In Chechnya in January 2002, a special forces reconnaissance group under the command of Captain Eduard Ulman fired at a UAZ, the driver of which did not respond to an order to stop. After this, according to the defendants, they received orders to shoot witnesses to the incident. The jury has already twice rendered an acquittal in this case, which was then overturned by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation.

Former USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev and Russian State Duma deputy from United Russia Alexander Lebedev acquired 49% of the shares. Against the backdrop of numerous “ideological” sales, this news caused alarm among the public. However, the editorial office assures that nothing will change - the editorial policy will remain the same. They say that shares are just money needed for the development of the newspaper.

The Russian diplomatic mission in Baghdad lost five people on June 2. Four captured and one killed. It seems that it took Iran less than 24 hours to respond to Russia’s recognition of two groups that Tehran actively supports as terrorists. Let me remind you that on June 1, the Russian Supreme Court blacklisted the Syrian Jund al-Sham and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Russian authorities, tired of fruitless attempts to extradite the fugitive oligarchs, seem to have found a simple solution.

In society You have to dream! Part II June 7, 2006 Dmitry Oreshkin Russia has become different. And centripetal ideologists live in that monocentric Russia. They sort out the options, stuck, give birth to a national idea. Of course, they do not see reality point blank. Moreover, they are very annoyed when they are pointed to it. From their theoretical point of view, it should not be. And, therefore, as if not.

It is not for nothing that cautious people refused to comment on Gref’s resignation request - there will be no dismissal. Fradkov, who was designated ((http://www.ej.ru/vision/entry/3961/) as the main enemy) by the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, said this at a government meeting.

The work of the bilateral negotiating commission should resume in the near future. She will have to finalize the draft Act of Canonical Communion, settle issues that remain unresolved, and determine the procedure for future signing of the document. “Repeating questions” are raised, in particular, by the topic of ecumenism. The ROCOR is also quite wary of intensifying contacts between Moscow and the Vatican.

The Yuri Levada Center conducted another interesting survey, and it turned out that every second Russian (46%) considers Latvia an enemy of Russia, while 47% consider Belarus its closest friend. The top five friends of Russia include Kazakhstan (33%), China (24%), Germany (22%) and India (15%). They are followed by Armenia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, France and Italy. Russians named Georgia (44%), Lithuania (42%) and Estonia (32-28%) as hostile countries.

Dmitry Andreevich Muratov, editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, on the sale of 49% of the newspaper’s shares to Alexander Lebedev and Mikhail Gorbachev: The comment is very simple - these are shares in exchange for investments. We want to develop further, we want to increase the frequency, volume, perhaps color, and the distribution sector of the newspaper.

Well, dear fellow citizens, collect your sons on the road - pack them duffel bags. Yes, do not forget to put warm linen - at night in the mountains it is cold even in the summer. We will fight. With whom? How with whom? With Georgians, clear. Why should we fight Georgians? And this is already, dear fellow citizens, sorry, not your dog business. This is called "Protection of the geopolitical interests of Russia" in which you do not mean anything.

((http://xeno.sova-center.ru/45A60CC/762AEAA Conference)) is organized by the Franco-Russian Center for Social Sciences and Humanities, it will be attended by Russian and foreign scientists, as well as a specialist from the Research Institute of the Prosecutor General's Office, Mikhail Croz, who will speak with the report "Xenophobia in the media in Russia: a view from the prosecutor's office." A fair number of reports are devoted to the topic of patriotism and “healthy nationalism” in Russian

In theory, peacekeeping operations are carried out to separate the warring parties and stop the bloodshed. In a word, to solve some pressing security problem. Now it turns out that the Russian peacekeeping contingents, which for more than ten years prevented the resumption of hostilities and bloodshed in South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria, are themselves turning into an acute international problem. They are persistently asked to leave.

In society "Other Russia" exists, and we need to talk about this June 7, 2006 Alexander Osovtsov Alexander Osovtsov, head of the working group of the Organizing Committee of the Conference “Another Russia”, about how, when, and most importantly, why the conference will pass: The conference "Other Russia" will be held on July 11–12.