On March 13, the Public Collegium for Complaints against the Press published on its website ( http://www.presscouncil.ru/ ) a decision in the case of Zoya Svetova versus the newspaper Izvestia.

In society Twenty years later: did you go? March 16, 2009 Alexander Osovtsov Indeed, both Alexei Makarkin and Alexander Tsipko, and, in particular, Yuri Afanasyev are right: it is impossible to write the story of the past 20 years, not trying to understand what happened and what did not happen at the time point with which we begin the countdown. It is clear that something happened then, and this is clearly needed to understand.

United Russia was unlucky in Murmansk: in the mayoral elections, self-nominated Sergei Subbotin overtook the party candidate, the current mayor Mikhail Savchenko. According to preliminary data, Subbotin received more than 60%, and Savchenko slightly more than 35% of the votes. About 40% of Murmansk residents turned out for the elections. The party, however, can console itself with victories in the mayoral elections of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Tomsk.

It looks like there will be a serious fight for the seat of mayor of Sochi (if, of course, the election commission registers everyone). Following the co-chairman of the united democratic movement “Solidarity” Boris Nemtsov and the notorious Duma deputy from the LDPR Andrei Lugovoy, businessman and politician Alexander Lebedev announced his intention to run. Lebedev told Interfax that many Sochi residents contacted him through his blog with requests to solve the city's problems.

In Russian society, a substantial discussion has unfolded about the composition of the future government of the Russian Federation. The first post -Putin Cabinet of Ministers, which will have to take on the most difficult part of the work to overcome the economic crisis. The very fact of this discussion cannot but rejoice.

It is for such ridiculous money that it is planned to increase the “index of trust” of citizens in officials by 30% in the Federal Program “Reform and Development of the Civil Service” approved by President Medvedev. The program provides for the creation of criteria for evaluating officials and mechanisms for their incentives. But the highlight of the program, its highlight, is the “trust index” itself as a modern democratic scientific criterion for assessing the work of the state apparatus.