Vysotsky did not die in 1980 - he was alive in the 80s and 90s. His scream was audible and resonated in the air - the acoustics were good. But in the last few years, he somehow imperceptibly, slowly died. He is remembered today as a dear deceased. Even with nostalgia: there were people! WERE. Yes, EVERYONE came out. Physically, many of them are alive and well—and hopefully will be for a long time. Zhvanetsky, Boris Strugatsky, Lyubimov - you never know the heroes of the 1980s.

On Friday, a number of media outlets reported that another democratic movement is being created in Russia. It will supposedly include the Union of Right Forces, the United Front of Garry Kasparov, the Republicans of Vladimir Ryzhkov, the RNDS of Mikhail Kasyanov and a number of regional structures of the Yabloko party.

When Pushkin’s 200th anniversary was celebrated, I heard something quite remarkable on the air: “On this day, the great poet could have turned 200 years old.” No one could turn 200 years old, but 70... 70 years is an anniversary that should be celebrated while still alive, an anniversary when a person can still manage to do a lot. And 70 years of Vysotsky is almost like 200 years of Pushkin. Vysotsky has been gone from us for so long that his son, Nikita, is now older than his father.

In 1945, the head of the propaganda department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Georgy Alexandrov, published an article in Pravda: “Comrade. Ehrenburg simplifies." I am not Aleksandrov, “Hedgehog” is not yet “Pravda”, and most importantly, L. Radzikhovsky is not I. Ehrenburg. It does not “simplify”, but “complicates”.

In the Kremlin The results of the week. Relabuha January 25, 2008 Alexander Golts Dmitry Medvedev’s journey to power began in comfort and bliss. So sometimes, non -poor people, in complete solitude, fly in a first -class salon. What the hell is the presidential race. Television is only busy to have time to fully cover the performances of the first deputy prime minister.

Every year, the celebration of Tatyana's Day is becoming increasingly widespread in Russia. This year, according to Interfax-Religion, the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy, as well as professors and academicians of the Russian Academy of Sciences, were already present at the Divine Liturgy dedicated to this day at the house church of St. Tatiana at Moscow State University.

"Student's Feast" of St. Martyr Tatiana gives me conflicting feelings. On the one hand, it is good, of course, that the old Russian tradition is being restored and the memory of the founding day of Moscow University is being consecrated with church prayer. On the other hand, does this holiday have a Christian meaning for the majority of those celebrating?

Publicists talk about a new cold war between Russia and the West, citing as an example the worsening relations with the United States and a number of European countries. Missile defense, Kosovo, the “Litvinenko-Lugovoy case” are really a set of issues on which Russia and the West take fundamentally different positions.

Dear Mikhail Sergeevich! Do you remember December 15, 1986 and the significant conversation with Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov? Then Sakharov asked you to release all political prisoners. He said that on December 8, 1986, his friend Anatoly Marchenko died in the Chistopol prison. Marchenko died shortly after ending a four-month hunger strike he had been on to demand the release of Soviet political prisoners.