If it weren’t for my long-standing dislike of foreign words within Russian speech, I would call Putin’s famous newspaper articles an unprecedented phenomenon. Or phenomenal unprecedentedness. This way and that way is just crap. Well, nothing like this has ever happened before. Neither on our land, nor beyond its borders. And there’s nothing to even compare it with. That’s why you first need to figure out what it is. Otherwise we won’t understand why?

In the opposition Results of the week: about bureaucratic intuition ... February 23, 2012 Alexander Ryklin The story with the hunger strike of unregistered City Council candidates in a small North Caucasus town, in fact, a suburbs of Pyatigorsk - if we project the situation to other regions of Russia - it seemed to me the most significant from the point of view of behavior in this conflict of law enforcement agencies.