In society Itchy dignity and all different June 29, 2012 George Satarov The discussion of the list of Cardin flashed in Russia does not take into account several important points of its existence in his homeland - in the USA, as, indeed, in our country. I consider it useful to introduce these points into the "discourse", as it is fashionable to say today. First. Why is the activation of the discussion of the cardin list in the US Congress is taking place right now?

In society The results of the week. Epistolar week June 29, 2012 Alexander Ryklin We write letters, gentlemen ... and also - we sign statements, make lists, hack posts and make up their content ... The main plot of the outgoing week is the collective letter of representatives of the domestic creative intelligentsia in defense of girls from Pussy Riot. In the previous phrase, the keyword, of course, is “collective”, since we have not seen such a team of signatories for a long time.

The Italian national team players entered the semi-finals of the European Championship wearing mourning armbands. They did this in memory of an Italian soldier who had died in Afghanistan the day before. This is about the price of human life. Just one soldier. “Total”... According to our unspoken rule, mourning is when more than a hundred die. And we certainly won’t put on armbands for every soldier who died, say, in the Caucasus.

In uniform Putin's epic, or as they mixed up in places of victims and accused June 29, 2012 Alexander Podrabinek Every trial somewhat reminiscent of a performance. It just begins not with a hanger, but with handcuffs. And so, monologues of accusations and protection, dialogues of interrogations, secrets of evidence and passionate speeches of lawyers, the final cry of the protagonist and the intrigue of the sentence - everything is subject to the laws of the scene. This is in ordinary trials.

In the opposition Instead of congratulations June 29, 2012 Alexey Kondaurov He met nine out of forty -nine birthdays behind bars. According to the term conducted in prison, still (thank God!) Not Nelson Mandela. However, authoritarian arbitrariness, and with it physical and moral deprivations, probably experienced no less.