What will a true connoisseur of freedom do if he sees that Putin turns the old lady to a green traffic light? That's right - he'll turn the old lady to red. Or it won't translate at all. In an involuntary discussion with Alexander Podrabinek, I do not plan to tinker with micro-responses or dimensions of morality. Moralemetry is not my specialty, and here I am ready to give up the palm to any democratic Savonarola.

In the opposition The danger of simple answers June 24, 2009 Alexander Golts I have to periodically play some strange role. I take the work to call on the vapor of the quarreling colleagues-democrats to calm and at least some reasonableness. Cat Leopold, damn it. It all started with the fact that Alexander Podrabinek said that Boris Nemtsov was decisively satisfied with the answers of Boris Nemtsov regarding whether the islands of the Malaya Kuril ridge of Japan should be transferred.

Moldova's two leading opposition parties demanded that President Vladimir Voronin disclose the terms under which Russia plans to provide the country with a $500 million loan.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov presented at a conference at the OSCE headquarters in Vienna the essence of President Medvedev's idea of ​​concluding a European Security Treaty (EST). According to Kommersant, the first thing the minister did was accuse NATO of violating the basic principle laid down in the 1999 Charter for European Security and in the documents of the Russia-NATO Council: not to strengthen its own security at the expense of others.

In the opposition Prosecutors will not wait June 24, 2009 Mikhail Delyagin Unfortunately, since on Monday it was June 22, the day of the beginning of the war, I could not come to the second trial of Khodorkovsky and Lebedev - and therefore missed the phantasmagoric performance when the “evidence” represented by the prosecutors dispelled their own accusations to dust.

Having told Reuters that Medvedev had instructed him to lead the fight against militants, “including Ingushetia,” Ramzan Kadyrov did not say anything new about his ambitions, but he did clarify a lot about what the Kremlin understands as a state.