Poverty in Russia is approaching a critical mass, in the most disadvantaged regions it is already up to 90%, and relative poverty does not decrease, but grows as incomes rise. This is one of the main topics discussed at the Council, which is working today in sections: natural and human resources, spiritual and material causes of poverty, Orthodoxy as the core of the existence of the peoples of Russia, etc.

The case of Roman Rudakov has been sent to court. Private Rudakov has been in the hospital for almost five months; on October 29, at a military hospital in St. Petersburg, he underwent surgery to remove the small intestine, after which Rudakov simply died quietly in the hospital. The scandal hit the press in January thanks to Soldiers' Mothers.

A mysterious story: February 28 at the Institute named after. Sklifosovsky admitted two American women of Russian origin - Marina Kovalenskaya and her daughter Yana. After 4 days, they were given a shocking diagnosis - thallium poisoning. This news extremely excited the public, since the waist is a traditional weapon of the Soviet secret services. In addition, they say that thalium was the first version in the “Litvinenko case”, before polonium was discovered.

The Moscow authorities are already declaring that they do not intend to allow the “March of Dissent,” scheduled for mid-April. “There are rallies, there are many ways to express one’s opinion, but the procession interferes with the life of the city,” Nikolai Kulikov, head of the department for work with security agencies, commented on the plans of The Other Russia. That's how they all know how to take care of the peace of the city when it comes to protests.

Journalists, friends, colleagues do not believe in the “suicide” of military columnist for the Kommersant newspaper Ivan Safronov. Safronov’s death, as Kommersant writes today, may be due to the fact that in the last weeks of his life he was investigating schemes for the supply of Russian weapons to Syria and Iran.

First of all, of course, about feelings ...

I was wrong when I claimed that there were no “people of good will” left in Russia. They were found after all. Through the efforts of some Russian human rights activists who are not close to the Kremlin, a letter appeared in defense of the lawyers Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. Signatures are collected in Internet , and their number is increasing every day. I love studying the signatures under such letters. Most of the names are unknown people.

The attacker turned out to be a parishioner of the St. Nicholas Church. He explained his actions by saying that “the devil was confused.” He was immediately arrested, since everything happened within walking distance from the temple and parishioners rushed to help the priest.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation on Tuesday refused to consider Yabloko’s complaint against the Central Election Commission’s decision not to register the party’s list for the elections to the Legislative Council of St. Petersburg, scheduled for March 11. At first, Yabloko's lists were not registered in the elections in St. Petersburg and the Oryol region due to exceeding the permissible number of false signatures.

The culprit of the crisis with medicines for beneficiaries has been found - Prime Minister Fradkov gave a fundamental assessment of his activities and miserably fired him. The culprit, however, turned out to be not the Minister of Health Zurabov, as inattentive voters might have thought, but his subordinate, the head of Roszdravnazdor Ramil Khabriev. Newspapers have already written about the unsinkability of Minister Zurabov, that Putin never surrenders his people under public pressure.

Today, the office of the Estonian Embassy in Moscow received 15 thousand signatures from residents of Volgograd, Saratov, Astrakhan, Samara and Moscow, who ask the Estonian authorities to prevent the demolition of the monument to the Liberator Soldier; the petition contains a request to stop the “anti-Russian hysteria.” There is no one to even protect. Estonian authorities? Obviously political speculation, why open old wounds? Our? Here, too, “anti-Estonian hysteria” was created.