The analytical service of VTsIOM-A publishes the results of a survey conducted in early January, in view of the approaching anniversary of the death of Lenin. The purpose of the study is to understand how modern Russians relate to Ilyich's activities. As the results of the survey showed, a third of the respondents see exclusively museum value in his ideas. However, it is interesting that the number of people with this point of view over the past 8 years has decreased by 8 percent.

At the Russian State Humanitarian University, a scandal has again risen. A temporary lull after a hasty election of a new rector (instead of forced to save the university to resign Leonid Nevzlin) was violated on January 20 at a meeting of the RETR of the RSUSU. “Polit.ru” suggested that after the election by the rector V.V. Minaeva at the university will begin to occur significant changes.

Today, the CEC has approved the procedure for random sample when checking the signature sheets of candidates for the president of Russia, ITAR-TASS reports. In accordance with it, the sample will be carried out by a working group using a random number generator. The volume of random sample of signature sheets is 600 thousand or 30% of the two million signatures necessary for registration.

Seven candidates for the president of the country are signed, a Congress of ATP is being held, Rogozin curses with Glazyev, the report “On the Treat of Putinism” is published - and other main news of this week on Polit.ru 20 years ago.

The Ministry of Economic Development is preparing a bill on the new zoning of the North and the Arctic, in accordance with which the number of territories on which the Northern Provincials pay will be reduced, tomorrow's “Independent Gazeta” writes. Now 62% of the country's area are classified as northern. The government is worried that such regions are 28, and the salary coefficients exist in 41 region.

Today's “Independent Gazeta” publishes an interview with a on vacation Prime Minister Chechnya Anatoly Popov. Yesterday, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, he said that his poisoning was intentional: “The certificate indicates:“ During the examination, the diagnosis was established: exogenous oral poisoning by unknown poison ””. Today, he is even more actively hinting at significant disagreements with the head of the republic Akhmad Kadyrov: “Do you have disagreements with Akhmad Kadyrov?

This letter is for those who are indifferent to the values ​​of freedom and democracy. For those who are not very upset about closed television channels, pocket courts and humiliated parliament, who is not particularly worried about the war in Chechnya, the strengthening of the role of special services in public life and the persecution of entrepreneurs, dissenters, who are quite satisfied with the single -party system and Soviet symbols. We turn to most Russian society.

Boris Dolgin If in the domestic politics 2004 will be largely under the sign of determining the ways of expenditure of oil money, as well as fortune -telling in the government and other bodies about the peculiarities of the second term of Vladimir Putin, then in international affairs the central issue of the year: “Will the US presidential elections be held according to the inertial scenario?” If there are no disasters of an too serious scale (like September 11-it is not necessarily on the

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya received permission from the Government of the Republic at the beginning of an operation to voluntarily surrender to the population of the Republic of weapons for a fee. The decision on this was made at a meeting of the Government of the Chechen Republic, which took place today in Grozny.

On Thursday night, President Vladimir Putin made several personnel decisions. Boris Pastukhov was released from the duties of the chairman of the State Commission, which prepared the friendship with Georgia. Work on the text of the contract is already conducting a Foreign Ministry, it is possible that it will not be completed. Also, Abdul Hakim Sultygov was dismissed from the post of special representative of the President for Human Rights in Chechnya.

The governments of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait informed the United States that they were ready to discuss the possibility of writing off part of the debts of Iraq. However, specific agreements can be reached no earlier than the power in Iraq is transferred to the sovereign of the Iraqi government, Reuters reports. Both countries did not report how many debts they were ready to write off, and abandoned any agreements on this issue with the American occupation authorities.

“Independent Gazeta” publishes today a letter from the co-founders of the “2008: Free choice” by Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Kara-Murza. The letter is addressed to the supporters of President Putin - to those who are going to vote on March 14 for him.

In the Iraqi city of Bakub, located 60 kilometers north of Baghdad, unknown people fired at the US military. As a result, three soldiers died and one was injured. This happened on Wednesday evening. Representatives of the American command confirmed this information. In addition, on the highway between the Iraqi cities of El Falluj and Er-Ramadi, an attack on the post of police was committed. Three police officers died, five people were injured. This was reported by the El Falluji police.

NASA experts reported that they lost contact with the Spirit Markout and still cannot establish what this problem is caused, Reuters reports. The head of the Spirit project Pit Tayzinger told reporters that there was a “serious anomaly” in connection with a six -wheeled rover. He said that scientists could not establish contact with Spirit within 24 hours.

In Peru, as a result of the fall of the bus in the gorge, 22 people were killed and 15 were injured. According to the Peruvian police, a car accident occurred on the border of the provinces of Apurimak and Cuzco. The bus, in which there were 45 passengers, unexpectedly lost control and fell into a gorge from a height of 500 meters, for so unidentified reasons, RIA Novosti reports.