The presidential team is bad with ideas. “If we fail to consolidate the elites, Russia may disappear as a single state,” Dmitry Medvedev, head of the Kremlin administration, said in an interview with Expert. The Kremlin justified both the war in Chechnya and the introduction of unanimity in parliament by the struggle to preserve the integrity of the country.

I couldn’t believe that Vyacheslav Koloskov would leave, that someone else and not him would lead the Russian Football Union, until the very last minute. Already when all the statements of resignation were made, and when he was not among the registered candidates for the elections. Of course! The man led Soviet/Russian football/hockey for exactly 30 years, in two states, under four general secretaries and three presidents.

Everyone can see: Vladimir Putin does not love the Belarusian Old Man Alexander Lukashenko too much. The Lukashenkovsky pan -science, his wet Secretary General kisses, as well as the constant desire of the President of Belarus to pay for cheap Russian gas with conversations about the upcoming integration.

The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that only giants are able to connect eras, the past with the future, and pull the threads of history. He called them aristocrats - of course, not on the basis of belonging to a noble family, but aristocrats of the intellect, combining the power of the mind, the scale of personality and willpower, which, in combination, allow them to pull humanity forward, always resisting, always looking back.

Indeed, the opportunities for the head of the Belarusian state to travel are extremely limited: the vast majority of countries do not welcome him. But Putin is waiting. True, it is not entirely clear what the leaders of the two neighboring states are going to discuss in Sochi, since no special breakthroughs in relations between Russia and Belarus are expected in the near future. Most likely, Lukashenko will simply reassure Putin: they say, ours is not what they have.

Recently, all the controversy surrounding the main post in our football economy has come down to a discussion of one problem: the coach of the national team will be a Russian specialist or someone invited from abroad. Just a few years ago it seemed that a foreign specialist was a panacea for our football woes. Now there are a lot of these specialists in the clubs, but there is little use.

Of course, it’s disgusting to start the week with all sorts of rubbish. But there’s nothing you can do about it - the trumpet, you know, is calling, the drums are beating, and the ashes of Klaas, as you know... Previously, the overwhelming majority of Soviet newspapers had such a column “I Can’t Be Silent.” Well, it’s kind of like a cry from the heart - the wipers are not removing the snow well, a pipe burst in the next entrance and flooded six apartments...

According to the head of the district press service, Colonel Vitaly Gusak, this happens every call. The whole point, it turns out, is the weak psychological preparation of the recruits. “People become stressed, which can have a variety of psychological consequences,” says Husak. May be so. The only thing that is alarming is the amount of stress that the recruits experience. Indeed, as a result, thirty-two people were declared completely unfit for service by the military.