Politics
No one, except Alexander Prokhanov, believes that Andrei Bogdanov can win the presidential election of 2 March. Annoyed with the refusal by his idol Vladimir Putin to run for the third term, Prokhanov, who is the editor-in-chief of the...
Saratov region’s financial reserve provided by the regional budget for breakdown elimination and restoration after disasters, turned out to be smallest in Russia. Due to that fact, the region was included in the black list by emergency...
It has been decided, with the order by Vladimir Putin, to hold military parades on 9 of May on the Red Square starting from this year. It is planned to be done like it was in soviet time – the parade with participation of the heavy...
On Tuesday the Presidential contender Dmitry Medvedev told us how he sees Russia, speaking at the 2nd Civil Forum. The first impression is that it is the confirmed democrat who is going to come to power. We have made a table of discrepancy...
A week before the New Year an explosion in a gas filling station in Voronezh damaged the roof. The operator got seriously burnt. Emergence agency said they had got off cheap. 2 January a tank trunk got exploded near another petrol station;...
Breaking down in electrical supply, switching off the heating, explosions of town gas… Russia to have a series of anthropogenic disasters due to fatigue of metal. And due to fatigue of the state. Governor Alexander Khloponin expressed his...
Society
Office note Dear Dmitry Andreevich, 18 January I got a letter from you where you requested my coming to Moscow in relation to receiving the annual Award by the Russian Journalist Union. As pointed in your letter, the awarding ceremony is...
Tuesday 22 January the appeal by the lawyers of the ex-vice President of YUKOS Vasily Aleksanyan was considered at a closed hearing by the Supreme Court. This was a repeated petition for release of Mr. Aleksanyan in view of his incurable...
On Monday Minsk was seized with another wave of entrepreneur’s protest. Two thousand of people went out to the Oktyabrskaya square to require abolition of the Presidential decree #760 putting a ban on using hired labor by individual...
On Tuesday Tverskoi Court of Moscow has confirmed it to be lawful putting the head of Educated Media Fund (legal successor of Internews) Manana Aslamazyan on the wanting list. A day before that, the Investigative Committee at MVD refused...
Mikhail Khodorkovsky: “He’s just afraid of competition”
When Putin says that he “never does his friends in,” this is because he is afraid to get on the wrong side of the siloviki who are close to him. From the correspondence between the editors and Mikhail Khodorkovsky, inmate of Correctional Facility 7 of the Federal Penitentiary Service Directorate for the Republic of Karelia, the city of Segezha
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