Nezavisimaya the article features the continuing conflict between the Prosecutor General's Office and

Mikhail Remezov, Director of the Strategy-2020 Fund, stated on Thursday the elite was interested in preserving the present situation in power. In Nezavisimaya interview he expressed his confidence the most rational outcome of the future campaign was the election of President Dmitry Medvedev for the second presidential term. Vladimir Putin is continuing to meet with the leaders of the parliamentary factions getting prepared for his accounting report in the State Duma. On Wednesday evening he met with KPRF leader Gennady Zyuganov and his assistant Ivan Melnikov. Nezavisimaya examines the issues they discussed. Nezavisimaya article features the continuing conflict between the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee of Russia, and even the president's interference has not helped resolve it.
Sergei Chenchik, chief of North Caucasus Main Board of the Interior Ministry of Russia reported on Thursday that money coming from abroad is much less than that received by gang formations from business structures on the territory where they live. Nezavisimaya says. A new stage of Ukrainian - Russian gas negotiations at the level of deputy prime ministers Andrei Klyuev and Igor Sechin will begin next week. But the heads of their gvt stated that the sides have different plans and mutually - excluding stands. Nezavisimaya Gazeta English says.
The Orthodox Church is sick and tired of refuting the mass media's accusations the bishops and even the patriarch use the objects of luxury. Therefore, the church has decided to justify these cases of ostentatious wealth. Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, who was delegated the task of creating a favourable image of Moscow patriarchate in the eyes of the society has stated this week that the clergymen have the right to demonstrate their possession of posh expensive things. Nezavisimaia gazeta editorial comments on Chaplin's statement. In Nezavisimaya interview Vladimir Tikhomirov, research head at the Moscow State University of Economics, Statistics and Information Technologies, reveals the essence of smart education, saying that the point in view is not so much as the technologies of education as a new philosophy of education.