If these amendments are adopted, then the referendum will be buried as a form of democracy. We haven’t had referendums for a long time, precisely because the laws governing them are absolutely draconian. Two years ago, 15 of the 17 questions proposed by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation were rejected by the Central Election Commission.

United Russia has come up with another initiative aimed at immediately and completely tightening the screws. This time the hands of the glorious party members came to the long-suffering issue of a referendum. What the opposition fought for for so many years has now decided to finally bury. The amendments introduced by United Russia and adopted on October 11 by the State Duma in the first reading actually mean that not a single issue existing in the world can be submitted to a referendum.

In uniform Past greatness and tranquility October 12, 2007 Alexander Cherkasov In many ways, a wonderful article by General Cherkesov has already followed a lot of responses, and there is still a place for commenting from a wide variety of positions. But for a start, I will touch on the image of the past - a glorious time painted by the general, when the omnipotent Chekist fraternity defended the country from enemies, and not from each other.

Frankly, I was asked to write about the letter of M. Khodorkovsky, but I was not going to do this. For various reasons, he was not going to, but first of all because this letter itself is very short and very understandable, it contains, in fact, only one thought, one thesis, you can agree or disagree with it, but there is almost nothing to discuss.

In February 2007, a message appeared on the website of the Prosecutor General’s Office that Plato Lebedev entered into a contract with certain companies worth 63 trillion dollars. Platon Lebedev thought, thought and sued, about the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation.