It seems to me that Medvedev’s speech today at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum looks a little like a political testament. But the part dedicated to Moscow does not particularly follow from the rest.

I remember the former governor of Tver Zelenin thanks to a phenomenal advertising video that was shown when he was still a candidate there. I quote from memory: “Zelenin’s family is ready to move to Tver. And this is not a feat, but a way of serving the Fatherland.” Perhaps I mixed up a couple of letters, but that was the meaning. Now the path of serving the Fatherland is completed.

In the Kremlin The results of the week. On the shore June 17, 2011 Alexander Ryklin On the last week, the “solidarity” was carried out by an exceptionally curious experiment. They called the experiment “Honest Elections”. If anyone has forgotten, then the elections in some countries are called the procedure by which the responsible citizens of these countries through their own will form various branches and even state authorities.

Solidarity activists Natalya Filonova, Tatyana Stetsura and Nadezhda Nizovkina, detained on June 12 in Petrovsk-Zabaikalsky and sitting in a special detention center in Chita, went on a dry hunger strike. Stetsura is already free - she served five days. Filonova was given seven days, and Nizovkina ten. As a result of the hunger strike, Nizovkina ended up in a railway hospital. At first she was in intensive care, but later she was transferred to a regular ward.

Albert Camus, in the preface to the “rebellious man”, wrote: “It is much more interesting to find out why people continue to live, than what pushes them to commit suicide - the world is so absurd.” Camus was an agnostic. To part with the life of any of us a thousand and one reason is to reduce them to the administrative arbitrariness of the new bishop and the need to move out of the apartment is simplified.

President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at the St.

Around Russia Funny story June 17, 2011 Alexander Golts Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has just signed the Federal Law “On ratification of an agreement between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus on interaction in the field of electronic warfare”, adopted by the State Duma on May 20, 2011 and approved by the Federation Council on May 25.

In the opposition Without memory June 17, 2011 Vladimir Kara-Murza (ml) According to the Memory of In memory of the victims of communism, more than 100 million people died in the 20th century. Of these, about 20 million in the Soviet Union.