Russian state corporations and government ministers responded to a request from the District of Columbia (USA) court regarding the claim of minority shareholders of YUKOS. They presented a consolidated response on behalf of the Russian Federation, Gazprom, Rosneft and Rosneftegaz corporations, ministers Alexei Kudrin and Viktor Khristenko.

In power - grandiose changes. Immediately after the May holidays, at the direction of the President from the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and even the Senate, entire groups of security forces were dismissed, representing one of the most powerful Russian customs clans. If the “werewolf affair” was accompanied by a grandiose PR campaign, then this time the impression that everything was done on the knee.

Oleg Mitvol reported that the court allowed the demolition of the first house in the Rechnik village, located in Serebryany Bor. Rosprirodnadzor accused the cottage owners of building their houses in the water protection zone of the Moscow River in gross violations of the law. Mitvol brilliantly chooses objects to attack - a sort of Robin Hood in the fight for Mother Nature.

Among adult respondents, 60%, after reading the book, began to be inclined to believe that Jesus Christ had a child from Mary Magdalene and that his offspring survived (of those who have not read the book, 30% think so), and the conservative organization beloved by Pope John Paul II “God’s work” is now perceived by many as a sect of murderers.

Rospotrebnadzor promised to exemplarily destroy Georgian wine, about 70 thousand bottles. This is how they usually fight something very bad: this is how notorious books were burned, this is how counterfeits of well-known brands were destroyed in France. But with the French it’s clear: all these Diors and Chanels are really the basis for them. But what such a terrible threat Georgian wine threatens us with, even if it is really bad, is still not clear.

Calling for peace and mutual respect, the Archbishop asks everyone to refrain from hasty actions. “We must give the special Patriarchal Commission the opportunity to thoroughly understand the reasons that led to the grave crisis in the Diocese of Sourozh,” he points out in the letter.

The already existing St. Nicholas Church in Rome does not accommodate everyone. A new Orthodox church is being built on the territory of the Russian Embassy. The idea of ​​its construction arose at the end of the 19th century. In 1913, a collection of donations was started, but the revolution prevented the project from being implemented. In the 1990s, on the initiative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, it was revived. Metropolitan Kirill's meeting with the Pope is scheduled for Thursday.

As a result of the terrorist attack in Nazran, 7 people were killed, including Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia Dzhabrail Kostoev. The explosion occurred at approximately eight in the morning, when a high-ranking official was driving in a car with two escort vehicles to work from the village of Ekazhevo to Nazran.

The interlocutor, a young journalist from a successful glossy publication, is surprised to speak of the absence of solidarity among the seemingly closest colleagues, about indifference to each other. “Isn't it somewhere like that? - I'm trying to tax on a more common topic. “Look around, at least at people in transport” (I have an essay just written in my head About the Moscow metro ). “Well, in transport - strangers,” the interlocutor reacts. Stop. Why certainly "strangers"?

The Minister of Internal Affairs took up the fight against fascism-extremism and, I must say, in an extremely interesting way. Rashid Nurgaliev proposed to classify the spread of extremist ideas among minors as a serious crime. And he cited youth organizations as an example: NBP and AKM. You can have different attitudes towards these movements, but declaring them the main Nazis in Russia is, at least, strange.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Bashkortostan ruled to release Viktor Shmakov, editor of the opposition newspaper Provincial News, from custody. But the investigation continues - Shmakov is accused of “public calls for extremism”; the journalist faces up to 10 years in prison. Apparently, the whole point is that recently the Provincial News newspaper has been supporting Mikhail Kasyanov, the leader of the VAT, and his visit to Bashkiria is planned for May.