We sat on the air, summing up the results of the United Russia congress. They just couldn’t understand what Gryzlov’s words meant about the fact that the party’s slogans at the present stage would be conservatism and modernization. Because, according to common sense, these words make no sense. But we wanted to find out how their listeners understood - after all, they vote for “ER” with record numbers in all elections. This means that citizens understand the party’s policies.

Citizens of Russia! The disaster at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, regardless of its specific reasons and the perpetrators, marked the completion of a long period in the history of our country. I can’t call this period “development” - this is a time of degradation.

( "History of the ancient world." G. Shanghai. 3048. Section "Tribes of the Middle West In the early era of the Hu Jing Tao dynasty " ) Excerpts from the chapter “The beginning of the third millennium. Birth of the Empire " The term “Putinoid”, now in the languages ​​of the Slavic peoples related to an abnormitative vocabulary, and in those distant times carried a humiliating and insulting meaning.

In society Read Markes! November 26, 2009 Viktor Shenderovich Once I have already shared impressions of fresh re -reading with a respectable audience Colombian classic. It was then about the novel "Badge time". And here is a new vacation, and a battered volume in a vacation suitcase: “A hundred years of loneliness”, a novel that I did not look into, go, twenty years ...

The Malaga court found no evidence that Yukos illegally withdrew money through European companies. This case of laundering 152 million euros in Spain was initiated in 2005 (at that time it was still about 250 million), and, according to Spanish investigators, part of the funds could have been withdrawn from YUKOS circulation. This version, naturally, was confirmed by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.