Preparations for the elections have obviously entered an aggressive stage, and we are not talking about debates and campaigns of parties. Government aggression is best felt at the regional level: in Samara, local authorities seem to have decided to cover up everything they can. Novaya Gazeta in Samara suffered the most - troubles at the editorial office began back in May, when (an amazing coincidence) the “March of Dissent” took place in the city, timed to coincide with the EU-Russia summit.

In society Transit November 12, 2007 George Satarov Tired. Tired that they ask me all the time: what will Putin do? Who will be the next president, etc. Tired that everyone around is written and trembling about the same thing. Maybe I’m some kind of geek, but I am most interested in what will happen to me with my family, with my work, with different social groups, with the country, and after all. Maybe I'm a round idiot, but it is much more interesting to me than Putin’s personal fate.

This is not the first time Metropolitan Kirill has come up with this idea. His arguments are approximately the same. The first is linguistic. Like, they call us in English-speaking countries - Russian, in French-speaking countries - Russe, that is, Russians, why bother? The second argument is directed against political correctness.

“None of us should be shocked by the use of the term “Russian”. I am deeply convinced that the term “Russian” is a politically correct term, artificially introduced into our lives in the 1990s,” said Metropolitan of Smolensk, head of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate and Kaliningrad Kirill at a meeting with activists of the Young Guard movement and students of MSTU. Bauman in Moscow.

Interestingly, such decisions specially coincide with such dates? On November 8, the Supreme Court celebrated the 90th anniversary of October by refusal to recognize the family of executed Nicholas the second victim of political repression and rehabilitating family members. Formally, it is as if you can’t do it. Since there was no sentence, there was no formal accusation - then what rehabilitation? The matter elementaryly stood upside down.

The fact that the Bolsheviks failed with the railways (as well as with everything else - except, maybe, military industry) is not a question. The question is - why does this fact remain a secret for public opinion? Here is skill so skill! Soviet citizens still sacredly believe that Stalin's will helped the country make an economic jerk.

Tired of it. I'm tired of being asked all the time: what will Putin do? Who will be the next president, etc. I'm tired of everyone around me writing and chatting about the same thing. Maybe I’m some kind of geek, but I’m most interested in what will happen to me and my family, my work, different social groups, and the country, in the end. Maybe I'm a total idiot, but this is much more interesting to me than Putin's personal fate.