“The Council of Muftis of Russia has nothing to do with the initiative to create a Sharia court or an Islamic tribunal, as a number of media reported today, and we have not created a working group to consider this issue,” Gulnur Gazieva, spokeswoman for the Council, told Interfax-Religions. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced his intention to create an Islamic tribunal, apparently meaning by it an alternative to the International Court in The Hague.

From the Memorial Society We had the enviable and difficult fate of being contemporaries of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Enormous literary talent, the variety of forms in which this gift was realized, the unity of biography and creativity - all this makes Solzhenitsyn one of the most prominent figures in Russian and world culture of the twentieth century. Usually the scale of the personality and talent of an artist and thinker is not realized immediately, sometimes after decades.

The Olympics in Beijing, it turns out, began for our team last spring. It was then, according to the analyses, that seven Russian track and field athletes, including five members of the Olympic team, changed their own doping tests in order to mislead the inspectors.

The task turned out to be more difficult than we thought. But we are continuing the project, we have contacted professional people knowledgeable in arbitration courts, we are now changing documents, creating a website, for now there are only photographs of our judges. The idea of ​​creating the same Islamic court, in my opinion, is very correct. The more civil, non-state, courts there are, the better.

A national plan for anti -corruption has been posted on the President of the Russian Federation. To criticize him is the same as to beat a child - neither valor nor an educational effect. Therefore, I ask you not to consider my brief comments as criticism - these are just woeful thoughts.

Have you ever come in, my dear reader, in search of a “businessman” or “Vedomosti” in a colorful printed stall in the market? If you came in, you know that you simply can’t find serious newspapers there. There, in the stall, its life reigns. Crosswords and UFOs, horoscopes and tips for losing weight.

The organization “Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg” appealed to the Supreme Court in order to cancel some provisions and orders related to conscription, but the court did not satisfy their demands.