On November 3, the Supreme Court reduced the suspended sentence for activist of the PORTOS association Yulia Privedennaya from 4.5 to 3.5 years. According to her lawyer Mikhail Trepashkin, cited by Gazeta.Ru, the charge of unlawful imprisonment was dropped from Privedennaya due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The charges of leadership of an illegal armed group and of torture remain in force.

The former head of the Russian government, the former Russian ambassador to Kyiv, Viktor Chernomyrdin, has passed away. As Interfax reports from the words of people close to him, he has been very ill recently. At the same time, there is conflicting information about where Chernomyrdin died. Relatives told the agency that this happened at home, but a source in his secretariat claims that Chernomyrdin died in a foreign clinic and was just supposed to return to Moscow.

On November 3, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court overturned the sentence of the head of the Nizhny Tagil Foundation “City Without Drugs” Egor Bychkov. Earlier, the Dzerzhinsky District Court of Nizhny Tagil sentenced a fighter against drug addicts, who resorted to rather radical measures in his activities, to three and a half years in prison. Now this sentence has been replaced by two and a half years probation. Bychkov is already free.

In St. Petersburg, in the apartment of one of the local anti-fascists, the organizer of the sanctioned action in Petrovsky Park “Let's protect the city from fascism,” a real raid was carried out by employees of the local Center for Combating Extremism. The owner of the apartment named Philip, returning home in the evening, saw that the door to his apartment had been cut down, and his three friends who were there were lying face down on the floor. Before this they were interrogated and beaten.

In the Kremlin Putin. Active or passive? Continuation November 3, 2010 Stanislav Belkovsky The other day, I appealed to all of us - politically motivated citizens of mankind - to finally leave Vladimir Putin alone. Today, with all confidence, we can say that my call was heard not a fig. Almost no one is going to leave the poor prime minister alone.

For natural reasons, a fundamental difference in age, in biography, in ranks, etc. - Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin and I could not be. But few of the politicians of this rank was so humanly pleasant to me and caused me such sincere respect. He was, in fact, a pretty. With all his famous tongues, which was a direct continuation of his even more glorified aphoristic eloquence. With harshness in words. With non -soundness and breadth in actions. With his reliability. With his peasant sanity.

Recently, one of my familiar, middle -minded entrepreneur, who was always very loyal to the authorities, told me that in his immediate plans - to migrate more civilized from Russia to places. This is a person who, three or four years ago, quite consciously approved the activities of Putin, “United Russia” and the development trends of the country. By the principle: “Do not stick to politics, and no one will touch you. Here Khodorkovsky climbed into politics - and received in full.

The trial of Khodorkovsky, in my opinion, has a fairly accurate historical analogy: these are processes over the Templars under Philip Beautiful (1307), the Jacques Coeur, 1400-1456 process and the process of Jacques de Bon, Baron Samblanca (Jacques de Semblancay) (1527). All three processes occurred for two centuries, when the become French absolute monarchy faced independent financial force born in the bowels of feudal society.

This is very sad news. The last time I saw Viktor Stepanovich was at the funeral of Yegor Gaidar; he was already very ill then and had changed a lot. We were not able to talk to him seriously then. I worked with him for a long time - both when I was governor, and then, since 1997, we worked together in the government for a year. I can say that he was a real Russian man. A patriot, with a sort of folk spirit. A very wise, very professional, responsible person. By the way, kind.