Russia will continue to buy weapons abroad. But the new combat control system - like the Americans - will be developed at home and by the fall Last week, the presidents of Russia and France confirmed that negotiations were underway to acquire the French Mistral helicopter carriers. But the Russian army is not going to be limited to them.

Pressure on human rights activists in Russia is growing: investigators, tax officials and convicted people with batons are working with them Novorossiysk human rights activist Vadim Karastelev received seven days of arrest for distributing leaflets calling for a rally in support of Major Alexei Dymovsky, who by that time was already in jail. The rally was supposed to take place right under the windows of the mansion where the head of the city police, Vladimir Chernositov, lives.

Until recently, a conservative revolution in Britain seemed inevitable. But the young Tory leader has not yet succeeded in becoming a second Tony Blair. In 2006, when the current Conservative leader David Cameron's star had just risen, a video was released on BBC Two - a cut from the speeches of Cameron himself and Tony Blair of the 1997 model, when Blair returned Labor to power after an 18-year break. Here Blair is talking to children, riding a bicycle and shaking her tightly clenched fists.

In these regional elections, "United Russia" is obliged to receive no less than in the elections in October. Have to fuss On March 14, Putin and Medvedev will go to the polls together for the first time - and possibly the last time. Both are running for deputies of the municipal assembly of the village of Krasnoobsk, Novosibirsk Region, and on the list of the Liberal Democratic Party.

Several films are released at once, which rethink the events of the new history. These examples can be useful to Russian cinema on the eve of the anniversary of the Victory Films about not very long history are a way to say out loud what is unpleasant or still painful to say. An attempt to bring history closer, to feel it in one's own skin, and then how lucky - perhaps to get rid of the collective trauma caused by war or repression, perhaps to create new stereotypes for new school textbooks.

The US and the EU believe that human rights in Uzbekistan have improved. But no one noticed this inside Uzbekistan Photographer Umida Akhmedova insulted and slandered the Uzbek people. So on February 10, the Tashkent court ruled, which found the journalist guilty and immediately released her under an amnesty. According to the Uzbek authorities, the slander was a photo album and a documentary made with the support of the Swiss embassy.

The mayor of Smolensk, who unexpectedly defeated the United Russia candidate a year ago, did not sit in his post Everyone who managed to visit the office of the mayor of Smolensk, Eduard Kachanovsky, before he was arrested, saw a picture with a polar bear on the wall. And a year ago, in the office of his Remontika building materials store, a bearskin lay on the floor.