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?

On November 11th in Rybinsk, in the Perebory microdistrict, a rally was held against discrimination against Russian culture by the management of the Mirovoy store. In the Mirovoy store, the radio stations Lavradio and Europe Plus are constantly playing, which deliberately discriminate against Russian music, playing absolute American stuff. In addition, these two radio stations promote vulgarity and debauchery, inviting listeners to call and tell their intimate stories out loud.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Photo: ITAR-TASS After our publication about how a unique children’s playground was going to be demolished in the Kuntsevo district, former Minister of Labor and Social Development Alexander Pochinok contacted us. Pochinok became interested in the story and did a little research.

Photo: publicpost Street art continues to capture the streets of Russian cities. For independent artists and art activists, street art has become a new effective way to express. In St. Petersburg, from November 13 to December 14, Publicpost holds the Street Voice Street Festival, at which more than 30 independent artists from all over Russia show their work, talk about the ideology of street art and conduct master classes on drawing graffiti, manufacturing art objects and conducting flash mobs.

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.

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).

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).

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.

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.