The idea of ​​the “Great White Circle” - standing along the entire Garden Ring - was criticized quite a lot almost from the moment it began to be introduced among Facebook users. They say that it is far from the Kremlin, and visually unattractive, and the Garden Ring itself is somehow cold, lifeless and little conducive to creativity.

I probably would not have written this note if Alexei Navalny had not written in his blog that Prosecutor General Chaika was listed in the secret documents of the “intelligence and analytical center Stratfor” as a particularly valuable agent. Alexey, you are wrong.

A comrade from Tehran at a meeting of the Valdai discussion club, held this week in Sochi, outlined his thesis simply: Syria is today the front line of the fight against Israel, and the Palestinian issue is the most important, and that is why Iran will continue to support the “Islamic resistance". Bashar Assad, the Syrian president, has a very distant relationship with the “Islamic resistance”. He now has other interests - to survive.