“The President is familiar with Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s open letter to the Chairman of the Supreme Court,” said Dmitry Medvedev’s press secretary Natalya Timakova, according to RIA Novosti. She didn't add anything more to it. Let us remind you that the purpose of the hunger strike, which the former businessman, who is in prison and under a second trial, announced on May 17, was precisely the reaction of the president.

The average medium consciousness is exhausted by modern Russian mass media is in a state of continuous information stress. Indeed, it is constantly possible to constantly watch our modern television and read our modern newspapers/magazines and at the same time remain completely mentally normal.

It would seem, more recently, at the beginning of the year, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, in particular, the head of the information department, Vladimir Legoyd, argued that the bill on religious organizations of religious property does not apply to museums and everything that is located in them is regulated by the Law “On Museum Funds”. But literally a few months have passed, and we already hear completely different songs.

It is difficult to be silent when you are faced with public opinion that has gone about wild instincts. I mean the story with the capture of the Somali pirates of the Moscow University tanker. Public opinion ardently approves and almost unanimously supports the actions of the Russian military, entailing the death of 11 pirates. Both death and the most unpleasant are welcomed - the circumstances of the death and explanation of these circumstances by the Russian side.

So, the ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky declared an unlimited hunger strike. In protest against the extension of his arrest by the Khamovniki court for another three months. Mr. Khodorkovsky believes that after the entry into force of changes in Art. 108 of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation, which actually cancel the arrest as a measure of restraint in cases related to economic crimes, this decision of the Khamovnik court is not legal.

In society Mumba Yumba May 19, 2010 Boris Kolymagin It would seem, more recently, at the beginning of the year, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, in particular, the head of the information department, Vladimir Legoyd, argued that the bill on religious organizations of religious property does not apply to museums and everything that is located in them is regulated by the Law “On Museum Funds”. But literally a few months have passed, and we already hear completely different songs.

Meeting May 18, 2010. The beginning of the circus. Prosecutor Lakhtin gets up and starts mumbling on a piece of paper in non-Russian, getting confused in the approvals. “The opportunity was not taken,” “we did not see any action from you...” It is impossible to understand the essence; the meaning gets stuck in tongue-tied language. – Was it a statement or a petition? – the impassive judge Danilkin is interested. Prosecutor Lakhtin does not know what it was.