The former head of the MFO "MENATEP" Platon Lebedev wrote an appeal to President Dmitry Medvedev about the violation of constitutional rights.

In uniform Dream of reason on a summer night July 23, 2008 Alexander Golts I admit, when I saw in Izvestia a note about the fact that a kind of high -ranking source reported the alleged flights of our strategic bombers in Cuba, he simply shrugged. Of course, July is the heat, then pouring rains, the pressure jumps. Here is a weak mind and enters the mind.

Ah, what good news! One of the most odious characters of the civil war in the Balkans, the once most popular (among the Serbs, of course) leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic, will soon appear before the Hague Tribunal. Before the very tribunal, the activities of which the Russian leadership proposed to stop just a few days ago. It is now clear that our authorities were clearly in a hurry with this proposal, which, strictly speaking, no one intended to follow.

Surveyors and bailiffs tried to enter the territory of one of the houses located in the construction zone for the Sochi Olympics. The owner of the house, Svetlana Droficheva, and her neighbors (about two hundred people) did not allow specialists into the territory, Kommersant wrote on Wednesday. Sochi Mayor Vladimir Afanasenkov promised to punish people who defend their own homes. Some of them were armed with Molotov cocktails and sticks.

In any region, our administration behaves like a master. She does what she wants, provided there is no organized public resistance. In Sochi the situation is extremely acute. As far as I know, the reaction of residents to the news that their city had won the Olympics was, to put it mildly, mixed and very different from the reaction of the rest of the country. The people of Sochi already had an idea of ​​what exactly this success would mean for them.

In connection with the serious conference held in Moscow dedicated to the first anniversary of the death of D.A. Prigov, a poet and conceptual artist, I wanted to talk about what was not discussed at the conference. About Prigov’s political views, about his attitude to the history of Russia and to the current situation. Many aspects of Prigov’s political and social worldview can be easily read from his poems, sculptures, and performances.