The Supreme Court of Russia rejected the complaint of lawyer Yuri Schmidt, defending the interests of the ex-head of Yukos, in which he asked to recognize as contrary to the law the rule of the internal regulations of the colony, according to which convicts are prohibited from transferring food to each other. According to Schmidt, such a requirement simply degrades human dignity.

A large-scale inspection of the Federal Penitentiary Service institutions in the Perm Territory, launched after a complaint from one of their prisoners, aired on Direct Line with the President of Russia, may lead to the resignation of the head of the relevant department, Yuri Kalinin. As the inspection showed, the conditions of detention of prisoners in the region are close to unacceptable. In particular, there is less than 3 square meters per person. meters of area.

The chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Onishchenko G.G. From the consumer Shenderovich V.A. Dear Gennady Grigorievich! I hasten to inform you about the results of the experiment I conducted. The purpose of the experiment was to clarify the degree of real danger, represented by liquid food from the Republic of Georgia, prohibited for import into Russia with your order No. 0100/3267-06-23 of 03.25.2006.

Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Nikolai Kuryanovich was expelled from the LDPR and its parliamentary faction in the State Duma on Tuesday “for gross systematic violations of party and faction discipline.” According to Kuryanovich, at a faction meeting he was accused of “creating problems for the party.” “They told me that I needed to be more politically correct, more tolerant, and they recommended that I give up my parliamentary mandate,” Kuryanovich said.

Boris Berezovsky has quarreled between the Prosecutor General's Offices of the Russian Federation and Kyrgyzstan. Russia accused the republic's authorities of allowing the oligarch to secretly enter and leave its territory. Speaking in the local parliament on Tuesday, the Prosecutor General of Kyrgyzstan Kambaraly Kongantiev said that information about Berezovsky's arrival in Bishkek has not been confirmed by anything.

It is obvious to the forum participants that Orthodox publications are emerging from the “dark corner” and are gradually turning into an integral part of the Russian media. However, there are still a lot of problems, and the festival is an opportunity to discuss them together. For example, there is a shortage of qualified professionals because religious journalism is hardly taught anywhere. The church leadership is even considering whether to introduce journalism courses in seminaries.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow on Tuesday sentenced each of three police officers accused of beating a schoolboy to three years in prison. In April 2006, private security officers arrived in response to an alarm from one of the Moscow apartments. The call was not confirmed. But in one of the entrances of the house, the police met a 12-year-old boy and began asking him questions about his place of residence, passport and the reason for being in the house.

A couple of months ago, the Public Chamber stood up to protect the interests of the residents of South Butovo. Kucheren's lawyer loudly denounced the Moscow authorities; all federal channels reported on the misfortunes of Yulia Prokofieva, who was evicted by decision of the Zyuzinsky court from her own house into a one-room apartment together with her adult son. Then Butovo fell silent; to an inattentive viewer it might seem that the issue was settled.

Getting poisoned, brothers. We are upset by the native leadership, which quite rightly believes that if it goes on and further, very soon there will be no one in Russia. Well, that's okay. And who will produce oil, gas? Pushkin? And who will go to the polls and vote for United Russia? Or for any other Russia? (Do not think bad - for the "fair", for example.) In a word, there is something to think about.

How much have we dreamed that instead of these damned bureaucrats, corrupt officials, retrogrades, new, modern, decent people would come, so that liberal rule would replace authoritarian rule. And maybe then... Don't dream because your dream can come true. How some of our fans' dreams came true. In fact, recently a new minister of sports has come to power - the legendary captain of the hockey team and fighter against the System, Vyacheslav Fetisov.

Every fifth Russian (20%) currently knows that National Unity Day will be celebrated in Russia on November 4; last year, only 8% knew this. The number of those who are going to celebrate it has also doubled - 23% versus 12% last year. These are mainly Russians under 40 years of age, with higher education, residents of the Volga region, Moscow and other cities with a population of more than 500 thousand people, supporters of Yabloko or the Liberal Democratic Party.

The general director of the company ZAO SB-120 Sheremetyevo, which purchased defective and decommissioned spare parts for aircraft, was arrested. Previously, charges were brought against engineer Viktor Gamayunov. Now the Prosecutor General's Office has come to the conclusion that the purchase of counterfeit spare parts for aircraft was carried out with the permission of the head of this structure, Alexei Surikov.