In the economy About the cost of bad decisions April 15, 2009 Julia Latynina At the end of March, two messages flashed one after another. First: the first deputy prime minister Igor Sechin initiated a check of the transactions of the Norilsk Nickel. At the same time, the VEB, VTB and the Accounts Chamber became interested in the financial situation.

Yarking widely and tasty, the “parliamentary hour” smoothly rolled to his final minute. Viktor Kiryanov, General Inspector of the traffic police of the Russian Federation, reported from the rostrum on the progress of the federal target program “Improving road safety in 2006 - 2012”. Both speaking and yawning were well aware of what to speak seriously about this program - nonsense nonsense. Yes, and Kiryanov himself did not hide this.

I am certainly glad that the interview took place. I asked the questions I wanted without coordinating them. Am I satisfied with the answers? I am satisfied that I received them. I can say that, after all, when the president says that the outcome of the Khodorkovsky case is not predetermined, when he talks about anti-corruption measures and when he directly says that he will not be a member of United Russia in the foreseeable future, then, I believe, this makes some sense.

President Dmitry Medvedev gave the first interview Russian publication, and not just some servile one, but Novaya Gazeta. The conversation about this interview started back in January, when Medvedev, admittedly, somewhat belatedly and awkwardly expressed condolences to the newspaper’s editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov in connection with the death of journalist Anastasia Baburova.