New duties on imported cars agitated the people so much that protest rallies in Primorye, Khabarovsk and generally in the East of the country took place even during the New Year holidays. It was at these rallies that for the first time it was not the ideological opposition, but ordinary citizens who demanded Putin’s resignation! But some say: bad, bad. Others are the opposite: let’s support domestic producers.

In the Kremlin Pictors January 22, 2009 Julia Latynina Prime Minister Vladimir Putin painted a picture. The picture went at the auction for 37 million rubles. (And you say crisis!) There were precedents. Nero, as you know, sang perfectly. Stalin was a great specialist in linguistics. Hossein’s garden wrote novels that were published in Iraq with huge circulations.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin painted the Picture. The painting went at auction for 37 million rubles. (And you say it's a crisis!) There were precedents. Nero, as you know, sang beautifully. Stalin was a great expert in matters of linguistics. Saddam Hussein wrote novels that were published in huge numbers in Iraq.

On the day of the murder of lawyer Markelov, everyone turned and looked carefully towards the newly released Colonel Budanov. And the colonel’s lawyer, Mr. Dulimov, took the floor. “This case,” he reassured the public, “is completely out of character to talk about the involvement of Budanov or the military in it.” Well, yes, there is no smell of the military here. Do the military really know how to shoot a pistol?

The Right Cause party, merged by the Kremlin from the Union of Right Forces, the Democratic Party of Russia and Civil Force, was unable to secure a reliable head of the Moscow branch. Until the last moment, it was reported that this would be the former shareholder of Euroset, Evgeny Chichvarkin, and in mid-January he was supposed to be approved for this post at a conference of the Moscow party organization.

Afghanistan remains an important diplomatic playground between the United States and Russia. As Kommersant writes on January 22, the commander of the American armed forces in the Middle East and Central Asia, General David Petraeus, said that his country has agreed with Russia and the Central Asian republics on additional supply routes for American troops in Afghanistan.