For two months it took the Public Chamber to deal with the problem of teaching the “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” (OPC) at the State School. In September, when It turned out What several regions introduced the subject as mandatory, the Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko turned to members of the chamber with a request to consider this decision illegitimate from the point of view of Russian legislation. And then the verdict is ready.

Moscow has set a quota for foreign labor migrants of 600 thousand people per year, RIA Novosti reports. According to the new migration law, which comes into force in January 2007, migrants will have to provide registration not at their place of residence, but at their place of stay, in order to obtain a work permit.

In Moscow, on Wednesday, employees of the Department of Internal Security and the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained a major of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Solntsevo Department of Internal Affairs. A policeman was caught red-handed while trying to sell 180 counterfeit banknotes worth one thousand rubles each.

Every two years, the Russian foreign policy elite is filled with the darkest forebodings, predicting a terrible, even scary, scandal between Moscow and the West. This happens right before the next NATO summit. At first, the inevitable crisis was associated with the beginning of NATO expansion at the expense of the states that were once part of the Warsaw Pact, then with the invitation of the Baltic states to the alliance.

The Bashkir parliament recalled its representative Igor Izmestyev from the Federation Council, the decision was made by an overwhelming majority - 89 out of 97 deputies voted in favor.

Maria Gaidar and Ilya Yashin were sentenced to a fine of 500 rubles for participating in ((http://ej.ru/dayTheme/entry/5438/ an unauthorized rally on the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge)). Despite all the positivity of the event, a logical question arises: why did the young liberals get a fine, and the National Bolsheviks get a prison for a similar action? The same question arose with Ilya Yashin and he addressed an open letter to judge S.G.

As they say, “even if you are paranoid, this does not mean that you are not really being persecuted.” Poisoning of Yegor Timurovich Gaidar (?), which, fortunately, seems to have avoided any terrible consequences (pah-pah!), can completely drive you crazy! “What does this terrifying movement mean? and what kind of unknown power is contained in these horses, unknown to the light? ... Rus', where are you going? give me the answer." “Rus” does not give an answer.

Now in Estonia, for the public use of Soviet, as well as Nazi, symbols you can get up to three years in prison. This decision was made by the Estonian government today, although they are still awaiting parliamentary approval. With all the rejection of the Soviet regime, equating the hammer and sickle with Nazi symbols is slightly offending - and all over the world, all this “Soviet Khokhloma” has not bothered anyone for a long time.

Seven Russian, Greek and Serbian schema monks decided to join the Public Committee in Defense of Ishchenko, created last week. They know Ishchenko as a decent person and do not believe in his guilt. In addition, he has two small children and a third is about to be born. The ex-mayor’s lawyer, Pavel Astakhov, also considers the case fabricated. The former mayor is accused of three articles of the Criminal Code: abuse of office, illegal business and illegal possession of ammunition.

Traces of a radioactive substance, presumably polonium-210, which was used to poison Alexander Litvinenko, were found on two British Airways planes. Former FSB officer Andrei Lugovoi returned to Moscow on one of these planes, Kommersant reports. According to Lugovoy, he flew from London to Moscow on November 3, that is, two days after the alleged poisoning of Litvinenko. The former FSB officer claims that he had nothing to do with the poisoning of Litvinenko.

“Doctors do not see natural causes of poisoning with substances known to them. This is definitely not poisoning by any spoiled food products,” Gaidar’s press secretary Valery Natarov told RIA Novosti. So, hopes for “natural” poisoning finally dissipated, although there were almost none. Well, doctors and experts will have to find out what exactly Yegor Timurovich was poisoned with, and we will somehow try to understand what is really going on.