The revival of the half-forgotten scandal around the “Three Whales” is a sign that the struggle within the “St. Petersburg community” for control over the Prosecutor General’s Office has at least temporarily left the behind-the-scenes stage – and this, in turn, indicates the degree of its intensity. The problem is not only who will replace Ustinov, but also what to do with the former prosecutor general himself, who is still not employed.

In early June, in Moscow, on the RTS exchange, the trade in futures contracts for the oil of the Russian brand Urals began. We can say that the first step to that we have our own oil exchanger, made. Trading in oil is a very real thing, but whatever benefit from this will be difficult to say. What kind of benefits can be discussed. For example, we would like to get oil prices Urals higher than those that exist today on the London Exchange.

Deputy representative of the US President at trade negotiations Victoria Epsinel said that the closure of the Russian site AllOfMP3.com, which sells millions of mp3s without the permission of copyright holders, is a key condition for Russia's admission to the WTO. The site's owners claim that their actions do not violate Russian law.

People have this disease: if the media doesn’t mention their name 15 times a day, they immediately feel lonely and abandoned. Apparently, something similar is happening to Oleg Mitvol. Deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor Mitvol said that several employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs tried to transfer him a bribe of 150 thousand dollars through intermediaries. The official is confident that a “provocation” was being prepared against him, and Mikhail Kasyanov is to blame for everything.

Around Russia Translator from Persian June 16, 2006 Alexander Golts The anniversary summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization ended in almost a triumph of domestic diplomacy. The Russian president finally managed to play a role, which he had long and consistently harassed. Namely, the role of the translator under the Iranian President Ahmadinejad.

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation confirmed the ban on election campaigning at the expense of citizens' personal funds. That is: money “for elections” cannot simply be transferred from hand to hand, but must be contributed to the election fund in the form of a donation. For “transparency” - so that it is obvious to everyone who gave whom and how much money.

In society Everyone is to blame for the split, and Vladyka Vasily is no exception June 16, 2006 Julius Dubov Julius Dubov, the former director of Logovaz, and now the writer, author of the bestsellers, Big Stick and Less Evil, about the situation in the Surozh Diocese, whose parishioner he has been since 2002: “Hedgehog”: What is the mood of the parishioners now that the Patriarchate of Constantinople decided to accept Bishop of Sergievsky Vasily into his jurisdiction?

Putin is already tired of explaining that he is not going to a third term. And I would be glad, but this is contrary to the constitution. In Shanghai, the president repeated the same thing again. And he promised a successor - a “dark horse” - a person “unknown to the media.” Meanwhile, according to opinion polls, 32% of the population does not believe the president’s words about a third term.

“Technical equipment allows, but there are no funds yet,” said Pavel Florensky, chairman of the working group on miraculous signs occurring in the Russian Orthodox Church, at a press conference in Moscow. According to him, there is a series of recording thermometers, thanks to which it is possible to trace the temperature changes of a substance.

Putin, it turns out, “has no complaints” against Ustinov. The president told reporters about this yesterday. It’s just that he was the Prosecutor General for a very long time, for 6 years, and that’s why, apparently, he was fired. Moreover, Ustinov will not only remain in the civil service, but when asked by journalists whether the new position will be of equal importance, Putin answered in the affirmative.

In the west of Moscow in the village of Vnukovo on Friday morning there was a strong explosion in a five-story residential building number 11. Officially, two people were killed and six were injured. Rescuers began work at the scene of the explosion and began clearing the rubble. They do not exclude the possibility that there may be people under the rubble. According to preliminary data, the cause of the explosion was a domestic gas leak.

At a meeting of the organizing committee in Nizhny Novgorod to prepare for the international forum “Dialogue of Cultures and Interfaith Cooperation” in September, Idrisov spoke with bitterness that an ideology had prevailed in Russia that “divides citizens into “ours” and “not ours,” and religious communities - into state “saints” and “unsaints”.

The words about the “rampant of aggression”, evidence of the cruel treatment of people with each other in everyday life have become the nineties in the nineties in Russian media, and among their readers/spectators. At the same time, the population of Russia, feeling the threat of the world around us, connects the escalation of violence primarily with the “street hooligans”, “criminals”, and from the mid-1990s-with “terrorists”.