Dear Alexander Ryklin is ironic about Medvedev’s interview (and my article about this interview) - well, they say, no one will ask him unpleasant questions, about corruption in Gazprom, say? Why won’t anyone ask about what Nemtsov and Milov wrote about? And he invites me - on occasion - to ask such questions. Well, no, Alexander, the wrong one was attacked.

Appeal of the International Society "Memorial" The twentieth century left deep and non -healing wounds in the memory of almost all peoples of Eastern and Central Europe. Revolutions, coups, two world wars, the Nazi occupation of Europe, a catastrophe, incomprehensible to the human mind - the Holocaust. Many local wars and conflicts, most of which had a distinct national coloring: Baltic states, Poland, Western Ukraine, Balkans.

Until recently, the assumption that Putin’s power vertical would not be able to function under the conditions of a presidential-prime “duumvirate” was purely theoretical. Last week, theory began to turn into practice. An active rustling began under the carpet. Here, journalist-deputy Alexander Khinshtein, known for his integrity and impartiality, describes in detail the merciless battles of the heads of the Investigative Committee. Some investigators accuse others of millions in bribes.

Around Russia Let me express hope March 28, 2008 Alexander Podrabinek Let me express the hope that not everything is so selling in this world, as Anton Oresh told us in his article “And do not hope”. And not everyone is as shamelessly cynical as Alexei Mitrofanov in a polemic with Valeria Novodvorskaya in the Matvey program of the Ganapol Klinch on Echo of Moscow. Anton Oresh, unlike Mitrofanov, wisely distanced from the idea of ​​the advisability of holding the Olympic Games in Beijing.

The Ministry of Economic Development has determined the list of products that should disappear from our stores in the near future. This is bread, milk, kefir, butter, salt, sugar, tea, as well as beef, pork, poultry and eggs. Formally, this list of products is called a list of products, the prices of which are subject to state regulation. In countries with a market economy, prices are used only in some kind of emergency: during the war or natural disaster. And here ...

I have more than once noticed what an exceptional place in Russian everyday speech the imperative mood occupies: the word “must” or the characteristic excited intonation of an administrative shout (in extreme cases, a call) can be heard at every step, and this is by no means some new phenomenon - in childhood (and this was back when), sending me to the bakery, my mother habitually said, “ We need to force Andryushka to go buy bread,” although no one was against it anyway.

In the Kremlin Hind nesting doll March 28, 2008 Viktor Shenderovich It seems that I was the first to write about this man - just recently, in the fall of last year. When the first time I mentioned his name-the name of the representative of Russia under the OSCE Mr. Borodavkin, then God sees, meant nothing but the strength of the Pushkin’s “strange rapprochement”. The namesake of the Shchedrinsky mayor was a hollow matryoshka for me, a symbol.

Vladimir Pozner revealed a terrible secret to the world: on March 27, at a round table meeting where “issues of morality and ethics on Russian television, possible additions to the law on media and other topics” were discussed, he stated that there is no freedom of speech in the Russian media.