The magazine “Russia in Global Affairs” published an article by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, “Russia and the World in the 21st Century,” in which the author proposes “to fill the political vacuum emerging in the Euro-Atlantic.” This article is based on the Minister’s June report at the international symposium “Looking Ahead: Russia in the 21st Century.” Lavrov emphasizes that it is necessary to convene a pan-European summit in order to “form a positive agenda” and create “a new atmosphere of

“Independent Gazeta” reported that the president’s envoy received orders for the formation of a personnel reserve lists in the regions. Governors will be responsible for execution, each region must set two lists in one hundred names: one for President Medvedev, the other for Putin United Russia as the leader of United Russia. An attempt to solve the personnel problem in this way is not surprising for our time. It is not surprising that such instructions have appeared right now.

The letters “g”, “c” and “s”, especially prickly, sticking out in all directions “g”, most fully correspond to the strong, stubborn and adamant character of Solzhenitsyn. His style of life and writing, his position in history. In Russian literature, there is practically no hero who would have opposed the opinion of the majority and would not suffer defeat, crushed, destroyed or sucked by a centuries -old element of consent with force.

One of the most important components of the modern crisis in international relations, which includes the energy crisis, and a sharp change in the balance of forces in the world, and the Middle East crisis, and the proliferation of nuclear weapons, is a vacuum in the minds: many in both the West and the East do not understand or refuse understand what is happening.

The American Congress apologized to blacks. As they say, for everything, for everything. The event is super-historical. I hope that the American congressmen are not our Duma “congressmen”, and after one and a half hundred years they apologized not because Mr. Obama is standing at the entrance to the White House. However, that is not the point. As soon as this news was torn from the teletype tapes, a heated discussion unfolded on our “echo” air: shouldn’t we apologize to someone for something?

Georgia began shelling the South Ossetian village of Ubiat, Znaursky district, the agency reported on August 7, 2008, citing sources in South Ossetia. There are reports of four dead and 18 injured. Official Georgia has not yet said anything about this, but the Georgian media, citing the local Ministry of Internal Affairs, reported that the day before Ossetian separatists fired at Georgian villages, as a result of which two representatives of the Georgian peacekeeping forces were wounded.