Soon 40-year-old men in heavily worn uniforms will appear in military units. These are the so-called partisans - reservists, who will be called up to the banner for two months this year. The number of “partisans” is classified, however, judging by military reports, it is growing from year to year.

Today Russia celebrates one of its main national holidays - St. Valentine's Day. Today is the day to love. You're supposed to love like never before. Today is the day when love for a specific person is higher than love for the Motherland! And how did we live without Valentine? How did you love? Whom? On what days?

In fact, kidnapping is a popular business in Chechnya. It flourished even before Kadyrov, one must think that it will not disappear after. However, they say that Ramzan significantly improved this craft and abandoned the stereotypes that had developed over centuries. It used to be like this: you stole a person, received a ransom for him and walk away. If he didn’t get it, he stabbed him to death. Now they are taking him hostage to win over his relative.

The idea of ​​creating a state body to monitor the level of patriotism and its education in the younger generation was expressed by the official at a round table in the senatorial club. He was supported by the deputy chairman of the youth committee of the Federation Council, Lev Boytsov, who complained that, according to opinion polls, about 50% of young people in Russia see no reason to be proud of their country.

Around Russia About missiles, potatoes and democracy February 14, 2005 Alexander Golts If in the Russian leadership there were no person, similar to Sergey Borisovich Ivanov, his, honestly, should have been invented. For the Minister of Defense has the gift of connecting the incompatible and thus identify hidden connections. In his speech at the 41st International Security Conference in Munich, the minister decided to develop his favorite topic about the specifics of Russian democracy.

It must be said that today the entire press is literally teeming with obituaries of the “Committee 2008”. They say that the above-mentioned public organization is about to cease to exist. In general, this topic has been especially zealously discussed in recent days. The mere fact of planting provocative information cannot but rejoice: it means that the Committee has become an influential force.

With the accession of Viktor Yushchenko to the Ukrainian political Olympus, there was talk that Russian business would now pour into the fraternal republic. They say that in conditions when in Russia the relationship between the authorities and entrepreneurs is constantly deteriorating, many Russian tycoons and simply business people will want to take an active part in the development of the young Ukrainian economy.

Our more or less permanent author Viktor Shenderovich will soon be released. He asks not to be scared, but this is again memoirs: it turns out that he has something to remember in addition to the history of NTV. The book will be called “Raisins from the Book” and should be released at the Zakharov Publishing House until the end of spring. In the meantime, selected memoirs of raisins - on the electronic pages of the "Daily Journal". And not about Putin, not about Putin, not about Putin!

According to the latest study of the Levada Center sociological service, more than a quarter of Russian citizens are ready to take part in the manifestations against the current government, and more than a third was assigned to the Putin President more than a third. Well, here it happened. But more recently, the arguments of the high -clown expert community about the prospects of the Putin regime were reduced to a simple formula: they are cloudless while oil prices were beaten.

Sergei Lavrov, in the best traditions, provided the YUKOS case itself with the definition “so-called.” In Soviet times, functionaries seemed to solve the problem in this way: they said about dissidents that they were “so-called” - and allegedly turned them into simple criminals. The so-called Minister Lavrov decided to apply this stylistic method of fighting ideological enemies in the YUKOS case.

Joint exercises between the Armed Forces of Russia and China will take place this fall. According to General Anatoly Mazurkevich, who is responsible for military cooperation at the Ministry of Defense, 100 military personnel will participate in them from each side, who will have to practice anti-terrorist actions. It is curious how the participation of strategic bombers and submarines, previously promised by the Russian military department, will be included in the plan for such maneuvers.

The basis of the current power elite (I apologize to those who justifiedly consider the use of this term with flattery) are men, less often - women aged 45 to 55 years. This generation, which the peak of socialization took place in the seventies, which allows us to apply the term "seventy -earnings" to them. That period of our recent history, two fundamental trends were characteristic. First: private values ​​began to penetrate into public consciousness, the first signs of individualism.