Natalia Gevorkyan Anna Kachkaeva : The president and prime minister have been a lot in public for the last week. Their speech screen activity was predictable: a message, European trips, meetings at the top, a congress of the ruling party. How have the television images of the president and prime minister changed? What background provides them with the color of the political and managerial elite (expression of Medvedev)? How are their messages read both in meaning and on the emotional level?

Over the past year, in the United States there has been an increase in crimes committed based on hatred. Especially more frequent attacks on religious grounds and acts of violence against representatives of sex minorities. The Federal Bureau of Investigations notes that in 2008, about 7 thousand 800 crimes motivated by skin color, religion, sexual orientation, origin or disability were committed in the United States.

Dmitry Oreshkin One of the key topics at the President’s meeting with members of the Council for the promotion of the development of civil society institutions and human rights was the topic related to the actual lack of political competition in Russia. About which the members of the council drew the attention of Dmitry Medvedev to an interview with RS was told by political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin, who presented a small report to the president on this occasion.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev today will hold a meeting with members of the Council to promote the development of civil society and human rights. It is reported that the main topics of the meeting will be the fight against corruption, the situation in the judicial system and in the army. According to some reports, abuses in the work of law enforcement agencies, which the police major Alexei Dymovsky spoke in his public appeal, will also be discussed.

Patriarch Kirill, at the funeral service of the priest Daniil Sysoevav Moscow in the temple of Peter and Paul in Yasenevo, was the funeral of the priest Daniil Sysoev, who was killed on November 19. The service was broadcast to the square in front of the temple, where several thousand people gathered. A short memorial prayer - lithium - served the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill. They will bury Daniel's father in the Kuntsevsky cemetery.

Today marks three years since the death of the former employee of the Russian special services Alexander Litvinenko in the UK. He died on November 23, 2006 in London as a result of radioactive polonium poisoning. The British authorities are suspected of poisoning the Russian businessman, now the State Duma deputy Andrei Lugovoi. Russia rejected the request for the issuance of a meadow, which seriously complicated Russian-British relations.

The Italian edition of Rolling Stone magazine called the Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi "Rock star." According to the magazine, "the lifestyle that Berlusconi leads is worthy of the lifestyle of the greatest rock stars." The editor of the magazine Carlo Antonelli believes that celebrities like the genus Stuart, Brian Jones and Kita Richards at the Zenith of Glory were "schoolchildren" compared to Berlusconi.

Fans of the goalkeeper of the FRG football team Robert Enke in front of the stadium in Hanover, where the farewell ceremony with the dead took place. 45 thousand people came to say goodbye to Enke. More than four million Germans, according to official figures, suffer from depression. It struck representatives of different ages, professions and social groups.

In Moscow today, a procession was held in memory of the priest Daniil Sysoev, killed on November 19. Several hundred people took part in it. In the temple of Peter and Paul in Yasenevo, a funeral service took place. The service was broadcast to the square in front of the temple, where about a thousand people gathered. They will bury Daniel's father in the Kuntsevsky cemetery. The abbot of the Moscow Church of the Apostle Thomas Daniil Sysoev was killed in the courtyard of the temple.

The President of Ingushetia Yunus Bek Evkurov admitted that corruption widespread in the region contributes to the activities of Islamist militants. In an interview with Reuters, the leader of Ingushetia said that, as he put it, the “bandits” give bribes to officials who know them and who are easy to bribe. Evkurov, who survived a severe wound as a result of an attempt in June, promised to more strictly punish corrupt officials.

In Cambodia, a tribunal working under the auspices of the UN Military Crimes completes this week the first process in the case of leaders of the “Red Khmer”. The trial of the former head of the notorious Tuol Sleng prison in Tuppen, where in the second half of the 1970s thousands of Cambodians and several foreign citizens were tortured in February. During the process, 67-year-old Kang Jeu, accused of crimes against humanity, said that he was forced to obey orders, fearing for his own life.

The dying Alexander Litvinenko (in the photo), according to his loved ones, believed that Vladimir Putin was involved in his poisoning. Three years after the death of Alexander Litvinenko, poisoned by Polo-210, disputes about who this death was beneficial and who could organize such a sophisticated murder continues. The relatives and friends of Alexander Litvinenko are confident that representatives of the Russian authorities are involved in his death.

The average maximum rate on ruble deposits in the 10 largest Russian banks decreased in the second decade of November to 13.76 percent per annum, the Department of Foreign and Public Relations of the Bank of Russia said.

The Government of Afghanistan considers the possibility of participating in the planned meeting of Loya-Jirgi representatives of the Taliban movement. This was stated by the press secretary of the President of the country Hamid Karzai-Hamid Elmy, noting that one of the main issues of the All-Afghan Council of Elders will be a search for possible reconciliation with the Taliban. According to Elmy, the head of state would like to collect advice to the parliamentary elections appointed in June.