The Kaliningrad governor suggested that local deputies restore the “against all” column Members of the parliament of the Kaliningrad region are at a loss - they do not know what to do and who to turn to for advice. This is perhaps the first time they have found themselves in such a difficult situation. And Governor Georgy Boos put them in this piquant position.

City mayors want to influence the adoption of the federal budget On Tuesday, the first meeting of the Club of Russian Mayors who sympathize with the party in power took place in the building of the United Russia executive committee. The mayors adopted a code of honor for club members and began thinking about how to participate in the formation of the federal budget.

Instead of liquidating casinos, Moscow authorities are encouraging their consolidation Contrary to the panicky mood of the gambling industry functionaries and the loud statements of officials about the beginning of the end of the gambling business, which took place last fall , this time the gambling establishments seem to have escaped with a slight fright. Casinos in the capital will continue to operate.

70 percent of corruption cases in Russia are not against the law The Russian authorities have been talking for years about their determination to end corruption, but these words still remain empty declarations. However, as the participants of the round table held by the Center for Strategic Research (CSR) emphasized yesterday, it is impossible to destroy the corruption system without the political will of the authorities, without effective coordination of all its branches.

Russian courts summed up the results of 2006 and made conclusions Justice is inseparable from the process of formation of civil society, recognized by the president as one of the priority paths of development. This is what the Chairman of the Supreme Court (SC) Vyacheslav Lebedev said yesterday, opening the final meeting of judges of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

Sergei Mironov's party has acquired a faction in the State Duma The “Fair Russia” faction appeared in the State Duma, although a party with that name, of course, did not participate in the 2003 Duma elections, since at that time it did not yet exist even in the minds of Kremlin political strategists. Nevertheless, this event did not surprise anyone, since rumors about the imminent renaming of the Rodina faction (People's Patriotic Union) had been circulating for a long time.