Colonel Kvachkov, in my opinion, says things that can quite clearly be interpreted as calls for ethnic hatred. Regardless of whether he was convicted of attempted murder or not, acquitted by the jury or not, no one has the right to speak like that. His words smack of close acquaintance with the texts of Boris Mironov, the leader of the banned National Sovereign Party, and these are texts of 100% Nazi properties.

In his interview on Ekho Moskvy, Colonel Kvachkov repeated what Mr. Prokhanov had already written several times in Mr. Prokhanov’s newspaper. His main thesis: “Russia is occupied by the Jewish mafia.” As Dr. Faust said, “This is the thought to which I am entirely devoted, / The result of everything that the mind has accumulated.” But first, let's collect the factual material. It's pretty sparse. Colonel's points So, we know a) that the Jewish mafia exists, b) that it has occupied Russia.

The enthusiasm that filled the liberal democratic community after a series of speeches at the international economic forum in St. Petersburg is not entirely clear. As a rule, two reports stand out - those of President Dmitry Medvedev and First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. The President focused on Russia's relations with the outside world and assessed the global financial crisis, which erupted shortly after the previous forum.

Three seemingly unrelated stories reached me. The first story is comments from officials regarding car burnings. Deputy Head of the Information and Public Relations Department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate Evgeniy Gildeev said literally the following: “The excitement that was created in the press last week is pushing not entirely adequate citizens to start arson...

Groups of priests of the Romanian Patriarchate began to unite into trade unions, Interfax-Religion reports.

The Public Chamber sent a letter to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika, in which he asks to check the statements of Colonel Vladimir Kvachkov for compliance with the law on “extremism”. The letter was signed by the chairmen of three commissions of the Public Chamber: journalist Nikolai Svanidze, lawyer Anatoly Kucherena and editor-in-chief of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets Pavel Gusev.