In 2008, Russian citizens feel less hostility towards themselves from representatives of other ethnic groups. Such conclusions were made by the Yuri Levada Analytical Center based on a survey conducted on October 17-20 among 1,600 Russians.

This war, if we look at it by the standards of past wars, is a fraud. George Orwell, "1984" VIDEO CLIP On the website of the Vesti TV channel there is a recording from a mobile phone made by some Georgian tankman when the Georgians entered Tskhinvali. “Georgians filmed their crimes,” reads the headline. Judging by the title, it is not difficult to assume that we will finally be shown documentary footage of how Georgians threw children under tanks, shot old people and raped women.

On the eve of the dissolution of the Union of Right Forces and the formation of the new Right Cause party at the hands of the Kremlin, Marietta Chudakova, a good philologist, no doubt, an intelligent and nice person, loudly spoke out in support of this idea. I personally like Marietta Omarovna both for the clarity with which she thinks and writes, and for her, I would say, ebullient energy. I love such restless people (a la our Dmitry Sanych Prigov), who cannot escape the social temperament.

We are already used to everything. And to nationalist marches, and to everyday chauvinism, and to official nationalism. And in the stands of the stadium there is generally more of this “good” than anywhere else. And blacks are offended, and the other day in Chelyabinsk at a hockey match they chanted at the Riga Dynamo players: “Fascists!” But what happened in St. Petersburg at the match between Zenit and Dynamo Moscow shocked and offended me as if I had been personally insulted. Fans of the St.

A center for the protection of journalists will be created next year at the Public Chamber. A member of the OP commission on communications, information policy and freedom of speech in the media, lawyer Pavel Astakhov, told Kommersant about this. There is already a subcommittee for the protection of the rights of journalists within this commission, but a center is needed so that they can be assisted in various situations: “from lawsuits to attacks,” as the lawyer explained.

Any initiative aimed at protecting journalists, of course, cannot but be welcomed. Journalists need protection; all the events of recent years clearly demonstrate this. Doubts about the effectiveness of this work, given the somewhat dummy nature of the Public Chamber, are quite legitimate and very large. If doubts are dispelled and the initiative turns out to be effective, I will only be glad to be wrong. There is always hope that something will work out.

In principle, Russia is a country of headings. Professional journalists look at the headlines of information agencies, and everything is clear to them at once. For example: Russia \ Chechnya \ Kadyrov \ New Award Or: Russia \ Medvedev \ Statement \ Increase in the deadline for the presidency is full. Or such a title: Russia \ New Party "Just business" \ Gozman \ statement. For me, this last title means quite a lot. The Kremlin decided to let someone play in their field.

The Moscow District Military Court, hearing the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, at the last moment changed its decision on the nature of the hearings. On November 17, the court announced that the trial would be open, but on November 19 it turned out that it would still be held behind closed doors. The jury reportedly refused to enter the courtroom in the presence of journalists.

Patriarch Alexy II turned to the Tretyakov Gallery with a request to provide Andrei Rublev’s “Trinity” icon for three days to participate in the festive service in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. The Patriarch discussed this issue with the Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev back in September.