Of course, Ukraine is the most similar to us, the state closest to us. Even closer than Belarusia, since what is happening (produced by the "Old Man") in Belarus is difficult to call state policy: in scale it is more likely to be the actions of a strong tyrant-householder somewhere in a large province in the Russian outback. Therefore, comparing political and economic processes in our countries is very instructive.

Several dozen throaty boys from the National-Bolshevik party, as many women and men of an intelligent look with the flags of Yabloko, and the rest are old people, old people, and old people. Poorly dressed, not too neat, with homemade posters written on packaging cardboard. On Putin alone, they curse for monetization of benefits and closing freedoms, on others - for selling a homeland to American imperialism and world Zionism.

There are neither personnel nor funds to teach military training, the head of the department, Lyubov Kezina, said yesterday. The capital prefers the history of religion to the foundations of Orthodoxy. And this year Moscow schoolchildren will be able to take the Unified State Exam in only two subjects: Russian and history. Exact sciences are excluded, and this despite the fact that 50% of the places in the capital’s universities are going to be given to students of the State University.

It is one thing to take Krivorozhstal away from Kuchma’s son-in-law Viktor Pinchuk, and quite another to change the owners of thousands of enterprises. There is no doubt that reports from the scene will resemble combat reports. Tymoshenko motivates by the fact that, they say, privatization was carried out “by telephone.” There is no doubt that the experiments of the Ukrainian Prime Minister will be watched with close attention in Moscow.

The head of the Upper House made an important political statement: he is confident that May 2 will again become a day off. Judging by the indefatigable activity of the leader of the Party of Life, there are no more important matters than the appointment and cancellation of days off (unless, of course, you count the protection of the muskrat). Even earlier, Mironov launched an uncompromising struggle to declare December 31 a holiday.

In the last decade, there have been a lot of things to read and hear about the insidious intentions of enemies. Perhaps the Cossacks surpassed everyone. More than once - usually after the second glass - they revealed to me the “secret plan of world Zionism” in the North Caucasus: with the hands of Armenians to build an Islamic state from the Black to the Caspian Sea. The storytellers, it seems, themselves believed in this nonsense. What am I talking about? ..

“I cordially congratulate all residents of the Volgograd region on the next anniversary of the defeat of Soviet troops at Stalingrad.” This statement was released by the governor's press service. Of course, Nikolai Maksyuta may have his own original view of this historical battle. But still, it would be more appropriate to give such a speech not in Volgograd, but, say, in Berlin or Munich. There are periodic rallies held there, at which Maksyuta would be a welcome guest.

At a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany, the Russian president said something strange: “We do not forget the year 56. I am confident that we are able to develop relations in such a way that this will never happen again.” That is, one must assume that if relations with Hungary are extremely bad, Russia can again introduce several divisions into this country and overthrow the government? Either Putin did not apologize very well, or he made threats. Go figure.