The Greenpeace Russia organization sent a letter to President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin about the fate of the ill-fated Khimki forest. According to environmentalists, Putin’s decision to transfer the land of a unique forest area into the land of the transport industry for the construction of the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway violates federal legislation.

As we all know, the idiom “freedom of speech” denotes a constitutional order in which any public organization (if its activities are not prohibited by a court decision) has an unconditional and unrestricted right (except for the laws of nature and purely technical factors) to form its own corporate point views on certain topical issues, and then publicly express and defend it.

Everything flows, everything changes. Heraclitus The article by L. Radzikhovsky (“Flight of Thought”) is a reflection of the sentiments of a fairly significant part of Russian society and the intellectual elite (I thank the author for the compliments and in return I will allow myself to note the artistic and analytical merits of the texts of one of the masters of Russian journalism).

In the opposition It came ... December 21, 2009 Alexander Ryklin The congress of the Yabloko party, which last weekend took place in Moscow, made a historical decision - introduced a ban for party members to participate in the work of other political organizations and coalitions.

The congress of the Yabloko party, which was held in Moscow last weekend, made a historic decision - it introduced a ban on party members from participating in the work of other political organizations and coalitions.

The Yabloko party arbitration reinstated Ilya Yashin in the party. And the congress was ruled out again. That is, in fact, party functionaries punished a person for the second time for the same crime. Of course, it’s hard for Ilya now. But let’s not forget that he has one serious advantage over his persecutors - Ilya is significantly younger than them. Years will pass, and neither Yavlinsky nor even Ivanenko will exist. But only their portraits are on the wall of the assembly hall.

In society My meetings with justice. Part 2 December 21, 2009 Viktor Shenderovich The publishing house "New Gazeta" was published by the collection of texts of Viktor Schenderovich "The case of Yech and other stories of our zoo." "Daily Journal" publishes excerpts from the new book. From the chapter "Case with Yehu" The uneven mental background of the last week of the process was really blazing on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, about an hour in the afternoon.

In society Egor Gaidar December 21, 2009 Julia Latynina 2000 years ago, a tough reformer and a successful courtier Van Man (exactly two thousand years - he entered the throne in 9 AD), who proclaimed the foundation of the blue dynasty, ascended the throne in China. He had every chance to go down in the history of China as the founder of the dynasty, but then the Juanhe river changed the current, moving over to the other side of the Santunsky Peninsula; Human victims were innumerable.

In the regions Pacific Project, or Russian Ark December 21, 2009 Stanislav Belkovsky Many observers and commentators with irony reacted to the recognition of the statehood of Abkhazia by the Lat Pacific Republic of Nauru. Such an irony seems to me completely inappropriate. After all, of course, the point is not in recognition of Abkhazia as such. The case is at the beginning of the process of establishing special relations between Russia and small Pacific states.

In society It turns out, it turns out, the protodiacon December 21, 2009 Daily Journal On December 16, the second meeting of the Expert Council was held at the department of religious education and catechesis of the Russian Orthodox Church, which considered the preparation of educational materials for teaching the module “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” as part of a federal experiment to conduct the course “Fundamentals of Religious Cultures and Secular Ethics”.

The church already participated several years ago in creating “commandments” for entrepreneurs, and now it is coming forward with a new initiative. “I would suggest that our business community, the social strata of our country, think about creating a council or board that would evaluate the moral behavior of businesses. It would evaluate specifically, with names and facts.