In the opposition Shit in the glaze December 19, 2011 George Satarov I want to take advantage of the polemic between Viktor Shenderovich and Leonid Radzikhovsky, in order to draw attention to how now in response to a sharp change in public moods, the power continues to apply its traditional tools - lies and manipulations. What is a lie, it is clear to most readers.

The International Charitable Foundation "Children of the World" invited everyone to take part in the New Year's charity event "Give a Gift to Children!" and perform a small miracle for those children to whom, for some reason, Santa Claus may not come. It was a pleasant surprise for the fund that the Central Bank of Russia decided to support the New Year’s event and take an active part in it.

That winter, I just came to Prague for the first time - I had never been in this wonderful city before. Winter, gets dark early. The day is shorter than the night. Therefore, that picture was remembered especially vividly. Most of the day above the Prague City, a huge scarlet heart burned over all Prague. It was amazing - but incomprehensible. And we asked Prazhan what this means. And they answered us: our president, Vaclav Gavel leaves.

In the opposition Navalny - my president December 19, 2011 Julia Latynina Leonid Radzikhovsky published on Echo a program post that, they say, Putin is bad - but, besides him, no one! The whole field is cleaned! Especially went to Alexei Navalny. “According to the degree of unknown, surprise, the validity of their phenomenon to the people, Navalny is not similar to Putin-Medvedev, but with False Dmitry,” writes Radzikhovsky. Usually I do not polemize with Mr. Radzikhovsky.

The blog of writer Boris Akunin (aka literary critic Grigory Chkhartishvili) was hacked. Currently, when you try to access http://borisakunin.livejournal.com, a message appears that the magazine is frozen. Before this, all of Akunin’s blog posts were reported to have disappeared and a mocking inscription was left behind. The writer's email was also hacked.

Yesterday, at a rally in St. Petersburg, it became clear which strategy would use the marchings to discredit the protesters. I will write more about this in Novaya Gazeta on Wednesday, and now it is important to say the following: in St. Petersburg to the stage, having come an hour earlier, the Naziki and “ours” crawled - the Naziks were torn to the rostrum, and the “ourselves” whistled. Oksana Dmitriev whistled. The logic here is simple: who controls the first rows, controls the rally.

Vaclav Gavel was a European - even when his country was behind the "iron curtain." Many politicians of the former Czechoslovakia have made a difficult and controversial path from the sincere following communist orthodox to the commitment of democratic values. The key figures of the Prague Spring were just such people - Dubchek, Blueberry, SMRkovsky, Kriegel, Mlynarzh. For Gavel, “Europe” and rejection of the Soviet system, like its flip side, was hereditary and organic.

In uniform 64 billion support December 19, 2011 Alexander Golts Everything is like in a classical tragedy. Unity of place, time and action. Last December 15, Putin Show, employees of the same enterprise offered Putin their support in the dispersal of Moscow rallies, but demanded in return to dismiss the Minister of Defense, the initiator of the only progressive reform for all the years of the Putin regime. Honestly, in this world nothing is by chance.

The story of Kim Jong Il is an almost unique case of how the successor of the formidable “master”, a representative of the second generation of the dictator, managed to retain power until his completely natural death. Kim Il Sung accomplished what Mao Zedong could not. Kim the son left his country as poor, as driven to complete numbness by merciless terror as his “great” father Kim Il Sung left him. True, now with an atomic explosive device.

Around Russia European December 19, 2011 Alexey Makarkin Vaclav Gavel was a European - even when his country was behind the "iron curtain." Many politicians of the former Czechoslovakia have made a difficult and controversial path from the sincere following communist orthodox to the commitment of democratic values. The key figures of the Prague Spring were just such people - Dubchek, Blueberry, SMRkovsky, Kriegel, Mlynarzh.