President Dmitry Medvedev submitted to the Duma a bill proposing further liberalization of the Criminal Code. In particular, it is proposed to introduce forced labor as a punishment. In addition, insult and slander, according to the president, should move from crimes to the status of administrative violations. “The decriminalization of acts that the modern version of the Criminal Code considered a crime is underway,” Medvedev said at a meeting with Justice Minister Alexander Konovalov.

In society An unprecedented precedent June 8, 2011 Anton Oresh What happened in the football “locomotive” seems to have no analogues in our sports history. At least at such a level. The head coach Yuri Krasn Ozhan was fired. When the club lags from the leader in one point. Although the game of the team for once pleases the eye. The fans of the club, who worshiped Yuri Semin for a quarter century, only a few months later and a dozen games received Krasnozhan.

We invited not only scientists, but also representatives of various churches to the conference at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, so that they could talk about their experience of social service to society. The scientific community should pay more attention to real church life and explore the social nature of religion.

Bakhrom Khamroev, an employee of the Memorial Human Rights Center, was severely beaten. This was the second attack on the human rights activist. Khamroev dealt with the affairs of migrants. The attack took place on the evening of June 6 at the entrance of the house where Khamroev lives. According to the head of the Human Rights Center Oleg Orlov, quoted by Interfax, it was obviously an ambush - they were waiting for Khamroev. The surveillance camera lens was covered with chewing gum.

The approved plan, reported by the Vedomosti newspaper, contains a complete set of measures with the help of which officials respond to any serious problem. For example, a social advertising project “Don't be sick of racism” is proposed, as well as seminars and lectures and, of course, “friendship lessons” in schools.

Last weekend, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin made a statement that the capital’s authorities would provide squares and streets for actions only to those political forces that are capable of “bringing out tens and hundreds of thousands of people,” and not to “several dozen rowdies.” Activists of Russian opposition movements, including the Solidarity and Strategy-31 movements, considered this statement unconstitutional and call on everyone who is denied the constitutional right to freedom of

On June 7, 2011, the All-Russian scientific and practical conference “The religious factor in the socio-political life of modern Russia (overcoming intolerance and extremist tendencies)” opened at the Institute of Europe in Moscow, reports the SOVA Information and Analytical Center .

In the opposition Farewell to modernization June 8, 2011 Maxim Blut Russia is changing the course. For once in recent years. It was not officially announced about this, but now it is obvious that with the “re -industrialization”, an accelerated “breakthrough” Medvedev modernization, as well as with President Medvedev himself, we can safely say goodbye.

People know how to get the right job. The remuneration of the “independent” chairman of the board of directors of Norilsk Nickel, Alexander Voloshin, for last year amounted to 10 million dollars. This is despite the fact that, as I believe, Alexander Stalyevich does not distinguish nickel from aluminum, and does not know that Norilsk and Murmansk are different cities. You say – corruption in its purest form! Nothing like this!

In the economy This is "life" ... June 8, 2011 Viktor Shenderovich Part of the Izvestia labor collective, dismissed by the new owner of the newspaper, in her statement expressed anxiety for the future of domestic journalism. This is in vain. From the transition of Izvestia under the wing of the “King of the Yellow Press” and his unceremonious actions, domestic journalism, in my opinion, can win-how the patient can win from any accurate diagnosis, no matter how difficult he may be.