As soon as Rodinets Viktor Alksnis was about to take part in the public flogging of the editor-in-chief of the Parliamentary Newspaper, Pyotr Kotov, Gryzlov stunned everyone: it turns out Kotov himself resigned on Monday. The scandal erupted because of the article ((http://www.pnp.ru/archive/19490147.html “Lokotsk Alternative”)), Speaker Mironov, as always, acted as the moral police, demanding Kotov to be urgently removed. And he, without waiting, wrote a statement of his own free will.

In the annual report, representatives of the foundation noted that in most Asian countries, laws limit the possibility of switching from one religion to another, punishing those who violate the ban, including prison and the death penalty. The threat of persecution prompts many Christians to emigrate to the West.

In the Kremlin Flock June 28, 2006 Alexander Ryklin Russian political scientists continue to demonstrate a tendency to romantic plots. So the general director of the Institute of National Strategy, Stanislav Belkovsky, in his recent article “Boys, or Logic of Vladimir Putin,” claims that life on the upper regiments of the Russian political storyteller is built according to the laws of the criminal world sung by courtyard poets. In other words, “according to concepts”.

“Holding this event at a military facility grossly violates the principles of freedom of conscience, secularism of the state and is illegal,” the union said in a statement. “Under the good pretext of “patriotic education,” the army is turning into a testing ground for priestly obscurantism...

Today a press conference was held dedicated to the future forum ((http://ej.ru/vision/entry/4000/ “The Other Russia”)). At the meeting, Andrei Illarionov said that the “Other Russia” conference, timed to coincide with the G8 summit, would fulfill a role that the Russian parliament cannot fulfill. The event will take place on July 11-12.

Around Russia Wolves, wolves around June 28, 2006 Alexander Golts Of course, there will be no war, but there is such a fierce struggle for peace that no one will seem to anyone. Of course, I am not so naive as to expect a serious analysis of the foreign policy of our country from the public speech of the president. But the speech of the head of state before the Russian ambassadors had to at least set clear goals for leading diplomats and at least to outline the ways of achieving them.

Four employees of our embassy were killed in Iraq. And what is there to say and comment on? There is a war going on in the country. Moreover, it is no longer clear who is with whom and for what. Dozens of hostages are taken every day, and according to official statistics, almost one in eight dies. From all the countries in a row - both those that participate in the coalition and those that are not related to it in any way.

A passenger bus overturned on Kaluga Highway. As a result of the accident, seven people were killed and 16 more were injured. There are children among the victims. The bus driver probably fell asleep at the wheel. Rescuers are working at the scene of the accident, trying to extract victims from the wrecked bus.

Russian political scientists continue to demonstrate a tendency to romantic plots. Here is the general director of the Institute of National Strategy Stanislav Belkovsky in his recent article “Boys, or the logic of Vladimir Putin” claims that life on the upper regiments of the Russian political flooring is built according to the laws of the criminal world sung by courtyard poets. In other words, “according to concepts”. Belkovsky directly says: “Putin is an uncle of very strict rules.

In order to be able to legally punish anyone unwanted, it is best to come up with some abstract concept. For example, a cosmopolitan or an “enemy of the people” - go prove that you are not a camel? Today our deputies will consider amendments to the law “On Combating Extremist Activities” in the first reading. These amendments allow us to interpret the concept of “extremism” in the broadest sense.

In society Congratulations to the congratulations June 28, 2006 Alexander Ryklin I have never had to say that I have not been familiar with Nikolai Karlovich Svanidze. Why? So, no one asked. (Now, too, no one asks, but, as they say, the case turned up.) Meanwhile, this circumstance - my unfamiliarity with N.K. - allows me to talk about his congratulations to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, not exposed to both personal sympathy and personal antipathy. However, I, not, is not entirely detached: N.K.

It was not for nothing that the Prosecutor General’s Office expected major changes - they were not long in coming. Still, the “castling” should have had at least some meaning? And the meaning was discovered, and it’s very simple, it’s called “a new broom...”. The resignations of five deputy prosecutors general have already been granted. Among those whose reports have already been signed is First Deputy Prosecutor General Yuri Biryukov.

Around Russia Irreparable June 28, 2006 Anton Oresh In Iraq, four employees of our embassy were killed. And what to say and comment on? There is a war in the country. And it is even incomprehensible who with whom and for what. Every day they take hostages in dozens, according to official statistics, almost every eighth dies. From all in a row, countries - and those who participate in the coalition, and those that do not apply to it.

In Southern Butovo, the thunderstorms of revolution still sparkle: firstly, the prefecture of the South-Western Administrative District has built retaliatory barricades. State Duma deputy Alexander Lebedev wanted to bring a small house there and set up a revolution headquarters in Butovo, but he was not allowed to do so. The authorities simply blocked the entrance to the area, and a trailer with a modular house could not pass through.

Speaking today at a plenary session of the Duma, Mitrofanov proposed creating an Orthodox state in Russia, headed by a patriarch, modeled on the Vatican. “An Orthodox state could be located within Moscow with the residence of the patriarch in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior or in Sergiev Posad,” Mitrofanov believes.