Despite the obvious achievements in political correctness, the Western world entering the 21st century is forced to admit: racism and chauvinism are not able to overcome. Both the poor immigrant in Germany and the successful senator in the United States cannot be sure that the “alien blood” current in their veins will not be a reason for physical reprisal. On both sides of the Atlantic, the activity of “brown” causes acute concern of the ruling elite.

The reorganization of the institutions of state power began - and the problem of changing our constitution again became relevant again. Moreover, today the initiative is already emerging not only and not so much from the opposition as from representatives of the authorities, and this makes the prospect of a new constitutional reform quite real. Moreover, to rule the Basic Law, apparently, intends to intend the most simple and imminent way - by convening a constitutional assembly (CS).

Last Friday, the Security Council was held, which was supposed to determine the development of the Russian armed forces for the next fifteen years. There are no decisions of the Council of People's Commissars yet, the president has given another week for its final refinement. But it is already known that by the end of 2001 in strategic missile forces, it will become less for exactly one division and 26 launchers of heavy R-36M or SS-18 “Satan” heavy missiles, as they are called in the West.

Soon it will be five years old by the sensational case of Alexander Nikitin, accused of espionage, who spent almost a year behind bars, but fully justified in December last year. But someone still really wants Nikitin's business to become eternal. In a country where arbitrariness was always higher than the right, in the name of the purity of their clothes, Themis is ready to close his eyes to everything, including the law.

Photo by REUTERS In the photo: Kursk commander Gennady Lyachin Victor LITOVKIN Based on the results of combat training, the Kursk was considered the best in our Navy. Its commander, Captain 1st Rank Gennady Lyachin, is one of the most promising officers in the fleet. He recently returned from a successful long-distance voyage to the Mediterranean Sea, where he “worked” in the area of ​​​​responsibility of NATO ships, which were never able to detect and find him.

Alexei German makes a movie that in itself is a topic for many guesses, assumptions and predictions. Alexey German makes another movie. He left the era he had chosen once and for all, leaving Lapshin, Lopatin and Khrustalev far in the future in the future, and went in other times, to other worlds, to other planets. Herman takes off the Strugatsky - "it's hard to be a god." Once he was already trying to make this movie and even wrote a script.

Zurab Kekelidze, Deputy Director of the State Scientific Center of Social and Judicial Psychiatry named after Serbian, led the provision of psychological assistance to the victims and eyewitnesses of last year's explosions in Moscow and the attack in the underput on Pushkinskaya Square. Today we are talking with him about the nature of Russian terrorism and its consequences for the mental health of Russians.

To suspect me in an attempt to penetrate the mysterious clan of political scientists or, which is cleaner, political strategists (sorry, Lord!) It is difficult. He never sinned by the prediction of the future in a country where the present is difficult to comprehend. Therefore, I notice - I do not have written and not a plan. This is a simple scheme that crawled out itself, like a nightmare, devoid of a literary delight. Damn with him. This is not the point. Fantasy is a social thing.

The deputy head of the apparatus of the Government of the Russian Federation Alexei Volin, one might say, twice entered the same water. In 1998, he was responsible for the information support of the Kiriyenko government, today is working on the image of the Kasyanov government. - Alexey Konstantinovich, the first cabinet of the ministers that you worked for, did not live six months. You probably carried out "work on mistakes" so as not to repeat that experience?

A man who accidentally went on Friday evening at the Schwein club in Lefortovo Lane would have thought that everyone else came here, too, by chance. And just the same do not understand where they were brought. The OG correspondent, which was accredited by the party event, was confused by the first poster in the eye: “Lychakov is the president. Anarchy is a mother of order! " It is strange, what kind of anarchists can the president have?

More than a year passed since the beginning of the Second Chechen War. Which of the declared goals of the "anti -terrorism operation" are performed? The “main terrorists” are captured and publicly convicted? Available gangs? Refugees returned from the camps? The Russian and Chechen youths stopped killing each other? Restored at least one house in Grozny? Have peace and peace reigned on Chechen land? Where is the goal for which so much blood is shed?

Under Semipalatinski, the last mine for nuclear tests was destroyed. The half -century history of this landfill seems to end. But she is alive in the fate of all involved in the nuclear program. Under Semipalatinski, the last mine for nuclear tests was destroyed. The half -century history of this landfill seems to end. But she is alive in the fate of all involved in the nuclear program. Recalls Alexander Vyukov, Doctor of Military Sciences.

It is worth climbing by a helicopter over Nizhnevartovsk and its environs - you will see hundreds and thousands of hectares of land, 80 percent of water protection areas covered with huge black bald spots, rosy glossy forests and countless brown towers, strongly brushing from a height to camp, guard.

Last week, Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin officially submitted to the general public the parameters of the federal budget project for 2001. The project was discussed by the government, and now it has to go through the parliamentary "purgatory". Meanwhile, in its current form, the main financial document of the country of the next year contains a number of innovations that can influence the economy of Russia as a whole and its citizens in particular.

The ideas have opponents who believe that nothing from the nuclear industry can be state, that all nuclear power should be regulated only by the state. Supporters of the atomoprom rest that the atomic market exists and Russia may not be the last participant in it. Therefore, it is necessary to show activity, especially since the first successes already exist.