“We promise that not a single Orthodox Christian will vote for the party whose representatives vote for the bill on eliminating the “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture”. We will convey this position to every parish, to every citizen of Russia,” says the Union’s statement issued today in Moscow. Of course, it is possible to convey your position to each parish, but I think this will not prevent every “Orthodox Christian” from resolving this issue on their own. Why promise for others?

Yuliy Dubov, once the director of LogoVAZ, and now a writer, author of the bestsellers “The Big Ration” and “The Lesser Evil,” about the poisoning of former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko: “The hand of the Kremlin” is the only version that is considered in the Western press in connection with the attempted poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko. No one had been killed here for a very long time, so it is understandable that the incident caused a strong reaction.

The US Senate unanimously passed a bill called the NATO Freedom Consolidation Act of 2006, which calls for the “timely” admission of Albania, Croatia, Georgia and Macedonia to the alliance. The United States also declared its readiness to support Ukraine's accession to NATO. Each of the countries mentioned will be allocated a certain amount from the US federal budget for “security assistance.” At the same time, Georgia will receive three times more money than other candidate countries.

The situation in Russia regarding the protection of children's rights is of serious concern to the United Nations Children's Fund - UNICEF. The situation in Russia with children's rights is tragic, according to experts. The Commissioner for Children's Rights in Moscow, Alexey Golovan, agrees with them: “The number of complaints related to violations of the rights and interests of children increases annually by 15–20%...

The anticipated, obviously, the introduction of the state monopoly on alcohol is a historically logical step. Not only because the Russian sovereigns from ancient times preferred those mechanisms for replenishing the treasury that combine high profitability with unpretentiousness and simplicity in realization. But also because our state has already reached the state in which the system of monopolies and secondarys remains the only way of its existence.

In one of Last interviews The text of which Yuri Levada no longer had time to subtract and assure, he suddenly spoke about "crowding out in the area of ​​dead memory." Indifference, pump and vulgarity (if this is not the same) threaten each of the departed. However, the figure of Levada, now moving into a different dimension, with the previous, earthly stubbornness resists glory and heroization.

After 12 years of negotiations and mutual speculation, Vladimir Putin and George Bush signed an agreement on Russia’s accession to the WTO at the summit in Hanoi (November 18-19). Agreements were reached with all participating countries; the last word remained with the United States and Costa Rica. The only thing that darkens the joy: “the political will of the President of the United States” is not the end yet.

In Moscow, on Leninsky Prospekt, near house number 37, Movladi Baysarov, the former security guard of Akhmat-Khadzhi Kadyrov, the former commander of the so-called oil regiment Detained by Chechen riot police, Moscow Organized Crime Control Department and special forces. Baysarov did not survive, he died like a real Chechen: they wandered around the corpse for another forty minutes, fencing off the place and not daring to approach because of the grenade he had snatched lying nearby.

United Russia insists on postponing the “government hour” with Mikhail Zurabov from November 22 to the spring session. They say that until you wash yourself away from the scandal with the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund, we don’t want to listen to you.

While negotiations on the Kuril Islands, a painful issue for Russia, have once again reached a dead end and the President of the Russian Federation is trying to somehow resolve this problem in Shanghai, our beloved deputies have put forward their own version of solving the problem.

I have already admitted these pages and is ready to admit again: I feel uncomfortable if there is somehow a large number of “non-nationality” citizens around. I do not have hatred for them, I do not demand to immediately shift them or send them, I fully admit that they are not just respectable, but they will also teach me decency and good. But such is human nature: someone else's, unlike, incomprehensible - alarms. And the conflict of cultures here is not at all required.

Vyacheslav Surkov decided to warn Russians about the horrors that the rise of xenophobia and nationalism could entail. He said this in an interview in the Expert newspaper. The conclusions, however, are striking: “charlatans preaching ethnic seclusion” want to evict Russians from Russia (these are, apparently, participants in the “Russian March”), and xenophobia is the result of the development of democracy.

In police reports, the death on Saturday evening of November 18, 2006 in Moscow of Movladi Baysarov, who, let me remind you, was killed “while trying to resist,” was read quite ordinaryly. It was just as natural that articles then appeared in "Kommersant" and in Novaya, in which the circumstances of the incident, set out by Moscow police officers and the prosecutor's office, were compared with new facts and called into question.