Newsweek has published a rating of the 100 most convenient countries for life. In five parameters: health, economics, education, political stability, quality of life. Finland was in the first place. In addition to her, the top ten leaders in Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Canada, Denmark, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Japan ... America has 11th place. Russia has 51st. How to not recall the economic nugget from the KGB Andrei Petrovich Parshev with his book “Why Russia is not America”.

The Russian authorities managed to create a rather loud scandal of an international nature. On August 22, a concert of the most popular Irish group U2 took place at the Moscow Luzhniki Stadium. Its leader, Bono, is a co-founder of the AIDS Foundation, as well as a prominent environmentalist.

In uniform Sutyagin's explanations August 26, 2010 Julia Latynina Military analyst Igor Sutyan, exchanged in July, among the four other Russians for ten Russian spies, a month after the exchange finally began to give an interview. He immediately gave an interview to The New Times, Novaya Gazeta and Echo of Moscow.

The head of the Synodal Department for Relations between Church and Society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, positively assessed the fact that the law provides a detailed and comprehensive list of the duties and rights of the police, as well as those special cases when police can use weapons. In addition, according to the priest, the ban on torture introduced by the new law is very important. “It is no secret that in a number of cases violence is used - unjust and unjustified.

Very strange: United Russia appealed to President Dmitry Medvedev with a request to suspend the construction of the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway through the Khimki forest. Interfax reports this with reference to the party's press service. Let us recall that the decision to transfer the territory of the Khimki Forest to the category of transport land was made by the party leader, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

The leader of the “For Human Rights” movement, Lev Ponomarev, was sentenced to three days of arrest - he was found guilty of disobeying the police during an unauthorized march on August 22 after a rally on the occasion of Flag Day. Ponomarev claimed that he only participated in a rally that was permitted. The court agreed with the opinion of the police, who stated that Ponomarev escaped during his arrest.

On August 27 at 15.00, on the initiative of the magazine “Big City”, an action will be held to demonstrate how a person in a wheelchair feels and how a person in a wheelchair can exist in Moscow. Participants invite everyone to walk around the city in a wheelchair.

Leo Ponomarev was sentenced to the head of the “For Human Rights” movement to three days of arrest - he was found guilty of disobedience to the police during an unauthorized procession on August 22 after a rally on the occasion of the flag day. Ponomarev, on the other hand, claimed that he participated only in a rally that was allowed. The court agreed with the opinion of police officers, who stated that Ponomarev disappeared during the detention.

At the end of summer, August 23, the Russian Orthodox Church traditionally celebrates the memory of the Solovetsky new martyrs. This year, it turned 90 since by the decision of the Arkhangelsk Provincial Executive Committee at Solovki, the first concentration camp of provincial subordination was established - the predecessor of the infamous elephant. This date seemed to be an additional reason for talking about repressions.

In this case, perhaps, the event that requires comment is not so much that the proposed new law on the police was approved by representatives of several religious faiths at once, and not only the “traditional” ones, but also some others, also quite influential (who doesn’t understand , that the correction of names is always beneficial, at least some order is better than complete chaos, and the law will be accepted even so, without blessing, purely by majority vote), but first of all, that the