A boy from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky received severe burns last Christmas when launching city fireworks. For a year, of course, the extreme ones were not found, the police, the prosecutor's office and the investigative committee disgustedly, through their lips, sent the unfortunate parents into the forest... And the boy, under the dictation of his elders, wrote to the Kremlin.

The rumors that have been spreading recently that the object codenamed “Medvedev” is in fact not a clone, but in its pure form a visualized product of joint developments by Russian and Israeli scientists, seem to me worthy of attention. And not only because recent advances in the use of nanotechnology in the development of fifth-generation optical devices are impressive. True, there is evidence from well-respected people who claim that they have repeatedly touched the object.

In society The results of the week. Furious tail cutting December 11, 2009 Alexander Golts The last week brought, as usual, two news - good and bad. The good lies in the fact that from the Kremlin’s presentation in the vastness of Russia, a useful trend develops in an extremely useful trend. Namely, the officials responsible for the sphere where the failure happened or, do not bring the Lord, catastrophe, leave their posts immediately, even before the end of the proceedings.

The Ministry of Defense sent a directive to the Central Archives limiting access to previously open documents. According to military historian Mark Solonin, quoted by Ekho Moskvy, researchers may not receive documents for work that contain negative information about Russian military personnel. The concept of falsifying history works.

It is believed that the Chechen war began on December 11, 1994: on this day, columns of Russian troops entered Chechnya to “establish constitutional order.” However, by that time the war was already really underway. In any case, when I was in Grozny at the end of November 1994, Russian aircraft were already bombing it with might and main. True, Air Force Commander-in-Chief Pyotr Deinekin threw up his hands in bewilderment: not my attack aircraft, they say, but some “unidentified” ones!

Two-headed calves The terrible terrorist attack on the Nevsky Express gave rise to a lot of alternative versions.

Workers of the Molot machine-building plant in the city of Vyatskie Polyany, Kirov region, held an unauthorized rally on December 10 due to the fact that they had not received wages for seven months. This was reported on the regional Internet portal davecha.ru.