Iran and Syria decided to no longer hide in the closet and announced the signing of a military alliance agreement. Considering the possibility of Tehran agreeing with the proposals of the six countries, including Russia, none of them paid serious attention to Ahmadinejad’s embrace of Assad.

Alexander Koptsev, who broke into the synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya, was sentenced to 13 years back in March. Today the court verdict was overturned. It would seem that Koptsev, who tried to kill several people simply for their faith and nationality, was imprisoned, and good.

Only the lazy, or those who don’t have a car, don’t “bomb” these days. The Moscow authorities decided that all this chauffeur chaos lacked reasonable leadership. Well, they are in charge - they are preparing to pass a bill on taxis in the near future. For professional “cab drivers” there will be some benefits: free parking, etc., but for this, your business will need to be registered. And any registration is always a reason for us to demand a bribe, and police raids will not keep us waiting.

Sensitively responding to the spirit of the times, the authorities tirelessly create endless commissions and committees, the only function of which is to direct and distribute. Now a special commission will be created in Moscow that will assign children to kindergartens: this was done due to a shortage of places, as well as under the banner of the fight against corruption.

In South Butovo they are trying to evict people from a private house into a one-room apartment in order to demolish the house and build a new one there. The tenants are resisting, and, according to lawyers, it is quite legitimate: the tenants were not presented with eviction documents. Yesterday evening, riot police entered the house, and then they brought in a bulldozer.

Russia demands the unconditional release of Russian diplomats captured in Baghdad. The group "Council of Iraqi Mujahideen" took responsibility for their abduction and set a condition - the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya within 48 hours. Lavrov said that Russia was not going to consider any conditions and even seemed to be a little offended by the terrorists: “Don’t forget that these are representatives of Russia, which is a sincere friend of the Iraqi people.

Nikolai Svanidze, journalist, member of the Public Chamber, who spent the night in South Butovo, about the story of the eviction of the Prokofiev family and the monstrous arbitrariness of the district authorities: I spent the night delightfully in the company of Anatoly Grigoryevich Kucherena, chairman of the specialized commission of the Public Chamber and a famous lawyer.

The Academy of Sciences has clearly been shaken lately - not without the help of its beloved authorities. Then they excited the scientific community because they wanted to appoint rectors. Then the media poured “mud”: they say that only businessmen and officials are hired as academicians. Now scientists are promised a salary increase, but at the same time they want to fire up to 20% of the employees. It is difficult to judge how necessary the measure is, but scientists are against it.

My eternal and almost already beloved opponent (a little more, and I will ask you to inscribe something like “He spent his life in disputes with Radzikhovsky) on his tombstone... So, this famous publicist is undoubtedly a person knowledgeable in everything, as for domestic democracy and domestic democrats. He, as they say, did not study them from textbooks.

Tomorrow another protest rally of “deceived co-investors” will take place on Kaluga Square. It seems that the problem is unsolvable - the Ministry of Defense, which acted as the guarantor of investments in houses under construction, blames investors for everything, and the investor has been declared bankrupt. Officials and deputies shrug their shoulders in embarrassment.