The United States is a country in which anti -racist slogans were born and which declares itself the center of the fight against discrimination on a national basis - itself is not quite free from the manifestations of racism. Moreover, we are talking not only about mutual household hostility of white, black and Asians, but also about the activities of mass organizations that promote racial superiority.

The core of Russian legal reform was and remains a change in the status of the prosecutor's office. The authors of the human rights sections of the 1993 Constitution boldly recorded that "arrest and detention are allowed only by court decision." As you know, earlier these actions were the prerogative of the prosecutor's office. Obviously, the rule of law is possible only with a strong, independent court, which really affects all stages of the criminal process.

The approval of the British lords of the cloning of human embryos is not just another step from Dolly's lamb to the homunculus. It indicates that after the hot discussion of the colorful, but practically useless prospects for humanity, the public became interested in the much more pragmatic, and therefore the attractive side of this biotechnology.

The hearing about freedom in Russia, held on Monday, held on Monday by the Committee on Culture and Education of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, found the main thing: the Russian government itself is not at all interested in the problem. She did not even send her representative to these hearings, although the Minister of Press Lesin received an official invitation from Strasbourg.

The leadership of the former deputy prime minister of the Ukrainian government, headed by the former deputy of the Fatherland Party, announced the transition to the opposition to President Leonid Kuchma. Thus, a short time of the existence of the parliamentary majority, supporting the presidential initiatives, ended. Now in the Verkhovna Rada there will be only a situational majority and the authorities will have to make exorbitant efforts in order to achieve acceptable decisions for themselves.

Lukashenko is back in Moscow. The second time in two weeks. The case, in general, is unprecedented. The official agenda looks very elegant. Alexander Grigoryevich will open the days of Belarusian culture. Will give a reception for noble foreigners accredited in Minsk and Moscow. He will visit the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, where he will be awarded "for outstanding activities to strengthen the unity of the Orthodox peoples." The Order -bearing will receive the patriarch.

The leader of the "unity" Boris Gryzlov told the press that at a meeting of members of the faction with Vladimir Putin, the issue of selling NTV shares to the American media Magnat Teda Terner was discussed. It is already interesting that the president and parliamentarians chose the topic of conversation nothing more than the relationship of two business entities, and not even real, but potential ones. But the president’s opinion transferred to Mr.

At the request of the Grani.ru, the problem of reforming the Russian prosecutor's office is commented by the former State Duma deputy Vladimir Lopatin, known for legal developments in the field of national defense and information security. Today he is a senior assistant to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, plenipotentiary representative of the Prosecutor General in the Federal Assembly, the leading researcher at the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

On January 12, the president fenced the leadership of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, not saying a word about the supervisory rights of this department at the All -Russian Congress of Prosecutor's Office. On the 19th, he made amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which deprive the investigation of the rights to searches and arrests without sanction, that is, invaluable possibilities for pre-trial pressure on persons and structures.

The intended conclusion of the main army group from Chechnya was designated as a result of the initiative of the local leadership of the republic (recently from the temporary one who has become permanent ). Akhmad Kadyrov, thus, was presented to the world as an authoritative, influential person, having his vote in the Kremlin. It follows that in Chechnya, its own independent (and not puppet, according to some media states) power.