In society Kiryuhi March 2, 2010 Viktor Shenderovich What was it? Sports holiday? What a hell is a holiday! Unfortunate athletes apologized to the Russian people one by one, like Chinese drug dealers before a public execution in the square. It was anything, but not by joy.

Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Volodymyr Lytvyn announced on March 2 the cessation of the activities of the parliamentary coalition. The coalition included the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT), the pro-Yuschenko “Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense” (NU-NS) and the Lytvyn Bloc. The collapse of the coalition was due to the withdrawal of the NU-NS from it, said Lytvyn, but the leader of the BYuT faction, Ivan Kirilenko, blamed Lytvyn himself for what happened.

On March 2, Sergei Kovalev, one of the most famous Soviet dissidents, human rights activist, board member of the International Memorial Society, and author of the Daily Journal, turned 80 years old. Kovalev stood at the origins and was one of the leaders of the Initiative Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR, created in 1969. In 1975, he was sentenced to seven years in maximum security camps and three years of exile for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda.

I have already personally congratulated Sergei Adamovich and sent him a basket of flowers. We are connected with him by various events, common affairs, common memories: the names “Gaidar, Kovalev, Pamfilova” on the same list, and work in Chechnya at the most difficult time. I can wish him first of all good health. His most important quality is that he is who he is, a unique person, and no changes, no wishes for him to change, are needed.

What was it? Sports holiday? What a hell is a holiday! Unfortunate athletes apologized to the Russian people one by one, like Chinese drug dealers before a public execution in the square. It was anything, but not by joy.

In output times, there were two formally different forms of dismissal of the finished leader. The first, soft: "So, Vasya, write a statement on your own." It assumed only a decrease in the status and change of activity. For example, from the propaganda department to the trust of a bath household.

In society Battle for "Volga" March 2, 2010 Vladimir Nadein The Olympics is so tired of everyone that they will try to forget it quickly. It is all the easier that it will not only sink among fans who are subburied and underpluging. Vancouver's memory overshadows the political prospects of Putin himself. It also inspires the people vague doubts about direct contacts between the patriarch and the creator.

On March 4, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg will consider the case “NK YUKOS v. Russian Federation”. Former shareholders of the oil company claim that Russian authorities deliberately brought unfounded tax claims against Yukos in order to bankrupt it. The plaintiffs are demanding $98 billion from Russia. This is a rare case where the Strasbourg court conducts direct hearings rather than limiting itself to written proceedings.