Having retired, the former adviser to the Russian president spares no harsh words in assessing the current government. Having approved Russia as the chairman of the G8 summit of developed democratic countries, Western countries are pursuing a policy of pandering to Moscow, Andrei Illarionov believes. “The summit in St.

They were not waiting for the one who would win. We waited, how. With a turnout of more than 92%, about 80% of voters voted for the current head of Belarus. The second place with 6% was taken by the single opposition candidate Alexander Milinkevich. Even before the official summing up of the voting results, he called on Belarusians to gather for a protest against unfair elections.

In society The lesson of morality March 20, 2006 Alexander Golts A couple of weeks ago, speaking to veterans in the Public Committee "Victory", Minister of Defense Sergey Ivanov once again fell on domestic television. Debilizes, they say, it is a population, destroys the foundations of morality and morality. Anyone who happened to see last Sunday “News of the Week” on the Russian television channel would probably agree with the harsh conclusions of the head of the military department.

The anthropic principle (AP), which was discussed at the end of the 19th century, declares the existence of a relationship between the parameters of the Universe and the existence of intelligence in it, allowing us to conclude that the Universe is developing according to plan. In modern science, AP has the status of an interesting observation. Theories of the structure of the world, in which it is taken as an axiom, are located in the border area between physics and philosophy.

Nikita Belykh, Chairman of the Federal Political Council of the Union of Right Forces, on the election of the President of Belarus: There were many violations. Conditionally, they can be divided into several types. First, I will say about the of them to which we, like observers, have the least complaints. This is a directly voting procedure. There were violations on Sunday, but I would not make a problem out of this, since most of them are insignificant.

Oleg Shcherbinsky’s defenders intend to file a lawsuit in Strasbourg “if they fail to achieve Shcherbinsky’s acquittal in the Russian courts.” It is obvious that the lawyers do not intend to accept the fact that all the blame for the death of Mikhail Evdovkimov was placed on the driver of the car that collided with the governor’s Mercedes.

Alexander Koptsev must be held accountable for his crime, despite the fact that doctors confirmed that he has a mental disorder. Prosecutor Kira Gudim announced this today. On March 14, experts from the Serbsky Institute of Forensic Psychiatry told the court that Koptsev had “limited sanity,” that is, he was driven to commit a crime by a mental disorder, but at the time of the attack on the synagogue parishioners, he was aware of his actions and their consequences.

Mikhail Trepashkin, convicted of disclosing state secrets, wrote a letter to Boris Berezovsky asking for help. The prisoner is most concerned about three problems: being transported far from home, “inhuman conditions of detention” and “threats from criminals.” The Civil Liberties Foundation, whose founder is Berezovsky, has always provided assistance to Trepashkin, paying for lawyers and helping his family.

In book supermarkets, a variety of Putiniana occupies entire racks. Neutral biographies from historians, penetrating memoirs from journalists close to the body, feverish Philippics from human rights activists, hysterical and poetic delirium from the "Eurasians"-Dugins. The book of Alexei Chadaev “Putin. Its ideology ”, published in the publishing house" Europe ", is a kind of manifesto of Kremlin political technologists.

Well, what else, it seemed just recently, could the Russian court surprise the public with? Skeptics are put to shame. How can it be, it turns out. On Friday, the Moscow Arbitration Court satisfied the claim of Rosneft Oil Company and Baikalfinance Group LLC to invalidate the Agreement dated May 24, 2004 to secure a loan of $1.6 billion issued to YUKOS in 2003 by Societe Generale Bank.

Scientists, including academicians E. Alexandrov, V. Ginzburg, biologists P. Borodin, I. Zakharov and others, in their letter to the Izvestia newspaper note that the theory of evolution is not reduced to classical Darwinism, the fact of evolution is confirmed by the results of DNA analysis of modern and extinct animals. Meanwhile, creationism is based on dogma, and attempts to pass it off as a scientific theory are ridiculous.

Pichugin has already been sentenced to 20 years in prison for organizing murders and attempted murder. Two weeks ago, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation approved a new indictment against him. Court hearings will be held in open mode, and the criminal case will be considered by a single judge. The trial promises to be loud simply because ex-head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the largest shareholder of YUKOS Leonid Nevzlin are announced as witnesses in the case.

It is known that Vladimir Putin cannot stand Alexander Lukashenko. More or less understandable for what: Lukashenko, with all this bulb, clearly does not meet the ideas of the Russian president of what should say and what the enlightened ruler of the European state should look. In a word, obviously not Berlusconi. And Lukashenko does not pull on Schroeder. But politics is a harsh thing.