Listeners listen to the message. Photo NTV.ru In the end, how to curse over the text, which has a dozen of only the main authors. As predicted by the border.ru, this is not a description of the "Russia-XXI project".

Photo NTV.ru The ideas of creating a private investigative committee (SK) and the military police (VP) were not born today. Already in 1990, the Supreme Council of the RSFSR was ready to legitimize such a committee. It was supposed to concentrate the investigation in the hands of one central organ, leaving operational -search measures for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Prosecutor General - the functions of supervision. The bill on the military police appeared later - in 1996.

Press conference of new NTV leaders. Left below - the new NTV logo Evgenia Kiselev, who arrived at noon on April 3 to the Gazprom building, did not miss the guard immediately. But he nevertheless broke through - and handed the adopted decree of the Frunze District Court of the city of Saratov on the eve of the gathered on the eve, in which he forbade the holding of any meetings of NTV shareholders.

Vladimir Putin outlined his ideal of the Russian State. In the president's message to the Federal Assembly, the words "law", "order", "state" and "work" sounded more often than others. At the same time, Vladimir Vladimirovich, as usual, tried to please everyone: entrepreneurs and students, chairmen of collective farms and housewives.

NTV journalists answer questions from colleagues in Ostankin on April 3, 2001. Photo NTV.ru We no longer have a single independent national television channel. All three available are now under state control. These are the formal results of the meeting of the NTV shareholders and the meetings of the board of directors chosen on it. In NTV, these events are called illegal and they are not recognized as results. However, this does not matter.

It's funny: the day of the widely announced state privatization of NTV coincided with Putin's historic speech before the Federal Assembly. For the Russian authorities - a double holiday. Rejoicing in a square, in a square a target: freedom. We won't interfere. Let's think. What will it be - Russia without NTV? It will be a country created for happiness.