous shadow creeps along the narrow damp corridors of the Hague prison on a terrible dark night. So she stopped near one of the doors of the casemate, pulled back the massive bolt and ducked inside. In a cramped, wretched cell, illuminated by a torch, Slobodan Milosevic sleeps peacefully. His inspired face radiates nobility and peace, and above his head, like an angel, a small white butterfly flutters like a small white butterfly that has flown here.

On Sunday, Iran rejected all Moscow's proposals to reprocess nuclear fuel on its territory. An anecdote on the topic: Khaled Mashal arrives from Moscow, and they ask him: “Well, how do you like Putin?” He’s a normal guy, answers Khaled Mashal, but you don’t need to go to the toilet with him. I don’t know about Mashal, but they reduced all of Russia to the toilet. Judge for yourself what the results of our latest diplomatic efforts are.

The new school curriculum “encourages” children to explore a range of different perspectives on the world, School Standards Minister Jackie Smith told Parliament. “Creationism is one of the beliefs that students will be able to explore and discuss,” Smith said. Russia is not lagging behind Great Britain: not long ago, 15-year-old St.

The defender of the ex-head of YUKOS, Irina Khrunova, sent a request to the prosecutor's office of the Chita region to initiate a criminal case against the colony employees who confiscated her lawyer's license last Saturday. According to Khrunova, this behavior of the authorities is a new attempt to “annoy” Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The colony administration has its own explanation for what happened.

Two days after the death of Slobodan Milosevic, his brother, now living in the Russian capital, was hospitalized with complaints of heart pain. According to Gazeta.Ru, after an attack of arrhythmia, Milosevic was taken to the Bakulev Center for Cardiovascular Surgery in the capital. It was to this clinic that his younger brother should have been taken if the Hague Tribunal had given permission for the treatment of Slobodan Milosevic in Russia.

Priests can meet the religious needs of soldiers without being military personnel. “An attempt to brutally push through... the institution of priests... is fraught with dire consequences for... the multi-confessional Russian army and society as a whole,” the Council said in a statement.

The Parliament of Chechnya, at the proposal of the President of the Republic Alu Alkhanov and, presumably, not without the participation of the new Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, adopted a law on social guarantees for the widow of Akhmat Kadyrov. She will be provided with an allowance of 70% of the presidential salary, personal security and quality medical care. The funds will be allocated from the republican budget.

The final results of the elections to regional parliaments, which took place the day before in eight regions of Russia, are not yet known. But the confident leadership of the candidates from United Russia is already obvious. According to preliminary data, the party in power won 37.36% of the votes in the elections to the Kursk parliament, about 28% in the Kirovsky district, and more than 60% in the Khanty-Mansiysk district.

The anti-fascist carnival, which activists of the youth wing of United Russia planned to hold on March 26, has been postponed to the fall.

This opinion was expressed at the International Conference on Energy Security by the head of Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov. The problem is the lack of refining capacity in the oil sector. “Most companies will not have time to reconstruct existing oil refineries and build new ones, since this process takes about 7 years,” he said. - The United States already imports 10% of its consumed petroleum products. Tomorrow such a scenario could be realized in our country.”

Forbes again pleases lovers of counting money in other people's safe - and there are more money and safes. According to Forbes, in the world at the beginning of 2006 - 793 dollar billionaires. Of these, 369 citizens of the United States, 45 Germany, 33 - the Russian Federation (and these are legal billionaires, there is not a single official on the list. Surely, if the “ambush regiment” came out in all its glory, we would have made the Germans as children and reached our rightful second place).

The Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced the head of the Rosinkor group of companies, Dmitry Velichko, to 5 years in prison. According to investigators, he “together with a number of managers of the Yukos company in 2001-2002 committed theft by fraud in the amount of more than 278 million rubles from the federal budget.” The court found Velichko guilty of embezzling funds from the federal budget and tax evasion.

The Russian proposal to create a joint venture to enrich uranium for Iranian nuclear power plants remains in force, but only if Iran complies with the requirements of the International Atomic Energy Agency. The IAEA demands that the moratorium on uranium enrichment work be renewed in the country and that full information on the process be provided.