Half a month after the tragedy in Magnitogorsk, employees of the Ministry of Emergencies again get people from the rubble-now in the mines. Household gas explosions are a direct consequence of the failure of the reform of the housing and communal services On the morning of January 14, in the apartment on the top floor of a nine -story residential building in the city of Shakhty Rostov, an explosion of gas -air mixture occurred, four apartments on the ninth and eighth floors were destroyed.

Russia enters a new era of long-term poverty For the first time in almost five years, when a new era began in Russia as a result of the Crimean adventure and the economy was finally sacrificed to “geopolitics”, Russia is entering a year about which even the government does not say anything good. 2019 will go down in history as the year of two of the most unpopular reforms in Putin's 20 years in office: VAT increased from 18% to 20% and a creeping increase in the retirement age begins.

According to a poll by the Levada Center, 74% of Russians would support the actions of the Russian leadership in the event of a military conflict with Ukraine. The seemingly shocking readiness of three-quarters of Russians to support a hypothetical war with a “brotherly”—in the recent official terminology of the Kremlin—country, alas, has quite rational explanations.

The revival of the TRP complex in the current Russian political context is a manifestation of completely different complexes of power and the nation. And taking into account the economic situation in the country, while maintaining the current course, the “Ready for Labor and Defense” complex would rather be called “Ready for unemployment and offensive”. The idea to revive the GTO complex introduced by Stalin in 1931 on September 1 did not arise yesterday.

From an economic point of view, the war has already taken place and it is impossible to fully win back the situation One heavy defeat in the war with Ukraine, regardless of whether large-scale hostilities will be launched at all and how much foreign territory Russia chop off, we have already suffered.

Russia is trying to control a non-existent space Russia won the Olympics, but lost to Ukraine? It was easy to see from the president's face at the closing ceremony of the Sochi Games which of the two events shocked him more. The Ukrainian events, regardless of how the Russian authorities try to win back in Ukraine (in this case, exactly “on”, and not “in”), raise the question of the end of the post-Soviet space, even as a phantom empire.

Why Russia is starting a new cold war The Olympics did not stop the growing political insanity inside Russia. She even unwittingly threw firewood on the fires of the moral inquisition, which are increasingly kindled by Kremlin propagandists.

Genius and villainy. Short distance They are practically the same age. In their short lives so far, you can find a lot in common. But the worldly puzzle turned out so that a talented 15-year-old girl became the youngest champion in the history of the Winter Olympics, and a talented boy became the killer of a school geography teacher and a policeman in the capital's school No. 263. The two heroes of Russia, albeit with opposite signs, these days are two teenagers.

At first, the parliament was not a place for discussions. Now gradually the Internet, cable television, country Russia turn into such “no place” It is deeply symbolic that the leader began to close the “rain” for the question. The fact that we are observing now is the death of the last forms of feedback with the population in Russia. Even imitational.

There are thirty-four years of history between the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow and the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Perestroika and attempted coup. The death of one country and the establishment of another. The collapse of the planned economy and attempts to create a market economy. Another coup attempt. Two Caucasian wars inside Russia and one outside. The first voluntary resignation of a head of state in the history of the country.

Ukraine becomes a testing ground for the new super -profitable course of Russia The Russian government can use Ukrainian events as a political basis for radical tightening of order in Russia itself. The deputies of the United Russia faction recently unexpectedly withdrew a bill equating to the media with foreign financing to “foreign agents”. The bill was introduced in November 2012 by deputies from United Russia Evgeny Fedorov, Anton Romanov and Magomed Selimkhanov.

The inevitable near future of any Russian government, no matter what political orientation it adheres to, is the search for ways to keep the country within its current borders.

Tourist thriller with the participation of two columnists from Novaya Gazeta and Ural Airlines. It can happen to anyone I never thought that such a thing happens in nature. The Erzurum-Moscow flight was supposed to depart early in the morning on Sunday, January 5th.

It is too early to congratulate Dmitry Kiselev on his appointment, shout “Hurray” (option: “Down with”) and throw caps into the air. Before him and his Federal State Unitary Enterprise under the name "Russia Today" is a task akin to the one that the Jew solved from the joke about partisans. That Jew, whom the commander of the partisan detachment sent in the morning to distribute leaflets in enemy territory and ordered to return in the evening, returned after a couple of days.

Incidents of Sergei Neverov and Vyacheslav Lysakov: actively love the authorities and you can buy an apartment three times cheaper than the market price and land in bundles The man, whose name is Oleg Plokhoy, who will head the newly created presidential anti-corruption department, will have a hard time. The department has already said it will check income and property declarations of officials. Perhaps, hands will reach the deputies.