Yuri Luzhkov in the Posner program expressed the opinion that the election of the heads of regions is better than their current selection - actual purpose. Dmitry Medvedev, in response, called a change in the modern system of forming the governor’s corps unrealistic and unacceptable and directly explained that if one of the governors is dissatisfied with it, then they can write a departure statement.

In uniform The end of the doctrine? November 20, 2008 Alexander Golts A week ago, November 11, strange events took place in the Ministry of Defense.

About minefields and rural cinemas Before the war, the Georgian government built about 20 objects in the Georgian enclave between Java and Tskhinvili: restaurants, a hotel, a cinema. “I am marveling at the Georgian villages,” writes Dmitry Steshin from the pro -government “Komsomolskaya Pravda” on the eve of the conflict, “a building made of steel and tinted glass - a cinema with a dance hall. An elegant red-white gas station of a famous Russian company. ("Lukoil" - approx. Yu.L. ).

After the Moscow District Military Court announced that the case of the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya would be held behind closed doors because the jury did not want to sit in the presence of journalists, it turned out that no one asked the jury.

On November 20, the tenth congress of United Russia opened in Moscow, at Gostiny Dvor. For the first time, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin chaired it.

On November 17, an extended restoration council took place in our gallery, which was attended by about three dozen world-famous scientists - specialists in ancient Russian art, restorers and our museum colleagues. Two weeks before this, a preliminary restoration meeting took place, where only gallery employees spoke, and then we were already inquiring whether there was any order or order from the Minister of Culture to send the “Trinity” to the Lavra.