Vitaly Portnikov. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru Having signed the Russian national security strategy until 2020, President Dmitry Medvedev gave the Western opportunity - I would like to say to “Sovietists” - to talk about Russian foreign policy again. Maybe this is a signal to the new American President Barack Obama? Perhaps the new Russian president thus demonstrates confidence in his own strengths and the continuity of politics?

Andrey Piontkovsky. Photo dm. BORORO/Brani.ru Any, even the most successful definitions and classifications are inevitably conditional and simplify living reality. This is true for the well -known and popular dichotomy of our ruling kleptocracy ("Babel" and "Blood Party") proposed by Andrei Kolesnikov. In fact, there are more groups, and the lines of the watershed between them are mobile.

Movement logo tiger The Office of the Ministry of Justice for the Primorsky Territory on Thursday re -refused to register as a public organization a partnership of initiative citizens of Russia. According to Kommersant, officials motivated the decision by the fact that the name of the movement that organized a series of large -scale anti -government manifestations “does not correspond to the declared goals” - the construction of civil society.

Office '' SU-155 ''. Photo by RIA '' News '' On Wednesday and Thursday, employees of the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, together with investigators of the Investigative Committee at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, conducted searches in several offices of the Su-155 construction company, Vedomosti reported with reference to the official representative of the DEB.

Moscow, May 14, 2009. Detention of participants in a traditional human rights picket in Novopushkinsky Square. Photographed by Dmitry Borko. Photo report

The building of the British parliament. Photo from the site uk-hotelguide.net The Minister of Justice Shahid Malik is removed from the performance of duties due to the financial scandal in parliament, the Air Force reports. He is accused of using state funds for the purchase and maintenance of his house. According to Daily Telegraph, Malik, who has an apartment in London, spent tens of thousands of pounds on the purchase of a house in his constituency.

Burning car. Photo from the site www.lciservices.com On the morning of Friday in the north-east of Moscow, an unknown person set fire to four vehicles belonging to the department of private security, RIA Novosti reported with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The incident occurred at about 4.00 on Khovanskaya Street, where the security department is located. According to the agency, four foreign cars burned, the fire area in each machine was about one square meter.

MKAD at night. Photo from the site CultureDust.tripod.com The State Duma approved in the first reading a bill that allows the waiting lists from Moscow and St. Petersburg, the apartments not only in cities of residence, as the current legislation provides, but also in the territory of the Moscow and Leningrad regions, respectively. Amendments are proposed to make an article in the Housing Code in the 57th.

Dagestan. Photo vagrius.com The counter -terrorism operation in two districts of Dagestan has been completed, Interfax reports. The fact that the regime of a counter -terrorism operation, introduced on Wednesday along the perimeter of several settlements of the Khasavyurt and Kazbekovsky districts, was canceled, the representative of the FSB of Russia in Dagestan said.

Eurovision logo According to the results of the second semi-final of the Eurovision-2009 International Music Competition, which took place in Moscow on Thursday, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Albania, Moldova, Denmark, Estonia, Norway and Greece were reached the final, RIA Novosti reported. The list of finalists was determined during the vote of European spectators and a professional jury.

Chechnya. Photo by RIA '' News '' As a result of the explosion, two law enforcement officers were killed by the Building of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs in Grozny on Friday, another was injured, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the republic’s law enforcement agencies. The explosive device was driven by a suicide terrorist.

Riga. Photo from the site www.ini.unizh.ch The Riga Administrative District Court canceled the ban on the Riga Duma to hold the Baltic Gay-Parade in the capital of Latvia. As RIA Novosti reports, the representative of the court said this. The decision of the Duma was challenged by the public organization of sex minorities "Mosaic".

Valeria Novodvorskaya. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru Everything is not enough Bore Nemtsov - he sued his prodigal, incorrect failed subjects who sailed away from him, like bulls on the Black Sea bottom, and hid under the rocks of traditionalism and Putinism.

Arkady Dvorkovich, assistant to the President of Russia. Photo '' Independent Gazeta '' It is necessary to modernize the Russian economy “not in the long term, but in the next 5-10 years”, otherwise Russia will always be subject to fluctuations in the world situation that we have seen recently.

Sergey Lavrov and Alexander Stubb. Photo openbiz.com.ua The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, stated a protest to the Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubba in connection with the illegal export of a child from Russia by a Finnish citizen, according to the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We are talking about the export of Finn by the name of Salonen's son, a citizen of Russia.