Around Russia "Twitter-revolution" and the Kremlin reaction February 25, 2011 Andrey Soldatov Events in the Middle East caused a relapse of optimism, which first showed during the Iranian unrest of 2009. It has already become a common place that the overthrow of regimes in Tunisia and Egypt is the revolutions of social media that promote democratic values.

The world behind the scenes, which was preparing a coup in Egypt with the help of top managers of Google, can make plans as much as they like to implement similar insidious scenarios in Russia. But no, gentlemen, it is useless to intimidate us. As Interfax learned from a source in the Moscow administration, the capital’s police will receive as much as 10 million rubles to combat extremist views. Let’s not let any “Twitters” financed from abroad scold our government.

“Vinci, get out!” - under this slogan a rally will be held on March 1 at 15.00 at the monument to Griboedov on Chistye Prudy. Defenders of the Khimki Forest are going to hand over a return ticket to Paris to the Moscow office of the construction company Vinci, which is involved in the construction of the route through the forest. The goal of environmentalists and their sympathizers is that there will be no one to build the “bloody highway”.

All this was before my eyes for two years. This interview did not particularly enrich me with anything, except for the appearance of a man with whom one could sympathize, if not for one “but”: by a decision signed by him, two other completely innocent people were sent to prison for 14 years. A lot of words were said, a small part of them were sincere, in my opinion, but I really want to believe that the words that he would answer for this sentence “until the end of his days” were sincere.

Around Russia The results of the week. Boil is a self -hand ... February 25, 2011 Alexander Golts Many years ago I came across a book with the best reports of American journalists about the Vietnamese War. Most of all I was struck by the text about how the soldiers at the base watched the famous film “The Guns of Navaron Island” (there the heroic British saboteurs explode the German battery).

Around Russia Year of Yanukovych February 25, 2011 Inna Bulkina When a year ago, on February 25, the inauguration ceremony took place and Viktor Yanukovych received an official certificate of the President of Ukraine, the media immediately reported the first of his “incident” in a new quality: Yanukovych sent a certificate in his pocket, instead of putting it on a specially prepared red pillow. Instinct was conflicting with the ritual, and instinct won.

The mayor of Chita, Anatoly Mikhalev, apologized for his statement about homeless people. Let us remember that on February 24 he complained that he did not have a license to shoot homeless people, and he did not see any other means to deal with them. Later, his press service released a statement in which Mikhalev apologizes to “those who took these words literally.” Well, thank you, Anatoly Dmitrievich, for reacting to the public outrage.