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What are they talking about this morning
- Russia feels on itself “the bias, bias and aggressiveness of the criticism involved against it” of Western human rights activists , writes Vladimir Putin in a new election article. The seventh in a row - and the latter - the publication of a candidate dedicated to international relations, was published in the newspaper Moscow News . According to the politician, the USA and other Western countries “usurped human rights dossier” and use it in their interests with the help of Pseudo-NPO and other “agents of influence”. Touching upon relationships with China, Putin expresses the hope that the Russian economy will catch the Chinese Wind into its “sails”. Regarding the European Union, the prime minister writes that his authorities are in vain afraid of the waves of Russian migrants in case of softening the visa regime: “Our people have where to attach their strength and skills in their country.” Putin is still not going to protect these and other theses of his program with opponents.
- Special services tore off the attempt on Vladimir Putin, which terrorists prepared , reports Channel One . The bandits who planned a series of attacks immediately after the presidential election, including the attack on Putin’s motorcade, were discovered in Odessa at the beginning of the year. As one of the detainees said, the group flew to Ukraine from the United Arab Emirates through Turkey according to the instructions of the leader of the Band of Doku Umarov.
- American film academics have made their choice. Most of all, Oscars was collected by the dumb black and white artist tape: they moved to her a prize for the best film, the best actor of the first plan (Jean Dyuzhardin), the best soundtrack and costumes, as well as for the best directing. The best first -plan actress was recognized by Meryl Streep for the role of Margaret Thatcher in the film “Iron Lady”. At the presentation ceremony were not without funny episodes: for example, comedian Sasha Baron Cohen appeared at the ceremony in the image of a dictator and tried to scatter “the dust of Kim Jong Ira” on the red carpet.
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- On Sunday, the “Big White Circle” action was held in Moscow . According to various estimates, from 11,000 to 35,000 people took part in it. According to Slon's observations, the main task is to completely “close” the garden ring - the participants of the action standing on the sidewalks could not be fulfilled, although supporters of honest elections occupied most of the perimeter of the ring. The flash mob continued with festivities in honor of the "wires of the political winter" in the Revolution Square, where people who similar to football fans tried to provoke the opposition to a fight. As a result, about 10 participants in the action were detained by the police. You can get an idea of the completeness of the “circle” by people using videos removed from cars.
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- The Wikileaks website has begun publishing millions of confidential emails of the Statfor private intelligence company . According to the creators of the resource, from a hacking correspondence, you can get ideas about the “network of informants, the structure of payments, the technique of laundering payments and psychological methods” used by the company to serve the interests of its state and private customers (Bhopal's Dow Chemical Co., Lockheed Martin and others).
- “ Yandex ” develops a cloud service with the working name “Yandex.Disk” . It will allow users to store contact information and files on the Internet and get access to them from any convenient device, whether it be a computer or a mobile phone. It is assumed that the volume of such a disk will be limited by 10 gigabytes. Service prototype - Apple iCloud.
-The ex-head of “Yukos” Mikhail Khodorkovsky erupted in an article in the British The Guardian . In it, the most famous prisoner of the country writes that although the intrigue of the upcoming elections is limited to whether Putin will come out onto the second round or win the first, “real” political changes in the country are inevitable.
- The St. Petersburg Politics Foundation has commissioned ministers and heads of federal agencies, depending on the likelihood of a change after the presidential election . According to experts, the most vulnerable are the heads of the Ministry of Culture (Alexander Avdeev), the Ministry of Regional Development ( Victor Basargin ), the Ministry of Agriculture (Elena Skrynnik), the Ministry of Energy (Sergey Shmatko), Rospotrebnadzor ( Gennady Onishchenko ) and Rosmolodezh ( Vasily Yakemenko ).