The most typical reasoning of the liberals-westers (and not only them) about the foreign policy of Russia is reduced to one simplest thought. The Russian nomenclature, no matter what she hangs there, holds money in the West, junk, often families. "Where is your treasure - there is your heart." They are on a short leash at the West and will never dare to quarrel with him for this reason.

In Moscow, at the Gorbaty Bridge, a Freedom Rally was held, organized by the Union of Right Forces party, the Republican Party of Russia, the Russian People's Democratic Union, the United Civil Front, and the public organization August-91. Traditionally, for nine years, the Union of Right Forces celebrated Flag Day on August 22 with a procession from Gorbaty Bridge to the intersection of New Arbat and the Garden Ring - here participants remembered the defenders of the White House in 1991.

Familiar face A party is an unsafe place. Here is a man waving his hand at you, whom you have certainly known for more than a decade, but who is he? What's the name?.. Fog. One year in ninety-nine, closer to night, in a closed acting club, I see the wonderful artist Maxim Sukhanov at the next table (well, you can’t confuse Sukhanov with anyone). He invites me to sit down, I land at his table, and we start chatting... And next to Max sits a pretty young woman.

Sulim Yamadayev, a former Chechen field commander, then commander of the Vostok battalion, which had federal subordination, according to news agency sources at the headquarters of the operational group of troops in the North Caucasus and Khankala, was dismissed from military service and sent to the reserve. A source from RIA Novosti reported that Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov signed a corresponding decree. Recently, the Vostok commander was put on the federal wanted list.

This decision was expected. And although we said until the last minute that hope lived in us, we understood perfectly well that those people who achieved the conviction of Khodorkovsky still retained their power, and it was clear to us from many signs that they were doing everything possible to extend his detention in prison indefinitely.

The story of the rebellious Bishop Diomede raised the question of overcoming the tilt towards fundamentalism before the Russian Orthodox Church. After all, it was precisely the fundamentalist sentiments that affected many clergy and laity that became fertile ground for Diomid’s invective. And the desire of the ultra-conservatives, clearly manifested in this story to unambiguously “build the situation for themselves,” did not arise in the last year and was by no means born in Chukotka.

On August 22, the Ingodinsky District Court of Chita refused to satisfy the request for the parole of Mikhail Khodorkovsky. As an Ekho Moskvy correspondent reported from the courtroom, the court took into account the fact that Khodorkovsky did not repent of what he was charged with (although, according to the law, repentance of a convict is not required for parole), and did not receive work while in prison specialty, which means his reluctance to take the right path.

In the opposition Photo report. 08/22/2008. Rally at the White House August 22, 2008 Daily Journal On August 22, a rally of opposition forces took place at the White House. About 300 people gathered in this action of the United Democrats.