Sergei Mironov will not head the A Just Russia list in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, he announced this in a letter to Boris Gryzlov. The idea to “remove” Mironov from the elections arose after Valentina Matvienko refused to head the United Russia list, then St. Petersburg deputies turned to Mironov with a letter.

The Congress of the ATP on Saturday turned out to be the main news in all television programs. He was shown with such a scale, as if it were not a Congress of the ATP, but a congress of United Russia or even to say - a congratulation of President Putin to Rosneft employees. The solemn presentation of the ATP took place immediately after Anatoly Chubais and Yegor Gaidar exposed enemies who wanted to change the constitution with a force.

For almost a century, monks of the Catholic Order of Friars Minor lived here, but now the order has become impoverished and cannot maintain the monastery. So it was bought by the Orthodox parish of St. Nicholas in Amsterdam, which had grown greatly, as NTV reported. But the Patriarchate still has no money for church needs in Russia - neither for education, nor for charity. Well, of course, there are more Orthodox Christians in Holland than in Russia - that’s where we should invest first.

The second stage of the fifth round of six-party talks on the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula officially opened in Beijing on Monday after a year-long break. The official meeting of the full delegations of all six countries - China, North Korea, the USA, Russia, South Korea and Japan - opened with a welcoming speech from Deputy Foreign Minister of the People's Republic of China Dawei.

The criminal case against the former mayor of the city of Pyatigorsk Igor Tarasov, who committed an accident that led to the death of five people, was dropped immediately after the start of the process. On Monday, at a court hearing, it was announced that “the case was dismissed pending reconciliation of the parties.” On August 23, 2006, at about 2 a.m., Tarasov, driving a Toyota Land Cruiser, violated traffic rules and collided with a VAZ-2109 car.

The Tomsk Regional Court rejected the cassation appeal filed by the lawyers of Tomsk Mayor Alexander Makarov, who demanded the release of their client from custody. Makarov was detained on December 6; during his arrest he felt unwell and was hospitalized with a heart attack. He is accused of abuse of power and bribery.

In the Kremlin What to do? Part 6 December 18, 2006 George Satarov The previous article ends with the thesis that I consider extremely important: today in Russia it is important not anyone will come to power, but as a result of which procedure. It was also suggested that today we have a chance to correct the mistake that we all made a decade earlier, confusing the victory of democracy with the victory of the Democrats. No, this is not even an assumption, but a conviction.

Tired of stigmatizing our imperfect society, I decided to look around. Where is the ideal? Breaking away from our vices, who will we look up to, who will we take as an example? Being a convinced Westerner, I have always been oriented towards the West. I won’t lie - I’ve been abroad. Just in the West. And you know, I liked it! There is a lot of good, useful things, life is organized, everything is for the benefit of man, and they seem to be very decent people and even somehow unattainable.

Fear of power is the main, most obvious result of the “March of Dissent.” “Dissenters” could not even dream of such PR support. The honor guard of His Majesty Fear - 8,000 riot police, soldiers, dogs, a helicopter... Mosfilm was not involved, interesting? Once upon a time, after Brodsky’s arrest, Akhmatova, as you know, dropped: “What a biography they are making for our redhead!” (Brodsky had red hair). Hence the question - why did the authorities celebrate such a coward?

By an unexpected decree of the head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, Mikhail Shvydkoy, the director of the Theater of Nations, Mikhail Chigir, was dismissed from his post. Considering that Chigir is the founder of the theater and has been directing it for more than 20 years, this event excited the staff extremely. Rumors spread throughout Moscow that they wanted to close and destroy the theater.

Yesterday, a rally in memory of the fallen journalists was held in Novopushkinsky Park in the center of Moscow. About 400 people came and read out a list of journalists killed in Russia since 1997 - there were 211 names. Last on the list was Anna Politkovskaya. Riot police tried to stop the march in memory of the dead journalists, which took place before the start of the rally.

British investigators in Moscow were unable to get answers to their questions from key witnesses, the Times reports. During the interrogations of Andrei Lugovoy and Dmitry Kovtun, Russian investigators refused to ask a number of questions of interest to their British colleagues. Previously, investigators from Scotland Yard were not allowed to interrogate Lugovoy and Kovtun in person, but only to be present at the interrogation of their Russian colleagues.

The SPS congress held at the end of last week, at which the final disengagement with Yabloko and the Other Russia movement was announced, brought the expected dividends to the SPS. Of course, there is no talk yet about official support from the Kremlin and spiritual fraternization personally with Vladimir Vladimirovich.