If I was asked to name the main sign of modern Russia, I would say: "Lies." It is lies, not blood. In Stalinist Russia, the main thing was blood. And the Stalinist lie rested on the blood. Our lie does not hold on to blood. She holds on a TV. The TV is replacing the gulag so far, and this is good - because the TV can be turned off, and the gulag does not turn off.

It seems that not only a speaker (Vladimir Lytvyn) has finally appeared in the Verkhovna Rada, but also a coalition, the agreement on the creation of which was supported by the Lytvyn Bloc, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and the pro-presidential faction “Our Ukraine - National Self-Defense” (NU-NS) . True, although Lytvyn announced the creation of a coalition on December 9, the NU-NS did not confirm this fact for some time.

New amendments to the Criminal Code, although they concern such crimes against the state as treason, the disclosure of GOSTaina and espionage, are more aimed at protecting the interests of state corporations than states. And it is unlikely that even the most ardent supporters of Russian hospitalism can argue that this is one and the same.

The formation of such a coalition means maintaining the current structure of power while continuing the conflicts that have existed between representatives of the main branches of government in recent years. The resigned chairman of the Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense faction, Vyacheslav Kirilenko, and his deputy Viktor Zvarich support President Viktor Yushchenko.

In the economy Notes of madness December 16, 2008 Anton Oresh If in “this difficult time” we will stop smiling, then completely a khan. The greatest nonsense, as you know, are made with a smart expression on the face. But the crisis has already generated so many jokes! You noticed that there were fewer jokes in the previous time, and some of them were all untold. And with a socio-political bias, they just died out completely. The crisis forces citizens, tensing, relaxing.