In uniform The vicious circle of reforms August 4, 2009 Alexander Golts The other day, the REGNUM news agency placed an ordinary, at first glance, information. With reference to the assistant commander of the 76th airborne assault division, Ruslan Compan was reported: this connection switched to the mixed principle of recruitment. That is, both contractors and conscripts will serve in the division. The arrival of one and a half thousand draftees is expected to arrive soon.

Nezavisimaya Gazeta reported that participants in the Seliger 2009 youth forum organized by the authorities decided to create the All-Russian Association of Squads (VAD). The head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs, Vasily Yakimenko, has already promised this “initiative” both budget funding and administrative support. Future organizers of the squads even practiced patrolling in the nearby city of Ostashkov.

We need Gogoli. We need the Shchedrins. I.Stalin The Prime Minister's bold PR continues to develop according to the laws of show business. Throwing fountain pens, meeting bikers, driving a Niva - all this, of course, is great. But the people in Russia, as you know, love “wonder”. We need to capture the imagination of the average person with something like this. And so they came up with a new act - the dive of the national leader to the bottom of Lake Baikal in the legendary Mir apparatus.