On immense post -Soviet open spaces, a new gambling game “Who will throw the Kremlin?” Is in full swing. The Kyrgyz colleague joined the amused company of the presidents of Belarus and Uzbekistan. Bishkek announced the other day that instead of the American military base “Manas”, the closure of which was solemnly announced during the visit of the Kyrgyz President Bakiev to Moscow, a certain center for transit transportation will begin to function.

Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov approached Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with a proposal to declare an amnesty for women and children convicted of minor crimes in the republic from 1999 to 2005 (during the so-called active phase of the counter-terrorism operation). Vedomosti wrote about this on June 26, citing a source close to the Russian presidential administration. Medvedev instructed Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov to work on this issue.

The 300th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava (according to the old style on June 27, 1709)-the date, oddly enough, unlucky in our cultural and myth-making tradition. As a result, the Poltava battle occupies a more modest place in the informal but existing, but existing hierarchy of our great national victories than the Battle of Ice, the Battle of Kulikovo and Borodino.

In the Kremlin To envy Dr. Goebbels June 26, 2009 Alexander Podrabinek On June 24, President Medvedev issued a decree "On All -Russian Compulsory public television channels and radio channels." The meaning of the decree is that some television and radio channels should be present in every house. “In the future, wire radio communications will be organized in Germany, this is obvious.

In Russian, the phrases “to speak frankly”, “to tell the whole truth”, etc. usually mean something unpleasant will sound. Congratulations, on the contrary, are based, as a rule, on increasing the merits of the person being congratulated. In this case, all this turns out differently, and it is Khodorkovsky’s birthday that allows me to tell him what I think about him.

Events in the Caucasus are developing with frightening speed. And, apparently, according to the worst-case scenario. Today, many analysts are talking about the inevitability of an imminent war with Georgia. To be honest, I don’t really believe in such a prospect. For one simple reason: it seems to me that they will not dare now.

Another full-time student at a Moscow university (Mikhail is a fourth-year student at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State University for the Humanities) was sent to the army. NEWSru.com reports that on June 25, a police raid took place in the hostel where Mikhail was registered. Mikhail was ordered to appear at the Chertanovsky military registration and enlistment office without being given a summons, explaining that nothing terrible would happen to him.

Amnesty is a good measure in such cases. There were no real amnesties in Chechnya at all, contrary to widespread belief and despite the fact that decrees on these amnesties were issued more than once.