Saparmurat Niyazov died of acute heart failure on December 21. From now on, his body will rest in a family mausoleum next to the ashes of parents and two brothers. The farewell ceremony with the deceased head of state began at 9.00 local time. The open coffin with the body of Niyazov was exhibited at the Turkmenbashi Palace in Ashgabat. Tens of thousands of residents of the capital and the country came to say goodbye to their president.

"Greek Philosophy". Edited by Monica Canto-Sperber, in collaboration with Jonathan Barnes, Luc Brisson, Jacques Brunswig, Gregory Vlastos. - M.: Greco-Latin Cabinet of Yu.A. Shichalin, 2006. Translation from French. V.P. Gaidamaki and M.A. Grafova from the French edition: Philosophie grecque. - Paris: PUF, 1997.

Why did the Soviet system collapse? Nevertheless, it was normal: a huge empire, construction, ruble, communism soon, but the eighties came, and that’s all. And you have to watch a movie. Cinema always speaks and always tells the truth. And the truth of life, and the truth of art, and the truth of something else - through and art. Probably stories. Historical truth: patterns of development, change of stages, eternal return.

Turkmen gas keys If Moscow finds a common language with the new owner of the country, attempts to diversify Georgia and Ukraine supplies of energy, if they do not suffer full collapse, then they will significantly complicate.

Kudrin: In Russia, ruble devaluation is possible Alisa Borisova In the coming years, the ruble exchange rate will decrease. Such a script was not excluded by the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin. According to his forecasts, oil will be cheaper by 2010 to $ 50 per barrel. The flow of money to the country will decrease, while imports will increase. The trade balance will become negative, and the Central Bank will be forced to either sell gold and foreign exchange reserves or reduce the ruble.

Turkmen gas keys If Moscow finds a common language with the new owner of the country, attempts by Georgia and Ukraine to diversify energy supplies, if not completely collapse, will become significantly more complicated.

Ethiopian Air Force bombed the second airfield in Somalia Marina Sonina Ethiopian military aircraft struck bombing on the largest military airfield in the hands of the Somali Islamists, the Reuters agency said. Earlier on Monday, the bombardment was subjected to the Mogadisho International Airport. According to the agency, the three aircraft of the Ethiopian Air Force bombed the runway of the Badogle airfield (Baledogle), located 100 kilometers west of the capital of Somalia.

The media today is not accidentally called "fourth power." The possibilities of press, radio and television to influence the consciousness, mood, behavior of people and influence socio-political life have always been very large and continue to increase in connection with the expansion of the availability of information and the development of the Internet. Moreover, the information arises and spreads according to its spontaneous laws, sometimes acquiring an avalanche -like character.

It is worthy of surprise that in today's disputes about the present and future of Russia, the most painful problem of Russian politics is not even remembered, and not only politicians is almost not remembered. Her name is corporateuting (I prefer this word truncated in the English manner to emphasize the oligarchic and repressive beginning in corporatism).

On September 17, a referendum was held in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea on confidence in the political course of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko for the country's entry into NATO. The referendum can rather be called a political action - it was held at an unofficial level, on the initiative of the All-Crimean People's Assembly, its holding was not approved by the Supreme Council of Crimea, and instead of polling stations, people voted in tents.

Tehran considers the UN Security Council to be illegal on sanctions against Iran. This was announced to the News-Azerbaijan agency by the second secretary of the Iranian Embassy in Azerbaijan Medjid Feisollahi. "Iran refuses to fulfill the resolution of the Security Council and is not going to give any answer," said the diplomat. According to him, the resolution was adopted by forces who do not want the development of Iran and his science.

The government replaced the head of the Roszdrava Olga Ilyina The Government of the Russian Federation dismissed Vyacheslav Prokhorov from the post of head of the Federal Agency for Health and Social Development (Roszdrav) at his request. This was reported by the press service of the government. Yuri Belenkov was appointed head of Roszdrava. Based on materials from ITAR-TASS 12/25/06 10:44 RBHRMSRE Print

The workshop on the detention of the Wahhabis, which began in Cherkessk on Monday morning, entered the active phase, a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic said today. “In these minutes, the active phase began to eliminate the militants, barricaded in one of the apartments of a residential high -rise building along Lenin Street. There is a fight. The militants are responding with fire,” the source said. He added that the militants, presumably, are three.

The modern museum worker is driven by two feelings - insulting and fear. The structure of insult is more or less clear: the recent story with the Hermitage and the subjects of museum thefts subjected to it hung on all people of this profession the label of the thief, completely undeserved.

It seems that one of the important results of the internal political life of Russia in 2006 is the slow but steady decrease in electoral support for the party in power - "United Russia" and the associated formation of the socially oriented center-left party "A Just Russia".