You should not count on fundamental changes in the work of the Moscow City Duma Since the last elections, the legislation has changed and the barrier for parties has been reduced from 10% to 7%. This innovation could dilute the Moscow City Duma more with oppositionists, if not for another amendment proposed by Yuri Luzhkov: the ratio of single-mandate members and deputies elected on party lists has been changed. The first instead of 15 became 17, the second - 18 instead of 20.

At the suggestion of "United Russia" Saratov was covered by a wave of anti-Semitism The sidelines of the serfs are crackling. The squabble between United Russia Secretary General Vyacheslav Volodin and businessman Leonid Feitlicher had the side effect of flourishing anti-Semitism in Saratov.

Presidential campaign starts in Ukraine Walking apart. On October 19, the presidential election campaign officially starts in Ukraine. According to experts, the “Russian factor” will no longer play the same fateful role in the elections. But it is too early to write it off - for all participants in the campaign it will remain the touchstone on which their political independence, on the one hand, and their ability to negotiate, on the other, will be tested.

On October 7, at exactly 16.03 - at the very minute when the first shot was fired in the elevator of entrance No. 2 of building No. 8 on Lesnaya Street in Moscow three years ago, hundreds of people on Chistoprudny Boulevard froze in a moment of silence. In the crowd stood Anna Politkovskaya's children, politicians, colleagues: they held in their hands portraits of those journalists and human rights activists who were killed before Anya and who were killed after.

On October 7, at exactly 16.03 - at the very minute when the first shot was fired in the elevator of entrance No. 2 of building No. 8 on Lesnaya Street in Moscow three years ago, hundreds of people on Chistoprudny Boulevard froze in a moment of silence. In the crowd stood Anna Politkovskaya's children, politicians, colleagues: they held in their hands portraits of those journalists and human rights activists who were killed before Anya and who were killed after.

In September, a wave of dystopias hit the movie screens. Dystopia is when we are talking about a future that is totalitarian through and through. The classic example is George Orwell's 1984, the shocking relevance of which The New Times recently spoke about. Cinema has its own dystopian classics, from the silent Metropolis to The Truman Show, The Matrix, Terminators, etc. So that's about the new on the screen. Two thrillers in the cyberpunk genre were released - "Gamer" and "Surrogates".