Around Russia What to talk when there is nothing to talk about September 15, 2009 Alexander Golts Citizens, brothers, men and even, I am not afraid of this word, comrades. What a joy, our youngest all, speaking to the Russian and foreign elite in Yaroslavl, formulated clearly and unequivocally. Like, someone like, but I, Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev, live only with my own mind and believe: "Still, a modern state is primarily a democratic state." Great progress is evident.

According to Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, when communicating with foreign analysts, opposed both military actions against Iran and the introduction of sanctions against this country.

The nicest person Nikolai Zlobin asked the most wonderful question to Vladimir Vladimirovich at an event called the Valdai International Discussion Club. Zlobin suggested that Putin look to 2012, when, by a strange quirk, we will again have presidential elections. Will Putin compete with Medvedev for the presidency? And Putin replied: “Did we really compete in 2008? So we won’t compete in the 12th.

Russia ranks third in the world in the number of murders of journalists and ninth in the number of unsolved murders of media workers. This is stated in the report of the international Committee to Protect Journalists. Seventeen journalists have been killed in Russia since 2000 “in retaliation for their official activities,” the report says.

In uniform The case of undermining the lantern and the position of the human rights activist September 15, 2009 Alexander Verkhovsky The story of a student Ivan Belousov, sentenced to six years per explosion in Manezhnaya Square, suddenly became the subject of violent discussions.

I don't know what to do with this. More and more often, I receive calls from parents of young people who are accused and tried for crimes they did not commit. Lately I have the feeling that the number of innocent people brought to justice is growing like a snowball. On August 27, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sentenced 22-year-old MIIT student Ivan Belousov to six years in prison. For what?

In the opposition Process. Issue 11 September 15, 2009 Daily Journal Process: Day 186-Day 192 Everything is still: prosecutors announce fragments from the already read volumes, and more and more chaotic. In addition, more and more clearly confirming the meaninglessness of the prosecution and the incompetence of the prosecutors-since, firstly, many documents indicate facts opposite what is stated in the indictment, and secondly, some of the documents have nothing to do with the case.