On the night of May 9 in Mezhdurechensk, at the Razdadskaya mine, two explosions thundered one by one, which claimed the lives of 90 people. Since on this day everyone celebrated the victory of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in the Great Patriotic War, the explosions were ignored. The mourning was not declared. When Putin’s victory ended, the explosion news was quickly replaced by the news that “Vladimir Vladimirovich ordered to figure it out” and “Dmitry Anatolyevich commanded to react”.

There are things that are absolutely necessary, in particular, payments of a million rubles to the families of the victims, solving problems with housing, although I don’t really believe in this - they are unlikely to solve these problems, but at least the statement is correct. And there is a system. Complete impunity for everyone involved in the operation of the mine.

In uniform New FSB style in spy affairs: We must cooperate May 17, 2010 Andrey Soldatov, Irina Borogan The amazingly soft sentence in the case of Gennady Sipachev, a amateur cartographer from Yekaterinburg, accused of transferring secret cards to the Pentagon-four years of conclusion-shows that the FSB again changes tactics in “spy” matters.

On May 14, the Chess Federation of Russia nominated Anatoly Karpova as a candidate for President FIDE. Most of the members of the Supervisory Board of the Federation voted for Mr. Karpov. But not all. The chairman of this council, Assistant President of the Russian Federation Arkady Dvorkovich, opposed. Moreover, Mr. Dvorkovich announced the illegality of Anatoly Karpov’s nomination candidate FIDE. Due to the absence at the meeting ... Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Mr. Dvorkovich.

After the election/appointment of Sergei Fursenko, 100 days passed by the President of the RFU. Why is he worse than other presidents? So it's time to summarize the first results. Moreover, very soon, when we expand the race for the right to the World Cup, football will become a national idea worse than Sochi. However, we will talk about the World Cup soon separately, but for now about Fursenko, who will become one of the locomotives of this insanity, and the locomotive is far from the last.

The Solidarity movement published a statement expressing support for the Kuzbass miners, as well as the authors of the appeal from the Union of Kuzbass Residents. The United Democratic Movement said in a statement: “The Solidarity movement is outraged by the cruel and cynical actions of the authorities, who on the evening of May 14, with the help of riot police, beat and detained miners and their relatives despairing from grief.