Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said on July 9 that wages and incomes will rise again in 2010 after declining this year. Pensions will also increase, by as much as 42-45%. According to Kudrin, GDP next year could grow by one percent, Interfax reports. And based on this it will be possible to calculate the budget. Previously, the Ministry of Finance stated that the 2010 budget should be calculated based on a forecast of zero GDP growth.

Around Russia Stalin = Hitler? July 9, 2009 Anton Oresh For a powerful and proud power, we often began to be offended by others. The OSCE resolution caused another terrible insult to support the initiative of the European Parliament to declare the day on August 23, when the notorious Molotov-Ribbentrop was signed, the day of the memory of the victims of Nazism and Stalinism.

For a powerful and proud power, we often began to be offended by others. The OSCE resolution caused another terrible insult to support the initiative of the European Parliament to declare the day on August 23, when the notorious Molotov-Ribbentrop was signed, the day of the memory of the victims of Nazism and Stalinism. Our delegates at the scene and our “Duma” immediately began to resent, believing this resolution by an attempt to equate Stalinism with Nazism.

In society You have to believe in people July 9, 2009 Irina Yasina Last week, we and I and I knocked on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in wheelchairs. Both completely healthy people and disabled people sat in them. Several wonderful mothers with baby strollers joined. The fact that Moscow for the disabled is a closed city is no secret to anyone. It is impossible to cross the street, it is impossible to call on the phone, drink coffee, take money from an ATM. So it happened historically.

In the economy Technologies will not help July 9, 2009 Mikhail Delyagin Talking about innovation and modernization, which became the same hopeless reflection of the ruling kleptocracy, which once had a reason about developed socialism, by default proceed from the transforming role of technology.

How much have they already read there? To the undisguised irritation of the prosecution, people who well understand the significance of the trial still continue to attend this sad event. And Western politicians continue to ask questions to the Russian President. And he continues to answer them... not in the most clever way. And his press service does not seem to suspect that the Russian President has been asked and will continue to be asked questions about Khodorkovsky.

In the opposition Process. Issue 1 July 9, 2009 Daily Journal For the fifth month, the process over Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev has been stretching. The strategy of prosecutors is obvious - to dump during the meetings a giant number of all kinds of documents that do not prove anything at all. The calculation is made that sooner or later everyone will become boring and the public will cease to monitor the process.

It looks like the state and the Church are starting a game of tug of war. The interest of the Church is the evangelization of society or, using the terminology of Nikolai Trubetskoy, its “Orthodoxy.” The state's interest is to receive spiritual legitimation for its actions. The question is how strong the Church is now to participate in such a game.

United Russia intends to involve the Moscow Patriarchate in legislative work.

On July 11 at 2 p.m., a protest action will take place in Novopushkinsky Square against the persecution of a young man accused of attacking a policeman. Vsevolod Ostapov, a third-year student at RUDN, according to police officers and the prosecutor's office, discharged a gas canister towards a police officer, after which he hit him in the groin, causing the policeman to lose consciousness.