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April 3, 2008 ¹23
Politics
Successorhood Tambourines
The newly elect Dmitry Medvedev has said a whale of the good and right things about public administration and developing our economy. If all those words were turned into sheets of paper it would be possible to cover the corridors of the presidential complex with it. And if it all were turned into bricks, it would be enough for construction another hospital within the frames of the national project for public health care.
Kyril Rogov
,
independent observer
Society
There will be no Putingrad
The inhabitants of the village of Tvorogovo to decline the honor for their location of being named after Putin
Alexei Tarasov
,
our correspondent
Politics
Ukraine To Have Not Ventured To Approach Bush
Kiev was blocked during the US President’s visit and the citizens were recommended to apprehend of snipers
Yanina Vaskovskaya
,
our correspondent, Kiev
Politics
Why Do They Complain?
Appeal to the public opinion to be the new method by the struggling law enforcement groups
Yulia Latynina
,
observer of the Novaya Gazeta
Politics
Photofit Picture of the Russian Average Citizen
Why once again the election in our country turned into an indecent formality suiting many? Where the real political struggle and competition of opinions have gone to? Where is our Russian “civil” society and any Russian society without adjectives? We tried to build up a generalized portrait of the average Russian citizen jointly with the leading sociologists from Levada Polling Center. They are Lev Gudkov, the director of the Center, Boris Dubin, the head of the social-political research department, and Alexei Levinson, the head of social-cultural research department.
Andrei Lipsky
Politics
Russian Opposition: Myths and Reality
Why Garry Kasparov does not agree with Novaya Gazeta observer Pavel Voshanov affirming that there is no opposition in Russia at the moment
In his article “Russian Opposition. A Sketch For A Political Portrait” published in Novaya Gazeta on 20 March, Pavel Voshanov reasons whether there is any Russian opposition at the time being and what its prospects might be. Unfortunately, having set about writing on the topic, the author did not notice that the opposition he was writing about has not been opposition for long. The author judges about the opposition using the obsolete terms. We are living in absolutely different political configuration now and describing it we should proceed from the answers to very simple questions like “Who is to be considered opposition in today’s Russia?”
Society
Arresting Feelings
According to the Prosecutor General’s office information, 30% of the pre-trial prisons’ inmates are placed there without weighty grounds. Yuri Chaika, the Prosecutor General, stated the other day that “About one third of the accused of minor and middle-grave crimes are taken into custody today and afterwards 70% of them get the punishment not related to incarceration. Granted are 90% of petitions for custodial placement. Why are we inoculating the imprisonment subculture to the population?”
Ilia Krieger
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