Around Russia Great Arab Democratic Revolution February 14, 2011 Alexander Ryklin Ah, what a great news - the "Maidan" on Tahrir Square won. Such an amazing typical orange "Maidan". A little dark -skinned, however, but this is no less impressive. It is also important to understand that in Egypt there was a peaceful, relatively bloodless democratic revolution. So this is not such a terrible word - a revolution, and enough to be afraid of it ... Despite all our sad historical experience.

The leaders of the democratic opposition Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Milov and Vladimir Ryzhkov failed to sue Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for a million rubles. The Savelovsky Court of Moscow rejected their claim against Putin and the Rossiya-1 TV channel for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation.

Of course, it’s hard to surprise us. Moreover, after all those billions that the country promises to spend consistently on the Universiade in Kazan, the Olympics in Sochi and the World Cup. But the place for amazement is still left. The new cost of the stadium in St. Petersburg on Krestovsky Island is named. Vice Governor Filimonov announced the amount (hold on stronger)-33 billion rubles! If the arena will really cost such an amount, then the St.

Journalist of the British newspaper The Guardian Luke Harding, expelled from Moscow on February 5, received a Russian visa in London and arrived in Moscow on February 12. As stated by the head of the Foreign Press Association in Moscow, Adib al-Sayed, quoted by Interfax, Harding’s journalistic accreditation is already ready.

In society Passion on Kipling February 14, 2011 Ivan Starikov (Thinking the day before Presidium of the State Council by national issue) Oh, the West is the West, The East is the East, And they will not come from places, It does not appear yet The sky with earth on The terrible Lord is the court. But there is no east, and there is no West, that the tribe, homeland, clan, If strong with a strong face Does the edge of the earth get to the face?

President Dmitry Medvedev called on the prosecutor's office, investigation and court authorities, when classifying crimes related to incitement of national and religious hatred, to take into account the possibility of particularly grave consequences of such actions, Interfax-Religion reports. “We can look at the issues of strengthening responsibility for actions related to inciting interethnic and interfaith hatred,” D.

The trial lasted all day, almost twelve hours from half past nine in the morning to half past nine in the evening. When the court is in such a hurry to make a decision, without delaying it for several days, or even several weeks, this is the surest sign that the decision is programmed. Representatives of the defendant Putin never bothered to present any real evidence that Nemtsov stole or at least could have stolen anything.

In the opposition Political prisoners, human rights activists and the Human Rights Council February 14, 2011 Ernst black Recently, a meeting of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation to promote the development of civil society institutions and human rights. The most famous human rights activists gathered there. Council members discussed with the president the most pressing issues related to the life of society.

Buses with a portrait of Stalin, similar to the one that traveled around St. Petersburg last year, may appear in Moscow by May 9. The authors of the St. Petersburg campaign wrote on blogs calling on like-minded people to raise money to decorate a bus or several starting in March. If there is any money left, kind, like the great friend of children and their repressed parents himself, activists are going to spend it on gifts for children in orphanages.

Natalya Vasilyeva, press attaché of the Khamovnichesky Court and assistant judge, made a truly sensational statement: according to her, the sentence against Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev was written by the judges of the Moscow City Court and imposed on the case handler, Viktor Danilkin, against his will. She stated this in an exclusive interview with Gazeta.Ru.