Today, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a law abolishing the “against all” column in parliamentary elections. It’s difficult to understand why they decided to cancel it. After all, purely technically, protest voting “works” for the leader, and our leader is usually the party in power. And even without this column, the turnout will obviously be lower. Another window dressing: no graph – no statistics.

Gazprom for the first time officially confirmed that it sent a gas supply contract to Belarus in 2007, indicating a base price of $200 per thousand cubic meters. An increase in gas prices even to $100, according to experts, will lead to a significant decline in the Belarusian economy. The sale of Beltransgaz can save Lukashenko from ruin, but the old man is still thinking. Because today you give the company to Gazprom, but tomorrow prices will still rise.

The President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbass, trying to somehow restore his power in the country, has long threatened Hamas with a popular referendum. Now its date has been announced - July 31. A corresponding decree should be issued on Saturday. One of the leaders of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, called on Palestinians to boycott the referendum on recognition of Israel.

In the Kremlin Counting June 9, 2006 Alexander Ryklin "Do you support the discrimination of Jews?" "Do you advocate that a swastika will appear on the coat of arms and flag of the Russian Federation?" “Do you approve of the idea to return to the practice of torture during the preliminary investigation?” Perhaps I am an optimist. But I dare to assume that most citizens of our country would be indignant when they saw these questions in the questionnaires of sociologists, and would not answer them.

"Do you support the discrimination of Jews?" "Do you advocate that a swastika will appear on the coat of arms and flag of the Russian Federation?" “Do you approve of the idea to return to the practice of torture during the preliminary investigation?” Perhaps I am an optimist. But I dare to assume that most citizens of our country would be indignant when they saw these questions in the questionnaires of sociologists, and would not answer them.

In the regions Cursed present June 9, 2006 Alexander Cherkasov “If what the“ Memorial ”statement was said to be true, then under any circumstances, the President of Chechnya Alkhanov and the head of the government Ramzan Kadyrov would not be ignored. But someone would like to achieve tension here ...”, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Chechen Republic Nurdi Nukhazhiyev said on June 7. Here he is - the perfect symbol of the faith of the perfect official!

Today, the State Duma in the first reading adopted a law on the unification of the Kamchatka region and Koryakia. According to the bill, the new entity should be formed on July 1, 2007, but local deputies are trying to speed up this process - they asked the president to postpone the date of unification to July 1, 2006. The haste is most likely due to the desire to get rid of the communist governor of Kamchatka, Mikhail Mashkovtsev, before the State Duma elections.

Andrei Sychev was offered 100 thousand dollars or an apartment in Moscow or St. Petersburg. In exchange for money, he must retract his original testimony about the beating at the Chelyabinsk Tank School. Andrei Sychev’s sister Marina Muffert announced this at a press conference today. The lawyer of the crippled soldier said that this proposal came from Sychev’s mother’s neighbor in the dormitory at the hospital. Burdenko.

Sociologists conducted a survey in 100 settlements in different regions of Russia with the participation of 1,500 respondents. Among those who condemn homosexuals, the share of those who approve of the gay pride ban is, not surprisingly, 92%, but even among those who do not condemn them, it is quite high - 65%. The most common argument is rejection of public demonstration of non-traditional sexual relationships (40%).

The State Duma of the current convocation seemed to have long ceased to surprise with its behavior. Which year since the presentation of the Kremlin conductors, the most anti -democratic decisions are made by the vast majority of votes: the “Hurray” was abolished by single -mandate districts, an increase in the passage barrier in the elections, a ban on creating electoral blocks, and the abolition of the election of governors. And yet the other day the deputies managed to overshadow themselves.

The decision of the synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, which took place on June 8 under the chairmanship of Patriarch Bartholomew, states that Bishop Basil is accepted into the jurisdiction of this local Church and, with the title "Amphipolis", is appointed vicar of Archbishop Gabriel of Comana (de Wilder) - the head of the Western European Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox Churches .