A referendum on the prospects for building a Union State of Russia and Belarus may well take place in December 2006, said State Secretary of the Union State Pavel Borodin. However, the organizers will have to hurry. Otherwise, the event will have to be postponed for more than a year. The Basic Law may become an obstacle to the long-awaited event.

The Supreme Court of Russia considers the proposal to declare the income of judges of general jurisdiction “unacceptable and contrary to the Constitution of the country.” According to Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Court Vladimir Radchenko, the publication of judges’ incomes can be used “for the purpose of political struggle” or by crime.

The successor to Andrei Kozlov, who was killed on September 14, will be Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Gennady Melikyan. He will take the post of Chairman of the Banking Supervision Committee of the Central Bank of Russia. Other candidates were Nadezhda Savinskaya, who heads the Central Bank Main Directorate for St. Petersburg, and Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Viktor Melnikov.

Latvian parliamentarians who prefer to speak Russian have retained this right, despite attempts by the far-right Fatherland and Freedom party to deprive them of this opportunity. The Sejm voted against the ban on the use of foreign languages, including Russian, in the work of parliament.

There is an old joke. Two friends meet.

The document was proposed for parliamentary consideration by President Putin personally last Monday. This, apparently, is the secret of the deputies’ efficiency. Why not pass a resolution - here you can please the Supreme Commander-in-Chief and you shouldn’t be afraid of the negative consequences of a not too well-thought-out decision: deputies don’t like to remind you that only those militants who did not kill or participate in organizing terrorist attacks can be amnestied.

The innovations are designed to simplify the procedure for providing land plots for housing construction. In addition, the amendments bring 22 laws into line with the Urban Planning Code. The State Duma, carried away by the idea of ​​a mortgage, did not pay due attention to the problem of allocating space for its implementation. And now parliamentarians are clearing up their own mistakes. However, even the government does not believe in the success of the event.

“There is a special attitude towards the patriarch. It just so happens that he is always assigned the role of the most important leading religious leader of our multi-confessional Russia. He is always in our special regard,” the mufti said in an interview with the Muslim Press agency. The resentment of Muslims is understandable. But what can you do, they have too many muftis, they shouldn’t allow everyone to have flashing lights.

A clerical mistake - instead of “second lieutenant” the clerk wrote “second lieutenant Kizhe” gave birth to a virtual creature in the bureaucratic empire - second lieutenant Kizhe. Then he rose to the rank of general. This was 200 years ago. Nowadays technology has come a long way. It was hardly someone’s “mistake,” but one way or another, two parties arose - United Russia and another one, with some name so complicated that you can’t pronounce it.

When Gabriel Popov left the post of mayor of Moscow, the public worried about habit: what will happen now? Such a titanium leaves! And who instead of him-some kind of foreman, or someone else there, no one knows him what kind of Luzhkov? Today it seems that Luzhkov has always been, and it is impossible to remember how it was under Popov, and how it was even earlier - and even more so. And to imagine that Luzhkov is 70 is completely impossible.

The full ((http://www.pravdabeslana.ru/dokladkomissii.htm text)) draft report of the Commission was published on Thursday on the Beslan Truth website. It was previously planned that the final version of the document would be published on September 22. However, the parliamentary commission was unable to complete the investigation on time.

Participants of the archaeological underwater expedition “Chelyuskin-70” spent about a week in the area where the steamship was destroyed, crushed by ice in the Chukchi Sea in February 1934. Researchers managed to find several fragments of the ship. The first attempt to search for the Chelyuskin in the Chukchi Sea, made in 2004, 70 years after the death of the ship, was unsuccessful.

As always, it will be attended by representatives of social, intellectual and economic elites from around the world. This year, the forum will hear the results of the activities of a number of NGOs, academic institutions and research centers studying the issues of the “dialogue of civilizations”.