Cabinet of Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. The situation is quite ordinary, except for the fact that not cabinet chairs are placed around the table, but country -woven chairs. At the head of the table, Putin sits with a very gloomy expression on his face. Behind him on the wall in a luxurious gilded frame hangs a portrait of Medvedev with a mustache drawn by a felt -tip pen. There is a knock on the door. Putin (in a harsh voice) . Not locked!

Before Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller had time to reassure Ukraine that he would not fine Naftogaz for gas shortages, Naftogaz found itself at the center of an internal Ukrainian scandal. On March 4, armed men in masks and camouflage, who later turned out to be employees of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), entered the building of the joint-stock company.

The mayor of Moscow unites a lot with the legendary bear. Firstly, he is very smart. Secondly, loves honey. Thirdly, a member of the Winnie Pukhov party and even the head of its Moscow branch. Fourth (and this is the main thing!) He knows how to fly in a balloon. Or, at least, he thinks that he can. Today, on his part, there is a simple human desire to escape from the city plunging into the crisis upstairs. It would be nice for the position of the Prime Minister.

It seems that the Russian, if I may say so, Themis is mocking former Yukos lawyer Svetlana Bakhmina, delaying in every possible way the decision on her parole. It was necessary to wait until Bakhmina’s personal file was brought from the colony where she had been previously, and now the court of the Zubovo-Polyansky District of the Republic of Mordovia decided to transfer Bakhmina’s case to the Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow. The court has already refused to grant Bakhmina parole several times.

The trial, which began on Tuesday in the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow in the new Khodorkovsky-Lebedev case, is completely different from the one that took place four years ago in the Meshchansky Court. It is much larger, more pompous. And for some reason, despite all the extreme absurdity and insanity of the accusations, it inspires hope for a more or less positive outcome of the case. Why is this happening?

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation has prepared a bill “On the transfer of religious property to religious organizations.” It spells out the procedures for the gratuitous transfer of federal property into the ownership of religious organizations. If the document is adopted, religious organizations will be able to become full owners of churches, chapels, parish houses, seminary buildings and the land under them.

Following the failure of the attempt to challenge state prosecutors in the new trial in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, the defense suffered a new setback on March 4. The lawyers filed a petition to disqualify the judge, Chairman of the Khamovnichesky Court Viktor Danilkin. He went into the deliberation room for three hours and returned with a refusal, citing the fact that there were no grounds provided for by law to satisfy the petition.