In the Kremlin He is ours, he is pure as a crystal November 13, 2006 Alexander Golts Well, why does Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko not ask for NATO, why doesn’t he knock on the door of the European Union? Indeed, in this case, the Belarusian Old Man would completely fit into the picture of the world now adopted by official Russia. In the meantime, the disorder is obtained. On the one hand, ours, pure as a crystal.

For some reason, the “people's representatives” imagine themselves as people's guards - they are always trying to protect someone: the Russian language from Americanisms, elections from voters, us from ourselves. Now they want to protect Russian politics from enemy capital. The deputies took the initiative to prohibit the financing of parties by those organizations that have foreign funds.

They have been talking for a long time about the fact that sooner or later they will have to get off the “gas needle”, it seems that the moment of truth will come soon. As Vedomosti writes, already in 2007 the country's energy balance will develop a gas deficit of 4.2 billion cubic meters. Such information, according to the newspaper, is contained in the report, which will be read out at a meeting with the president on November 22.

The referendum on the independence of South Ossetia was recognized as valid. At the same time, presidential elections are taking place there. The pro-Kremlin “Nashi”, who act as observers at the Ossetian elections, have already reported that 99% of voters voted for the independence of South Ossetia, and 95% voted for the current President Eduard Kokoity.

On October 13, the French National Assembly adopted in the first reading a law that provides for criminal liability for public denial of the Armenian genocide in 1915 in Turkey. The expected punishment ranges from a fine of 45 thousand euros to 5 years in prison. Member of the European Parliament Marco Cappato addressed the EU bodies with a request: will this law, if adopted, conflict with the fundamental freedoms of European citizens? Where are the limits of freedom of speech?

Almost any news concerning Duma initiatives can long ago begin with the phrase “whatever the child enjoys.” On November 15, the people's representatives will gather to decisively advocate for a reprieve of the death penalty for Saddam Hussein. One cannot help but admit that the whole story with Hussein does not look very decent: it is somehow wrong to deprive someone of their life “for elections,” even if it is legally justified.

Citing a recent UN report that says there has been no decline in the number of hungry people in the world since 1990, the pontiff, in his weekly address to the faithful, called for addressing the “structural” problems of the global economy: somehow we must redistribute wealth. “There is undoubtedly a need to address the structural causes in economic management that result in the distribution of the majority of resources to a minority of the population,” the Pope said.

It feels like our political reality is completely virtual. Back in the summer, everyone was actively writing about how Putin fired as many as 19 FSB chiefs by personal decree, about furniture fraud - the “Three Whales” case. According to Newsweek magazine, no one has been fired. At one time, two names leaked to the press: the head of the FSB Internal Security Service, Alexander Kupryazhkin, and the head of the FSB Operations Support Service, Sergei Shishin. Both are in place and working.

In the so-called “Understandable Bible,” a group of 52 German biblical scholars attempted to introduce “tolerant” vocabulary into the text. Thus, Christ addresses God not as “Father,” but as “our Mother and Father, who are in heaven.” In turn, the Savior is referred to everywhere not as the “Son of God,” but as the “child of God.” In general, fight sexism! “One of the great ideas of the Bible is justice.

Today, at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Poland refused to lift its veto on the decision to begin negotiations between the EU and Russia. This puts the negotiations at a dead end; many EU countries do not agree with this decision. The Poles demand that Russia ratify the European Economic Charter, which we once rashly signed, but categorically do not want to ratify.

The former Speaker of All Rus', and now the leader of the Renaissance Party, Gennady Seleznev, will not give up his favorite idea of ​​competing with Zyuganov. The creation of a new center-left party was recently announced. The next political structure will include as many as five parties: Revival of Russia, Patriots of Russia, Social Justice, People's Party and Social Democratic.

That's it. Putin announced that we do not need Abkhazia/Ossetia. Saakashvili no longer objects to Russia's accession to the WTO. Moscow is stopping the idiotic hysteria around Georgian “indigenous citizens of non-indigenous nationality.” Saakashvili removes (relocates) his defense minister. All this was absolutely obvious from the very beginning.

Around Russia About Georgian terrorists November 13, 2006 Julia Latynina Last week, three events occurred almost simultaneously. Firstly, Gazprom demanded that Georgia sell gas pipelines walking around its territory. Secondly, President Putin met with President Ilham Aliyev and invited him to participate in the energy blockade of Georgia. And thirdly, the KGB of South Ossetia announced the disclosure of the next conspiracy against President Kokoita. The stump is clear.