Officials of the North Caucasian Federal District can't calculate more than one hundred thousand children, envoy of the president in the North Caucasian Federal District Alexander Hloponin declared. "Recently we studied statistic of the situation in the republics. The first thing that is evident — there are no exact data, there’s huge divergences in the quantity of orphans and children in general. I will give terrible figure. We can't find 110 thousand children. They were born, but they didn't go to school, there are no traces of them anywhere: there is no certificate of death, nothing — if they went somewhere and how they did it," — Hloponin declared at the meeting of V Public Council of the North Caucasian Federal District on Thursday in Pyatigorsk.

On Tuesday February, 19 Presidential Council on Inter-Ethnic Relations will discuss a question of development of the Declaration of the National Unity of people of Russia. The offer was made by the deputy of the State Duma from "United Russia" and a member of council Alexey Zhuravlyov. According to him, declaration has to become a social pact and consolidate the concept "Russian nation" and "multinational population". Zhuravlyov is convinced that peoples of Russia have to agree that they make one nation.

The head of the district authority of Northern Butovo Stanislav Pugachev suggested citizens to participate in snow cleaning to solve the problem of cleaning of the Moscow streets. Pugachev placed special address to the locals on portal of his region. "I have big request to you to help and support our utility services in the circumstances concerned… to come out to the yards and to help our yard keepers who really are dropping from fatigue. We wait for those who wish to spend Sunday actively, to get acquainted with interesting people, to breathe fresh air and to work in housing and communal services (even if for one day)," — the official wrote.

"Miners of “Krasny Partisan” in the city of Sverdlovsk in Lugansk region of Ukraine who on December, 24 last year captured administration building of the enterprise addressed the workers of Ukraine and the CIS countries with solidarity request. Activists of independent labor union who were organizers of protest action still keep office of the director of mine and demand reemployment of all dismissed workers participating in strikes and in trade-union activity, they also call to general protest actions against employers and authorities of Ukraine. Socialists of Kazakhstan and trade-union activists of “"Zhanarta” completely support fight of the miners of Lugansk and soon will send protest letter", reports the Socialist Resistance of Kazakhstan.

Not later than since 2015 entry into the Russian Federation for citizens of all CIS countries will be allowed only according to international passports. It was declared by Vladimir Putin when he was making annual presidential message to the Federal Assembly. The president reminded that citizens of the CIS come to Russia according to the national passports of the countries. It’s very difficult to carry out migratory counting at such system, the president of Russia considers.

The president of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed decree about additional measures for development of woodworking industry according to which workers of a number of enterprises of the branch are forbidden to leave at own will. Special contracts — without the right of early cancellation of labour contract — are specified to enter for employees of the woodworking enterprises, where the state invests own funds for re-equipment and modernization.

Meeting of the members of the Presidential Council on "Human Rights" in Russia held on in Moscow, in the Kremlin on November, 2012 the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin made public speech: “They say, we live badly … I ask a woman: What should we do? She answers – I do not know”! Silence was the answer to Putin's speech in the Council. If nobody from the present know what to do? Happy with effect made the president victoriously, slightly confused, modestly adds: “Well, someone should assume responsibility”?

The ministry of economic development offered a new forecast of development of Russia supposing serious reorganization of schemes of financing of gas and electric power industries —in the next 18 years the Russian citizens should start paying for energy more than industrial enterprises. In 2014 the price for energy for population will start growing quicker, than industrial prices do and by the end of the period the difference in price for different categories of consumers will make 70% for electricity and 30% for gas. By 2030, according to the forecast, prices for gas for the population will grow 4,6 times and for electricity — 5 times.

The governor of the Moscow region will again head the regional government. Relevant amendments into the charter and other laws of the Moscow region were adopted today by the Moscow Regional Duma. Post of the vice governor – the head of the government of the Moscow region is excluded from the list of the state posts of the region. Thus, powers of the acting governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov who will directly head now work of the government are extended.

They are going to initiate changes in names of almost all national republics of Russia in Dagestan. According to the source, close to the regional government, they consider there that subjects of federation can't carry the name of one of ethnoses. Thus, for example, Kabardino-Balkaria is suggested to be renamed into the Prielbrus Republic, Tatarstan — into the Kazan Republic and Bashkortostan — into the Ufa Republic.

