In the Kremlin We lose it ... June 16, 2009 Alexander Golts With our eagle, Don Putin V.V., something happens definitely. Literally daily, he pleases the subordinate people with new gags, which make him doubt their adequacy after visiting Pikalev. At first he visited the gallery of the official artist Ilya Glazunov.

In the Kremlin The flip side of the coin June 16, 2009 Alexander Podrabinek The Internet breaks from indignation and ridicule of Putin, who expressed remarks to his court artist regarding his work. Frankly, stupid remarks, as, indeed, the very work of this artist. A living public reaction to funny events with the participation of the first persons of the government can only be welcomed.

In the economy Administrative extremism June 16, 2009 Mikhail Delyagin The Russian intelligentsia was accustomed to believe that the ruling Kleptocracy uses the Law “On Combating Extremist Activities” and the 282nd Article of the Criminal Code, just as the 57th was used under Stalin, and under Brezhnev, the 70th article.

Russia vetoed a resolution to extend the mandate of the UN mission in the region of Georgia and Abkhazia.

The murder of a security guard at the Holocaust Museum in Washington first causes confusion, then sadness. But when the biography of the killer becomes known, the question arises: how and why could a participant in World War II, a war certainly considered “just” in the United States, commit such a crime? What does this tragic case say about the racist movement in the United States and about the community of Holocaust deniers to which the killer belonged?