All kinds of movements and parties in parties and party associations, marked in the last few months, indicate that the process of elections to the State Duma of Russia of the 2007 convocation began. From my point of view, nothing good from these elections can be expected. No, of course, is not about the election process itself, although it raises many questions and doubts, but about the composition of the deputy corps that will be elected and will take a place in the Russian parliament in 2007.

More than 1.1 thousand people take part in a business saammy, which opened on Friday as part of the APEC forum in Hanoi. Among them are the leaders of the leading corporations of the Asia-Pacific region and the world as a whole, representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Chamber of the APEC. In particular, the meeting is attended by the heads of Microsoft, Intel, General Motors, Citigroup, Toyota, DHL, HSBC, Sinopec, Qualcomm.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow issued the arrest of the director of the compulsory medical insurance fund Andrei Taranov. The Federal Fund for Compulsory Medical Insurance (MHIF) has not yet commented on a message about the detention of his leaders - director Andrei Taranov and his deputy Andrei Usenko - on suspicion of bribery, held in a number of media.

The state of the current political science in our country, in general, is not subjected to special criticism in the press and in scientific publications.

It turns out that the devouring of fast food can cause a surge of political feeling, accompanied by uncertainty in its own identity. And it was so. There are such kiosks in the subway, in which Burrito, hot dogs, hamburgers and other skiing were used to be sold. The main thing in her was that she was not lended at the generic definitions and, therefore, does not in any way into our local language picture of the world.

Russia completed bilateral negotiations on the WTO Alexander Leonidov Russia and Sri Lanka signed a bilateral protocol in Colombo on the completion of negotiations on the accession of the Russian Federation to the World Trade Organization (WTO). On Friday, the signature under the protocol was set by the Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation German Gref and the Minister of Trade Sri Lanka Jayaraj Fernandopullah.

Elena Bashkirova: "It was a person of outstanding personal qualities - independent, fundamental, bold" In Memoriam Elena Bashkirova This is a huge loss of both the professional community and for the whole country. Yuri Levada was an outstanding scientist who has a lot - more than anyone - made for domestic sociological science. He was a pioneer, one of those people who created a VTsIOM.

The speaker of the lower house of the US Congress became a woman Alisa Borisova The speaker of the House of Representatives of the US Congress was officially approved by the leader of the Democratic faction Nancy Pelosi. She became the first woman who occupied the third most important political post in the state. Pelosi will officially take office in January 2007, when the Congress first gathers in a new composition. Based on materials from ITAR-TASS 11/17/06 12:35 RBHRMSRE Print

Alexander Oslon: "The death of Yuri Levada is a very severe loss" In Memoriam Alexander Oslon The death of Yuri Levada is a very severe loss. Not only for sociology, but for the whole society. There are such people - they conquer the focus of public attention. These are very rare personalities. It also rarely happens that someone's authority and reputation be absolutely indisputable. This is exactly what applies to Yuri Levada.

The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading a law that cancel the threshold of voter turnout to recognize elections or referendums. Corresponding amendments will be made to the law "On Basic Guarantees of Electoral Rights and the Right to Participate in the Referendum of Citizens of the Russian Federation" and the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation.

On November 16, 2006, Yuri Alexandrovich Levada died in his office for the seventy -seventh year of his life. A person whose name is inscribed in the history of world sociological science. The great scientist, whose honesty is not called into question even by his scientific opponents. Russian sociology suffered a difficult loss. Yuri Alexandrovich Levada was born on April 24, 1930 in the city of Vinnitsa (Ukraine). In 1952, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University.

Sergei Belanovsky talks about how the professional fate of Yuri Levada, a sociologist who died yesterday, November 16, 2006, took shape, from a heart attack. - On November 16, 2006, the famous Russian sociologist Yuri Alexandrovich Levada died from a heart attack. What could you say about his contribution to Russian sociology? - Yuri Alexandrovich Levada lived a long and eventful life. He was one of the first sociologists of the Soviet generation.

For the first time in the history of France, a woman receives real chances of being chosen by the president of the country. According to the results of the vote held on Thursday among more than 200 thousand members of the social party, the candidate from her at the coming year of the presidential election was elected chairman of the Poatu-Sharant, 53-year-old Ruyalen. According to official figures, more than 60% of socialists voted for it.

Igor Zadorin: "Yuri Levada devoted himself to the profession of a sociologist and gave a lot to her" In Memoriam Igor Zadorin Yuri Alexandrovich was one of the most authoritative and respected figures in the Russian sociological community. Its influence and authority were due to two factors. Firstly, Levada was one of the most ideologized sociologists, in the sense that his studies were imprinted by certain ideological views, which were, in general, quite bright and influential.

It may seem that the addition to democracy of the word "sovereign" does not contain any special meaning in itself. Say, any state, including democratic, suggests the presence of sovereignty - this is so obvious. So is it worth giving around democracy a "sovereign" garden? Is it not possible again "oil oil"?