“When he enters, they all get up. Some are in service, others - from happiness. " Joseph Brodsky Dear colleagues! I would not write anything about the last report released on behalf of the Valdai discussion club under the heading “Russia: not to miss good luck. Development scenarios. " In the times of my distant youth, in such cases they said: "Still grind!" Yes, and would not read. But then such a strange thing happened.

If I were interviewing Vladimir Churov, the first thing I would ask was how he would find out the election results. Well, that is, Surkov simply drops him a package in the mail, or is it a courier, which they solemnly open in the presence of all members of the Central Executive Committee?

Sunday, December 4th, 12.45. From the polling station located at the address: Moscow, Staroslobodskaya street, building 8, the song “I will not part with the Komsomol, I will be forever young” is heard in a full voice, breaking through the sound insulation. Coupled with the promise “the sky will become blue” in rhyme - and in the context of the hopeless abomination outside the window - this is both propaganda for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and a statement of idiocy.

What should government officials do on election day? Of course, detain the coordinator of the Left Front Sergei Udaltsov. Unknown men in civilian clothes forced him into a car without license plates near the Sokol metro station and took him away in an unknown direction. At this time, he was heading to a public gathering against the elections in the center of Moscow.