It is necessary to remind how such lists were formed, there’s still no uniform understanding who can be considered political prisoner and who can’t. Why, for example, nationalists consider Hasis political prisoner, while liberals don’t consider, why names of some are very famous, while others are practically not audible? Hysteria around Pussy Riots is inflated, while those people who really suffered both tortures and inhuman conditions including in the national republics which only reminding is taboo stay in shadow?

Reorganization started by young Minister of Telecommunications of Russia has already led practically to stop of activity. Meanwhile, 30-year-old Nikolay Nikiforov wants to raise own salary to 2,5 million rubles a month. It’s almost twice and a half more than the U.S. President Barack Obama receives, the newspaper Trud notes. As edition reports, Nikolay Nikiforov sent to the government the offer on improvement of structure and size of salaries of the staff of the Ministry of Telecommunications. “The minister suggests to reduce the staff of the department more than twice and at the same time to raise average salary three times”, – “Trud” writes.

According to the confirmed information, workers of a maintenance crew of EvroTekhService, LLP which is a part of Kazakhmys Corporation, engaged in maintenance and repair of equipment on mines went to a strike. Workers demand salary increase. Management of Kazakhmys Corporation refuses to give comments.

So, Brazil, formally being a member of the WTO, roughly trampled on norms of this organization having applied measures in the spirit of Roosevelt's New course of the 1930s years. So “…the government of Brazil declared additional measures for stimulation of economic growth. In particular, tax burden for producers of more than two tens branches will be reduced. Such branches as production of meat of hens and pork, woodworking, cargo and men transportation are allocated. Decrease in taxes will come in effect since January of next year and will mean reduction of revenues by 6,5 billion dollars for the budget.

Action “Commemoration of the Water code” will take place on August, 2 on reservoirs of Moscow. Organizers — party "Yabloko" and movement “Open Coast” — intend to examine three "flashpoints" of the North-west administrative code of Moscow, protected territories: Karamyshevskaya Naberezhnaya, Serebryannyy Bor and the Shchukinsky Peninsula. The authorities of Moscow allow businessmen to build elite settlements in the “green zones” still remaining in the city. “Serebryannyy Bor” causes special fears of ecologists today: according to some data, coordinator of social movement “Open Coast” Sergey Menzheritsky told Radio Freedom that town-planning and ground commission of Moscow approved mass building in the nature sanctuary territory.

It is known that our president loves to be on about how slowly but surely he is raising Russia from knees (it’s usually held back what poses he forces it to have after that and what movements he induces it to do). During last All-Russia elections they supported position that the president wasn't liberal, he is different, he faces not "creative" but working class …

Vladimir Putin decided to address directly the victims of flood on Kuban. In the message published on the pages of "Komsomolskaya Pravda" using “simple human language” he explained people essence of the decree about help to inhabitants of the Krasnodar Territory published on the eve. The head of the state also guaranteed that Investigation Committee would carry out thorough analysis of reasons which led to the tragedy.

The parliament of Moldova officially condemned communistic mode and forbade communistic symbolic. Relevant bill was adopted at a meeting on July, 12, 53 deputies from the ruling coalition and also independent deputy Mihai Godya voted pro. Representatives of oppositional Party of Communists of the Republic of Moldova and deputies from the Party of Socialists as well as representatives of deputy group headed by Vadim Mishin (recently left the Communist Party, but remained in opposition) voted contra.

According to the Russian Federal Service of State Statistics, inflation in June made 0,9%, since the beginning of the year — 3,2%. For comparison: in June, 2011 these indicators made 0,2% and 5% accordingly. Thus prices in Moscow and St. Petersburg grow with advancing speed: June inflation in the capital made 1,2% (since the beginning of the year — 4,3%), in the city on Neva — 1,3% (since the beginning of the year — 3,7%).

Very suspicious report that Muslims are ostensibly going to fill Moscow with blood, if someone (who?) will interfere with introduction (where? in Moscow? in the country? in the world?) of Sharia courts was shown yesterday on REN-TV? This ridiculous declaration was made by certain ostensibly known lawyer, the statement was followed, of course, by rough and quite clear indignation of citizens that generated, which is quite clear, a set of anti-Muslim statements.