In society Put the bullet into Holy Rus' ... July 16, 2010 Nikita Krivoshein "Put the bullet into Holy Rus' ..." (A. Block "Twelve") At the opening of the exhibition "Caution, religion!" in the museum and public center named after Andrei Sakharov 01/14/2004 Whether this desperate council of Alexander Blok, who believes in God (and in the godly of the revolution, alas, too), were inspired by the organizers of the events "Caution Religion!" And “Forbidden Art-2006”?

In the Kremlin The results of the week. Baron rebellion July 16, 2010 Alexander Golts The main event of the week was the difficult struggle of the Kremlin with the chief Bashkir chief Murtaza Rakhimov, whom they decided to get rid of. One can only guess how high the bets were in this game. Their level allows us to judge the almost desperate determination of the Bashkir Babay, which has been overwhelming this week a lot of things hitherto unheard.

In the scandalous story with the exhibition “Forbidden Art-2006”, there are four sides by the court of Samodurov and Erofeev and all this whistle around: organizers, artists, “believers” and court. Moreover, three of them are deeply unsympathetic to me. But the only ones who are judged and condemned here is just a fourth, pretty side. Erofeev and Samodurs. I will tell you honestly: what was exhibited in the Sakharov Center as exhibits is not an art.

It seems that any hope that the notorious amendments to the law on the FSB, allowing state security officers to issue warnings to those suspected of extremism, will not be adopted, has collapsed. The International Memorial Society issued a statement saying: “We have absolutely no illusions about the fate of this bill: there is no doubt that on July 16 the Duma will approve it in the third reading. However, we have no reason to doubt the legal competence of the head of state.

The leader of the Khimki Forest Defenders Movement, Evgenia Chirikova, was attacked. The unknown person hit her and then almost ran over her with the bumper of his car; she barely managed to jump away. The attacker fled. The day before, Chirikova, together with like-minded people, managed to stop deforestation, which was carried out without any permits.

For more than a year, it was unclear whether Sulim Yamadayev, the former commander of the Vostok special battalion, Hero of Russia and sworn enemy of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, was really killed in Dubai. Official representatives of the United Arab Emirates claimed that he was killed before, but the Russian side still has not received documentary evidence from them, and Sulim’s brother Isa Yamadayev even stated that he was alive.