On June 22, the second famous witness related to the Russian government, Minister of Industry and Trade Viktor Khristenko, appeared at the Khamovnichesky Court for the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. The first was German Gref, now the chairman of the board of Sberbank, and previously held the position of deputy minister of state property and then minister of economic development and trade. Gref was in court on June 21.

In the opposition For the flags June 22, 2010 Alexander Ryklin A great conversation here has started. Very, I will tell you, substantial. About Eduard Limonov. In different contexts, according to various reasons about this politics and writer, two people who were very close to me by the worldview and tuning of the internal charton - Dmitry Oreshkin and Viktor Shenderovich were considered necessary to speak out. The first compared it to Vladimir Putin , the second with Leonid Radzikhovsky .

Wow: we thought that the President of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov is an obedient son and a noble knight, he forgave everyone he was offended by after an appeal from his mother Aimani Kadyrova, who called on him to stop legal proceedings, in particular, against the head of the Memorial Human Rights Center Oleg Orlov. But no - it turns out that no one closed the case against Orlov.

People have long known that Vox Populi was unpredictable and whimsical (as, indeed, not accidentally set by folklore on one Vox Dei board). Nevertheless, at first glance, the arguments against the holding of free elections in Russia, given by L. Radzikhovsky and his much less talented like -minded people, are seemed completely unconvincing with a more attentive examination.

In society Do not kill! June 22, 2010 Adele Kalinichenko In less than forty days, my school friend of the dark -skinned actor Tito Romalio was killed in St. Petersburg. And here is a new news: on June 17, eight people were detained in St. Petersburg , suspected of complicity in the murder of citizen Ghana in December last year, as well as in involvement of another ten similar killings.

Debate of the parties, detailed speeches by defendants Andrei Erofeev and Yuri Samodurov, remarks from the prosecutor, the appointment of the day for announcing the verdict in the case (July 12) - this is briefly the content of the last day of the trial for the exhibition "Forbidden Art - 2006". The meeting took place in the large hall of the Tagansky court. Journalists and the public were first directed to a smaller hall, to which regulars of the trial were accustomed.

Despite the fact that we have memories of the war - this is always a holiday with tears in our eyes, there is still a division of memorable days on May 9 - as a festive, and on June 22 - as a mournful. I would even say that Victory Day is a public holiday, and the day of sorrow is a more private business. You do not know what is patriotic. For me, patriotism is still more than a private business. ...

Cultural initiative June 22, 2010 Svetlana Solodovnik The prosecutor's office asks for the three years of the colony-settlement of the ex-director of the Sakharov Center Yuri Samodurov and the head of the department of the latest trends of the Tretyakov Gallery Andrei Erofeev, accused of inciting hatred for the organization of the Forbidden Art-2006 exhibition.