On March 3, the second trial of the former head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of Menatep Platon Lebedev began, for which they were brought to Moscow from the Chita region. The trial is taking place in the Khamovnichesky Court, the case is being considered by Judge Viktor Danilkin.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vladimir Ohryzko was dismissed by parliament on March 3. 250 deputies out of 429 (with 226 required) voted in favor. Ogryzko, according to parliamentarians, primarily communists, as well as members of the Party of Regions faction who supported them, demonstrated unprofessionalism and cave nationalism.

In an interview with Spanish journalists, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev called the radical opposition “a small group of marginal politicians who are always present in any country and who are interested in inflating interest in themselves.” Dear Dmitry Anatolyevich! Let me correct a slight misunderstanding regarding your use of the word “marginal” in an interview with Spanish journalists.

It's hard for politics in Russia. Russian literature has created such a gallery of vivid images - you can’t say a word without stepping into someone’s shoes. Someone knows how to use this feature of Russian life, with a few strokes, by association, creating an “image” for themselves. It’s worse for those who fall into the image unconsciously.

I don’t think that the resignation of Vladimir Ohryzko from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs is connected with the situation around Zmeiny Island, because the Minister of Foreign Affairs had no opportunity to influence the decision of the International Court in The Hague, which was considering the Romanian claim against Ukraine. I, like a number of specialists in international law, believe that this decision could not have been any other.

Animals - including humans - imitate each other. Shoigu proposes to be tried “for denying victory”—Yabloko took up the initiative and proposes to try “for denying Stalin’s repressions.” Both ideas, of course, sound quite anecdotal, but in fact they have a very definite political meaning. It is clear that history or law were not lying around here. So this is what is proposed not by historians or lawyers, but by POLITICIANS. Offered strictly according to specialty.

“For a long time, the country was dominated by a regime of unlimited power based on violence of a narrow group of communist functionaries... The leadership structures of the CPSU were the initiators, and local structures were often the conductors of the policy of repression against millions of Soviet people, including deported peoples.

The main Ukrainian question in recent months is whether or not there will be a default. After the scandalous departure of the IMF mission from Kyiv, the issue of default began to be linked with the issue of the credit tranche: last week, Ukrainian officials finally officially admitted that there were problems with the loan and that Ukraine risked not receiving the remaining $12 billion.

The new US administration has already made more than one approach towards Russia. There is information about the abandonment of plans to deploy a missile defense system in Europe and about mutual reductions in nuclear weapons. So on March 3, information appeared about a secret letter that US President Barack Obama wrote to his Russian colleague Dmitry Medvedev.