The Moscow City Duma proposes to ban mentions in the media of the nationalities of victims and suspects. The corresponding bill was approved today in the first reading. Systematic mention of nationalities in materials about crimes can, according to deputies, provoke hostility towards a particular nationality. This may well be the case. But why prescribe this?

In the Kremlin On the benefits of beliefs in Russian politics December 21, 2006 Evgenia Albats Well, the next December is coming to the end and is the same year in the past - unless the current one without winter. And in Russian politics - the one that does not sit in bureaucratic offices (or maybe there, too, but who knows her, if she is like a “black hole”: there is money, from there - nothing) - sheer despondency and spin.

Despite the assurances of members of the European Commission that, they say, we are about to settle everything now - we will persuade the Poles, we will continue negotiations between Russia and the European Union - the “thing” is still in the same place. Even the “favorable” proposals from the Finnish side to resolve the conflict did not soften the hearts of the Polish authorities.

7 monks were injured. Five escaped with bruises and abrasions, and two received head injuries from blows from fire extinguishers. The conflict between the Esphigmenou monastery and the church authorities began in 1965 due to the meeting of Patriarch Athenagoras with Pope Paul VI - the Esphigmenos saw in this the patriarch’s apostasy from the Orthodox faith. Now Bartholomew is “hanging around” with Pope Benedict.

The Makhachkala court rejected the claim of police lieutenant colonel Abdurashid Bibulatov, who challenged the official warning. The policeman was “warned” for a terrible act: he wanted to ask the president a question. On October 25 in Kaspiysk, during a live broadcast, Bibulatov sent the president an SMS: “Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! When will you rid the police and people of Dagestan from Pinochet in the person of the Minister of Internal Affairs of Dagestan?

Less than an hour ago, Turkmen state television announced that Niyazov had died. As stated in the government's appeal, the Turkmen leader suddenly suffered a cardiac arrest in the dead of night.

The non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders has appealed to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) with a request to conduct an international investigation into the circumstances of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. More than 12 thousand people signed this petition, including the prosecutor of the Hague International Tribunal Carla del Ponte, the famous Spanish judge Balthazar Garzon, and the mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoe.

Putin promised that a children's channel will soon appear on Russian television. The President said that the issue of opening a children's channel has been studied on state television for a long time and this work will soon be completed. According to Putin, promoting family values ​​is important in improving the demographic situation. Amazing.

The legal battle between RBC and the Vedomosti newspaper is coming to an end. The Moscow Arbitration Court recognized the claims of Business News Media CJSC (publishes Vedomosti) against the Rosbusinessconsulting news agency as justified. Back in December 2005, Vedomosti accused RBC of illegally using their materials, and a counterclaim immediately followed.

In the Kremlin Hygiene is not superfluous December 21, 2006 Nikolai Svanidze The results of the march, or rather, a rally on December 16, continue to be summed up. They continue to be summed up by the few who participated in it (except L. Radzikhovsky), since other citizens in rare minutes of rest from New Year's preparations carefully celebrate the centenary of the birth of L. I. Brezhnev. So. Those who summarize, in my opinion, are completely happy. Has took place!

The sudden idea to expel gambling establishments from cities to special reservations - hotbeds of vice - quickly materialized into a legislative initiative and has already been approved by the State Duma. There is nothing left before the creation of Russian Las Vegas and Atlantic City. I don’t know who came up with this idea and why.

In the Kremlin Throwing out exhausted souls (answer to Nicholid Svanikhovsky) December 21, 2006 Alexander Ryklin The saving fleur of skeptisim always comes to the rescue of a skilled, but not too hardworking observer. However, nevertheless, in order to have reason to call the article “On the other side of the barricade”, you must at least go for it.

And also uncertainty that help will reach the right person (21% in Russia, 39% in Moscow). However, Muscovites still help more than others: in the capital, 48% of residents participated in charity events, across Russia - 32%. Only 2% of respondents generally know well about the activities of charitable organizations, 21% have only heard about them, and 77% have not even heard of them.