As Dmitry Monakov, head of the power transmission line service of Astrakhanenergo OJSC, told the Interfax-South agency on Tuesday, the mosque under construction is located in the security zone of the power line. “According to the established standards for the protection of electrical networks, the zone of 110 kW power transmission lines from the outermost wire to the facility should be 20 meters. The measurements taken showed only seven meters,” said D.

There is no connection between these events except that they occurred almost simultaneously. Last Sunday, all the so -called analytical programs on their native television discussed a new approach to human rights, declared by the World Russian People's Cathedral. The meaning of this approach is that human rights are not in the Russian case absolute value. They, they say, are nothing more than a tool that the rotten West uses unreasonably, and Russia has not yet learned how to use it yet.

In the economy Putin was placed by Gref April 11, 2006 Alexander Ryklin Generally speaking, it is always terribly offensive when you think that everything belongs to you, and suddenly it turns out that not everything is far away. I can imagine what indescribable rage President Putin came to when I unexpectedly found out that the border of the state entrusted to him was literally dotted with black holes, through which the trade is not controlled by him.

“United Russia” doesn’t like it when everything goes the natural way. It would seem that we have laws on the media, there is a market: liberal publications “promote” democrats, communist publications - communists, etc., and the overwhelming majority praise United Russia in unison. The main thing is not to put pressure on the opposition media, and you will have “freedom of speech”...

Sergei Mironov sees non-traditional religious organizations as “sectarians and obscurantists.” Rosregistration has a different position. “We act in accordance with the law on freedom of conscience, which does not contain not only serious, but generally any repressive mechanisms in relation to religious organizations,” said Rosregistration official Alexey Zhafyarov. “Only those measures provided for by law will be applied,” he assured. So you have the right to register - register and act.

The scandal with the accusations brought against the vice-president of YUKOS is developing according to a scenario that is already painfully familiar to everyone: search, arrest, hunger strike, punishment cell. Vasily Aleksanyan announced a dry hunger strike on April 7, the day of his arrest, and today it became known that the executive director of YUKOS was placed in the punishment cell of the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center for refusing to undergo a medical examination.

Russia is not lucky with its European friends: not so long ago, “old friend” Schröder lost the elections in Germany, and yesterday in Italy Berlusconi lost to Romano Prodi. Moscow is already sad in advance for the lost love of Rome. It is unlikely that Prodi, who is determined to strengthen relations with Europe, will defend Russia from attacks by the EU, is unlikely to invite Putin’s daughters to relax at his villa, and is unlikely to cheerfully take pictures between Putin and Bush.

The European Union on Monday officially banned Alexander Lukashenko and 30 other Belarusian officials from entering the EU. The “black list” included the head of the Belarusian KGB, the Minister of Justice, the Prosecutor General, the head of the Central Election Commission and others. In response, the Belarusian Foreign Ministry stated that a similar list of European officials who would be banned from entering Belarus would be drawn up.

Harry Kasparov, leader of the United Civil Front, about a trip to the south of Russia: From the very beginning, even at the organization’s stage, our trip caused great discontent of the local authorities.

Once upon a time, many years ago, in 1993, I came to George Green, then the newly appointed vice president for international affairs of the largest US publishing house - The Hearst Corporation (today he is the president of a state within a state - a company within a corporation that publishes 115, mostly glamorous magazines, in 47 countries, including Russia) with the idea of ​​​​publishing a magazine in Russia for the middle class - about normal politics and a normal, comfortable, although not

Moscow roads have become even more fun - the “clean car” campaign has started. The goal of the action is the noblest - “improving the appearance and performance properties of vehicles,” but in practice, traffic cops catch dirty cars in traffic and demand a fine. So what's illegal? We have a promotion! I paid fifty dollars and became, apparently, a purer soul.