The famous dacha of the Chairman of the First State Duma Sergei Muromtsev, where Bunin and, in Soviet times, Venedikt Erofeev stayed, burned down on January 3 under suspicious circumstances. On the site of the only residential wooden house in Tsaritsyno, the prefecture of the Southern District of Moscow wants to create a parking lot for cleaning equipment and electric vehicles. Residents were repeatedly threatened.

“Have you heard?” - as sung in the opera “Eugene Onegin”. Have you heard these wonderful New Year's verses performed by our puppet "duumvirate"? No? Ooh, you missed an epoch-making event! Satire on Channel One! We got there. The objects of satire were: the International Olympic Committee (which is finding fault with Sochi), the Nabucco project (rhyme - “three letters”), the Opel company (rhyme - “in the ass”)...

Traditionally, when we say goodbye to the outgoing year, we say to ourselves: it was a difficult period. There are no simple periods. Work - home - family - troubles - health problems - issues that require immediate solutions, and so on in a circle... Unfortunately, this pandemonium is often interrupted by disasters, terrorist attacks, tragedies that do not affect you personally, but suddenly and terribly end the lives of a large number of people.

In the economy The results of the year. Revitalization is not guaranteed to us January 4, 2010 Evgeny Yasin The year turned out to be difficult. Definitely the most difficult since 1998. The most dangerous situation close to the panic was in October-November 2008, but, in general, at the results of the year it was not reflected so significant. And this year, the most severe decline fell on the first months, and by May a total fall came to a ten -year -old calculus.