In the Kremlin You need to meet more often. Why? June 15, 2006 Alexander Golts The night meeting of the presidents of Russia and Georgia in St. Petersburg reminded the caricature of the Soviet-American summites in the early Russian era. Then, having arrived in Geneva or Reykjavik, Gorbachev and Reagan suddenly realized: the approaches to the matter differ dramatically, the base for compromise is not visible at all.

The Constitutional Court allowed free privatization of social housing. The reason for considering the case was a request from the Supreme Court and a complaint from the Orlov family. Khaidar Orlov, a disabled veteran of the Great Patriotic War, received an apartment in 2005, but Orlov was denied privatization of the new apartment. Now Orlov and anyone else have the right to privatize an apartment received after March 1, 2005.

The Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against the former vice-governor of the Sakhalin region Sergei Osipov. The thing is that when taking office, Osipov, as it turned out, presented a fake diploma. And, what a horror, for two whole years the region was ruled by a man without a higher education. The fact that officials are people too, and therefore can buy diplomas like everyone else, is not great news.

In the Moscow City Duma, Yabloko took the initiative to introduce amendments to the capital's legislation obliging every Moscow official to disclose information about their income. The project, naturally, was rejected - only Yabloko members and communists were in favor, while United Russia overwhelmingly stopped the harmful initiative. You can understand both of them, but it’s a strange thing: why would an official publish his income?

The RIA Novosti agency, under whose auspices the English-language TV channel Russia Today has already been created, stated that it is ready to invest $35 million in a new satellite TV channel that will broadcast about Russia in Arabic. And all so that the disgusting foreign media do not slander Russia. The Soviet Union is known to have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in various foreign language media.

Its composition “will also include representatives of the ROCOR.” Those who left the Russian Church, according to Archpriest.

In connection with numerous cases of citizens evading military service, employees of Russian military commissariats, together with regional internal affairs bodies, are currently taking active measures to search for conscripts. At the same time, we are immediately reassured that there will be no “raids”, but only isolated persecutions of malicious “mowers.” This measure, as you know, is forced - no one wants to join the army, they have to be caught.

The fight against corruption is a terrible business. First, under this slogan, the heads of law enforcement agencies are fired en masse, then the Prosecutor General. We, in our naivety, thought that we should be imprisoned for taking bribes - but it turns out that no, you can just fire them. And now Deputy Prosecutor General Kolesnikov, apparently not wanting to follow in the footsteps of his boss, is proposing to change the Constitution in order to more effectively fight corruption.

While the likelihood of a personal meeting between Bush and Putin on the eve of the G-8 summit in Moscow was only just discussed, rumors about the possibility of this get-together in Washington appeared about two months ago. In addition, even if the presidents of the United States and Russia had not had a personal meeting before the meeting of G8 leaders, the conversation face to face, or rather, eye to eye, would still have happened.

The Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg proposes to the State Duma to consider an amendment to Article 167 of the procedural code, which allows the case to be considered without any participant in the process in the event of his systematic failure to appear in court. If the amendment is adopted, the court will be able to consider the case without a plaintiff, without a defendant, and without a witness. In this way they propose to fight judicial delays.

We all remember Putin’s words about “comrade wolf who eats and doesn’t listen to anyone.” It seemed like a metaphor. But it turns out it’s true. Or at least very similar to her. As always, we don't have enough time. In 1914, the program of rearmament of the Russian army was in full swing. Another year - and she would have been the strongest in Europe. And you got a shot in Sarajevo, and away we go. In 1941, rearmament was also in full swing; the program was designed, it seems, until 1943.