In the opposition The results of the week. The mandate went to Magadan, take off your hat ... December 7, 2007 Alexander Ryklin Last Wednesday, the guarantor burst into the cabinet of the speaker of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov. Horror was read on his face. “Boris Vyacheslavovich,” the guarantor said in a stifled voice, “Kasparov is walking along the corridor.” It is impossible even to imagine how many different tragic thoughts and bad forebodings flashed in Gryzlov’s head in a second.

A group of 33 political scientists issued an open letter in support of the editor-in-chief of the Moscow News weekly Vitaly Tretyakov. Among those who signed the letter are Gleb Pavlovsky, Vyacheslav Nikonov, Maxim Shevchenko, Mikhail Leontyev, Sergey Markov and others. The reason for the letter was information about Tretyakov’s imminent dismissal from the post of editor-in-chief of Moscow News, which appeared in Kommersant on November 26. “From our point of view, Mr.

So, let's assess Russia's current political drift and imagine possible future movements. Since we are talking about a certain movement, then it is appropriate to think of it as movement in space, just as the route of a sailing ship can be represented in changes in latitude and longitude coordinates. Only the political space is more complex, it has more dimensions. And the more complex the situation, the greater the dimension.

The main question that foreign diplomats accredited in Moscow ask today: what is the current warlike rhetoric of the Kremlin? Short -term insanity provoked by uncertainty with the future system of power in Russia, or long -term betting on confrontation? At first glance, everyone says that Moscow has tuned in a long conflict with the West.

We are not commenting on this yet, although similar messages reach us (almost Nemtsev is already talking about this). This will be a long, serious visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Belarus; a number of very important issues will be discussed. But there is no official information yet about the signing of the Constitutional Act, nor about the positions that the presidents of Russia and Belarus will hold. Therefore, as an official representative, I cannot comment on rumors.

During the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Minsk, a constitutional act will be signed that proclaims a union state of Russia and Belarus, Ekho Moskvy reports, citing sources close to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. The document has already been prepared. According to sources, Vladimir Putin will become president of the Union State after leaving the post of president of Russia. Alexander Lukashenko will head the Union Parliament.

In society For our freedom. Against yours December 7, 2007 Svetlana Solodovnik This week, President Putin signed a law that abolished the division of state educational standards into components (federal, regional, school) and established uniform requirements for the structure of curricula and the conditions for their implementation.

In the first hours after the elections, there were quite a few emotional comments. Chubais, as I understand it, spoke of a “moral victory”; many others spoke of Putin’s defeat. They say that during the last presidential elections he received 49 million, and now it is 42 million. In the first hours after the elections, and even in the middle of the night, such words are understandable and forgivable. But similar speeches are heard from the lips of liberals to this day. And now this is sad.