State security costs money. Indisputable. The question is - which? Lubyanka financiers answer this question very definitely: in 2002, the FSB should receive 17 billion 914 million 100 thousand rubles. The government cut this amount by almost 3.5 billion. The Duma, having adopted the bill in the first reading on the federal budget-2002, as it were, agreed with these parameters. Which was outraged by Lubyanka.

It is possible that the appellate court miscalculated when, much to the delight of Microsoft's lawyers , it insisted on the removal of Judge Jackson from the case. It is likely that he did not fully comply with the formal requirements for the procedure for the consideration of the case , for the development of measures of punishment for the defendant and for interaction with the environment during the process. Well, yes, he talked a lot with journalists.

In the immediate environment of the president, the planned plans for moving the main blocks of the presidential administration - political, territorial, legal, control and personnel - to the apparatus of the State Council were resuscitated. No matter how exotic this project is, but still the authors can be understood. On the one hand, the most pleasant would be the authority, this GS. The head is the president. Regional leaders included in the State Council are rotated.

While dozens of "terrorist" bank accounts have already been discovered and frozen in Europe and the US, Asian financial cops have had zero results so far. It's not because bin Laden's and his associates' money doesn't move around in Asia; on the contrary, there is every reason to believe that it is here that the main financial flows circulate, feeding the extremist groups in the area of ​​​​action (Philippines, Indonesia, Lebanon, etc.).

Mohammad Zahir Shah. Photo AP While the United States is preparing a military action in Afghanistan, it's time to think: what is the optimal scenario of the peace of this country, by guidance in it such a procedure that it ceases to be a landfill for growing terrorists and a source of heroin for the whole world. The Americans are now overwhelming the former king of Afghanistan Zahir Shah, overthrown from the throne in 1973.