In the Kremlin Why Medvedev Tskhinvili July 14, 2009 Julia Latynina A week after the meeting with President Obama, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev lightning speed and briefly landed in Tskhinvali. “We,” said Medvedev, for some reason speaking about himself in the plural, like Louis XIV, “for the first time in the new state, which was created almost a year ago. This happened after completely boorish aggression, which was unleashed by the Georgian regime.

In society Cherkizovsky market and ibn Haldun July 14, 2009 Julia Latynina In the middle of the 20th century, the American Arthur Laffer proved that in certain conditions an increase in tax rates causes a decrease in tax revenues. Six centuries before Luffer, the Arab historian Ibn Haldun proposed his model of the relationship between taxes and the state. At the beginning of the dynasty, the morals of the rulers are simple, and taxes are low, Ibn Haldun wrote.

Yekaterinburg human rights activist Alexey Sokolov, arrested on suspicion of robbery, will remain in custody for at least another month and ten days. This is what the judge of the Verkh-Isetsky District Court, Evgeny Zyryanov, decided. On July 13, investigator Konstantin Adushkin’s petition to extend Sokolov’s preventive measure in the form of detention was considered.

I am afraid of becoming a target for ridicule, but these days world history, or at least the history of Russia, certainly one of the resonators of global socio-political processes, is changing its course again. I'm talking about the massive mutual Chinese-Uighur massacre in East Turkestan, which is officially called the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the Xinjiang Province of the People's Republic of China (ugh...).

In uniform Disappeared, appeared on the air and disappeared again July 14, 2009 Elena Sannikova Relatives and human rights activists still cannot find the missing Mashud Abdullaev. We live in a fantastic country. Something fantastic occurs periodically. Either the trials in the spirit of anti-utopia, then some fantastic such as Ryazan "teachings", then something else unpredictable, giving the soul of a mediocre detective with grimaces of the theater of the absurd.

The Russian Foreign Ministry is dispelling US hopes that the conclusion of a new strategic offensive arms treaty (START) can be linked to sanctions against Iran. A source in the department told Interfax that “such a link is completely unfounded.

Moscow is still lazily stretching in a summer nap, and somewhere there, far, dust is already swirling-the grooms rushing to matchmaking. Not all parties have gathered their motorcies, not all movements have loaded the necessary gifts, but time is running out - October soon. And then, the jackets are flying to the Moscow-Vyan. The city was more fortunate than the country.