Around Russia Dream of reason ... nowhere deeper February 4, 2009 Alexander Golts In the Russian mass unconscious and in foreign policy, which set itself the main goal of the formation of this mass unconscious, amazing, I would say, clinical, changes. Here is the information picture of only one day - February 3. The day began with two articles.

As part of the military reform, by 2016 the number of military medical officers will be reduced by a third, that is, by 2.2 thousand people. The head of the Main Military Medical Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, Lieutenant General Vladimir Shappo, whose words are quoted by RIA Novosti, said that civilian doctors will work in their positions. However, many doctors dismissed from the Armed Forces will simply remain in their jobs as civilians.

80% of the nuclear arsenal of Russia and the United States is down - this is one of the main points of the plan that, according to The Times, American President Barack Obama is going to propose to our country. According to this plan, both countries should have no more than a thousand nuclear warheads left. Thus, Obama will reconsider the concept of the administration of his predecessor George W. Bush.

The “axis of evil” takes a vertical direction and rushes upward. Iran launched its first artificial earth satellite into orbit on February 2, and North Korea is ready to launch the Taepodong-2 ballistic missile with a flight range of up to 6,700 km. It may well fly to the USA, and there’s nothing to say about Russia. The West is puzzled and is trying to find peaceful explanations for the military-technical breakthrough of frostbitten regimes.

It is not Russia that is rising from its knees, it is civil society that is rising from its knees. The most lively, the most courageous and restless, the most dissenters have stopped asking the authorities for permission to exercise their legal rights. Yes, and as much as possible! - Excuse me, may we exercise our legal right to freedom of street processions and march along this avenue at this time?

“Brezhnev and Carter were racing. According to the results of the competition, Soviet newspapers wrote that Brezhnev came second, and Carter came second to last.” Russian international news is increasingly beginning to resemble this Soviet joke.

We have every reason to accuse the riot police who detained us, firstly, of exceeding their official powers, and secondly, of deliberately giving false testimony. We will do this in the coming days. As for Judge Lebedev, who passed the sentence, a decision regarding his incompatibility with the status of a judge can only be made by a special board. But we will work on this too.

The leader of the “We” movement, Roman Dobrokhotov, who staged a silent protest near the White House on January 31, has been released. During the action, he and his comrades in the movement were detained and, despite the fact that all participants in the action stood with their mouths taped and holding empty posters, Dobrokhotov was imprisoned for five days for obscene language, and some of his comrades were fined.

In society The temptation of the patriarch February 4, 2009 Alexander Ryklin It is not surprising that Russian commentators extremely neatly responded to the election of the new Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church - the topic of discussion is very sensitive. The mental strings of believers, as you know, are thinner and tender than that of atheists. Although, of course, the past event obviously goes beyond the framework of purely church affairs and problems.