In society Ahead of a steam locomotive or a cock Behind the yeast? April 16, 2009 Viktor Shenderovich I already had to tell an instructive story about how in my youthful “theatrical”, in the strict Andropovsky 1983, the administration of the Palace of Pioneers on the Lenin Mountains banned my performance. Almost from the Komsomol did not flood! Five years later, in Shaln Gorbachevsky 1988, exactly for the same performance I was awarded in the Oktyabrsky district committee of the CPSU.

Around Russia Visiting a fairy tale April 16, 2009 Avtandil Tsuladze The events taking place in Georgia among many observers cause sincere surprise - why would the next revolutionary wave rose in Georgia? The West supported Georgia in conflict with Russia, allocated generous loans, the world press condemns Russia for the “excessive use of force”, even the CIS countries did not recognize the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Hundreds of people, as noted by Boris Nemtsov’s headquarters, were taken to polling stations in Sochi on April 15 for early voting in the mayoral elections. In Adler, 694 people voted, in Lazarevsky district 389 people, in Khostinsky 163, in Central 318. They are brought in organized groups from enterprises and transferred from headquarters. These are teachers, employees of hospitals and clinics, employees of resort companies and sanatoriums, markets, and traffic police officers.

Journalist Natalya Morar, as it turned out, is still under arrest, but under house arrest. This was reported by Ekho Moskvy with reference to the Moldovan media, to which this information, in turn, was confirmed by Morari’s husband, journalist Ilya Barabanov. Previously, the Moldovan prosecutor’s office stated that Morari had been arrested, but then it turned out that another Natalia Morari had been arrested by mistake. Barabanov asked journalists not to contact Natalya.

In the Kremlin One hundred days before the decree April 16, 2009 Alexander Ryklin Putin is leaving. This is not a hypothesis, not an assumption, not a spell, not even a prayer before dinner. This is the law of nature. Spring replaces the winter, water boils at one hundred degrees, the earth rotates around the sun, and Putin leaves. He has already been discharged by a bypass sheet, which gradually begins to fill up before our eyes. Around him, voids are already forming.

The National Anti-Terrorism Committee, on behalf of President Dmitry Medvedev, nevertheless satisfied the request of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov and lifted the counter-terrorism operation (CTO) regime from the republic by a decision of April 16. At the beginning of the month it was said that troops would not be withdrawn from the republic, but that customs and the international airport would be allowed to open.