The Times newspaper has obtained a draft document prepared by representatives of the Churches; the document is now allegedly being studied in the Vatican. The Anglican Church is on the verge of a split: there is no common position on issues such as the elevation of homosexuals and women to the priesthood.

The actual head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrova, was involved in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya. This is the opinion of Vyacheslav Izmailov, one of the participants in the investigation undertaken by the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta, where the late journalist worked.

The new case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev continues to move quickly, with incredible fervor and numerous violations. Khodorkovsky's lawyer Yuri Schmidt called it a "mockery" that the Prosecutor General's Office had scheduled the transfer of materials on the new case to the accused for February 17 - the very next day after the end of the preliminary investigation.

Deputies of the Moscow City Duma, together with experts from the FSB of Russia, began developing a bill regulating the use of a lie detector (polygraph) when applying for a job, Interfax reports. Many employers in Russia are already using it with all their might, but, as usual, there is no legislative framework. Many people don’t like the polygraph - they say it’s an invasion of privacy. They are objected to - in the USA, 70% of companies use it.

The speaker of the Federation Council and the leader of A Just Russia, it turns out, really doesn’t like the electoral legislation. More precisely, the recently adopted amendments - in particular, the 7% entry barrier for parties to the State Duma. And the strangest thing: “We don’t need to adjust our system to a two-party system, we need to give voters the right to choose.” After all, they seemed to “try” for him, clearly appointing “Fair” to the place of the second main party.

The head of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, Sergei Stepashin, said that the Russian Lawyers Association should get rid of those who use its resources for political or commercial purposes: “We decided to cleanse our ranks.” In particular, Stepashin does not like the activities of Dmitry Shumkov, a person close to First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The press has already dubbed the AYUR “Medvedev’s election headquarters,” and Shumkov strongly supports this version.

The environmental prosecutor's office of the Moscow region opened a criminal case in connection with the outbreak of bird flu in the region. The H5N1 bird flu virus identified in the Moscow region is highly pathogenic and potentially fatal to humans, ITAR-TASS reports. At the moment, five cases of bird flu have been recorded: in the Domodedovo, Taldomo, Podolsk and Naro-Fominsk regions and Zvenigorod. In all cases, the bird was purchased at the Moscow Poultry Market.

The Central Bank of Russia recently published statistics, which forced many to talk about a close banking crisis with renewed vigor. We are talking about overdue debts of individuals. Over the year, the amount of debts out of time increased on time increased more than three times: on January 1 last year, it amounted to about 10 billion rubles, and by the beginning of the current one - already about 33 billion.

It is easy to imagine what the prosecutor of the Vereshchaginsky district of the Perm Territory experienced when he heard the commentary of the Russian President about the criminal case he initiated. “Nonsense of the dog,” the president said, and at that very moment the prosecutor thought: “But the devil pulled me to touch this fucking rural teacher along with all his computers. That's it, now the career is the end.

Activists of the youth movement "Defense" on Sunday blocked the main entrance of the Ostankino television center in protest against censorship on television and the state monopoly, reports Ekho Moskvy.

In the economy Fiscal fever 19 February, 2007 Maxim Blan Once every four years, an epidemic occurs in Russia. Strange itching covers politicians and higher civil servants: their hands and other parts of the body begin to scratch from an unusable desire to somehow improve the state machine, for some time, called the vertical.

VTsIOM conducted a large survey among Russians on morality. The main question is whether respected Russians are satisfied with a moral climate in the country. The answer is negative. No, not satisfied. Two -thirds believe that the climate is deteriorating. 76% in this regard, they believe that only urgent state intervention will rectify the situation. Those. It is the native state, and only it, who can save us, pulling us out of the cesspool of moral pit.

The mayor of Arkhangelsk, Alexander Donskoy, has been charged under three articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. He is accused of falsifying a diploma of first higher education and illegal entrepreneurial activity. We already have a good tradition of imprisoning mayors, although you wouldn’t suspect Donskoy of being an oppositionist. He doesn’t just “support the course,” but wants to go further: close the borders, send the oligarchs to Siberia, cancel the elections.