The past year in our country gave three indisputable basic events, each of which will be continued in the year next. I call in chronological order. Presidential elections, the election of D.A. Medvedev President and education in Russia De Facto by the double -headed system of power. The war with Georgia and, as a result, a sharp tightening of relations with the West, primarily with the USA.

I discovered this letter on the Ekho Moskvy website, among other questions for the Minority Opinion program. Vladimirovich Medvutin, an unemployed man from Yaroslavl, wondered if I knew how to lift a barrel from my knees? As they say now, that's it . If this is a joke, it's a very subtle one. If it’s not a joke, but an honest expression of people’s pain, then it’s absolutely brilliant!