It's time to say this word. Although, of course, the temptation for some time still sit out for the wording like “rampant nationalist sentiments” or “manifestation of xenophobic tendencies in national policy” is very large. Because it is scary to pronounce it. Well, what can you do now? However, you just need to do it ... I argue that when the police calls to schools to find out if children with Georgian surnames are studying there, this is fascism.

The decision to “ignore” Ukraine within the framework of the Riga NATO summit, which will be held on October 28-29, was made after yesterday’s negotiations between the country’s Defense Minister Anatoly Gritsenko and the leadership of the alliance. NATO stated its readiness to support reforms in the defense and security sectors and help in the development of civil society. At the same time, the main question—the annexation of Ukraine—was never raised.

In society "Fifth" as the fourth federal? October 6, 2006 Elena Afanasyeva Last Sunday in Russia there was one federal channel more. Didn't you notice? Do not be embarrassed! It seems that the appearance of another designed to cover the whole country of the channel went unnoticed by the vast majority of our fellow citizens.

Around Russia Stop the Georgian Bully campaign October 6, 2006 Daily Journal Appeal to society and the authorities In recent days, the propaganda hysteria, directed against Georgia and the Georgian people, reached an unprecedented level. We do not intend to analyze all aspects of the spy scandal.

A plane carrying 143 deported Georgian citizens from the Russian capital and the Moscow region took off from Moscow to Tbilisi on Friday. Today, a plane from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived at the Tbilisi airport, which delivered to Moscow about 200 Russians who did not have time to leave Georgia before the transport connection was blocked.

Reasons: The Salvation Army is allegedly a paramilitary organization that is supported from abroad and violates Russian laws. The Strasbourg court recognized that none of the accusations made stood up to criticism. Now the country will have to pay 10 thousand euros in compensation to the Moscow branch of the AC. One of the world's most powerful charities, it operates in 102 countries, with 86% of its budget going toward food and clothing for those in need.

(Summary of the first part: Shenderovich flies to Astrakhan to take part in campaigning for the Republican Party of Russia in local elections.) Entering the small hall of the Illusion cinema, I spent some time, to the excitement of the audience, fiddling with the microphone and moving the cameramen so that everyone could see and hear. “Everything will be fine now,” I promised, and the lights in the hall immediately went out. There was a roar of laughter from the darkness. It was a joke.

In society Songs of the ministerial regiment October 6, 2006 Nikolai Svanidze In the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda, the official print body of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in one of the last numbers (on September 20), an interview with the Doctor of Historical Sciences Yu.N. Zhukov. The reason for the interview is the 70th anniversary of the Stalin Constitution of 1936. Meanwhile, this glorious anniversary will strike on December 5, one could wait with the ceiling.

The authorities' initiative to combat Georgian citizens violating Russian legislation was supported by the radical Movement against Illegal Immigration. After President Vladimir Putin ordered the day before to clear the country’s retail outlets of non-indigenous people working illegally in Russia, DPNI expressed warm support for the head of state and posted on its website a call to report places of possible residence of illegal Georgian migrants.

The recent story of the New York Times leaking excerpts from the US intelligence report “Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States” made me nostalgic for the political struggle in Russia. Less than a month and a half before the congressional elections, the heated debate among Republicans and Democrats about the war in Iraq and its impact on the fight against international terrorism has reached a boiling point.

A parliamentary group led by Boris Gryzlov submitted to the State Duma a bill providing for the suspension of the work of an enterprise if the wages of its employees are below the minimum established by law. In addition, deputies proposed to raise the minimum wage from 1,100 to 2,000 rubles from September 1, 2007.

Lawyers for former FSB colonel Mikhail Trepashkin, who is serving a sentence in a penal colony in Nizhny Tagil on charges of disclosing state secrets, claim a threat to his life. “Trepashkin had a severe asthma attack, and the administration had to call an ambulance, but the doctors were not given the opportunity to hospitalize him,” Trepashkin’s lawyer Elena Liptser said on Friday.

The director of the Zakharov publishing house, which publishes books by Grigory Chkhartishvili, who writes under the pseudonym Boris Akunin, was summoned for a conversation to the tax crimes department. “They say that they are interested in my income,” the writer said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy. Of course, the authorities do not officially admit this, but, apparently, the checks are taking place in the wake of the fight against everything Georgian in Russia.

Recently, Russia has appeared very strange heroes. One such hero was the pilot Valery Troyanov, who heroically got lost over the territory of Lithuania (can you physically imagine this - getting lost over Lithuania? It’s good that it wasn’t over a haystack), heroically flew until the fuel ran out - and fell. The pilot was greeted with triumph by state television and the Minister of Defense. True, there was one saboteur - the commander-in-chief of the Air Force.

Mikhail Kasyanov, leader of the People's Democratic Union, about the situation around Georgia: The behavior of the Russian leadership, who called the UN Security Council for the resolution of an incident that arose in relations with Georgia, and also made a decision on the introduction of informal sanctions against the Georgian people, is an unworthy and unworthy status of a great power.