In the Kremlin So we are superpower or what? September 12, 2006 Alexander Golts Once a year, the domestic analysts who are accustomed to eat scraps from the Kremlin information table, a holiday occurs. This is the very day when Vladimir Putin, who, for obvious reasons, disdains to communicate with his political science, accepts their Western colleagues.

The collapse of empires usually begins with national conflicts. The collapse of the USSR began with Baku and Sumgait. The collapse of Russia also begins with national conflicts: between Chechens and Avars (Moksob and Novoselskoye in Dagestan), between Chechens and Kalmyks (Yandyks), between Chechens and Kabardians (Nalchik). The conflicts were not noticed until the Chechens fought with the Russians in Kondopoga.

The Verkhovna Rada stripped the powers of deputies who were appointed to government positions. In particular, the powers of deputy Viktor Yanukovych, as well as the ministers of his cabinet, were terminated ahead of schedule. True, there was one exception - Minister of Justice Roman Zvarych from Our Ukraine, who still refuses to resign as a deputy. Yanukovych entered the Rada on the Party of Regions list and was elected prime minister on August 4.

In Russia, a new craze is rebranding. Give a new name, change the logo, repaint the generic colors, reorient, re-profile and just slightly refresh faded clothes - all this is now called the fashionable word “rebranding”. It feels like nothing has ever changed in our country until recently. Companies were born, lived and died in the same clothes, dying without time in a dispute between business entities or in a negative difference between liabilities and assets.

Well, dear fellow citizens, make yourself comfortable. Stretch your legs, cover yourself with pillows, and don’t forget to stock up on various drinks and goodies. We are in for a most exciting spectacle. It’s still better to send the children to bed. Because such a frank demonstration of a wide variety of human vices - greed, betrayal, cowardice, stupidity and many others - will definitely not benefit them. But what do we still have to see?

Contrary to earlier reports, after the adoption of amendments to the law “On Science”, the Russian Academy of Sciences will not be renamed into the State Academy of Sciences. This was stated today by the President of the Academy Yuri Osipov. According to him, in the documents the RAS appears as “an academy with state status.” The proposed amendments simply clarify legal terminology.

An employee of the Prosecutor General's Office, Vladimir Lyseiko, known as the “chief director” of the YUKOS case, who ensured unquestioning execution of instructions from above, was dismissed. According to Kommersant, management suggested that Lyseiko move to a less responsible post. He allegedly refused, and then he was asked to write a report on his retirement. In addition, Lyseiko actively participated in the investigation of the case of Vladimir Gusinsky and the Three Whales company.

The cause of the crash of the Mi-8 helicopter, which belonged to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, near Vladikavkaz, according to preliminary data, was a sharp deterioration in weather conditions. There was heavy fog in the area at the time the helicopter crashed. Other versions of the disaster include a helicopter engine failure. It is known that 4 people survived the helicopter crash, the rest died.

Chairman of the People's Democratic Union Mikhail Kasyanov said in an interview with Novaya Gazeta that the turning point that forced him to join the opposition was the reaction of the authorities to the tragedy in Beslan. And the cancellation of gubernatorial elections, the transfer of the Duma to party lists and the creation of the Public Chamber came as a surprise and shock to him. “For me this is an anti-constitutional package.

The Sevastopol Economic Court of Appeal approved the decision to remove 22 lighthouses and other navigational and hydrographic objects from the possession of the Russian Ministry of Defense and transfer them to the Ministry of Transport of Ukraine, without the right of appeal.

Aesthetic education will help people become more tolerant of each other, the government is confident. Tolerance among citizens is supposed to be cultivated by organizing creative courses, monitoring the media and developing “amateur artistic performances based on folk traditions.” These measures are spelled out in the program to combat extremism and xenophobia, presented by the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications.