The TVC channel decided to do an amazing thing - in the pre-election year it was decided to launch a new political talk show “Fight Club”. The spectacle promised to be interesting also because one of the co-hosts was supposed to be Yabloko member Alexei Navalny. Still, in our times, this is a precedent. However, after the pilot episode, which ((http://navalny.livejournal.com/109670.html according to Navalny)), “everyone liked it,” they unexpectedly decided to replace the presenters.

The Moscow Duma submitted a draft law with appropriate amendments to Article 4 of the federal law “On the Mass Media” for consideration by the lower house of parliament. Only the citizen himself has the right to determine and indicate his nationality, and no one can be forced to indicate his nationality, the explanatory note emphasizes. Correct correction, otherwise we have almost everything - immediately “a person of Caucasian nationality” is to blame. Now you have to keep your mouth shut.

Still, this is a wonderful idea-to give candidates to the successors of the post of first deputy prime ministers, to organize regular events for them, during which they would demonstrate themselves to the electorate. Willy-nilly, they are forced to speak some words, formulate some ideas. As a result, the level of competence and understanding of the problems is found, which is designed to oversee the first vice.

The Central District Court of Chita overturned the decision of the magistrate who found Marina Savateeva, the organizer of the picket in support of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, guilty of violating the established rules of picketing and acquitted the accused. A picket in support of the ex-head of YUKOS took place on February 8 in Chita.

They must elect deputies, who, in turn, will elect the head of the State Council of Cuba - Fidel Castro has held this post since 1976. “I would declare him a candidate. I am confident that he will be in excellent condition to continue in his duties,” Alarcon said. He clarified that, despite the transfer of power to his brother, Castro never “stopped fulfilling his duties.” Of course, it’s a shame for the old sick dictator to immediately lose all his posts, let him get used to it gradually.

The Khoroshevsky Court of Moscow on Friday ordered Mikhail Kasyanov, the leader of the opposition party People's Democratic Union, to return the Sosnovka-1 dacha to state ownership. The court read only the effective part of the decision - that is, the dacha was taken away, and on what basis they promised to explain later.

Although the festival is called “Moscow”, it takes place throughout the country. This year, more than a thousand people will participate in the events, and solo performers will come from seven countries. The festival will end on May 9 with a concert on Poklonnaya Hill. Valery Gergiev, the artistic director of the festival, puts a lot of effort into it, and the mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, invests money. The regional program of the festival is expanding from year to year.

As part of the national project “Health,” an offer was sent to drug manufacturers to pay for advertising their products in the “information brochure of the ministry,” writes Kommersant. For the “service” the ministry asked for 300 thousand rubles. The booklet was to be distributed to the offices of local doctors; it was accompanied by a sample prescription with the name of the medicine already imprinted. Experts considered the “advertising” illegal and a scandal broke out.

The Orekhovo-Zuevsk City Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case on the facts of cruel treatment of “abandoned” children in a local hospital, RIA Novosti reports. It has been established that since September 2006, the infectious diseases department of the First City Hospital has been housing two children abandoned by their parents: one-and-a-half-year-old Nastya and two-year-old Artem.

In society There was no medical error March 16, 2007 Alexander Podrabinek The diagnosis, apparently, was made correctly. And in this case it is difficult to make a mistake - a hypertensive crisis, a stroke. But the patient was severe, the hospital was crowded. Or maybe I just didn't want to work. And the reason was found: the patient did not have local registration. This was told on Tuesday "New Izvestia".

Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich! (Also sent to the presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine) Fifteen years have passed since the self-liquidation of the highest authorities of the USSR and the acquisition of independence by fifteen former Soviet republics. Over these years, our peoples have gone through a difficult path of mastering new forms of economic management and public administration.

Ramzan Kadyrov loves federal power. And she reciprocates his feelings. How else can one explain the unprecedented decision of the Federal Penitentiary Service, which promised to transfer all convicted Chechens to Chechnya, including those who received sentences for terrorist activities and with the exception of those sentenced to life imprisonment. Kadyrov promised to personally oversee the construction of two colonies in Grozny and Argun in which Chechen prisoners will serve their sentences.

Lyudmila Alekseeva, chairman of the human rights organization Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), on the legal proceedings surrounding the film “Spies” by Arkady Mamontov and other statements on television directed against human rights activists Background: The “spy scandal” began to unravel on January 22, 2006, when the Rossiya TV channel in the “Special Correspondent” program spoke about the intelligence activities against Russia of several British Embassy employees.

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky continues to shout about election fraud. At a plenary session in the State Duma, he stated that he had found fake voting protocols for the regional elections on March 11. “I am presenting false protocols to Gonchar in front of the whole country,” Zhirinovsky said and handed over a stack of papers to the head of the Duma Commission on the Practice of Application of Electoral Legislation, Nikolai Gonchar.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow yesterday authorized the arrest of five members of a criminal group consisting of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to investigators, police stopped cars, killed drivers, and buried their bodies in the forests of the Moscow region. The group has committed at least 15 murders since 2000. But then the criminals ran into a former FSB officer, who managed to escape and testify.