Mikhail Khodorkovsky was released from a punishment cell, where he was serving a sentence for drinking tea in an undesignated place. This is the second time the ex-head of YUKOS has been sent to a punishment cell for violating the rules of the colony. And in both cases, the motivation for punishment causes only bewilderment and indignation. Khodorkovsky's lawyers have already achieved recognition of the first conclusion as unlawful. Now we have to file a complaint against the second one.

In demography, as in football and in politics, everyone understands us. This is and worrying. Still, I would like some professionalism. I’ll venture to say some workshop solidarity. There was such a word - a profan. Or ignoramus. Fair Soviet power for three generations has successfully fought with these concepts. Mainly erecting ignoramuses and boor into the status of the elite. The production of weapons at Stalin was ruled by Klim Voroshilov.

The Ministry of Regional Development has returned to the topic of resettlement of disabled people living in the Far North. Soon, a law on the resettlement of 650 thousand people to territories with a more favorable climate will be submitted to the State Duma for consideration. The problem has been on the government’s agenda, it seems, since the beginning of Russia’s modern history.

Vladimir Putin spoke out against the allocation of funds from the Stabilization Fund to support the education sector, in particular for additional financing of universities. Speaking at a meeting of the State Council on Friday, he proposed to first use the money allocated from the budget. According to Putin, 5 billion rubles were allocated for education reforms in 2005, and about 15 billion are planned to be allocated in 2006.

Pavel Krasheninnikov, State Duma deputy from the United Russia faction, Chairman of the Committee on Legislation, about the proposal to become the President of the Russian Hockey Federation: By the future, I am normally treated to head the Russian Hockey Federation. If such a proposal will be considered seriously, then I will certainly agree. A lot can be done in the federation. This will not hurt the work in the State Duma, but only organically complement it. Hockey deputy is not an obstacle.

The leader of the Rodina party and its parliamentary faction in the State Duma, Dmitry Rogozin, said that he would no longer be their chairman. He made it clear that he was sacrificing himself as a leader for the sake of preserving the party and its participation in the upcoming elections. According to Rogozin, he took such a step not without pressure from the Kremlin.

She specially took a pause and did not write immediately after the Olympics about the changed relationships of sports and television. I waited until Turin's passions have cooled while the victories and defeats of our athletes, blunders and finds of our commentators, the oddity of the simultaneous show of competitions on several channels will become less important than the changed ideology of sports showing on TV.

During the 6th meeting of the meeting commissions of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (Nyack, USA, February 17-20, 2006), many complaints were received from clergy and laity of both the Church Abroad and the Moscow Patriarchate. Everyone complains about the lack of sufficient information about the progress of the unification process and the vision for the future of the united Local Church.

In society After the ball March 24, 2006 Anton Oresh President of the Russian Hockey Federation, Alexander Steblin, resigned . Carthage is finally destroyed. Your humble servant for his life said so much and wrote about hockey - I even made a whole program on the radio dedicated to this sport. He began to do, did several years, and now how many years I have not done, and our hockey players have not won a single gold medal during this time. 13 years have passed since the last victory.

“The artistic whistling about my resignation does not bother me,” Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov commented on the 9 thousand signatures of Russians in favor of his resignation. It must be admitted that Minister Ivanov is absolutely right. He had worse challenges in life. They didn’t fire him for two missiles that failed to take off first from Novomoskovsk and then from Karelia right in front of President Putin.

The Belarusian police carried out a lightning-fast operation, dispersing an opposition rally that lasted 5 days within 15 minutes. About 300 people detained for participating in the action were sent to police stations. However, the law enforcement officers did not bother looking for reasons for the arrest. People were thrown into jail not only for participating in the demonstration, but also for sympathizing with the protesters.