Thank you that we still have people who can distinguish between what is smuggling and what is an administrative offense. Thank you that there are still sober people who understand this and can even state this unequivocally. Well, what else can I say? This decision of the Constitutional Court will no longer help Manana Aslamazyan. This will also not solve the situation with Educated Media; the organization no longer exists - it has been liquidated.

In the Kremlin After the time May 27, 2008 Stanislav Belkovsky Still, times are changing. Sometimes faster than someone wanted. Last week, the “Independent Gazeta” published the convertible note “United Russia fell under tandem”. The note begins as follows: “ United Russia”, despite the aspirations of its leadership, may not become a “party of Putin”. The Presidential Administration came close to the formation of the personnel of the “bears”.

Still, times are changing. Sometimes faster than someone wanted. Last week, the “Independent Gazeta” published the convertible note “United Russia fell under tandem”. The note begins as follows: “ United Russia”, despite the aspirations of its leadership, may not become a “party of Putin”. The Presidential Administration came close to the formation of the personnel of the “bears”.

One can often hear the reproach addressed to the opposition that, while indiscriminately criticizing the authorities, it itself is not able to offer anything constructive, especially in terms of economic policy. These reproaches are only partly true. Firstly, the current opposition is indeed so heterogeneous that it simply cannot develop a unified economic program without breaking up into several political groups with mutually exclusive slogans.

In the Kremlin Than to count the cumushuska ... May 27, 2008 Natella Boltyanskaya Dmitry Medvedev calls on the media to be more actively involved in the fight against corruption . According to official reports, the president accepted in the Kremlin the chairman of the Union of Journalists Vsevolod Bogdanov. The latter complained that journalists sometimes do not actively participate in the life of society and the state. I want to say: "...

The complaint of journalist Manana Aslamazyan was satisfied on May 27 by the Constitutional Court of Russia. The former head of the Educated Media Foundation challenged the provisions of Part 1 of Article 188 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which define the concept of smuggling. The applicant argued that the wording of the article contradicts the principle of legal certainty, since both administrative and criminal liability may arise for the same act.