On the day of the presidential elections in Russia there were almost 2 million fewer voters than there were at the Duma last December, Vedomosti writes. In the preliminary data for the presidential elections, the column “number of voters included in the lists” indicates 106 million 999 thousand people. In the protocol of the Duma elections in the same column there were 109 million 146 thousand voters. The Central Election Commission declined to comment on these figures.

It is known that in August, according to the Central Election Commission, there were approximately 109 million voters, and now there are 107. It is clear that manipulation of voter lists is one of the technologies that allows influencing the election results. The fact is that in parliamentary elections in a fully proportional system, there is no fixed number of mandates that a region is guaranteed to receive.

The Ministry of Culture has prepared a bill to limit the circulation of erotica and pornography - let’s call this document that for brevity. Attempts to combat pornography in our country have so far been, no matter how regular, so useless and downright comical. Some ridiculous concepts were given, but the laws were written in such a way that it could be interpreted in any way. As a result, porn can be bought completely freely in a big city.

A modernization breakthrough in the context of limiting democracy - this was the strategy of the Putin start. It is possible that the new president will attempt to return to the beginning of the Putin presidency. This return may be associated with some relative (compared with the current legal lawlessness) “thaw”, which will be needed to return at least the relative confidence of the elites (primarily expert, information, cultural) to the authorities and mobilize their support.

The question of the possibility of teaching religious subjects in schools continues to be hotly debated in society. One of the most painful topics is whether lessons “on religions” should be voluntary or compulsory. Last fall, the Russian Orthodox Church proposed to the Ministry of Education and Science to introduce a new educational area “Spiritual and moral culture” into the school curriculum, thereby once again trying to consolidate religious subjects in the school curriculum.

On March 5, 1953, all TV channels celebrated the anniversary with a touching unanimity: everywhere they showed clock programs about the death of Stalin. 55 - the tyrant is our berry again ... What is not surprising: go to any bookstore and immediately find a hundred books about Stalin, children, nephews, mistresses, drivers, cooks of a great person, and, of course, about his exceptional role in world history, etc.