Six months before the elections, politicians are trying to decide what ideological cocktail will lure the modern voter. Leaders of parties representing the main ideological trends in Russia explain their plans. And sociologists assess how feasible these plans are in Russian society.

In the Astrakhan region, based on the results of a prosecutor's audit, almost 100 criminal cases were initiated against traffic police officers who falsified protocols on bringing citizens to administrative responsibility.

March 6 -- April 6, 2007 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of Vremya Novostei and the Medialogia company, are ratings of the political figures most actively discussed in the Russian media.

In a snowstorm, the head coach of CSKA again remembered the “autumn-spring” system Tired of the important matches of the last round, the championship favorites allowed themselves to relax and almost let Moscow take the lead. And only Spartak, who realized at the last moment, did not become infected by Zenit, CSKA and Lokomotiv with a good-natured attitude towards their opponents. Lokomotiv lost their third match in eight days. The last two defeats to the railway workers were inflicted by Dynamo.

Many analysts and politicians argue that leftist sentiments are slowly but surely growing in Russia. At the same time, Russians themselves have difficulty distinguishing the classical right from the left and consider themselves rather centrists. And the government cannot clearly formulate its own, more or less intelligible, scale of values, the sum of which could claim to be an ideology.

The Development Bank is looking for its place in the stock market Chairman of Vnesheconombank Vladimir Dmitriev expects that the bill on the Development Bank will pass final readings in the State Duma before the summer, and the bank itself will be created in the middle of the year. He made this assumption when speaking on Friday at the XVIII Congress of the Association of Russian Banks.

Yukos assets will go to Rosneft for $10 billion At the end of last week, the headquarters of YUKOS bankruptcy manager Eduard Rebgun scheduled an auction for the sale of the Samara group of bankrupt enterprises, a network of gas stations in the European part of the country and Moscow offices. These are the last large lots during the sale of the company's Russian property.

The government refused to approve the privatization plan for 2007 At a meeting on Friday, the government sent a new plan for the privatization of federal property for 2007 for two weeks of revision.

After Saturday's match of the Russian Football Championship in Moscow "Dynamo" - "Lokomotiv", fans in the metro brutally beat a Tajik. Almost an ordinary case, nothing surprising. Unfortunately, we are already accustomed to this. You can figure out as much as you like whether it was just a hooligan prank of thugs or hooliganism motivated by interethnic hatred.

CONCERTS "In the light genre" . The symphony orchestra and soloists of the St. Petersburg Conservatory , as well as conductor Alexander Sladkovsky, perform fragments from operettas, waltzes, polkas, music from films by composers Strauss, Suppe, Lehár, Kalman, Offenbach, Khrennikov, Petrov. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall , 19.00. Easter organ music . Dmitry Bondarenko (organ) will perform music by Bach, Haydn, Messiaen, Bruns. Roman Catholic Cathedral , 20.00. "Pioneers of the Russian avant-garde" .

Russians are ready to support tougher penalties for drivers The idea of ​​increasing fines for traffic violations , proposed by the State Duma, turns out not only does not cause rejection among Russians, but, on the contrary, is supported by many motorists and pedestrians.

At the end of 2007 or early 2008, hearings on one of the most notorious corruption cases in the history of France will begin in a Paris court. Charges have been brought against 42 politicians and businessmen accused of illegal financial transactions and bribery in the sale of weapons to the Angolan government.

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FOOTBALL. April 10-11. Champions League. Quarterfinals. Return matches. April 12. UEFA Cup. Quarterfinals. Return matches . Russian Championship. Premier League. 5th round. April 13. "Kuban" - "Saturn". April 14. "Zenit" - "Dynamo", "Luch-Energia" - "Amkar", "Wings of the Soviets" - "Rostov", "Rubin" - "Moscow", "Lokomotiv" - "Khimki". April 15. "Tom" - "Spartak" (M), CSKA - "Spartak" (Nch). First division. April 10. 4th round .

Talk about gas shortages should force the government to raise gas prices Minister of Industry and Energy Viktor Khristenko admitted that there is still no final government decision on liberalizing gas prices and switching to a system of long-term contracts. There is only a regulatory decision on a 15 percent price indexation in 2007, he said at a briefing last Friday.