In society About ethics March 2, 2007 Viktor Shenderovich An interesting topic was bombarded from my note in the “HED” about the deputy of Chilingarov. (I described our regular meetings in the casino and near them.) A certain reader (apparently dedicated to the rules of ethics) sodelly inquired in the forum : am I going to look now and in bed with politicians? No matter how a strange author seems to be, the question is not quite rhetorical.

In society Two fronts March 2, 2007 Svetlana Solodovnik The scandalous letter of the bishop of the Anadyr-Chukutsk diomid and four more clergy made some talk about the possibility of a split in the Russian Orthodox Church “such a scale in comparison with which the events in Ukraine and the previous disagreements of the patriarchy with a foreign church.” How, however, everything is quickly forgotten.

A meeting was held at the Central House of Journalists on the new case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. At the meeting, Khodorkovsky's lawyer Yuri Schmidt spoke in detail about all the violations and bullying that the prosecutor's office and the court allow. Famous human rights activists Lev Ponomarev, Lyudmila Alekseeva, Alexey Simonov also spoke.

German Gref, speaking at a government meeting with a report on the main parameters of the socio-economic development forecast for 2008-2010, very much complained that he was unable to make any forecasts, because “we still do not have Gazprom’s natural gas production programs ". And without them you can’t really predict anything.

On February 26, at the Bilingua club, the political debate between Yulia Latynina and Maxim Kononenko was turned into ((http://xeno.sova-center.ru/ 45A29F2/8CE8DE0 fascist action)) with slogans and threats. At some point, the leader of the organization, Maxim Martsinkevich (nicknamed “Tesak”) demanded a microphone from the presenter and, when he was refused, began shouting to the whole hall that “blacks... have been killed and will be killed” and threatened to “hang all the liberals ".

Moscow and St. Petersburg State Universities will soon acquire federal status, writes Kommersant. The country's two oldest universities will receive maximum commercial and educational freedom, and their funding will be doubled. In return, the authorities want to fulfill their long-standing dream - to change the procedure for electing heads of “federal universities”. According to the government's plans, they should be appointed by the cabinet of ministers.

The FMS wants to introduce quotas for the entry of citizens into one or another region of Russia in connection with the achievement of an “excess mass” of persons of a certain nationality there. “Practice shows that when a certain critical mass accumulates... and if the local administration does nothing, then this leads to the kind of conflicts that we already had,” said Deputy Director of the FMS Vyacheslav Postavnin. “Critical mass” is people, if anyone doesn’t understand.

The meeting will take place as part of the visit of the Russian head of state to Italy. This will be Putin's first visit to the Vatican since Benedict XVI was elected head of the Catholic Church. Everyone, of course, is looking forward to whether Putin will invite the Pope to Russia or not. Previously, the president met with his predecessor twice, but refrained from inviting him, mindful of the difficult relations between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church.

At a meeting dedicated to the construction of a stadium for FC Zenit, Valentina Matvienko doubted whether St. Petersburg needed a monument to Kirov on Krestovsky, writes Fontanka.ru. “Perhaps we should build a monument to Alexei Borisovich [Miller] or Sergei Alexandrovich [Fursenko] there?” - the governor addressed the head of KGiOP Vera Dementieva.

Yuria Shmidt, lawyer of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, about the history of YUKOS, the new case of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, the essence of the charges brought forward and the violations committed by the prosecutor's office: The authorities in both the Russian and Western media present the situation in a very peculiar way: they say that in the 90s the national economy of the new Russia is working great, oil companies are pumping oil, everyone receives a salary, the equipment is in perfect order, and

The color of October in Russia is undoubtedly red. Opinions differ regarding shades. Some people see him as festive and red, while others see him as bloody. The general public has no definite opinion about the color of the February Revolution.

The European Court of Human Rights found Russia guilty of violating the principle of humanity in its treatment of prisoner Roman Belevitsky and ordered him to pay him 10 thousand euros in compensation. The court ruling states that Russia violated its obligations “not to subject anyone to torture, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment,” RIA Novosti reports.