This is such an eternal Russian (is it only Russian?) question - “the place of the artist in the working class.” Well, that is, about the civil responsibility of the rulers of thoughts. I remember back in Soviet times we argued about the extent of compromise. For example, is it possible to join a party for the sake of a career? While we were arguing, people came out to Red Square... These are special people, you say, not everyone has it... Who would object.

Today, members of the initiative group “Men of Beslan” met with Deputy Prosecutor General Nikolai Shepel and Vladimir Kolesnikov, who are investigating the main case of the terrorist attack in Beslan. The initiative group will soon meet with the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Vladimir Ustinov - it will present him with evidence that Kulaev is far from the only surviving terrorist.

26 letters from Voltaire to Catherine II, which were sold at Sotheby's for 583.2 thousand euros with a starting price of 300 thousand. This is a record price for personal messages from the 18th century. The buyer turned out to be Russian collector Alexander Khochinsky. According to him, the letters will certainly return to Russia soon.

The report that the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg made Putin honorary citizen of the city , nothing hit me: the on -duty nomenclature vulgarity, empty chores in the state house ... Let yourself. In the end, I am not a resident of St. Petersburg; If the countrymen of Likhachev and Brodsky suits that their honor is now embodied by Putin and Verbitskaya, then to health.

Moscow will introduce a ban on street trade of shawarma. On the recommendation of Rosprirodnadzor, the ban is being introduced because traders systematically violate sanitary standards, and as part of the fight against bird flu. There is little doubt that street stalls are a source of infection; there is no place to wash your hands there. But here’s what’s surprising: Rosprirodnadzor must develop rules and monitor their implementation.

Recently, Russia rotated its peacekeeping contingent in South Ossetia, which caused an extremely negative reaction from Tbilisi. Today, the President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity said that in the near future documents will be sent to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation proving the fact that “South Ossetia became part of the Russian Empire together with North Ossetia as a single whole, but never left Russia.”

PACE Rapporteur on Legal Issues and Human Rights Eric Jurgens told us a lot of interesting things during his visit to Moscow. The European Court of Human Rights is not only literally inundated with Russian petitions, the trouble is that about 40% of the decisions of the Strasbourg Court are not implemented in our country. Moreover, lawsuits constantly come with the same complaints.

In society For what? June 1, 2006 Viktor Shenderovich In the report that the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg made Putin an honorary citizen of the city , nothing hurt me: the duty nomenclature vulgarity, empty chores in the state house ... Let yourself. In the end, I am not a resident of St. Petersburg; If the countrymen of Likhachev and Brodsky suits that their honor is now embodied by Putin and Verbitskaya, then to health.

Having not had time to deal with smoking (only recently Onishchenko proposed making the fight against smoking a national project), the chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation decided to fight against x-rays. According to him, medical X-ray and radiological examinations make the largest contribution among man-made sources to radiation doses to the population. It’s all true: the equipment is old, and they irradiate unnecessarily.

The eight-page report was prepared by Christopher Columbus for the monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella upon their return to Spain. The document, written in Latin, contains, in particular, a description of the meetings of the Spaniards with the Indians. In 1493, Pope Alexander VI ordered its printing. According to historians who consider the text to be the first "papal press release", no more than 500 copies were printed.

He expressed his point of view at an ecumenical prayer meeting that took place during his visit to Poland at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Warsaw. Churches will enjoy “greater confidence in the world” if they can work together in charity and preach family values ​​beyond the boundaries of individual denominations, the pontiff is convinced.

Nothing the government bestows on the working people so generously as illusions. It seems clear what needs to be done to raise the prestige of the army: pay people money, not start wars, fight hazing, etc. But Vladimir Vladimirovich found a more elegant way - the president gave the army new holidays.

There are only a few weeks left before the G8 meeting in St. Petersburg. However, it increasingly seems that its chairmanship has become a big - and not necessarily pleasant - surprise for the Russian establishment. The Russian elite, in my opinion, has not understood either the unique opportunities, or the serious dangers, or the colossal responsibility that accompanies leadership in the G8.