The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church that met yesterday, the first held by the new Patriarch Kirill, focused mainly on personnel changes. There were no surprises: leadership positions were occupied mainly by people from the team of the former metropolitan, now Patriarch Kirill.

On the evening of March 31, three unknown persons beat up the leader of the movement “For Human Rights” Lev Ponomarev. They attacked him when he returned home and parked his car. The co-chairman of the movement, Evgeniy Ikhlov, told the Daily Journal about this. Ponomarev is currently in hospital in serious condition. Doctors say there is no danger to life.

The layout designer of the Khimki newspaper “Civil Consent” Sergei Protazanov died on March 30 in the hospital. Representatives of the opposition to Khimki Mayor Vladimir Strelchenko claim that Protazanov was severely beaten on March 29. On the contrary, the Moscow Region Main Department of Internal Affairs claims that the cause of death is poisoning with an unknown substance.

March 31, 2009 at about 11 p.m. near his at home by several unknown persons from 30 to 40 years of European appearance the executive director of the All-Russian public movement "For Human Rights" Lev Ponomarev. He was waylaid near entrance. The attackers fled when the human rights activist ran out to the screams concierge. Lev Ponomarev was hospitalized in the 36th hospital, but then was discharged and He is currently undergoing a medical examination.

On April 1, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and US President Barack Obama held talks during the G20 summit in London and made two joint statements. First of all, they agreed to continue reducing strategic offensive weapons in accordance with obligations under Article VI of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

In society Pushkin - autocracy - Gogol April 1, 2009 Boris Suvarin Ours are all The 200th anniversary of Gogol fell on the new “Nikolaev era”-a rather helpless remake of the Nikolaev era of Pushkin Gogol. Were they "victims of the era"? All people of the “victims” of their era - if only because in this era they suffer and die. But it is known that Pushkin and Gogol were active, convinced ideologists of the monarchy, no worse than Dostoevsky or Tyutchev.

On March 31, 2009, at the entrance of his own house, several unknown people were brutally beaten by our comrade, member of the Bureau of Solidarity, the famous Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomarev. The story of forceful criminal pressure on opposition representatives in Russia was replenished with the next episode.

Contrary to the expectations of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee did not recommend that Russian President Dmitry Medvedev cancel the counter-terrorist operation regime in the republic. As Kommersant writes, citing a source in the committee, the regime, however, may be softened: Grozny will be allowed to open its customs and international airport.

The administration of Dmitry Medvedev is preparing a sensational appeal to citizens. The President will present the draft law “On General Equality.” Never before in the history of Russia has the government offered citizens anything like this. Here is a fragment of this secret document: "1. Every citizen of Russia will be issued a flashing light with the right of priority on all roads in the country. This way we will ensure equality on the roads. 2.

In society Parable of intelligent solidarity April 1, 2009 Evgeny Nilov Alternative history of the process of drifus On March 31, the second process will begin over Plato Lebedev and Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The value of the second process will be more significant than the first. By October 2003, “Basmann Justice” has already developed. The second sentence will show that it is “forever”. And one must either come to terms with him forever, or look for a “nonlinear” solution option.

In the fairy tales of different peoples, their soul and destiny are encoded. This rather banal truth is illustrated by how the global crisis affects social selection in different countries and geopolitical selection on the planet. Somewhere, the crisis plays to the advantage, acts as a forest orderly, rejecting the weak and ineffective, clearing the way for the strong. Somewhere... But it’s better to start over, that is, with fairy tales.