In the regions Sochi lessons (in hot pursuit) April 27, 2009 Alexander Ryklin “So, the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sochi gained the chosen mayor.” About such a phrase, most of the information agencies today begin their reports about the results of the mayor of this glorious resort city.

In the Kremlin Blog to help April 27, 2009 Natella Boltyanskaya Russian President Dmitry Medvedev found a short path of Russian citizens to his place. This is a blog . I am extremely interesting to the fate of this blog. I understand that Dmitry Anatolyevich is a person very busy at the main job. I understand that every citizen of Russia will probably have problems. I understand that there are many of us, and the president is one.

Events in Moldova and Georgia are sometimes compared to “color revolutions,” although this comparison is unfounded. In these cases, completely different processes take place, having only some – and at the same time minor – features in common with “color revolutions”. The course of these events is also connected with this, which vaguely resembles the revolutionary processes in Serbia, Georgia (in 2003) and Ukraine.

Now we will have a press conference, which Nemtsov is holding at headquarters. He will give a full assessment of the election campaign and announce that we are starting a legal battle demanding that the election results be declared invalid. We hope that Alexander Lebedev, as well as Yuri Dzagania, will join our lawsuit. We believe that the authorities carried out a large-scale fraud of ballot stuffing using the early voting mechanism.

The elections of the mayor of Sochi brought a noticeable revival to the political everyday life of the country. Solidarity's decision to nominate Boris Nemtsov was largely intuitive, but even without waiting for the results of Sunday's vote, we can confidently say that we were not mistaken.

On the night of April 27, the Sochi election commission joyfully announced that the acting candidate from United Russia, Anatoly Pakhomov, won the mayoral elections, so there will be no second round, which the opposition would like to count on. According to official data as of this morning, Pakhomov received 77% of the votes, and opposition candidate Boris Nemtsov - 13.5%.

In the opposition Hot line - human rights in Russia April 27, 2009 Lev Ponomarev Hot line - human rights in Russia (Leo Ponomareva comment) Should Lenin take out of the mausoleum? - Has the counter -terrorist operation ended? - Does Medvedev hear society? - Does the judicial system become a free? - Is public control the end has come? On the eve of Lenin’s birthday, they called me from Interfax and asked how I have to take Lenin from the mausoleum?

The socio-economic crisis unfolding in Russia dealt a strong blow to the welfare of the main part of the population, began to quickly erode the formed “middle class”, destroyed the plans and hopes of millions of people, and undermined the confidence in the future. One of the terrifying consequences of this in our country was the refusal of adoptive parents from previously adopted children.