If our chief policeman Rashid Nurgaliev is ever put on trial, I will not be able to act as a witness at this trial. Because to the judge’s question: “Do you have a feeling of personal hostility towards the defendant?”, I will be forced to answer: “Yes. I feel a deep feeling of personal hostility toward the defendant that has accumulated over the years.” The fact is that, having crossed once, our paths with Rashid Nurgaliev now intersect every single day. Or rather, every weekday. Literally.

The participants of the rally timed to coincide with the meeting of the heads of G8 parliaments detained in St. Petersburg were justified. According to the head of the St. Petersburg branch of the United Civil Front, Olga Kurnosova, the cases brought against the rally participants were dismissed by the 208th Magistrate Court due to the absence of an administrative offense in the actions of the protesters.

According to the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, “in neighboring countries there is such a practice when 20-40 percent of places are reserved for local producers.” He proposed introducing the same practice in Russian shopping malls. Management companies or market owners will monitor compliance with quotas. In addition, only those who are registered will be able to trade.

Russian justice has flogged itself. On Monday, the Moscow City Court declared illegal the return to the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation to eliminate violations committed during the preliminary investigation of the criminal case of the former head of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy Evgeny Adamov, accused of fraud and abuse of power.

Another high-profile crime has been committed in Moscow. On the night from Sunday to Monday, the business manager of the ITAT-TASS news agency, Anatoly Voronin, was killed. The body was discovered in an apartment on Bolshoy Kondratyevsky Lane by the driver of the murdered man, who reported the incident to the police. Voronin died from multiple stab wounds, one of which was in the neck. Voronin was 55 years old. Of these, he worked for ITAR-TASS for 23 years.

The famous pilot, without five minutes, the Hero of Russia, who shaved NATO Major Valery Trojanov, whose fate, as the Chelyuskin, was monitored a year ago, was watched from the army. The story would be funny if it had not been so sad: the pilot and his wife who devoted his whole life all his life even to live. The Su-27 fighter Troyanov, as we all remember, got lost exactly a year ago on the road from the Leningrad Region to Kaliningrad and fell on the territory of Lithuania.

God is not a fraer - Anna Chakvetadze won the Kremlin Cup. A month ago this would have been almost indifferent to me. Almost - because, an avid fan, I have sympathized with Anna for a long time. However, no more than Elena, Nastya or Nadezhda. I was just rooting for our girls, enjoying the game. It was the Kremlin that provided my human passion for the “Kremlin Cup” – a boorish anti-Georgian campaign. I started rooting for this girl for reasons of world harmony.

The Russian government took measures to prevent a perfume crisis by approving amendments to the law “On state regulation of the production and circulation of ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products.” According to the Minister of Economic Development German Gref, many companies producing perfume products have suffered significant losses due to the imperfections of the adopted law, which ultimately affects consumers.

Metropolitan Kirill came to London for the celebrations; Patriarch Alexy II sent a congratulatory message to the clergy and flock of the Sourozh diocese, calling on parishioners to “bear each other’s burdens and thus fulfill the law of Christ.” Meanwhile, anniversary celebrations also took place in the new London parish of the Amphipolis Vicariate: on October 15, in the church in the name of St. Andrew in Holborn (north London), where the rector is now Rev.

An appeal to Russia with a request to recognize Abkhazia as an independent state was signed by representatives of public, religious and political organizations of the republic. An example for such a move by Abkhazia, apparently, was set by Transnistria, which asked for recognition after the September referendum.

Vice-President of the European Parliament Mario Mauro, complaining about the spread of secular ideology in Europe, expressed hope that “attempts to build a society without God,” leading to dire problems, can be stopped. The scientific director of the Center for Research on Post-Industrial Society, Vladislav Inozemtsev, did not agree with him. “Religionless Europe,” he said, “behaves more Christianly than everyone else, for example, the supposedly more religious Russia and the United States.

The investment bank Deutsche Bank intends to begin negotiations on the redemption of debt and the acquisition of a controlling stake in Yukos. Everyone who has so far interfered in the “YUKOS case” either left with nothing, or made enemies for themselves in the domestic power structures. But in the wake of friendship between Russia and Germany, Deutsche Bank has a very good chance of acquiring the bankrupt oil giant. Although the solution may be much simpler.

The speed with which the Prosecutor General's Office announced the actual solution of the murder case of Andrei Kozlov raises natural skepticism regarding the integrity of the work done. We have never investigated a case of this magnitude so quickly. On Monday, the authorities reported that the picture of the crime had been restored, and the names of the perpetrators of the crime who had confessed were named.