For eight days, the court announced the verdict of the only defendant in the Beslan school siege case, Nurpasha Kulaev. He listed all the details of the Beslan tragedy, all the events of those terrible days in great detail, step by step. As a result, Kulaev was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Benedict XVI “must demand that the government stop ramming the Catholic faith down our throats,” 17-year-old schoolboy Alexander Pavlovsky told The Times. Increasingly, criticism is heard in Polish society of the alliance formed between the right wing of the government led by the nationalist Prime Minister Marcinkiewicz and the local Catholic Church.

The commission includes the temporary administrator of the diocese, Archbishop Innokenty of Korsun, Archbishop Mark of Germany and Great Britain (ROCOR), DECR staff Archpriest. Nikolai Balashov and priest. Mikhail Dudko.

Tomorrow's gay pride parade has already been banned 15 times. For the last two weeks, almost every day the news has been full of headlines “The gay pride parade has been banned again.” Nothing helped: neither appeals to Putin, nor the indignation of human rights activists. However, the march tomorrow, according to activists, will take place no matter what.

In Moscow, the session of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) ended. It occurred on it the most living and piquant event for the scientific community - the elections of academicians and members of the scam. Once in Soviet times, these were the only elections in the country that earned their name: they were not a public struggle, but at least an intrigue.

Listen, they really decided to ban the dollar. I wrote many times that I think the current composition of our Duma ... Well, how to say it ... not quite adequate, or something. It seems to me that, with rare exceptions, people who were not able to solve state issues were typed in it. As, however, no other, requiring a responsible and balanced approach. And not because our deputies are bad and malicious people. Or, do not bring the Lord, consciously want to harm Russia. Yes, nothing like that.

Andrei Illarionov , ex-adviser to the president, expressed some thoughts about the G8 summit in St. Petersburg in an interview with the editor-in-chief of the Big Politics magazine Lyudmila Telen : Former presidential adviser Andrei Illarionov does not rule out that the G8 summit may not take place. Or it will take place, but not according to the scenario that was planned. – Was the summit under threat due to the West? – I’m afraid it’s Russian fault.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov confirmed Russia's intention to supply modern Tor-M1 air defense systems to Iran. The Russian authorities are still doing everything possible to create the feeling that Iran is armed to the teeth. Apparently, they have forgotten the old truth about a monkey with a grenade.

What took the CPSU 8 years to achieve, United Russia has achieved this year – it now has a million members, writes The Washington Times. More than two-thirds of the country's federal and regional parliamentarians and 70 of the 89 regional governors are members of United Russia. Party functionaries say that the popularity of their party is a victory for democracy; people know who to vote for.

Yesterday a meeting of the heads of government of the CIS took place in Dushanbe. The head of the CIS executive committee, Vladimir Rushailo, said that 22 issues were raised at the meeting. In particular, 15 documents were signed without discussion. However, Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia Georgiy Baramidze, who represented the republic at a meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of the CIS, said that Georgia had not signed a single document.

The Estonian police will guard the monument to the Russian liberator soldier around the clock - until new orders are received. Despite all the statements that there is no place for a “monument to the occupiers” in Tallinn, the Estonian authorities do not encourage nationalist vandalism. After the prank of the nationalists, when the face of the “Soviet soldier” was splattered with paint, a voluntary vigil was established around the monument.