(performance at the National Assembly on May 17, 2008) Dear deputies National Assembly! Dear colleagues! In my speech, I want to offer answers to five questions that we often ask us, deputies of the National Assembly, gathered here for her first session. First. Who are we? Who do we imagine? We represent, first of all, ourselves. Civil, public, political activists. Disagreed with what is happening in our country. Sincerely interested in the fate of the homeland.

Most of the journalistic comments about the elections to the Russian Academy of Sciences boil down to good-natured chicanery: they say, ha-ha, they elected some “whips” (one of the world’s largest programming specialists, Donald Knuth from Stanford University was elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences), shredders and governors Ishaevs.

Yesterday, the Union of Journalists of Russia received a message from Yabloko - the party asks to deal with the unethical behavior of Ekho Moskvy, in the opinion of the authors of the petition.

She has been gone for almost six months: on December 27, during a rally of many thousands in the city of Rawalpindi, a suicide bomber first opened fire on Benazir Bhutto’s car, and then detonated the “suicide belt” hidden under his clothes. And Pakistan immediately gained two martyrs (who died for their faith): supporters of the murdered Benazir now call her that, and radical Islamists call her the killer who, along with himself and Bhutto, took the lives of 26 more people.

The Kuibyshev Federal District Court of St. Petersburg has begun consideration of an unprecedented civil case - for the first time in legal practice, a claim for the protection of business reputation is being filed by a military unit. Military unit 37/27 believes that its reputation was defamed by the media and the public organization "Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg" and demands compensation of 2 million rubles.

In the opposition Once again about the benefits of the rules May 30, 2008 Viktor Shenderovich It is useful to oppose a decent person. It is possible to supervise the arguments in the purity of logic, not being distracted by knuckles and personal irritation. The arguments of my good friend, clever and courageous man Alexander Podrabink have heard me; We begin to try on the teeth.

It must be said that in the same Kuibyshev court there was already a similar case against us - then a similar lawsuit was considered by the head of the Nakhimov School, who tried to argue his position in court by the fact that he was an admiral and had awards from Putin. Then the judge dismissed the claim.