For Dmitry Anatolyevich’s birthday, VTsIOM gave the president a magnificent “gift”. Russians were surveyed about Medvedev's achievements and failures. And the result turned out great! 70% of respondents did not remember any achievements, and almost half of those surveyed found it difficult to answer anything at all. What a wonderful result for the president of a great and powerful country! What an amazing result of the reign - I can’t even remember anything about you!

“Right Cause,” having lost its leader, decided to go to the polls despite the very dubious chance of any success.

The other day, the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin announced the probability of the second wave of the global crisis, and today we are observing the fall in the stock markets. At the same time, as I already had to say, the whole current crisis, apparently, will have a protracted character. The second wave is possible, but, on the one hand, it is unlikely to be very strong, and on the other - after it passes, most likely another wave awaits us, after it is another, and so on.

The one who crept up unnoticed on Europe and the USA, never left Russia. Anecdote from the Internet The history of presidential elections in Russia is quite interesting and deserves a separate study. But there is one interesting circumstance in it that should be especially considered. In all elections, the candidate who suited the United States won. This began back in Soviet times, when the first presidential elections of the RSFSR took place.

Alas, alas! Ivan Okhlobystin will not run for president. But how many people have already managed to rejoice that, they say, there is some kind of light, a living word, you know, someone humanoid. Well, just think, he said that the president needs to rule for 14 years, that the Duma is not needed, but what charisma, what sincerity!

In society "He had a persecution mania ..." September 19, 2011 Viktor Shenderovich A couple of days ago, on the website "Hedgehog" I made a feasible analysis of the article by Natalia OSS "Russian dispute, meaningless and useless." Aside from the main topic of the polemic, one indicative (both in the intonation and logical terms) a fragment that deserves attention.

On the night of September 18, Galina Chalikova, founder and director of the Gift of Life charity foundation, died. She was 53 years old. She was an unusually kind and selfless person. The foundation she created helps children with cancer, hematology and other serious diseases. Galina Chalikova herself died from cancer.