Kakha Bendukidze, Georgian State Minister, founder and former co-owner of United Machine-Building Plants OJSC, former member of the RUIE board of directors, tells the Daily Journal about what is happening in Georgia besides the dispute between Putin and Saakashvili and what the reformers’ efforts are concentrated on: - Kakha Avtandilovich, rather one-sided information about Georgia is being spread in Russia: mainly of a political nature.

The prosecutor's office of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District opened a criminal case against the head of Rospan International, a subsidiary of TNK-BP. The prosecutor's office demanded that the company's license to develop the Vostochno-Urengoyskoye field be revoked. They say that the development was carried out with violations, some documents are missing.

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Of all types of political journalism, sports journalism is the most free (do not tell me that sport is not politics - politics, and what else!). You can criticize anyone, call for an answer, identify corruption and demand an investigation, discuss any question. And in general, the sport is unprecedentedly free. Here even Gazprom can be horned! Here the St. Petersburg is oppressed! The president’s friends are left in fools! Although, of course, while the dog barks, the caravan is coming.

Everyone has already become accustomed to the fact that high-profile cases of murder of journalists never end in anything, no matter how scary it is. But when Paul Klebnikov, editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine, was killed, it seemed that something was about to be achieved here. It seemed in vain: the proceedings promised to be endless. The Prosecutor General's Office accused Musa Vakhaev and Kazbek Dukuzov, natives of Chechnya, of the murder of Khlebnikov.

In recent months, Georgia has been on the front pages of Russian publications. There is no particular point in listing the events that followed the “Rose Revolution”, as a result of which Mikheil Saakashvili became the president of the neighboring republic.

The military prosecutor's office dropped criminal cases against three officers of the support battalion of the Chelyabinsk Tank School. During the investigation into the Sychev case, captains Shevetov and Bogomolov, as well as Major Khasanov, were charged under Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Negligence”). However, the prosecutor's office could not find a cause-and-effect relationship between the inaction of the commanders and the nightmare that happened to Sychev.

Today, Azeibarjan President Ilham Aliyev arrived in Moscow on a working visit. There are several burning issues on the agenda: gas, weapons, aluminum. Apparently, Aliyev will be asked to be even closer and stronger friends with Russia against Georgia. And for this: gas for $100, with the opportunity to resell it to Georgia, a simplified procedure for the purchase of Russian weapons, the removal of all kinds of bureaucratic barriers and an aluminum plant in Ganja worth $1 billion.

More than 1,500 people were poisoned by alcohol in the Irkutsk region. Of these, 1,146 are in hospitals, 58 have died. Any normal person is ready to agree with the State Duma deputies on this issue - this is terrible. But how from such facts a conclusion is drawn about the need for a state monopoly on alcoholic products is more difficult to understand. It seems there are laws prohibiting production, trade, etc. “Scorched vodka”, perhaps now we need to make them work?