Large businessman and former parliamentarian Alexander Lebedev told The New York Times that he plans to form a new political party together with the first and last president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. The tentative name is “Independent Democratic Party of Russia”. Gorbachev is currently the chairman of the social movement "Union of Social Democrats".

In society The charms of the whip September 29, 2008 Nikita Sokolov On September 27, 1801, the name of Emperor Alexander I was ordered to the Senate “everywhere throughout the empire to confirm that anywhere or under any kind, nor in the higher or lower governments and ships, no one dared to do, to allow, nor to fulfill any tortures, under the fear of inevitable and strict punishment”, so that “the very name of torture, shame and reproach of humanity Approaching, it was applied forever from the

Dear ladies and gentlemen, I hasten to inform you about a discovery of almost historical proportions made by your humble servant. I will be brief: I have discovered the main principle of the functioning of the vertical power structure created by all of us (I humbly hope that in the future this pattern will be called the Goltz principle).

Prochrevsky choice of ATP can hardly be perceived as a sensation. The party was faced with a choice - either a complete collapse, or a “path to Canado”, an agreement with Barschevsky and Bogdanov under the auspices of the current government. The problem, however, was that the right ones always wanted to agree with the authorities, excluding, perhaps, several months of emotional confrontation during last year's election campaign.

The former commander of the Vostok battalion, Sulim Yamadayev, said in an interview with Kommersant that he does not believe in the involvement of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov in the murder of his brother Ruslan. In addition, he denied reports that he allegedly promised to take revenge on Kadyrov.

In the opposition Appeal to members of the Political Party "Union of Right Forces" Dear friends, associates! As a result of the latest events, the Union of Right Forces ceased to exist as an opposition democratic party. Finding the leader of the Party of Nikita Belykh was a guarantee of continuing the activities of ATP as an independent, living organism, a structure capable of drawing an independent political line, to defend liberal democratic ideas and values.

What had to happen happened. The Union of Right Forces ceased to exist as an opposition democratic party. Unfortunately, many of the democratic opposition do not believe in their own strength. But in the Kremlin, as it once again became clear, the opposition is taken very seriously - this is how one should interpret the decision to quickly put an end to the last of the officially registered democratic parties that openly pursued an opposition course.

I have a rather reserved attitude towards this project. Its proposed name shows a departure from social democracy, because it somehow has not taken root with us. But in essence it will be a social democratic project. The question arises which voters it is aimed at.

According to the results of the September 28 elections in Belarus, not a single opposition candidate entered the House of Representatives of the National Assembly. They have already been called the most uncontested in local electoral practice, since only 263 people competed for 110 seats in parliament. In addition, more than 26% of voters took part in early voting, which began on September 23. At some polling stations, even more than 80% of voters voted early.