In society A short course in the history of the CPSU (b) as a church product February 2, 2011 Svetlana Solodovnik Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko did not sign a new educational standard . “The system of constructive discussion of the draft standard must be established. Until the answers are given to all questions, I will not take on the statement of such a document, ” he told the Kommersant newspaper.

Hopes for justice were futile. The court partially satisfied the plaintiffs' demands, and exactly in the part where Putin was mentioned in any way. Of the three phrases that the plaintiffs asked to refute, the court decided to refute two phrases where Putin was mentioned, and the third was left without requiring a refutation. Apparently, the court is much less interested in Timchenko himself, although he is the plaintiff in this case.

About democracy Analyzing the results of a decade of market transformations, Yu. Latynina says that Russia “fell into the classic trap Illiberal Democracy”: “There were many groups of interests generated by non -market society and interested ... in maintaining, first of all, their situation. Their tactical interests, with a weak, supple state, have always dominated their strategic interests.

On February 1, an attack was carried out on former police major Alexei Dymovsky, who became famous (and fired) after a video message to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with a complaint against his superiors. Dymovsky has since formed the White Ribbon movement to fight corruption. The attack occurred in a minibus on the road from Anapa to Novorossiysk. Dymovsky suffered a traumatic brain injury. Blogs report that he is in Novorossiysk, where he is trying to file a report with the local police.

The three-day Council of Bishops, timed to coincide with the second anniversary of the enthronement of Patriarch Kirill, opened on Wednesday in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The presidium of the cathedral included bishops heading the Russian Church in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Crimea and Azerbaijan, as well as the chairman of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Church Abroad.

Around Russia Arab lessons February 2, 2011 Alexey Makarkin The preserved political turbulence in the Arab world does not interfere with drawing the first conclusions from the events that have occurred. To begin with, the presidents of Egypt and Tunisia came to power in different ways: Mubarak became a successor to Sadat, who was killed by radical Islamists, Ben Ali changed Burgiba as a result of a bloodless coup of the nation. But both of them were able to get their countries out of an impasse.

On February 2, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow recovered 100 thousand rubles each from the leaders of the People's Freedom Party Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov in favor of businessman Gennady Timchenko, who was offended by several phrases in the defendants' report “Putin. Results. 10 years".

“I believe that we should not complicate already complex issues,” said NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at a meeting with Russian journalists, answering a question about his attitude to Russia’s demand to create a unified missile defense system. “The North Atlantic Alliance is responsible for the security of countries’ territories - NATO members and the safety of their populations. We do not intend to shift responsibility to anyone else.