Gazprom is an amazing mirror of the existing Russian state system. This largest Russian company, only last year’s revenue of which was two and a half times higher than the military budget of our country, became a kind of a symbol of Putin's power of a global scale, the physical embodiment of Corporation Russia, which has built Putin all these years. But behind the seeming well -being and power, the deepest weakness and internal decomposition are hidden here.

Yulia Tymoshenko's bloc (BYuT) never found a common language with the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense (NU-NS) faction. On September 16, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced from the podium that this coalition had officially collapsed. As a matter of fact, this happened back on September 2, when BYuT, together with the communists and the Party of Regions of Viktor Yanukovych, voted to limit the powers of the president, and deputies from the NU-NS left the meeting room.

Freedom does not suddenly appear... she also needs her own genealogy, their legends, their past. E. M. Feoktistov The ancient tradition of Russian democracy was strangled by the oprichnina Moscow “autocracy” only towards the end of the 17th century—by historical standards, quite recently. And even then not completely; rudimentary remnants of the former free citizenship survived in the lower crevices of municipal and peasant self-government until the establishment of Bolshevik power.

A group of people from certain countries wants to cause maximum harm to Russia - these are mainly representatives of the Baltic states and Poland. I hope that the powers will not be revised if the governments manage to act, which, naturally, do not want Russia to leave PACE. Because it would be strange if the largest country in Europe, which actively interacts with the Council of Europe, does not participate in its activities.

Have you ever met Zhiguli with the BMW emblem? There are sometimes near -fuckers with a cruel complex of inferiority sometimes. In the early 90s, I once saw even an old humpbacked “Zaporozhets” with the Mercedes emblem. At the wheel sat a very happy kid; He looked significantly at passers -by, especially for a long time holding his gaze at the girls passing by.

Crises like the current one happen once every century. This assessment by former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, still one of the most influential financiers in the world, was replicated throughout the world's media. The fourth largest US investment bank, Lehman Brothers, could not withstand the losses incurred due to the mortgage crisis and initiated bankruptcy proceedings.

If the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe decides to suspend the powers of the Russian delegation, Russia may withdraw from its membership. In any case, the chairman of the Duma Committee on International Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev, did not rule out such a possibility - however, he clarified that freezing Russia’s powers in PACE is unlikely.