It is known that every revolution is the struggle of ignorance with injustice. But, it turns out, there are conflicts in which both sides win a convincing victory. Back in early 2003, the government considered it necessary to fundamentally change the forest code, adopted only six years earlier. The reasons were obvious: owning more than a quarter of the forests of the planet, Russia occupies the humiliating 3-4% of the global wood market and products from it.

At a press conference in Brussels, Georgian Secretary of State for Euro-Atlantic Integration Georgiy Baramidze wittily reminded Russia, and at the same time the whole world, that it was not Mr. Putin who came up with the idea of ​​turning the economic blockade into a weapon of genocide. “Their actions are very similar to Nazi Germany in the 1930s,” said the Georgian representative. - Georgian enterprises are closing, like in the early 30s.

“The very desire to secularize religious holidays is a challenge for both of our communities,” said Dr. Ataullah Siddiqui, a representative of the British Islamic community, at the Christian-Muslim Forum in London, organized on the initiative of the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.

In Russia there is a different point of view, there are people who are ready to fight against lawlessness and lawlessness of power. This has already been proven by the leaders of such political organizations as the United Front, Labor Russia, the Republican Party, the NBP and the National Democratic Union by signing the statement of the Other Russia movement.

Recently, the president asked deputies to give him the right to impose economic sanctions against Georgia, which was done almost immediately (after 3 weeks). The new law, approved by the State Duma committee, not only legalizes what has already been done, but also allows the president in the future to make decisions on his own to impose economic sanctions against any country. Now Putin himself will deal with all these wines, sprats and other products.

In society Discussion. Hegumen Filaret, Alexander Kirlezhev, Alexander Verkhovsky: human rights and religious values November 14, 2006 Daily Journal At the end of October, Strasbourg hosted the seminar “The Moral Fundamentals and Evolution of the concept of human rights in a polycultural society”, where once again the understanding of the Russian Orthodox Church was outlined.

“If the Public Chamber stops doing stupid things, they will forget about it,” its glorious members decided and began to write a charter for journalists. This will be a document regulating what and how a journalist should write, and most importantly, what he should not write. It remains a mystery who will monitor the execution of the “sentence” and how the renegades will be punished.

The bill provides for a unified system of requirements mandatory for any public school. At the same time, the ability of local authorities to influence the content of education, taking into account regional or national characteristics, remains. Regions will lose the right to introduce new subjects, but schools will be able to independently distribute lesson topics within subjects of the federal program.

Former presidential adviser, director of the Institute for Economic Analysis and senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Freedom and Development, Andrei Illarionov, took part in the conference “Freedom, Trade and Peace: A Regional Agenda”, which was held in Tbilisi. During a break between meetings, he told the Daily Journal about his vision of the situation in Russia: — Andrey Nikolaevich, how should Russian liberal politicians act in the current circumstances?

Fifteen years ago, the Gaidar government was formed. That is, the impersonal "formed", like everything impersonal, if it is not about the phenomena of nature, but about the acts of human hands, does not reflect the real state of things. The government formed B.N. Yeltsin. He did it on the tip of G.E. Burbulis, who became the head of this government in an unclear position of the "Secretary of State", but with the completely obvious powers of the chancellor.

Today the first hearings in the case of Sergei Mozgalev took place in the Kondopoga District Court. At the request of the lawyer, the case was returned to the prosecutor's office. Mozgalev was “appointed” as the main culprit of the mass unrest on August 30 - he, according to the investigation, was the instigator of the fight in the Chaika restaurant, from which it all began.

Gennady Onishchenko (what would we do without him) today at a meeting of the United Russia faction spoke out on the alcohol problem. And, I must say, the chief doctor of Russia told us a lot of interesting things: Russia is in 14th place among the countries with the highest level of alcohol consumption, we began to drink more - as much as 14 liters of pure alcohol per year per capita of a Russian.

Doctors from the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynecology are in favor of legalizing “active euthanasia” for newborns with various defects. Doctors advise using it “if it serves the greater good of the family, which would otherwise face years of emotional suffering and financial hardship.” "It may be appropriate to choose to withhold treatment in cases where it is likely to result in death," the document, prepared by the Church of England Council for Missions and Public Affairs, said.