The wife of one of the former prisoners of one of the colonies of the Leningrad region, Ekaterina Ustinova, wrote a letter to President Medvedev listing brutal crimes committed by employees of the Main Directorate of the Federal Penitentiary Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. You can read the letter here - http://zeki.su/novosti/2009/10/16193515.html. Ustinova's husband also became a victim of torture and committed suicide by cutting his throat.

With the approval of the Basmanny Court of Moscow, Nikita Tikhonov and Evgenia Khasis, suspected of murdering lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova on January 19, were arrested.

In the opposition Dissidents and politicians November 6, 2009 Leonid Radzikhovsky These two sets can intersect, examples are rare and tags: Havel, Mandela ... I have not heard about dissidents - ordinary ministers, that lower, ordinary officials. Maybe, however, they are less known. In any case, in Russian, Russian history, there were no dissidents and politicians. Not a single dissident was related to government, to power.

The action plan for testing the educational course “Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics” in 2009-2011 has been approved by the Russian government, Interfax-Religion reports. The course includes the fundamentals of Orthodox, Islamic, Buddhist, Jewish cultures, the fundamentals of world religious cultures and secular ethics. The same document approved the list of regions participating in the experiment in 2010-2011.

Around Russia Ours and our own - forever alive November 6, 2009 Ksenia Krivoshein On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall My post -war Leningrad childhood passed surrounded by peers, drawing a small swastika. The Germans are fascists. Then this one is a whip of printing to other foreigners, sometimes they called their own, which stood out from the total mass. Later, people became “not their own” by a Caucasian of nationality.

The story of the persecution of Alexander Podrabinek has died down, and some conclusions can be drawn. Let's decide on the positions. Throughout his entire adult life, the author of these lines has been and remains an anti-communist and, accordingly, an anti-Soviet. But it’s not about my beliefs and civic feelings. The fact is that in the story of Alexander Podrabinek, the Russian political elite clearly demonstrated suicidal tendencies.

The Internet is buzzing! Abramovich paid 50 thousand dollars for dinner! And the receipt from the New York restaurant is included everywhere. At first I didn’t understand what was so incredible here. With billion-dollar fortunes and multimillion-dollar spending on football and yachts, 50 thousand for dinner is nonsense. In general, I thought that the oligarchs spent about that much on dinners. We were always told about Courchevel and 500 euros as the usual amount for tip.

Radical artist Alexander Volodarsky was detained on November 2 in Ukraine for simulating sexual intercourse - this was a protest in Kyiv near the walls of the Verkhovna Rada in connection with the adoption of the Law on the Protection of Public Morality and the actions of the National Commission on Public Morality. Volodarsky himself and an unknown girl took part in the action.

I am personally convinced that every socially sane individual should have some (certainly adequate and quite realistic) ideas about religion, no matter whether they are female or male, young or “old,” professing a “titular” religion or practicing any something exotic and obviously marginal cult.