Today the State Duma will consider in the first reading a draft law that gives the president the right to introduce special economic measures (sanctions) in an international emergency. According to the bill, the head of state will be able to introduce special economic measures against any persons or states. That is, now wine, sprats, and other pleasures can be prohibited without any sanitary supervision, without any justification. One thing concerns me - the fate of Gennady Onishchenko.

Litvinenko was poisoned at the moment when I, happy, crossed the States on the Northern Road from Washington to San Francisco. Exactly at a time when I enjoyed the landscapes of Ayov and Nebraski and the gloomy power of Wyoming, who sent the current US Vice President Richard Chaini.

I am afraid that what I wrote in the four previous articles might seem unexpected to many. Firstly, because the answer to the question “What to do?” was not reduced to the traditional explanation of why one should vote “for such and such.” Secondly, because my answer focuses on the own activity of those who are already asking this question or are close to it. Thirdly, I suspect, because my answer does not contain any exciting, mind-blowing ideas like storming the Kremlin.

In Moscow, police conducted a series of searches in the largest IT companies, CNews reports. This morning, searches took place in the office of the Russian division of IBM. Searches were also carried out in the offices of LANIT and R-Style. The media wittily connected this fact with the fact that all the companies collaborated with the Pension Fund and the Ministry of Health and Social Development, and the latter, as you know, are now actively being “cleansed” for corruption.

Alexander Lebedev, entrepreneur, State Duma deputy, co-owner of Novaya Gazeta and longtime competitor of Luzhkov in the mayoral elections, revealed secret sources of information from Forbes magazine. Recently, representatives of Elena Baturina stated that if the editors do not disclose their “sources,” they will sue the magazine. “I don’t understand what the friendly Baturin family... wants from the editors of Forbes magazine. What other sources are they demanding to disclose?

The result of the Union of Right Forces in the regional elections in the Perm region - 16% - indicates that a single liberal list has a real chance of getting into the State Duma of the next convocation. It is only necessary that this list be convincing enough for voters and at the same time the only serious political project in its part of the political spectrum. Recently, there has been a strong belief that the liberals will inevitably lose the next parliamentary elections.

Permission from the Moscow authorities to hold ((http://www.namarsh.ru/ “March of Dissent”)) has not yet been received. As a compromise, officials proposed not to march, but to limit themselves to a rally. The argument is old - they say it interferes with the movement. The leaders of opposition parties and movements organizing the “March of Dissent” decided to insist on their constitutional right to hold the action in the declared format.

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The meeting of representatives of 56 OSCE members essentially turned into a skirmish between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Deputy Secretary of State Nicholas Burns. Lavrov proposed creating an OSCE working group that would work on reforming the bureau, but the United States actively opposed this.

Vladimir Kramnik lost to Fritz! Some particularly sophisticated humorists were angry that he surrendered to Fritz on the anniversary of the victory near Moscow. Some sophisticated pessimists said that he lost for all of humanity and now playing chess with a machine is basically pointless, so we won’t see such matches again.

The Human Rights Center will become a division of the VRNS, designed to promote the practical implementation of the Declaration on Human Rights and Dignity, adopted by the Council in April of this year. It is interesting that Roman Silantiev, the author of the notorious ((http://www.ej.ru/comments/entry/2461/ book)) “The Recent History of the Islamic Community of Russia”, which was outraged by Muslims, was appointed executive director of the VRNS programs. and secular human rights activists.

In the Murmansk region, fellow soldiers kicked a soldier and then shot him in the back of the head. The victim, Alexander Belsky, survived almost miraculously - he spent two months in a coma. The Military Prosecutor's Office of the Pechenga garrison opened a criminal case regarding the gunshot wound.