The stripping in the West of Chechnya in the early days of July is unprecedented in scale, cruelty and senselessness. “Our actions were tough, but necessary,” said Boris Gryzlov, Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. On July 1, on the outskirts of Sernovodsk, UAZ was blown up with the military, on July 2 in Assinovskaya - armored personnel carrier. The total number of dead is 11 people, the perpetrators were not found.

“Long live summer! It's time for vacations, holidays, travel and cottage! But even on vacation, wherever you turn on your TV, the first channel will be everywhere with you. We want to make your summer more pleasant and more fun ... The main difference between this summer is that on the First Channel there will be no “Dead Season” traditional for our television. We offer new programs, premieres of films and TV shows to the viewer.

Will the Echo of Moscow radio station remain? There is no final answer yet. But there have been accumulated many other questions that Boris Nemtsov and Evgeny Yasin answer Elena Dikun Boris Nemtsov - Boris Efimovich, do it not seem to you that the scandal around the Echo of Moscow, in which you were one of the main acting heroes, pretty much soaked your reputation? You were called the Marauder, the laundrator of the reputation of Koch, accused of receiving a bribe.

The current “eight” summit in Genoa is unlikely to be peaceful and calm. Demonstrators-antiglobalists plan performances similar to the fact that they thwarted the EU summit in Gotheborg. The Italian police are ready, and world leaders will literally feel like captives on the ship - for their own security. On all international summites, the personal relationships of their participants are more than a well -prepared agenda. Why?

Last autumn, immediately after the start of the Palestinian Intifada, the inhabitants of the Arab village Ein Yabruud crossed the highway separating them from the Jewish settlement of the OFRA, and asked for at least some work there. Knowing that the neighbors really lost their earnings due to the blockade of the "Territories", the settlers sent them to a construction site and collecting fruits.

Our disadvantaged people are not children, but adults Interviewed by Maxim GLIKIN The initiator of all these events was the public foundation “Center for the Protection of Children and Adolescents “Overcoming”.

In mid-July, we were all awaited by a fair sight-the international conference “Freedom of speech 2001”, which, as its organizers believed, was supposed to become a “tribune for expressing a variety of points of view on this problem”. Did not. Following the Union of Journalists, the Foundation for Viewing Protection, and the Member of its Organizing Committee, the Echo of Moscow radio station, refused to participate in the conference.

It is customary to evaluate the deputies of the State Duma by the quality and speed of the passage of laws. So Mikhail Kasyanov, summing up the end of the political season in the Okhotny row, very pathetically thanked the Dumans for the shock labor (“Russia has become another country”), bearing in mind that all the documents of interest to the premiere were voted quickly and correctly enough. Meanwhile, it is obvious that the folk chosen ones exist not only to correctly press the buttons.

40 years ago, among the “promising” young people he was recruited, was a student of the highest administrative school, that is, forge of the apparatus cadks, Lionel Zhopen, the current Pesitic Minister and Candidate for the Pesentic Clorus. Behind the shoulders of almost most of the Fantzuz politicians of the older generation - the fountaining Polands and Plaintra to post “Our, the new MP”, where “everyone” will become “nothing”.

Several times I took up the story of Valentina Karavaeva, but every time I did not work out. Here, it seems, everything is known about the actress born on May 21 of the 21st year and played her star, and in fact the only role in the film by Yuri Raizman “Mashenka”. But some new detail pops up, and the fact that seemed indisputable turns out to be in the fiction. And how can one with reliability write Story about a woman who even has a name - and then in question?

So far, the government has been making plans for replenishing the treasury income from privatization, enterprising ministerial officials and their protege are practically for nothing to be private owners of federal property. Something similar happened with the Moscow Hippodrome. Destructive power IDEE FIXE Two documents turned out to be at the disposal. Government officials involved in their birth would prefer that these papers never leave ministerial office.

If on the river storm, fishermen are prudently refrained from fishing. The river then swells with meter waves, and ice yellowish water beats into the shores covered with a "drunken forest." This is the name of the frail woody vegetation, the roots of which, quickly reaching eternal permafrost, spread to the sides, and the barrel is ridiculously shouting from this. It seems to be about to fall. However, it does not fall - it clings with all its might to the thin layer of the earth.

The leadership of the Central Bureau of Interpol said that it would not be ordered to search for Vladimir Gusinsky, since the criminal case against him in Russia has the nature of political persecution. Now, after a fight, it is probably hardly worth finding out why Interpol-an influential international organization-did not indicate his position earlier when the state’s advantage in its confrontation with the “media-Moscow” was not so tangible?

Students of the Belgorod University of Consumer Cooperation, who are unreasonably accused of raping a classmate (“OG”, No. 12, 2001 “The Harvest of violence”), was sentenced: 8–8.5 years and 50 thousand rubles from each. The maximum term provided for in the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is 15 years. But you do not have to rejoice that they gave less. Because for children any term for such an article means in the zone, in fact, a death sentence.

Academics of the Russian Academy of Sciences are seriously concerned about the content of school reform, which the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation intends to conduct.