If I were a close friend of the head of Transneft, Semyon Vainshtok, I would call him this morning and say: “Senya, you really got into money.” Personally, I have no doubt that after Vladimir Putin ordered the oil pipeline to be moved beyond the Baikal ridge, Mr. Weinstock did not have the courage to approach the president with a quiet, unobtrusive question: “Sorry, Vladimir Vladimirovich, I misunderstood a little here: these new huge expenses, from whose share will they be covered?

At the summit in Tomsk, President Putin announced that the oil pipeline from Eastern Siberia to the Pacific Ocean would be 40 km, not 800 m, from Lake Baikal. Protests from environmentalists, who have been protesting for a month about the potential pollution of the lake with oil waste, have prevailed over economic considerations. Public opinion won. President Putin generally does not like public opinion. He believes that this is a form of pressure on him.

Apparently, it was not enough for the authorities to simply have controlled media - they need a loyal party member to sit in each publication and control it - or rather. The head of the information department of the United Russia party, Ilya Kiselev, has been appointed to head the Izvestia newspaper. As deputy editor-in-chief, he will replace Andrei Kolesnikov, known for his liberal views.

In society Happy birthday, Vladislav Aleksandrovich! April 27, 2006 Anton Oresh On April 25, Vladislav Tretyaka turned 54 years old. Time is still quite a bizarre thing. I am a young man, but I remember the Tretyaka in the gate perfectly, as well as the fact that we ourselves played the Tretyaka and Gretzki after those great battles with Canadians.

The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg accepted the complaint of former Moscow City Court judge Olga Kudeshkina. The court gave the complaint priority status. Kudeshkina paid for her frankness - she publicly criticized the Moscow City Court, reporting facts of pressure on her when making decisions. Allegedly for “contempt of court,” she was fired and deprived of her status as a judge.

The Union of Journalists of Russia prepared a report stating that 90% of the airtime of all central television channels is devoted to the authorities - the president, government, parliament and the United Russia party. Here it is, the “unsatisfactory situation with freedom of speech” that Lukin speaks of. By the way, no one is limited to TV: Gazprom buys Komsomolskaya Pravda, a party functionary is appointed to Izvestia, and the public is excited with rumors about the purchase of Kommersant.

The announcement of the presidential address on April 25 did not take place. Putin will not say his prophetic word on April 28, on the 100th anniversary of the State Duma. What is it? They say that the president is categorically dissatisfied with the text: new people were involved in working on the message, Putin makes changes with his own hand.

For the first time, we began to punish for Internet extremism - student Konstantin Strokolsky was sentenced to two years of suspended imprisonment for publishing an article with extremist content on his website. As a result of the examination, it was concluded that the article contains appeals and appeals aimed at inciting civil discord and hostility.

For 10 years, scientists conducted research in a number of regions of Russia. His results are presented in the book “The Dilemma of the 21st Century: Tolerance and Conflict.” Particular attention was paid to the religious factor in the Astrakhan region, where representatives of 150 nationalities live. Scientists have found that interfaith relations, even when there is a divergence of basic tenets, are not the driving force behind interethnic conflicts. The main reason is socio-economic.

Until recently, Boris Gryzlov categorically stated that there could be no talk of a third term for Putin, but now the speaker of the State Duma issued a very mysterious phrase. At the anniversary Duma meeting in St.

Last Thursday, around seven o'clock in the evening, several young people threw stones at the windows of the synagogue. They kicked doors and shouted anti-Semitic slogans, then began to smash window frames with a metal pipe. According to eyewitnesses, the attackers called themselves skinheads. Fortunately, no casualties were avoided; there was almost no one in the synagogue.

All the time, something is interfering with the authorities’ operation called “Let’s show the world what a decent country Russia is,” for which, in particular, the next performance was launched in Tomsk. But no luck - today at 16:00 six NBP activists personally broke through to Mrs. Merkel and handed her a leaflet in German.