Around Russia Strasbourg thaw June 9, 2010 Vladimir Kara-Murza (ml) In the third year of Medvedev’s liberalization, which did not bring a single serious change in repressive law on elections (it is not to be considered to be a decrease in the minimum number of parties from 50 to 45 thousand or admission to the State Duma of one deputy from the party, which gained 5% of the vote), for the electoral rights of Russian citizens stood out in Strasbourg.

Moscow has been turned into a protected field for police to hunt citizens. This is the only way to evaluate the case, the hearing of which is being completed in the Tverskoy Court. On December 31, Sergei Makhnatkin, who accidentally found himself on Triumfalnaya Square, was captured by the police while dispersing an opposition rally. Law enforcement officers, as usual, beat Makhnatkin. And he was stupid to file a complaint against the police.

In society Is it possible to fuse egoisms into a common ideal? June 9, 2010 Pavel Chebotarev The article by Sergey Adamovich Kovalev “ Political idealism and real policy: a challenge of the 21st century ”, widespread in March 2010. At the conference "Country in the World" and published in the "Hedgehog", contains a discussion of the fundamental features of the new global political structure. Not the one that is, but the one that, according to the author, should replace today.

The main events in the imitation state, which is Russia today, are not those that they are talking about in the Clean situation and from high stands, but those that are recognized by accident and often from anonymous sources. So it has been a long time ago: the most important thing is printed between the lines and is said in passing or burning. It was loudly announced that the main enemy of law and order was corruption.

His hand is the lord June 9, 2010 Svetlana Solodovnik On April 27, the governor of the Solovetsky Monastery and the director of the Solovetsky Museum-Reserve Archimandrite Porfiry (Shutov) signed 109 agreements on the transfer of religious property from the museum for free of charge to the monastery. In violation of the Charter of the Museum of the sanction of the founder - the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation - was not received.

What happens is what would be expected with the appointment of archimandrite. Porfiria director of the museum. The point is not about any of his personal qualities, but about the fact that he now has a classic conflict of interests, and it is clear which interests are higher. The fact that the Ministry of Culture remained out of the game is most likely a consequence of the reorientation of the issue of museum values. Previously it was a question of culture, now it is a question of property.