By the way, about Turkmenistan. Just the Russians living in this sunny region were attributed to our 201st district. Five years ago, Russian citizens were ten times more there. National betrayals of such a scale as it is in history on the fingers to count. For the Turkmen gas - more precisely, for the opportunity to weld billions on its resale, and not in the treasury, but “left” - the Kremlin, bash, allowed his father Turkmen to deprive hundreds of thousands of people.

In the economy Gudbay, dollar-2 April 7, 2006. Maxim Blanc Last Tuesday, the Renaissance Capital investment group released an analytical report, where, among other things, the imminent and very significant collapse of the dollar in the Russian foreign exchange market is predicted. “We expect a one-time strengthening of the ruble exchange rate to 26-26.5 rubles per dollar in April-May or October-November 2006,” the document says.

And yet it happened ... George Clooney’s film “Good Night and Good luck” about the American television of the 50s and about the brilliant reporter Edward Murrow, who put the end of McCartism with his author's programs (about this film and about his projection on the Russian television situation, I already I wrote In “EZ”), a stone fell into the stagnant water of domestic political television journalism (if there is still one). And caused circles on the water.

The idea of ​​uniting Adygea and the Krasnodar Territory could turn into another serious conflict in the Caucasus. The president of Adygea, an ardent opponent of unification, received a “severe reprimand” from the Kremlin in February. Khazret Sovmen recently announced his resignation; it later turned out that he had no intention of leaving. Thousands of people hold rallies in Maykop in support of the president, although in his absence, Sovmen disappeared.

At today's meeting, United Russia voted against the bill on payment of benefits to families for the birth of a second child. The authors proposed paying married spouses who decided to have a second and third child 200 thousand rubles. According to the bill, the source of financing these payments was to be the gold and foreign exchange reserve of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.

To the uninitiated it may seem that everything with YUKOS has long been decided and forgotten. But no, the authorities strive to use the exemplary nature of this process 100%. Today Fradkov officially dismissed Vladimir Malin, Chairman of the Russian Federal Property Fund, from his post. Last December, he was convicted of criminal conspiracy with Khodorkovsky and Lebedev.

Andrei Zamyatnin, detained in Sweden on suspicion of espionage, has been released. Swedish authorities reported today that the investigation was unable to collect sufficient evidence of the scientist’s guilt. Apparently, bouts of spy mania are typical for the intelligence services of any state, regardless of its degree of civilization.

The World Russian People’s Cathedral, held in Moscow from April 4 to 6, adopted its declaration of human rights. As you know, it turned out on the cathedral that human rights are not very good. That there are higher values. Actually, I cannot but agree with this thesis. And as a writer, I cannot recall not a single hero who would be a positive character and observed human rights. If value is what you can sacrifice life for, then human rights are not a system of values.

This morning in St. Petersburg, an unknown person opened fire on a group of foreign students, as a result of which one of them, a citizen of Senegal, was killed. On this fact, a criminal case was opened under Article 105.2 (murder committed for national reasons). Over these few days, no one has spoken out on the topic of xenophobia and nationalism, the headlines wearily read “another murder on ethnic grounds”... It only becomes very scary if you think about who might be next in this line.

We are talking about a manuscript in Coptic, the “age” of which is estimated at approximately 1,700 years. Experts believe it is a translation of an earlier document written in ancient Greek. The text states that Judas was not a traitor at all. He is one of the closest disciples of Christ. Therefore, the Teacher himself asked Judas to hand him over to the authorities in order to get rid of his bodily shell in this way. The story ends with the arrest of Jesus.

Vladimir Putin presented Alvaro Gil-Robles with the Order of Friendship. It must be said that while Gil-Robles was the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, the Kremlin openly disliked him. He regularly criticized the policies of the Russian authorities, because. For many years I was directly involved in the topic of Chechnya. The sudden surge of friendship is most likely due to the fact that Alvaro Gil-Robles officially leaves his post on April 10.

The Russian Orthodox Church over the past two years has been more persistent about human rights ("hedgehog" Commented this trend). All the main ideas have not been clearly formulated by Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev) more than once or twice, the church concept of human rights was even considered as a natural continuation of the “basics of the social concept” adopted in 2000. However, then they refused to accept the church document. Or it was postponed.