In society Antijackness September 23, 2009 Julia Latynina Do you know that we have been living without corruption from today? August 22, exactly a month ago, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev demanded to end corruption within a month. If the order is not executed, then Rashid Gumarovich as an honest cop should shoot himself with shame. But Rashid Gumarovich is alive, healthy and plays football three days a week, and, therefore, the order is executed.

In 1955, the story of the famous American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, “Elections,” was first published. About a special transformation of the electoral process in the United States in the not so distant future, when the right to choose is given to a single average American.

Do you know that we have been living without corruption from today? August 22, exactly a month ago, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev demanded to end corruption within a month. If the order is not executed, then Rashid Gumarovich as an honest cop should shoot himself with shame. But Rashid Gumarovich is alive, healthy and plays football three days a week, and, therefore, the order is executed.

On September 23, the Duma adopted a statement of readiness to return to consideration of the issue of ratification of Protocol No. 14 to the Convention of the Council of Europe, but under certain conditions. In 2006, the Duma refused to ratify the Protocol concerning the reform of the European Court of Human Rights, causing a huge scandal, but now, according to some deputies, something has changed.

I do not link this to any specific event, but I believe that the refusal to ratify Protocol No. 14 is damaging to the reputation of our state. It was simply an action that caused confusion in the European community, and I was convinced that sooner or later this issue would be returned to, and, accordingly, Protocol No. 14 would be ratified by the Russian Federation. Because it was simply indecent. This protocol has been ratified by all countries.