The State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building considered on Monday amendments to the second reading of the election law. There are several new amendments: firstly, they want to ban the use of photographs of members of other parties in campaign materials, which is reasonable. I wonder if this means that United Russia will not be able to print posters with Putin? Although he is not a member of the “other” party.

According to opinion polls, Russians, as we know, do not trust the absolute majority institutions the society in which they live. Especially relatively new, representative institutions, at least in name and appearance - democratic, say, political parties, parliament, public associations, trade unions, etc. Our compatriots trust much more persons and above all, of course, to the first person.

The mayor of Moscow wants to restore the Soviet sign “Ready for Labor and Defense.” “It makes complete sense to think this through. This sign would become a criterion for assessing the degree of physical fitness of schoolchildren,” Yuri Luzhkov said on Tuesday at a meeting of the capital’s government. The mayor is perplexed why “some” are afraid of such words as “pioneer”, “GTO”.

In Nizhny Novgorod, the prosecutor's office opened a criminal case against the head of the district administration, Nikolai Sataev, who staged a demonstrative bulldozing of a slot machine hall located in a residential building. Sataev explains his action by the will of the president. Putin said that casinos next to residential buildings are not good, but Sataev even believes that it is immoral.

Viktor Shenderovich about the withdrawal of the NTV and TNT television channels from the founders of the Academy of Russian Television, the statement of Tatyana Mitkova and the fate of TEFI: The Academy of Russian Television was originally conceived as a community of professionals. Shop evaluation of work, the notorious “Hamburg score” - that’s what was important in the first place.

The authorities will go to great lengths to prevent citizens from exercising their constitutional right. The “March of Dissent” will take place in Nizhny Novgorod on March 24. Representatives of Yabloko, the National Bolsheviks, and the United Front of Garry Kasparov will take part in the march. It was planned to walk along Bolshaya Pokrovskaya Street to Minin Square, and then to People’s Unity Square.

The President demanded that the government trade not only in weapons, but also in spare parts and assemblies. It is for this purpose that a decree on military-technical cooperation was signed in January. “This document makes changes to the current procedure for the export of military products, increasing the responsibility of the state intermediary in the military-technical cooperation system,” Putin said at a meeting of the Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation.

Today, when gold and foreign exchange reserves have exceeded $300 billion, it may seem that nothing threatens the country’s financial situation. In my opinion, this is a serious mistake. The Ministry of Finance is currently maintaining existing budget obligations. And it will keep them in the next three years - in the three-year budget plan that should be presented in April. But life doesn’t end after three years.

The West is still offended by Putin's Munich speech. In our country there is a completely bastard discussion of candidates for “successors”. This is such a sweet democratic habit - not to see the meaning behind words. As usual, the future was determined by the military: two days before the conference in Munich, Pentagon head Robert Gates said that the United States could have military clashes with Russia. Let's drink to the health of the ministers on whom the microphone acts like Viagra!

The church leadership announced this yesterday. “We are ready to combine homosexual couples in a partnership marriage that is valid in civil law,” said Bishop Bertil Utberg of Västerö. A draft new marriage law will be published next week. Different-sex and same-sex couples will be able to marry on equal terms. The church as a whole retains the right to perform weddings, but each priest will have to decide for himself whether to perform the ceremony or not.

Political strategist and gallery owner Marat Guelman, in alliance with the Social Justice Party (PSS), intends to fight xenophobia and for this purpose he will revive the International movement, Vedomosti reports. It is curious who exactly Gelman is going to invite to fight neo-Nazis - a source in the PSS does not rule out that the project will include Vasily Shandybin, Viktor Anpilov, Sergei Glazyev.

The head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseeva, suggested that the march would take place “under the tacit patronage of the authorities,” otherwise it would not be able to gather people. It is very similar to the truth, since the organizing committee included Mikhail Leontiev and Alexander Prokhanov, who until now have not been seen in cooperation with ESM, a marginal and dwarf organization.

The pie turned out to be so big and sweet that the division is still ongoing. It was previously reported that a certain company, RN-Razvitie, would participate in the auction of YUKOS assets. Today it “unexpectedly” turned out that RN-Razvitie is a subsidiary of Rosneft. Rosneft has already profited from a large piece of Yukos's money by winning the auction for Yuganskneftegaz through a front company, but apparently this was not enough.