What is happening to democracy in Russia? What will happen to her after the elections? And what should we, mere mortals, citizens of Russia, do in such a situation? We live in the timid hope that our vote in elections means something. At every election, we hope for something and already understand that it is pointless, but we continue to go to the polls because we are afraid of making a fatal mistake and destroying democracy. Which in fact has been gone for a long time.

The president of the industrial and financial group "Finansgroup" Oleg Shvartsman gave an unprecedentedly frank interview to the Kommersant newspaper. He openly stated that he acts in the interests of the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Igor Sechin and controls assets worth $3.2 billion. “We are very closely affiliated with some political figures and manage their assets. We have relations with both the Presidential Administration and its power bloc,” said Shvartsman.

Part 2. On the table standing in the “anteroom” of the Meshchansky OVD, the word “NSDAP” was carved with a knife. The letter S is crossed out by two vertical sticks, making it a dollar sign. Can this be considered a statement of the local ideology? No, I guess not. A dozen and a half police officers of different ranks and ages are completely normal people; change them from official to personal, put them at a bus stop - they will be flush with the Motherland.

There is a heated discussion among decent people about what to do with these elections. I would never have believed it if I had not heard with my own ears from comrades who were in their right mind and clear consciousness that on the 2nd they were ready to vote for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and even for Zhirinovsky! All the same, the right cannot get into the Duma - so at least in this way we will not allow United Russia to collect all the votes.

Summing up the results of the meeting in Annapolis is like watching the coquetry of a suicide, disdainful of hanging himself with an old and foul-smelling rope. A very conditional hope of reconciling the Israelis with the Palestinians in the capital of Maryland remained, perhaps, only with the rector of the Church of St. Anna, who decided to hold a silent interfaith prayer for peace.

In the Kremlin To allow ... November 30, 2007 Daily Journal "Dude writes that such a leaflet is now being printed in a neighboring printing house ..." Alexander Golts: If we assume that what appeared in LiveJournal is not fiction, this can mean only one thing - an anti -constitutional coup d'etat is being prepared in the country. And those who GGOTOTH his, were concerned about the search for associates or accomplices (as they like). What to do in this situation, everyone must decide for himself.

If all this is as he says, and I have no reason not to believe Oleg Shvartsman, then such an interview is the end of his entire business. Moreover, he personally must feel very bad. The main question here is: why did he decide to talk about it now? What happened that a person decided to take such a courageous civic act? It looks like a provocation. If a person says such things, I cannot verify this information, but if he says this two days before the elections, he is probably not lying.

In the former Gestapo building of Cologne, which now houses the Museum of the Crimes of National Socialism, among other exhibits there is a ballot paper from the referendum on August 19, 1934 on the question of combining the posts of President and Chancellor of Germany and on the proclamation of Adolf Hitler as “Führer” (in Russian - "national leader") At that time in Germany, the entire organized opposition was suppressed, its leaders were arrested or thrown into exile, the propaganda machine,

Six months ago, it was about the foreboding of the disaster. A month and a half ago - about the gate of the disaster. Today - about its beginning. Six months ago, the word "catastrophe" in relation to the nearest future of the country could seem an exaggeration. However, the events currently taking place, unfortunately, confirm that the term is used correctly.