There is a changing of the guard at the bloody post. It is no longer relevant to mourn those killed in the Nevsky Express. The search for reasons and culprits can be stopped. Now we have a fire on our hands. Life is cynical and cruel. Grief is short-lived. Those who died on the train would have been forgotten quite quickly anyway, but they were not even given a certain standard period of time.

Around Russia The parade of good intentions December 8, 2009 Grigory Durnovo So, the Russia-NATO Council held the first official meeting at the level of foreign ministers since the suspension of work after last year’s conflict in South Ossetia.

In society The science of sorrow. Not assimilated December 8, 2009 Alexander Golts - looked out. I see - lies. In police uniform. Wheezes. - A young woman in a home dressing gown tells television porters how she discovered the policemen executed by the bandits. Just in her eyes, a man was painfully dying. But the aunt is completely, absolutely calm. The least I would like to act as a moralizer. Even less - an excited institution.

On December 7, Pyotr Weil, editor-in-chief of the Russian Service of Radio Liberty, died. He was 60 years old. Peter Weil was in a coma for more than a year as a result of severe heart disease. Peter Weil was born in Riga, graduated from the editorial department of the Moscow Printing Institute. In 1977 he emigrated to the USA, and since 1984 he has collaborated with the Russian Service. Since 1995 he lived in Prague.

In society Permian December 8, 2009 Anton Oresh At the bloody post, the change of guard. The dead in the "Nevsky Express" to mourn it is not relevant. The search for causes and guilty can be stopped. Now we have a fire in line. Life is cynical and cruel. The grief is short -lived. The dead on the train would have been forgotten quite soon, but they were not released even of a certain standard period of time.

In the Kremlin Troika, seed, ace December 8, 2009 Alexey Kondaurov Throughout the Putin era, somehow it did not happen to observe the direct television broadcasts of the communication of this master with the people: 3-4 hours preferred to devote more useful to the mind and heart.

The interview that Anatoly Chubais gave to the BBC Russian Service on the first day of the coming winter once again confirms that the democrat and liberal Chubais is a myth. This is a harmful myth, used with pleasure and not without success by our home-grown opponents of democracy and liberalism. In fact, A. Chubais is an ordinary Marxist with a Bolshevik bias, for whom the basis is economic determinism and the principle borrowed by the Bolsheviks from the Jesuits - the end justifies the means.