In uniform Kremlin anti -crisis package: why is the “extremist” database for July 1, 2009 Irina Borogan We continue the joint project of the “Daily Journal” and the Agentura.ru portal, dedicated to the analysis of the state campaign to combat extremism, which, in our opinion, the authorities have launched in order to strengthen control over citizens.

Around Russia Transit will write off everything? July 1, 2009 Alexander Golts Russia and NATO have reconciled. Last weekend, even an informal, but quite full -fledged meeting of the Russian Council, NATO at the ministerial level, took place at Corfu. At the end of the meeting, the NATO Secretary General of Jaap de Hop Scheffer, as well as the Russian Minister Sergei Lavrov, demonstrated mutual location and readiness for cooperation.

For the first time, the Ministry of Justice issued a warning to an entire party, and not to its individual units. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation became a victim of Yuri Chaika’s department, writes Kommersant. The Ministry of Justice considered a number of provisions of the party charter to be contrary to federal law.

Who would doubt that Bernie Madoff is a bad guy. No one even questioned this fact, including the judge in Manhattan, who gave him a full sentence for creating a financial pyramid, or Ponzi scheme, as it is called in the USA. 150 years behind bars is more than enough for 70-year-old Bernie, but this is already history, considering that he is unlikely to live more than 15-20 years. Madoff famously defrauded investors out of $65 billion, ranking him number one in the world among his peers.