In vain, after all, Hamlet was afraid that his actors would play too “fatly”: Herod cannot be reborn! No Hryun and Stepan could joke as harshly as life itself... It's a small world: here's a story from the Prosecutor General's Office.

In society Hands off the Cherkizon! July 16, 2009 Anton Oresh In the situation with the Cherkizov market there are quite obvious things. The most obvious of which is that the market was not closed by sanitary, counterfeit, smuggling or migration reasons. Just at first this territory was divided so, and now they want to share this. Or some other territory or sphere, but at the expense of Cherkizov.

The discussion about the state of Russian-American (and more broadly with the West in general) relations in connection with US President Obama's visit to Moscow suggests some certainty about the central question - whether the conflictual nature of these relations in recent years is an expression of the ongoing Cold War.

In the economy The price of words July 16, 2009 Matvey Ganapolsky This topic could only be related to the economy. But it is related to politics. She is much wider than the event itself. In Ankara, representatives of the five countries of the six participants in the Nabukko project signed an intergovernmental agreement on the supply of natural gas from the Caspian basin to Europe bypassing Russia. These countries: Austria, Hungary, Türkiye, Bulgaria and Romania.

On July 15, 2009, Natasha Estemirova, who left her house in Grozny, was seized and pushed into a white “seven” - she only managed to shout that she was kidnapped. A few hours later, her body was found in Ingushetia, not far from the Rostov-Baku highway. Hands were tied, a bruise on his face. She was killed by two shots in the chest and two shots in the head. For almost a day, I feel like an insensitive parrot, which repeats the same thing with a hoarse voice.

Following the failed (yet?) renaming of the Leningradsky Station in Moscow back to Nikolaevsky, the Left Front organization held an action on July 16 at the main office of Russian Railways OJSC. Left Front activists blocked the entrance, unfurled a banner “Hands off the Leningradsky Station” and held a rally. According to the left, the struggle of Russian Railways and its head Vladimir Yakunin with the Soviet legacy in the form of renaming the names of stations is an extremist activity.

In society Purely Chechen murder July 16, 2009 Zoya Svetova Murdered Natalya Estemirova. Human rights activist. Journalist. Employee of the Grozny branch of the Human Rights Center "Memorial". Natalia collected information and the truth about the second Chechen war since its beginning. All journalists who came to Grozny always came for contacts and information to Natalia. And she carried them to the victims of laid, relatives of abducted, killed, tortured in Chechen prisons.

In the opposition The madness of the routine July 16, 2009 Mikhail Delyagin The process over Khodorkovsky and Lebedev needs Kafka or at least in Ionesko, because ordinary observers, devoid of appropriate artistic talents, are simply difficult to convey the atmosphere of routine, mournful madness, reigning in the process. I already wrote about a strange way to provide “evidence”.