In December 2006, the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims (CDUM) decided to appoint chief muftis in each of the seven federal districts, which should delimit powers between the spiritual administrations and put an end to infighting between the muftis. Zulkarnay Shakirzyanov became the chief mufti of the Siberian district, who announced his intention to open a Muslim university in Siberia.

Vitaly Shlykov, former employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate, member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy on the resignation of Sergei Ivanov from the post of Minister of Defense, his new position and the appointment of Anatoly Serdyukov as head of the Ministry of Defense: Everything is logical and very natural. Better than it could have been. This is my overall assessment. It is clear that Ivanov, as one of the candidates for the highest post, needs a rank no less than Medvedev.

In the case of the death of FSB Lieutenant Colonel Movladi Baysarov, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya Akhmed Yasaev was summoned for questioning, writes Vremya Novostei. Experts just shrug their shoulders: only yesterday Putin signed a decree on Alkhanav’s resignation and appointed Kadyrov as acting. President of Chechnya - and suddenly there were “investigative actions” in such an unpleasant case for Kadyrov.

Rostransnadzor has banned charter and one-time flights to the European Union for aircraft of nine Russian airlines. The fact is that the Russian department received a notification from the Transport Directorate of the European Commission saying that these companies received a lot of criticism during inspections in Europe, but Rostransnadzor was not notified about this.

In uniform We have any minister February 16, 2007 Alexander Golts So, our guarantor carried out another brilliant scattering . We can say that his own friend stepped on his throat. After all, Sergey Ivanov had only done for the past two years that he swore: nothing else, except about the successful completion of the modernization of the army, does not think. And therefore he intends to remain at the head of the military department until his undertakings come to a successful end.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has completed an investigation into a new criminal case against the former head of YUKOS, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who is being held in a pre-trial detention center in the city of Chita. “On Saturday, if the investigators are ready to present materials, the lawyers will begin studying the case,” Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Chita lawyer Semyon Rosenberg told Interfax on Friday.

It has long been known that sometimes symbols are perceived no less, or even more acutely than meanings. In Russia, this sometimes manifests itself stronger than in other places. What are at least many years of debate about the fate of the body of Lenin and the monument to Dzerzhinsky - and, it would seem, how many more urgent problems exist. Take, for example, the issue of the consistency of the actions of various structures of the Russian authorities.

United Russia leader Boris Gryzlov said that his party will support Ramzan Kadyrov's candidacy for the presidency of Chechnya, RIA Novosti reports. Still, there is no way to achieve our “vertical” of former Soviet clarity. So guess now, United Russia is voicing the slogan “Kadyrov for President” because the matter is decided, or because he thinks that it is “decided”, and Vladimir Vladimirovich, as usual, is hiding a magic rabbit in his bosom?

On Thursday, the World Bank decided to provide a loan of $50 million to support judicial reform in Russia, ITAR-TASS reports. The main goal of the project is to increase the transparency and efficiency of the judicial system in Russia, including with the help of information technology. The project is designed for 5 years, the total cost is $172.4 million, with Russia to provide the bulk of the funds.

The German media concern Axel Springer is trying to sell its Russian division, Axel Springer Russia, which publishes Russian versions of Forbes, Newsweek and OK! magazines. As Kommersant writes, the Germans are negotiating with several companies at once. Axel Springer in Russia is in a difficult situation: a concern specializing in the production of mass-market newspapers publishes a glossy magazine here.

Vladimir Putin removed Sergei Ivanov from the post of Minister of Defense and appointed him First Deputy Prime Minister. With any normal personnel policy that takes into account feedback from reality, and not just from the corridors of the Kremlin, such an appointment would be incredible. In fact, let's ask ourselves a simple question. If Mr.

My grandfather ended the war in the Baltic states, and then served there, and when I was little, my grandmother very often told me how they lived in Tallinn after the war. How they were afraid to speak Russian even in a whisper, how they didn’t leave the house unless it was necessary, how they tried to learn at least some Estonian words in order to communicate at the market, and how at the same market they almost knocked out her eyes and threw them in the back when potatoes , when beets.

The appointment of Anatoly Serdyukov as the Minister of Defense looks like a sensation - a purely civilian specialist in tax issues was headed by a military department. However, six years ago, when the general from the special services Sergey Ivanov became the Minister, there were no less questions and bewilders. Then they got used to it.

“Our proposal to send a technical delegation led by the ambassador to Jerusalem to study the situation with the excavations at the Temple Mount was received positively,” Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said at a joint press conference in Ankara with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. “We allowed the Turkish side to carry out an inspection. We have nothing to hide from the international community,” noted the Israeli Prime Minister, who is on an official visit to Turkey.

This evening, Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the resignation of Alu Alkhanov from the post of President of the Chechen Republic and on his appointment as Deputy Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation. In addition, Alkhanov will be awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree. And Ramzan Kadyrov, who has long been considered the de facto ruler of Chechnya, becomes I.O. President of the Republic.