The Union of Right Forces intends to nominate Nikita Belykh as a candidate for the presidency in the 2016 elections. This was stated today by the deputy chairman of the party, Leonid Gozman. The party will hold a congress at the end of September to consider the program for the next 10 years. It is planned to be approved at the end of November. Plans for the future are bold and far-reaching. Here you can dream to your heart's content.

Control of all spheres of the country’s life is the basis of the current state structure. The authorities place their people everywhere. And who could be more “at home” than a blood relative? The son of FSB head Nikolai Patrushev, 25-year-old Andrei Patrushev, has been appointed advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rosneft, Igor Sechin. According to Kommersant, Patrushev Jr.

A few days ago, at a closed government meeting, a bill was approved that provided for a radical change in the relationship of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) with the state. According to the draft (formulated as amendments to the current law “On Science”), the Academy is deprived of all autonomy. Its president will be “approved” (that is, actually appointed) by the head of state, and its charter - by the government.

At first, not about radio, but about cinema. We are sitting at the dacha of a young film director. He is 24 years old, professional and successful. He brought Kirill Serebrennikov’s film “Playing the Victim” on DVD. We are watching a movie.

Nikita Sinkov, who was detained on Tuesday on suspicion of murdering Armenian student Vigen Abrahamyants in the capital's metro, is a cadet at the Moscow Police College and the son of a high-ranking police official. According to Kommersant, the young man is an activist of a nationalist organization. Sinkov has already confessed to the murder, but with the caveat that the student allegedly attacked him first, and what happened was nothing more than an attempt at self-defense.

The investigation into the sensational “Three Whales” case led to high-profile resignations in the leadership of customs, the prosecutor’s office, the FSB and other government bodies. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, 19 high-ranking officials have already lost their posts. Among them is the head of the Federal Agency for the Management of Special Economic Zones, Yuri Zhdanov.

Over the five years that have passed since the tragic day of the death of the “two sisters,” the situation on the world stage has changed greatly and for the worse. The aggressor is essentially never punished and walks around like a bully. The Islamic world is radicalizing decisively, and a second (first Al-Qaeda) center of aggressive power has emerged - Iran. Moreover, these two centers are also like, God forgive me, twin sisters, they do not compete, but complement each other favorably.

Early voting is organized primarily for those who will be outside the self-proclaimed republic during the referendum on September 17. There are two questions in the ballots: “Do you think it is possible to maintain the course towards international recognition of Pridnestrovie and joining Russia?” and “Do you think it is possible for Transnistria to become part of Moldova?” More than 390 thousand people are expected to take part in the voting. But no one dares to talk about its real strength.

More recently, representatives of the Communist Party and the autocephalous supporters intended to unite with the hope of creating a local Ukrainian church in the future, but the union did not work out (they did not divide the bishop’s positions), and now the conflict, apparently, is developing on an increasing scale. They are already fighting over the temples. Meanwhile, the seized cathedral was transferred to the Communist Party by the decision of the Suvorovsky District Court of Odessa.

He stated this in the Vesti program on the Rossiya TV channel. The professor's thinking apparatus is interesting. The events in Kondopoga took place at the beginning of September, and the concert took place only yesterday, the 12th. That is, we arranged Kondopoga exclusively on our own, and managed it without Madonna. But from the USA, where Madonna has been successfully performing for 20 years, we haven’t heard any news about their local “kondopogas”.

The MI8 crash in Vladikavkaz may not have been a tragic accident. Today, the extremist organization Kataib al-Hawl claimed responsibility for the helicopter crash. The militants' statement was sent by email to the Kavkaz-Center website.