Soon, residents of Moscow will be able to get to know their district policeman over the Internet, informed Deputy Head of the RF Ministry of Interior Affairs Mikhail Sukhodolsky. It is true that we are not talking here about a dating service, rather about simply how to identify a person employed in the militia police force. The photographs of the district policemen will be published on the Russian Federation Security Portal so residents would have no doubt about the identity of the person knocking on the door. In addition to photos, diagrams of the sector serviced by a given policeman, the addresses of the district offices of the militia, telephone numbers, working hours, and a list of questions which you may address to your district policeman will also be placed on the portal.

The Russian program for sending space tourists to the International Space Station now involves Iranian citizen Anousheh Ansari, who set about the running of the first space Internet diary, Space Explorer. Readers may find the first orbital recording, Hello World! in which Anousheh describes in detail her feelings from the launch of the spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. A second before the start, Anousheh remembered her husband left behind on Earth before she felt the G-force.

Once again the orthodox banner exchange network Blagochestie.ru has opened. The project exists since 2004 and it proposes the exchange of banners in formats of 468x60 and 120x240 pixels. The press centre of the Association of Orthodox Web-Designers details that about 700 orthodox websites are involved in the banner network. And they are pretty varied, too. For example, you can now download acts of worship in MP3 format. Another popular advertising network is Orthodox Russia, which is interesting because of its charity mechanisms: major resources and participants may transfer a part of their showings to increase the hits on smaller orthodox resources.

Over 60% of Russian blogs now reside in domestic-based blog-hostings, informs Yandex research. As at September 2006, there are over 1,150,000 blogs in Russian. The Big Four of popular blog hostings are Livejournal.com, Liveinternet.ru, Blogs.mail.ru, and Diary.ru. 60% of Russian bloggers are women (compared to only 46% in the USA). The average age of the Russian blogger is 21 and there are more students than graduates. Almost 80% of bloggers live in Moscow or St. Petersburg. Corporate blogs on the .ru zone are only just taking off: from the non-Internet companies in the research, corporate blogs were only noted in the Stardogs fastfood company.

Librarianship is an entire sector, with its own traditions. The Russian State Library has a duty policeman to combat vandalism. And rightly so, as there are Moscovites who avoid the cost of photocopying and prefer to rip pages from books. But as soon as information leaves its printed form and becomes electronic, no one is responsible for its fate. To ensure the mass of publications by the major newspaper Izvestiya finds itself beyond the zone of access, all that was required is to dump the website search facility. Can you imagine that the Russian State Library withdrew the binding of newspapers only because the style changed? Yet it is no problem to cater for a change in the design of a website. Even online magazines have contrived to deprive the user of access to archives. Apparently, we need a vertical power structure and Putin in for a third term to make something like the World Digital Library or Archive.org.

Пожалуй, единственным средством борьбы с "порнографией" в СМИ может стать интернет-вече как особая форма возвращения русского народа к соборности. Правда, на всемирном форуме "Диалог цивилизаций" мои западные оппоненты пытались свалить все на "проблемы развивающихся стран".