Well, there’s nothing terrible about it, it’s just that no one said a word about it before. This idea is being heard for the first time, which means that apparently there really are such plans. The scheme is interesting: they build everything with federal money, except for some facilities - Gazprom Center builds it with its own money, and everything else with federal money - and then they will take everything and privatize it.

The lawyer Boris Kuznetsov had to “annoy” the FSB so that the head of this department Nikolai Patrushev personally appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request to bring the famous lawyer to criminal liability. And not according to any ordinary article of the Criminal Code. And under Article 283, part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Disclosure of GOSTaina”). It turns out that the FSB carefully monitored the activities of the lawyer Boris Kuznetsov.

State Russian media were outraged: Georgia detained two Russian journalists. Journalists were detained either in Kekhvi, or in Kurt - these are Georgian villages in South Ossetia. The head of the South Ossetian Committee on Information and Press, Irina Gagloeva, said that the stay of journalists in the area was "absolutely legal." Russian diplomatic representatives went to the Georgian pre -trial detention center, where they seemed to abandon the prisoners of freedom of speech.

Last Saturday, the Vatican unveiled a document that many Catholics had long awaited: some with hope, and some with anxiety. This is the Apostolic Letter motu proprio (this is the name of a certain category of papal rescripts) of Pope Benedict XVI, called “Summorum pontificum” after the first words of its Latin text. It sets out the rules governing the possibility of pre-reform worship in the Roman Catholic Church.

Sergei Stepashin made a statement that partly sheds light on the origins of the grandiose sports patriotism that suddenly inflamed the Russian authorities. According to him, some of the facilities being built in Sochi in preparation for the 2014 Winter Olympics may be privatized, RIA Novosti reports.