In the economy It concerns us August 9, 2011 Evgeny Gontmamer The vast majority of Russians are completely indifferent to information about a decrease in the US investment rating and a collapse on stock exchanges around the world. Some, most fooled by state propaganda, even gloating about the difficulties of the American economy (“so they, parasites, are necessary”), thinking that our “island of stability” will not affect this cataclysm. And there seems to be grounds for such optimism.

President Dmitry Medvedev's speculations about an international tribunal for his Georgian counterpart Mikheil Saakashvili were supported by real action: Russia sent copies of materials from criminal cases about the war in South Ossetia to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Kommersant writes.

In society Neo -Nazism in Europe: it still does not hurt, although the blood is already acting August 9, 2011 Mikhail Margelov Upon learning of the slaughterhouse in Norway, I admit, I was not very surprised. The shock, of course, was like everyone who happened to be in Oslo: somehow it does not fit with the “nibelung cleanliness” of the city, and the whole of Norway. Well, many people died.

A wonderful message appeared on the government procurement website. Contract for 420 thousand rubles. To “provide telepathic services to provide access to the Internet to 28 educational institutions” in the Shamilsky district of Dagestan. Well, at least in Dagestan there live sensible people, realists.

To the official version of the crash of the ship Bulgaria The Investigative Committee dumbfounded us with the next version of the death of Bulgaria: “According to the preliminary version, the collapse is caused by an unsuitable technical condition of the vessel, in particular the malfunction of the engine, radio hosting systems, incomplete staffing by saving means, as well as exceeding the norm of filling the vessel by passengers and team members (201, in fact, instead of 156)”.

Around Russia About the action, inaction and counteraction, as well as about money and bankers August 9, 2011 Alexander Feduta Professor Preobrazhensky used to say, I remember that devastation is not in the restrooms, but in their heads. Or something like that. In general, when they start to crap in unredated places. The classic was right. Following the Bulgakov character, I can note that the crisis begins not so much in factories as in the heads.

Following Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk, the face of the new leader of the Right Cause, Mikhail Prokhorov, was rejected by Moscow. In all these cities, posters with a portrait of Prokhorov and the inscriptions “Who is right is stronger” or “The inevitability of change” were removed. It should be noted that election campaigning is not yet permitted, so these posters have the status of social advertising according to the documents.