“Residents of Ulyanovsk can accept congratulations! The most expensive art prize in the world, the Plastov Prize for Realistic Art, started right here,” writes Konstantin Khashchenko. “Now the opening of the Plastov year is underway in London. Beautiful, expensive. An official reason to spend hundreds of thousands in the fashionable areas of the capital of Great Britain. In addition to members of the government, local businessmen with their wives willingly went there. They have NO relation to culture. About what other articles expenses, money borrowed, they are silent. And for the residents there is not a penny of cultural benefit from this, not a single event was done for them.”
Evgeniy Berkovich talks about alcohol wars in Kabardino-Balkaria: “The alcohol war between representatives-wholesalers from alcohol companies in Khakassia and representatives of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic has reached its climax. Both want to sell counterfeit alcohol, which, in fact, is what is happening... "
One of the richest deputies of the Chelyabinsk region asked Internet users to chip in for a gift for a child with cancer: “A team of teachers from school No. 2 in the village of Breda approached me with a request to provide financial assistance to ten-year-old Dasha... My dear compatriots, let's help this family! good and decent people!" This is what it is, charity like a deputy.
Residents of the Volgograd region saw Nazi propaganda in the German group Rammstein. “It’s a strange “logic”, of course... As far as I know, the group members were not members of the NSDAP and have nothing to do with the Reich at all - because they were born 15-20 years after the defeat of Hitler,” says Boris Stikhin. “While the “public” is busy with mythical “fascism” and attempts to force the Germans to repent for Adik, in our country, in the minds of our teenagers, par excellence, brown flowers are growing wildly...”
In Latvia there is an irreconcilable struggle between two ethnic groups, two cultures - Latvians and Russians. “The former are stubbornly building a Latvian Latvia, selflessly resisting the “hand of Moscow”, successfully integrating into Western civilization... The latter courageously defend their native language and culture, wisely make friends with their big “Eastern neighbor” and harshly suppress attempts to rewrite history.” And what ordinary people, outside observers, think about this, read in Yuri Vyacheslavovich’s blog.
“The tragedy is that the question is almost never heard on broadcasts, blogs, or on newspaper pages: why, in fact, do judges need their own hospitals? Is it scary for them to treat with us? It’s a waste?” Anastasia Mironova from St. Petersburg shares her thoughts on the story of the 31st hospital : “They have their own traffic lanes, their own restaurants, their own grocery stores, their own pharmacies, their own hospitals... But for some reason people don’t often remember, according to What right do these gentlemen not even show that they have organized human life for us?”