The authorities of the Chita region and the Agin-Buryat Autonomous Okrug signed an appeal to the President of Russia with an initiative to form a new subject of the Federation as a result of the unification of the two regions. The document proposes to assign the new region the status of a region and call it Transbaikal. Referendums on unification are planned to be held in March 2007.

The Federal Customs Service proposed to fence off all special economic zones so that their boundaries can be determined visually. To achieve this, the FCS insists on building fences around the zones. Their design does not promise to be special. Depending on the type of activity of the zone, its territory can be fenced with concrete blocks, an electronic fence and even barbed wire.

Anna Politkovskaya is being buried today. In recent days, talk has become commonplace that an opposition journalist was killed in Russia. I don’t think this formulation is accurate when applied to Anna. She was not an opposition journalist in the classical sense of the term. Politkovskaya was simply a very honest, very talented and very caring person.

Anna Politkovskaya is our colleague, a courageous and honest person. We have no doubt that Anya was killed for what she did: she told her compatriots about the terrible price of the war in Chechnya, told the world about the situation with human rights in Russia. Her murder occurred at a time when in Russia it is almost no customary to talk about Chechnya or human rights. The more painful and irreparable this loss.

The investigative team in the case of the murder of famous journalist Anna Politkovskaya is considering three main versions of what happened.

“This murder caused more damage to Russia than A. Politkovskaya’s publications,” Putin told reporters in Dresden. And again: “But I think that journalists should know this - that the degree of her influence on political life in the country was extremely insignificant. She was known in journalistic and human rights circles, but her influence on political life in Russia was minimal.” It is impossible to comment on this. Starts to feel nauseous.

The city authorities are going to allocate more than two hundred million rubles for the patriotic education of young people. This was stated on Tuesday by the head of the Moscow Department of Education Lyubov Kezina. With this money, in particular, it is planned to open museum corners dedicated to the Great Patriotic War in every educational institution in Moscow, and sports clubs have been created. This is how the authorities intend to fight “destructive elements” among young people.

The Duma members propose to educate patriotic ideals on a legislative basis. They demand the development of legal norms that protect the interests of media consumers - the information in the media is incomplete and unreliable. And she is as close to the high ideals of patriotism and morality as the moon. And the government should “develop mechanisms for economic influence” on the media and all kinds of cultural organizations: patriot - get an extra penny.

If a few days ago it still seemed that there was no president in the Russian Federation, today it is already clear that we do not have a president. That is, the man who is called Vladimir Putin, of course, has not gone anywhere and, it seems, has no intention of going away, but in the public consciousness he, without a doubt, can no longer claim the position of head of state and the status of leader of the nation. He needs to come up with some other name.

Bishop Vasily Osborne was once again invited to appear at a meeting of the Synod in Moscow. Otherwise, he will be subjected to the bishop's court. It is now clear that another 17 clergy of the Sourozh diocese have been accepted into the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Constantinople without letters of leave.

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