Around Russia Paranoia steps "fathoms" March 21, 2007 Alexander Golts Truly, those analysts are right who claim that now, in the era of the information revolution, all socio-political processes are strongly accelerated. In his speech in Munich, Vladimir Putin noted that, in his opinion, the system of international relations in the era of nuclear confrontation between the USSR and the United States was stable and predictability.

Journalists found out why the head of Rosregistration was fired. The resignation of the director of the Federal Registration Service, Sergei Movchan, has been known for a long time - on February 19, he warned the staff about his resignation. But journalists and experts found it difficult to name the reason for this decision. Today, a GZT.ru source in the Central Election Commission reported that Movchan did not work well with his immediate superior, Minister of Justice Vladimir Ustinov.

In the second reading, the State Duma approved a bill giving the President of the Russian Federation the right to propose to parliament candidates for auditors of the Accounts Chamber. They have come up with yet another activity for the “poor” president - now he will propose auditors, and the State Duma or the Federation Council will approve them.

In Nizhny Novgorod, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrested 60,000 propaganda newspapers of the “March of Dissent”. First, the police demanded several issues of the newspaper in order to check “whether there were any signs of extremism in it,” and then, just in case, they confiscated the entire circulation. As you might guess, the “examination” will most likely end after the “March of Dissent,” scheduled for March 24.

Yesterday, the Basmanny Court of Moscow declared illegal the preliminary investigation into the new criminal case of the former heads of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in Chita. Accordingly, all investigative actions against Khodorkovsky and Lebedev, which have been carried out in Chita since the end of December 2006, also contradict the law.

Almost nothing remains of the former glory of Anatoly Chubais. It gradually but inevitably flows to the main person in our country for medicines and pensioners - Mikhail Zurabov, the demonization of whose image is completed completely and irrevocably. I don’t think that such an outcome was predetermined from the very beginning - it’s just that, having once taken over the post of chief social affairs officer, Mr. Zurabov did not take into account some factors.

The Parliament of the Chechen Republic asked Moscow for money to compensate for damage to victims of political repression during the Great Patriotic War: 18.1 billion rubles now, and then 10 billion annually, Nezavisimaya Gazeta writes. Experts believe that Chechnya wants to receive compensation from the Kremlin for abandoning the agreement on the division of powers.

The State Duma adopted in the third and final reading a law requiring that prices for goods and services be indicated in advertising exclusively in rubles. As a result of numerous amendments, all strict norms disappeared from the law. Initially, they wanted to oblige everyone - ministers, deputies, journalists - to name prices only in rubles. They didn’t do anything - you can say whatever you want.

In January, a prayer rally of the “Orthodox community” against the construction of the RAHI took place in the microdistrict - the fifth in a row. About 30 people took part in it. Believers offered a prayer to Saint Alexander Nevsky - “the defender of the Russian land from foreign, Western, conquerors.” Now the court's decision.

“The Sign of Satan” appeared in the very center of St. Petersburg on the Cross Worship Week of Lent!” - one of the Orthodox activists said indignantly. Opponents of the monument wrote to the governor and metropolitan, insisting that it be moved to a place where fewer people would see it. Or else it will happen, even if the courts ((http://ej.ru/fr-single/6468/) give in to the obscurantists.

Elena Baturina, as you know, does not forgive insults - today a Moscow court ordered the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Forbes to pay 109,165 rubles to the Inteko company.

“We must not allow foreign observers to take part in the elections in Russia in any form - be it from the OSCE, the European Union or the Council of Europe,” Zhirinovsky said on Wednesday. According to him, it was the observers who led to the “aggravation” of the situation in Ukraine and Georgia. The proposal is extremely timely - the legislation has already been “adjusted”, it remains to find a reason to prohibit any control over elections.

Russian human rights activists and public figures continue to put pressure on President Putin, persuading him to pardon scientists Igor Sutyagin and Valentin Danilov. This is at least the fourth appeal to the guarantor of the Constitution. And don’t think that I’m against it. On the contrary, if it were up to me, I would turn to the president every day with a similar request. Why? I am one hundred percent sure that Sutyagin and Danilov deserve pardon.

The topic of Mikhail Zurabov's resignation is being discussed joyfully and actively. Apparently everyone wants to be the last person to give the Minister of Health and Social Development a farewell kick. Today, independent deputy Sergei Popov has prepared an appeal to Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov about Zurabov’s resignation. And Boris Gryzlov said that the State Duma is ready to consider this issue.