Russia received a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics. One. For everyone. For third place in the team competition. After China and the USA. Here, however, there may be discrepancies. They count differently. Americans count by the total number of medals. They have the most medals, and they proclaim themselves Olympic champions. But in the USSR there was a ranking system based on “points”. Points were given for places from 1st to 6th.

In Dushanbe on August 28, at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a declaration was adopted that stated commitment to the principles of the territorial integrity of states and the futility of resolving regional conflicts by force.

The recognition of Russia's independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia has received international support. Russia's actions approved two such authoritative international organizations as Hamas and Hezbollah. This wonderful friendly support once again indicates what is happening in the Transcaucasia. Namely, about the Palestinization of the Caucasus.

The sentence of officers Sergei Arakcheev and Evgeniy Khudyakov, found guilty of killing three civilians in Chechnya in 2003, has been upheld. On August 28, the Supreme Court rejected the defense's cassation appeals. On December 27 last year, the North Caucasus District Military Court sentenced Arakcheev to 15 years and Khudyakov to 17 years.

The well -being of a person, the compliance of the living conditions for his objective needs is checked, like all other living creatures, the dynamics of the number of populations: in favorable or improved (for example, according to wars) conditions, the population grows (the faster the more favorable), in adverse or worsening, is reduced.

“It’s interesting to talk to an intelligent person” - I’m talking about Dugin. For a long time, I confess (one of my many stupidities), I did not take him seriously - I seemed too... strange. But when his forecasts began to come true “as if written,” I naturally began to listen and read more carefully to this fiery fascist-National-Bolshevik-imperialist (these are stages of a long journey) and, invariably, a geopolitician.