After postponed, so as not to annoy the voters on the eve of the parliamentary and presidential elections, the January increase in prices for housing and communal services, the wave of communal “happiness” covered the citizens of the Russian Federation and the Ulyanovsk region among them in July-September 2012. Moreover, the numbers of the maximum indexation of tariffs, determined by the federal tariff service at 12-15 %% of the tariff growth, were everywhere blocked.

The State Duma allowed school administrations to open prayer rooms at the request of parents and students. The Russian Orthodox Church, represented by the head of the legal service of the Moscow Patriarchate, nun Ksenia, approved the initiative. Okay, the church is separate from the school, and the hierarchy may not know its peculiarities. But deputies?! How do they imagine the functioning of school prayer rooms?

State Duma deputy from the United Russia faction Ilya Kostunov, who in an interview with our publication said that the dumbest deputy is smarter than the average citizen, now refuses responsibility for his words and accuses our publication of dishonesty. Mr. Kostunov claims that if the interview had been agreed upon, he would have removed “some phrases” from it. Following logic, the best defense is an attack. I want to make some clarifications about this.

The head of the Russian government, Dmitry Medvedev, spoke to Finnish media about the health of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his relationship with him. Medvedev assured representatives of the Finnish media that Vladimir Putin is “alive and well” and has no serious injuries, Interfax reports.

Photo: Reuters The Israeli army fired at a car in the Gaza Strip in which the leader of the Hamas militant wing, Ahmad al-Jabari, was. As a result of the shelling, Jabari was killed, the BBC reports . The Israeli army said the killing of Jabari is the beginning of a broad operation against extremist groups in the Gaza Strip, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

It turns out that things in Russia are not as bad as they say. According to the latest research, poverty is on the decline. “Goodbye poverty!” A study by the Russian Center for Strategic Research and the Center for Social Policy was published under this title. According to the study, in recent years the socio-economic situation in Russia has changed for the better. A middle class has emerged in the country and the poor have disappeared, reports rus.ruvr.ru.

Hello! Thanks everyone for your support. Although the best support has already been provided - your reposts, active participation in the discussion and development of the topic. Anya outlined the main outline , I will add more. On November 3, the Internet actually went down. The provider company reported that everything was in order on their part. On November 4 and 5, I called the company’s technicians.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Prayer rooms may appear in Russian schools following the consideration in the State Duma of amendments to Article 16 of the law “On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations” and the bill “On Education”. The idea to equip schools with rooms for prayer belongs to the head of the legal service of the Moscow Patriarchate, nun Ksenia (Chernega).

End. Start here . Before you fulfill your promise and tell us - what is it like for them, in the countries of “decaying capitalism”? - a little more Russian reality.

A town hall meeting was held to discuss tax increases for next year. I am glad that the mayor's office refused to submit to the meeting the initial project to increase the land tax for gardeners. In the proposed project, which was submitted to the budget commission, the increase was “hidden” behind the words “0.4 replaced by 0.8,” which meant an increase in the tax on summer cottages by 2 times (for a standard plot of 6 acres from 240 to 480 rubles).

The police of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra are conducting an investigation into the conflict in the Malinovka restaurant in the city of Yugorsk, the initiator of which is called the head of the Sovetsky district of the city, Sergei Udintsev. The incident occurred during the birthday celebration of Sergei Udintsev’s daughter, a source in the district’s law enforcement agencies told Interfax. “On November 11, a panic button went off in the Malinovka restaurant.

Attention! Only for persons over 18 years of age. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who signed a decree on the updated composition of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, said at a meeting with new and old members of the HRC that he expects constructive proposals from the advisory body.

Editor-in-Chief of the PublicPost website Nargiz Asadova I don’t understand for what purpose you published your “Response to Deputy Kostunov,” since I have never accused your publication of dishonesty, despite factual errors in previous publications, and I do not refuse responsibility for my words in the last interview. But, nevertheless, I will give some explanations.

To begin with, a quote: “In the Constitution of the Russian Federation, every person has the right to freedom of receiving and disseminating information. A similar right is declared in the Law on Mass Media. Alas, today in most of Russian territory a war is unfolding against one of the most important means of disseminating information...” What a horror! What is so terrible we are talking about here (gathered on the website of the Altapress publishing house)?

Photo: Ekaterina Savina/Publicpost Breast cancer patient Irina Usova from Krasnogorsk survived eight courses of chemotherapy and radiation. Now her life depends on the drug Herceptin, which she is entitled to by law. But it is impossible to get the medicine - it simply isn’t there, and Irina doesn’t even have anything to sell in order to find the 1 million 600 thousand rubles needed to buy Herceptin. Almost all patients in the Moscow region face a shortage of vital drugs.