Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Boris Gryzlov believes that the noise around bird flu in the Moscow region is not least connected with the commercial interests of foreign vaccine manufacturers, Interfax reports. “This is a conscious project that was aimed at the production and sale of expensive vaccines, and it was not invented in Russia,” the deputy explained. Got it? Once again the damned capitalists are fooling our brother.

As a result of a meeting of 38 heads of churches of the Anglican Communion, a communiqué was adopted in which the primates of the Anglican provinces demanded that their co-religionists in North America give clear guarantees by the end of September that homosexuals will no longer be ordained to the priesthood, and same-sex “marriages” will not receive a church blessing .

The Federation Council on Wednesday refused to approve an agreement on the division of powers between government bodies of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan for a period of ten years. With the required 90 votes, the document was supported by only 13 senators. Now the agreement will be returned to the State Duma.

Khodorkovsky's lawyer Yuri Shmidt appealed to “all people of good will.” The lawyer wants them to “demand that the Russian authorities stop violating Khodorkovsky’s rights.” Yuri Schmidt explains in detail how his client’s rights are being violated this time. In accordance with the Criminal Procedure Code, the preliminary investigation must be carried out at the place where the crime was committed.

Russian human rights activists refused to participate in the human rights conference scheduled for March 1 in Grozny, Kommersant writes. The statement, which was signed by people such as Lyudmila Alekseeva, Svetlana Gannushkina, Lev Ponomarev, called the attempt to hold a conference a “cynical device” aimed at “strengthening the legitimacy of the illegitimate regime existing in Chechnya.” And human rights activists do not want to participate in “Ramzan Kadyrov’s personal PR.”

Firefighters believe that a fire in a priest's house in the Novosibirsk region broke out due to an improperly designed stove. First, the boiler room, which stood next to the priest’s home, caught fire; no traces of arson were found. The priest didn’t even bother to report it to the police.

At the end of the night, I wrapped it in Leontievsky Lane and stopped, amazed: the lane was removed from the snow. And the snow, I must tell you, in Moscow that day it was unmeasured: winter, bastard, again came again! “Carpathians lie along the sidewalks ...”, as the poet said. If along! People carefully rearranged their feet on the semi -liquid Carpathians; The Carpathians slowly kneaded the cars, pushing over Mira Avenue ...

United Russia came up with the School Milk project. If passed, every primary school student will receive a free glass of milk a day. The move is simply brilliant: on the one hand, when they give something for free, it’s always nice. On the other hand, the program is aimed at the “health improvement” of children, on the third – a guaranteed state order for milk producers. When promoting the idea, Boris Gryzlov referred to a similar experience in China. What about China?

During the six -way negotiations in Beijing in Beijing, not a single word, a single word was said about the problem of thousands of refugees from the DPRK located in the north of China. This question is inconvenient for all contracting parties - no one really knows what to do with these people.

Luck still smiled on Alexei Frenkel - he, apparently, is no longer considered as the main accused in the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Andrei Kozlov. As Vremya Novostey writes, last week from the Prosecutor General’s Office, in connection with the “Kozlov case,” all departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs received an oral order to raise all old criminal cases relating to capital banks.

On February 20, an article appeared on the Interfax news agency under the heading “Luzhkov criticized the policies of the West and called for strengthening Russia’s defense capabilities.” It must be said that the quotes given under this title do not fully confirm the title itself. Luzhkov did not criticize the West as a whole, but only one of its, although not the last, representative - the United States.

The feeling that there is an “ambush” all around is being intensified from all sides. Not only are they ((http://ej.ru/comments/entry/5903/ “they don’t like us”)), but they are also going to deploy elements of the American strategic missile defense system on the territory of Poland and the Czech Republic. Putin has already ominously promised an “asymmetric response.” But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov reassures people on the pages of Rossiyskaya Gazeta.

Russian State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Mikhail Zapolev said on Wednesday, February 21, that the software installed on Duma computers is not licensed, RIA Novosti reports. The deputy appealed to the leadership of the lower house with a request to quickly sort out this issue. It’s interesting, did the one who started ((http://www.ej.ru/comments/entry/6190/ Ponosov’s case)) think about the consequences?