The events of the last six months associated with the global economic crisis have definitely created the preconditions for political changes in Russia towards some liberalization of the regime. However, there was no significant easing, not to mention a fundamental change of course. Spring did not bring with it the expected mass street protests, and the desire for political change within the power group itself appears to have faded somewhat.

He left a note on the death of Lev Losev in his LiveJournal. I received a certain number of comments, of a quite predictable binary nature. Two of them (as if on purpose, in a row) are in front of you. User Vasyaelenchuk quoted (“especially for those who don’t know who Losev is”) his poems: How and why did you get involved in these games? don't tumble into this field? I don't know where I came from I remember the rule: if you take it, go.

Around Russia Overbort May 12, 2009 Julia Latynina Can Hamas try to arrange a military coup in Israel? Answer: try - maybe. Probably, even in the Israeli defense army, a corporal will be found, which will say that the Israeli people hates the bloody regime of Zionists and now, we’ll ruin everything, just give fifty pieces of bucks. In Georgia, the non -interpretation is suppressed. Two dozen people are in prison, showed several records on TV.

The death of Governor Esipovsky, which followed as a result of a helicopter crash, was the sixth in a series of transport (helicopter and automobile) accidents that previously led to the death of governors A. Lebed (2002), I. Farkhutdinov (2003), M. Evdokimov (2005), V. Shershunov (2007), as well as their capital curator A. Kosopkin (2009).

Fyodor Tyutchev was right when he argued that Russia cannot be understood with the mind. But the poet did not finish his sentence - perhaps because he was a diplomat and the head of the censorship department - that it is impossible to understand not only our country, but also its top officials. And that you can only believe them. The clarification came unexpectedly after 140 years from Prime Minister Putin.

Can Hamas try to arrange a military coup in Israel? Answer: try - maybe. Probably, even in the Israeli defense army, a corporal will be found, which will say that the Israeli people hates the bloody regime of Zionists and now, we’ll ruin everything, just give fifty pieces of bucks. In Georgia, the non -interpretation is suppressed. Two dozen people are in prison, showed several records on TV.

The President of Moldova and the official chairman of the Communist Party that won the elections, Vladimir Voronin, was elected chairman of the parliament on May 12. He was nominated by his own party, and it voted for him, and that was enough: the Communist Party has 60 mandates, and exactly 60 votes were cast for Voronin. And to elect a speaker, 52 votes are enough. The opposition did not participate in the voting and did not nominate its candidates for the post of speaker.

Statement from the Memorial Society In connection with the resumption of the trial in the case of the “Forbidden Art” exhibition, we consider it necessary to state that, regardless of our attitude to the aesthetic merits or demerits of this exhibition, the process against its organizers causes us indignation.