On October 6 at 16.00, the opening of the Center for the Development of Media and Civil Society will take place at the office of the Union of Journalists of Russia on Zubovsky Boulevard. The center, according to its head, Secretary of the Union of Journalists Igor Yakovenko, works in five intersecting fields: the field of journalism, the media market, public opinion, the expert community and the human rights field.

The collapse of the Russian market continues. The RTS index fell below the so-called psychologically important mark of a thousand points. Such a drop was recorded for the first time in almost three years. At the same time, the US dollar sharply rose in price on the MICEX, the price of which exceeded 26 rubles. Later, the MICEX index fell below 800 points. From 13:35, trading on the MICEX was suspended for an hour, from 15:10 - for two hours.

The Russian community, and not only sports, at the end of last week terribly interrupted after the Spanish press about Zenit. The bottom line is that the Pyrenean newspaper men excavated that the local police, listening to the telephone conversations of the recently captured leaders of the “Tambov” lads, found that they were discussing “Zenith”. And that, they say, these comrades organized the victory of the St.

In the opposition Freedom is better than a tube with broth October 6, 2008 Alexander Osovtsov I was lucky - I left the ATP in June 2002. Therefore, now I can judge what is happening, if not quite objectively, then, in any case, from the outside, without special emotions.

One of the most discussed events of recent days: the Union of Right Forces (ATP) decided to self -destruct and his property at the residual balance value of selling the Kremlin. For some: a constructive solution, now the liberals will get into the TV again and from there will no longer fall out, no matter how this box is shaking. For others: ay-ah, horror, horror, horror, betrayal of opposition business. In fact, it seems, there is no event at all.

In my opinion, the market is falling more likely not because no one believes Paulson’s plan, but because Asian markets are doing very poorly today, and this is the first morning signal for the Russian market, which, of course, is guided by what is happening in Japan, in Australia, in China. Things don't matter there. Paulson's plan has been accepted, but this pill will not begin to work immediately, but after some time - maybe after four, five, six, seven days.

At the dawn of black and white television, the quality of which was the same as the grandeur of the Louvre collections next to today's “art” installations in fashion galleries, Salvador Dali said of images at a distance: “Chewing gum for the eyes.” How would a cheerful surrealist rate the brew of programs in today's “box”? The effect of “zombifying” the working masses in front of the blue screen has now reached such a force that neither Orwell nor other utopians could have dreamed of.