In the opposition Appeal to Muscovites December 23, 2010 Daily Journal On December 11, Manezhnaya Square became the area of ​​our shame - on this day on behalf of Muscovites and the entire Russian people, the Nazis spoke in full voice. The murder of Yegor Sviridov was used by them for disgusting political purposes. Moscow, painted with swastikas, pogroms in the subway and on the streets of the city ...

The visit of the Latvian President Valdis Zatlers to Moscow did not attract much attention of the media. Against the backdrop of stormy post -crop events in Belarus, the problems of relations between Russia and Latvia looked not so interesting. In fact, we are talking about continuing the large -scale process of building relations with Western countries, including with “problematic” for Russia. Recall that more recently in Russia, Europe was loved to divide into “old” (good) and “new (bad).

Japan has decided to replace its ambassador in Moscow due to the fact that the current ambassador, Masaharu Kono, did not warn his superiors about a possible visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev to the disputed territory of the South Kuril Islands. Kono insisted that Medvedev would not come, even after the president said he would. The ambassador reported in Tokyo that he did not believe that such a thing could happen.

The Minsk City Internal Affairs Directorate published a list of those arrested in the criminal case regarding mass riots in Minsk on December 19. It lists 19 people. Including five presidential candidates from the opposition: Vladimir Neklyaev, beaten on December 19 and then taken into custody straight from the hospital, Aleksei Mikhalevich, Vitaly Rymashevsky, Andrei Sannikov and Nikolai Statkevich.

On December 22, a picket was held in the center of Novosibirsk against the introduction of a limit on the number of free trips for beneficiaries in the region from January 1. 17 pensioners who took part in the picket and remained at the mayor's office after it, in order to get the authorities to cancel the decision, spent several hours on the night of December 23 in the police station.

When Oleg Kashin just began to come to his senses, I turned to Dmitry Anatolyevich: visit Oleg. This symbolic gesture would show who you are with. Of course, I am not arrogant and I understand that Dmitry Anatolyevich did not read my words. After all, I'm not Twitter. But he could have guessed it himself. I didn't guess. Or didn't want to. But Vladimir Vladimirovich guessed it. And he made his choice.

After the riots on the Manezhnaya, caused by the murder of the Caucasians Yegor Sviridov, the fan of Spartak, Vladimir Putin laid flowers to the grave of Sviridov. Moreover, Putin went to the grave not on the armored Mercedes, but in the same bus with the leaders of fan groups. This political maneuver itself is five with a plus. I think that in such a situation, any elected politician - Barack Obama or Angel Merkel would have acted in a similar situation.

Around Russia Westernik in the west-3 December 23, 2010 Mikhail Berg How, first of all, is Russia different from the West or, say, America, in the opinion of the Russian Western observer? Compared with Russia, then in America there is practically no critical attitude to the authorities, the state and its institutions, to the country as such. It is how to compare the scum of dogs and a person: the dog has such a scent that the scent of a person is completely absent.