In society Contractors-virtuosos April 7, 2010 Leonid Radzikhovsky A lot is written about the “Katyn business”, but somehow one question remains in the shade. Almost 22,000 executed. And who “performed them”, expressing his executioners in professional slang? There is no secret here. The leadership of the operation was entrusted to the People's Commissar of State Security V. Merkulov, his deputy Kobulov B.Z. And the head of 1 special. Department of the NKVD BASTAKOV L.F.

A lot is written about the “Katyn business”, but somehow one question remains in the shade. Almost 22,000 executed. And who “performed them”, expressing his executioners in professional slang? There is no secret here. The leadership of the operation was entrusted to the People's Commissar of State Security V. Merkulov, his deputy Kobulov B.Z. And the head of 1 special. Department of the NKVD BASTAKOV L.F.

The unrest in Kyrgyzstan began with opposition protests in the regional center of Talas. On April 6, as a result of clashes with the police, more than 100 people were injured, including 85 police officers. The next day, other cities joined the riots. Several thousand opposition supporters arrived in the central square of Bishkek. They demanded the resignation of the country's president and a reduction in energy tariffs. The police tried to disperse them with smoke bombs and rubber bullets.

Irek Murtazin, the former press secretary of Mintimer Shaimiev, the first president of Tatarstan who recently resigned, has been on a hunger strike for seven days in the penal colony where he is currently imprisoned. On April 1, he was put in a punishment cell - formally for walking around the village, but previously he had taken walks that were not prohibited by the Criminal Procedure Code, and no one did anything to him.

Around Russia Steal according to conscience April 7, 2010 Vladimir Nadein The Federal Judge of the Washington District (USA) approved an agreement by which the German car giant “Daimler”, accused of violating the law on bribes to foreign governments, agreed to pay 185 million dollars of criminal and civilian fines for the love of cases recently excited by the US Department of Justice. On the first of April, this money entered the American state budget. Judge Richard J.

Despite the statement by a representative of the federal organizing committee for preparing the celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Victory that there will be no portraits of Stalin on the streets of cities, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov does not intend to back down and promises that posters with Stalin will appear on Moscow streets.

Around Russia Katyn: Just the truth April 7, 2010 Alexey Makarkin One of the main problems of modern Russia is attitude to facts. Society is reduced to minimize the role of facts and pay the main attention to their interpretations. Katyn is a vivid example of this. Indeed, the main discussion in the Russian media space until the very recent time was conducted not on what happened in Katin, but about how to justify this Stalinist crime.