The body, the creation of which was conceived three years ago, is intended to become the main interlocutor of the Swiss government in religious matters, the TSR television company notes. The head of the Swiss Federation of Protestant Churches, Thomas Wimpf, was elected Chairman of the Council. The Council will deal not so much with issues of theological dialogue, but with current problems.

Dr. Zhivago collects on the NTV channel an audience of about 10-12% with a rating of 4-5%. This means that the series of Alexander Proshkin with the script of Yuri Arabov, surprisingly accurately conveying the spirit of Pasternak's prose; with magnificent acting works by Oleg Menshikov, Chulpan Khamatova and Oleg Yankovsky; With the bewitching music of Eduard Artemyev, they choose twelve spectators from a hundred inclusive TV, and five of those who have this TV in principle.

In North Ossetia, the announcement of the verdict of the only defendant in the case of the Beslan tragedy has begun. All law enforcement agencies have been transferred to a special regime - the country is awaiting the verdict. The court has already found Kulaev guilty of committing a terrorist attack, taking hostages “with the aim of forcing the state to take certain actions,” murder, attempt on the life of law enforcement officers and storage of ammunition.

The court sentenced the former military commissar of the Savelovsky district of Moscow Nikolai Gibaev to three years in a general regime colony. Last December, Gibaev was caught red-handed while accepting a bribe in the amount of 70 thousand rubles, and another 100 thousand dollars were found in the military commissar’s office. For a bribe, the sentence for three years is, in general, mild, although the relatives are going to appeal the decision.

Exactly ten years ago, Russian political practice was enriched with a hitherto unprecedented intrigue - a historical split occurred within the power elite: some close associates of Boris Yeltsin (this group is associated with the name of the head of the presidential security service, Alexander Korzhakov) insisted on canceling the presidential elections under any pretext in order to retain power. It is clear that this development of events implied the curtailment of democratic processes.

On May 13, we learned a lot of new things from the life of the “shaggy ones.” We should thank Deputy Prime Minister Ivanov and the NTV channel for this. The “shaggy ones” are by no means representatives of the ruling party. “Shaggy” was the name given to those whose “products” managed to go into orbit. And the word "tarzannik" has nothing to do with the zoo.

In the melodrama called “YUKOS Affair,” the only thing missing was a traitor. So the former top manager of YUKOS, Alexey Golubovich, appeared - they detained him in Italy, and now they are persuading him to voluntarily return to Russia and promise freedom in exchange for public accusations against YUKOS. Golubovich himself has already issued a statement that his arrest was not initiated by the Kremlin, but by the leadership of YUKOS and MENATEP.

Tomorrow the State Duma will consider in the first reading a draft law prohibiting deputies elected on party lists from moving from one party to another. In 2007, for the first time, all 450 deputies will be elected only from party lists. The already all-consuming dominance of one “party in power” will become even more impressive: no single-mandate seats, no free deputies, no new coalitions or formations.

In the Kremlin Halling a journalist May 16, 2006 Daily Journal The leader of the Moscow Helsinsky group (MHG) L.M. Alekseeva President of the Protection Fund A.K. Simonov The leader of the social movement "For human rights" L.A. Ponomarev Director of the Museum and Center named after A.D. Sakharov Samodurova Yu.V. The Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia V.P. Lukin General Secretary of the Union of Journalists of Russia I.A. Yakovenko Dear Sirs!

The Prosecutor General's Office appealed to the Supreme Court the acquittal in the murder case of the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Forbes, Paul Klebnikov. The family of the murdered journalist supports the prosecutor's decision.

Now Lukashenko is banned from entering the United States. In principle, the Belarusian president has long been persona non grata in America, but last fall he nevertheless visited the United States as a participant in a UN session. Now Bush is categorical - the American “black list” turned out to be an order of magnitude longer than the European one.

“I consider your consent to dialogue and its actual beginning to be much more important than the existing differences in positions,” writes Leonid Gozman, deputy chairman of the federal political council of the SPS PP, responding to a letter from Metropolitan Kirill, where the bishop expresses his readiness to “cross swords.” “I am convinced that our discussion will be based on mutual respect, recognition of the right to a different point of view, and understanding of the extreme importance of

Nothing in Russia can do without Putin, especially the gay pride parade. First, the president received an invitation to personally take part in the action; at a minimum, gays ask the guarantor to prevent violation of their right to march. Immediately, the Union of Orthodox Citizens wittily noted that the gay pride parade contradicts the presidential message. Because the president is worried about demographics, and one cannot expect demographic success from sexual minorities.

In a conversation with Blagovest-info, Lyudmila Alekseeva recalled a conversation on the radio where she admitted to an employee of the Patriarchate: “We will defend the Orthodox together. And we will protect everyone else from the authorities and... from you, if necessary.” The President of the Glasnost Defense Foundation, Alexei Simonov, is also convinced that cooperation is possible if the activities of the Orthodox are not limited to “pompous statements”, but result in practical actions.