The Right Cause party, a liberal project of the Kremlin created a little less than a year ago, began to experience the burden of internal contradictions almost from the first months of its existence. Perhaps this is partly due to the history of the party, which was born from the merger of the Union of Right Forces, Civil Force and the Democratic Party of Russia. The seed of the conflict is probably embedded in the institution of co-chairs, which all other Russian parties have abandoned.

The Prime Minister promises investors to reduce government intervention in the economy Yesterday, the international investment forum “Russia Calling”, organized by VTB Capital, opened in Moscow. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Kudrin, and First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Alexey Ulyukaev spoke at the plenary session of the first day.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, a religious sect was considered an anti-government organization Experts from Nizhny Novgorod State Linguistic University (NSLU) named after. N.I. Dobrolyubova recently published a linguistic examination of literature distributed by the religious organization Jehovah's Witnesses. The result of the work of linguists may be a ban on the activities of the sect in the region.

Nuclear energy has a chance in Germany The results of Sunday's parliamentary elections in Germany could fundamentally change current domestic energy policy. The country's large energy concerns openly express their satisfaction with the prospect of forming a coalition government from the CDU/CSU bloc and the Free Democratic Party, which will be headed by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel.

IBM Vice President Inna Kuznetsova, who previously served as the company's director of Linux strategy, took up her duties a week ago. Ms. KUZNETSOVA agreed to give her first interview in her new status to our correspondent. -What is your position called now? -- My new position is called vice president of marketing and sales support for IBM system software.

Scientists insist on census as an anti-crisis measure The postponement of the planned All-Russian population census may be caused not only by economic difficulties, but also by political concerns.

Most Russians are confident that Medvedev is following Putin's course Levada Center conducted another survey on the attitude of Russians to the government’s anti-crisis measures, at the same time measuring the approval rating of the activities of the president and prime minister, and also asking the routine question of who holds the real power in the country.

Tomorrow the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will discuss the issue of suspending Russian powers in this organization. Georgia is seeking this with the support of European parliamentarians who sympathize with it - they accuse Russia of failure to comply with previous PACE resolutions calling on Moscow to revoke the recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

North Korea upgrades leader's status North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 67, has become the country's "supreme leader." This role is assigned to him in the updated constitution of the DPRK, which has found itself in the center of attention of the world media these days. Previously, the North Korean leader enjoyed the status of “respected leader”, not enshrined in the constitution, and held the official post of chairman of the State Defense Committee (GKO).

First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Alexey Ulyukaev (pictured) said yesterday that the regulator wants to maintain some of the anti-crisis measures for another year, and made it clear that it will not directly limit banks’ deposit rates, but will engage in “mainly verbal interventions.” Thus, the Central Bank admitted that it would not bring the ratio of deposit and loan rates to international standards using administrative methods.

New project of the Tretyakov Gallery as part of the III Moscow Biennale Many creators turned to children's themes. Victor Pivovarov and Ilya Kabakov, in addition to their conceptualist studies, were excellent illustrators of children's books. Chukovsky, on the advice of Gorky, began to write for children. Daniil Kharms was known for a long time exclusively as a children's poet, despite the fact that sad circumstances brought him into children's literature.

Army basketball players will not participate in the Euroleague President of the Russian Basketball Federation (RBF) Sergei Chernov said that the CSKA women's basketball club will not take part in the Russian Championship and the Euroleague of the 2009/10 season, despite the fact that the team got a new sponsor last week.

Russia wants to reduce Internet dependence on the US ICANN (its name, pronounced I Can - “I can” in English) is the main regulator of the international Internet domain name market.

The Champions League favorite happily takes the draw away from Kazan Rubin Kazan scored their first points in the Champions League. But Kurban Berdyev and his team were not at all happy about the generally honorable draw with the Italian champion Inter - 1:1. Yesterday Rubin was worthy of victory. The Champions League came to Kazan with a scandal. On Friday, before the Russian Championship match with Amkar, Kazan police detained about 70 Rubin fans.

Russia and the US could become partners in a new arms race Despite the fact that Barack Obama announced his refusal to create an Eastern European missile defense basin, the Americans, as is known, do not at all refuse to create a missile defense system as such. It just can be placed on ships that will surround Eurasia. Russian political scientists believe that the development of missile defense will inevitably cause the proliferation of nuclear weapons.