A special opinion of the Constitutional Court judge Vladimir Yaroslavtsev on amendments to the law on meetings, rallies, demonstrations, processions and picketing and to the Code of Administrative Offenses has been published. In his opinion, which does not coincide with the official position of the court, the “rapid” adoption of “arbitrary and unsystematic amendments” should have been recognized as inconsistent with the Constitution and thereby provided grounds for their cancellation.

Around Russia Only still not Russia February 25, 2013 Grigory Durnovo At the very north-east of Norway, about eight kilometers from the Russian border, the city of Kirkenes is located (to be more accurate, it is pronounced in Norwegian Hirkenes (with an emphasis on the first syllable, but some say Tirkenes or even almost “Chirkenes”) to the nearest large Norwegian city, a thrombus, from here on summer.

In the economy Gazprom and "Non -Courage" February 25, 2013 Vladimir Volkov The government continues to discuss the possibility of liberalizing the exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) and decides on this issue in the near future, Vice Prime Minister Dvorkovich said this Friday. If in the end this decision is positive, then another sensitive blow will be delivered to Gazprom.

It is clear that they are all covered up there to one degree or another, that they have to be mean, catch the next cannibalistic trends, adapt to the Kremlin trend... But there are still some scumbags! Who generate all this crap with inspiration, experiencing pleasure and even creative elation... Pavel Astakhov, of course, is one of those...

Then we have another scandal. The directors of the sanatorium "Belarus" Georgy Sarakashisha and his deputy Alexander Kizim were arrested. They were called to Minsk and put them in the notorious "American" - the internal pre -trial detention center of the KGB of Belarus. "American" I know: I myself sat in it for 109 days. Not sugar. And not even Sochi.

In society About one myth February 25, 2013 Mikhail Berg Here, more than a week ago, an interesting plot happened in the program “Echo of Moscow” “Full Albats” . It seemed to me that the Internet would explode the next day with comments - no, deaf, like in a tank. They don’t know how to react, and they don’t want to, most likely. But there was a symptomatic thing - the liberals of different positions argued.