In the Kremlin Half -down the system, or the era of "Voluntarism" October 2, 2009 Avtandil Tsuladze Power for the sake of power, serving itself and reproducing, not civil Servise ... There are no goals outside the authorities. M. Mamardashvili Fashion to write articles in the press is a kind of “glamorous” fun of the Russian elite.

In society The last number of Igor Golembovsky October 2, 2009 Vladimir Nadein When I told Mr. Benjamin S. Bradley that we elected the editor -in -chief of Izvestia, he looked at me in bewilderment. By the time of our conversation, in the summer of 1992, Ben Bradley, white as Lun, was no longer the chief editor of the Washington Post newspaper, but remained the legend of American journalism. After a pause, he asked: - How is it?

“Members of the commission have already visited the monastery and the orphanage, talked with both adults and children. At the moment, the work is still ongoing, and it is too early to talk about final conclusions, although it is already clear that there are facts of concern,” he told the correspondent. Interfax-Religion" head of the Information Department of the Russian Church Vladimir Legoyda.

A message appeared that Luzhkov, speaking somewhere, said as if it had already been a fait accompli that he would win the trial and was almost aware of how he would spend the allocated amount, for some charitable purposes. He says that means he knows. That is, apparently, he is confident that the court will take his side. You can remember what Limonov said regarding the influence on the courts. Let's see. So far, in any case, we have not seen either one or the other claim.

The acute conflict around the article by Podrabinka is far beyond the scope of a single "veteran" topic. We are talking about the value, civilizational choice that Russia faced. What values ​​for her will turn out to be profiling - conditionally western or conditionally eastern. In other words, democratic or authoritarian. In a democratic society, the appearance of an article by a suburban - quite naturally, in an authoritarian one - is unacceptable.

The president of the Inteko company and the wife of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Elena Baturina, filed a lawsuit against the co-chairman of the United Democratic Movement Solidarity, Boris Nemtsov, for his report “Luzhkov. Results,” in which he claims that the success of Baturina’s company is directly related to the official position of her husband.

A number of Russian scientists working in various institutes in the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Japan sent a letter to President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with an appeal to support domestic science. The letter was published in the October 2 issue of Vedomosti. According to the authors of the letter, fundamental science in Russia is in a catastrophic state.