Around Russia And another parrot wing ... March 22, 2010 Alexander Golts It has long been noticed: the Russian language is not lying. As soon as someone tries to disguise the truth, she (true) immediately crawls out of omissions and undeveloped formulations. So the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, said the other day something completely self -consuming.

In early December 2009, the III World Congress of Russian Compatriots was held in Moscow. In his speech, President Dmitry Medvedev expressed a desire to contribute to the return of our talented fellow citizens who left abroad. Good desire. Will it be able to implement it against the backdrop of the constant pressure of power on our frail civil society?

An inter-party working group created by President Dmitry Medvedev to develop changes to electoral legislation proposes holding all regional elections and most municipal elections exclusively on a party basis, thereby depriving single-mandate voters of the right to nomination. According to A Just Russia, which was expressed on the pages of Kommersant by the leader of its Duma faction Nikolai Levichev, in single-mandate constituencies only those for whom the administrative resource works benefit.

At the police station at the Kaliningrad airport, the gendarme captain, having copied the data from my passport, asked in a guilty voice: “So for what purpose, Alexander Yuryevich, did you come to our city?” “So with the goal of engaging in social and political activities,” I answered. “Yeah,” the captain raised his eyebrows, “and how long are you going to do this with us?” "See you tomorrow evening." “Ah...