Poverty can be a vice or a source of pride. And also - a myth that helps build victorious reports about overcoming “that I don’t know what” or devastating criticism of the “anti-people power”, which has allowed the impoverishment of groups of the population no more known to critics. If there is a desire to understand politics not only and not so much as a struggle for power, but as a goal-oriented social action, one has to turn to the social sciences.

Today, Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov was transferred from his Premier cabinet, located on the fifth floor, to the third floor of the government of the government in the office, which is in this building for President Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin himself visited his office only a few times at the rest of the time, the room was empty.

** Themes of the day ** All central newspapers placed materials with comments on the “Parliamentary hour” on the eve of the State Duma, dedicated to preparations for the adoption of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . According to the media, the Olympics in Sochi will cost the state almost 570 billion rubles. Yesterday, the head of Olympstroy, S. Wintzhtok, said in the State Duma that the costs of holding the Olympics in Sochi in 2014 will exceed 314 billion rubles.

As a result of a double terrorist attack in the center of the Iraqi capital, 42 people were killed, another 120 were injured, Reuters reports with reference to a statement of security service in Baghdad. Recall that two bombs worked with an interval of several minutes tonight in the merchant district of the Carrada district. Initially, the five dead were reported.

One of the most high -profile murders of the beginning of the 90s was revealed - the famous businessman and athlete Otari Kvantrishvili, his performers and customers were identified, news agency reports with reference to the statement of the head of the department for the investigation of especially important cases of the Investigative Committee under the prosecutor's office, Irina Kirchanova. “The killer was a full -time killer of Orekhov group Alexei Kuzmin named Lesha Soldier.

Tatyana Kosinova Interest in the Memorial Complex "Copper" in the Tver region arose with me three years ago. It was necessary to draw up a certificate of him for the “Gulag Virtual Museum” , describe the collections ( “The Virtual Museum of the Gulag” -the main project of the Memorial Scientific and Information Center St. Puturburg.

The director of the kindergarten No. 83 in Bratsk as a punishment for the poisoning of more than 150 children and adult employees of the garden with Salmonellosis will pay a fine, Echo Moscow reports. According to Lyudmila Kirillova, a specialist in the Rospotrebnadzor department in the Irkutsk region, the director itself is in a hospital with poisoning, as well as 109 children and 37 adults - pupils and garden workers.

The Egyptian football club Al-Ismaili agreed to sell the Russian Spartak to the Moscow Defender of the National Egyptian national team Hani Saida, the official website of the Egyptians, which refers to RIA Novosti on Thursday. The amount of the transaction will be 1 million 200 thousand US dollars. According to the director of Al-Ismaili Ibrahim Ashura, the transaction will improve the financial situation of the club. In addition, the 27-year-old player himself agreed to play in Moscow.

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The Moscow Torpedo signed a contract with the defender of the capital Lokomotiv, Emir Spachich, the club’s official website reports. The amount of the contract is not disclosed. Spachich had already played for Torpedo, from where in 2006 he moved to Lokomotiv. Before Torpedo in Russia, he played for the Yaroslavl Shinnik.

My interest in the Mednoye memorial complex in the Tver region arose three years ago. It was necessary to compile a certificate about it for the "Virtual Museum of the Gulag" , describe the collections ( "Virtual Museum of the Gulag" is the main project of the Scientific Information Center "Memorial" St. Puturburg.

The arrested leader of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party Maxim Reznik stopped the hunger strike, news agencies report. According to the source in the party, the reference did not manage to reach the appeal of the party leader Grigory Yavlinsky with a request to stop the hunger strike. Recall that the Reznik was detained on the night of March 3 when trying to intervene in the fight of one of the participants in the rally and police.

Dear colleagues! We invite you to take part in the project " Public Lectures" Polit.ru "." On Thursday, March 13, the largest Russian folklorist, head of the Semiotics and typology of folklore of the RSUSU, editor -in -chief of the magazine "Live old man", doctor of philological sciences, professor Sergey Yuryevich Neklyudov will perform.

In the suburbs of Paris, six people brutally beat a 19-year-old Jewish teenager, reports Ekho Moskvy. The young man was held for 9 hours, beaten and insulted, accused of homosexuality, after which they wrote “dirty Jew” on his forehead. As law enforcement agencies found out, the teenager was bullied precisely on ethnic grounds. Six violators, aged 17 to 28 years, were detained and charged with “acts of violence and vandalism” and “kidnapping.” The investigation is ongoing.

As Polit.ru previously wrote, in Lithuania, signatures are being collected to organize a referendum to extend the life of the Ignalinsky nuclear power plant. Lithuania authorities plan to stop the operation of the Ignalin NPP in 2009. According to the contract for joining the EU, Lithuania undertook to stop the operation of the second (and last) unit of the nuclear power plant in 2009. The EU calculated the power unit is not safe enough. NPP gave Lithuania about 80 percent of electricity.