The head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, is seriously concerned about the actions of European organizations that are “actively trying to teach us something again.” And now OSCE representatives have arrived in Russia, wanting to see how the elections are being prepared and, as usual, publish a report based on the results of their observations. Based on this report, the OSCE will determine the format for monitoring the Russian election process.

In the Kremlin Who does not want to become president August 15, 2011 Avtandil Tsuladze The main theme of the Russian public policy "Who will become the president - Putin or Medvedev?" I am deprived of meaning for a very simple reason: neither one nor the other president does not want to become and is not going to. But what about the "intrigue of the elections"?

It is clear that for a modern democratic society, it is destructive both the extremism of the right, which recently became the emergency of Breivik in Norway and the left, if you like, leftist. For weapons today in Europe, and in America, the right-wing are taken mainly-leftist terrorism seems to have remained in the 70s-early 80s, although its symbol, Carlos nicknamed jackal, is still alive and serving a life sentence. But such a picture, I repeat, prevails in Europe and in America.

One of the best modern historians Niall Fergusson wrote in his last book Civilization: The West and the Rest. "We live at the end of the 500-year era of dominance in Europe." In the West, about the same thing happened in the USSR in 1991 - namely, the collapse of the socialist economy. Alas, socialism, like syphilis, is a fatal disease, regardless of whether socialism is a consequence of Stalin's tyranny (as in the USSR) or a consequence of universal suffrage (as in the present West).