Around Russia Azarov leaves. Is Azarov returning? December 10, 2012 Inna Bulkina The short period of Ukrainian political timelessness ended: on Monday, December 3, President Viktor Yanukovych accepted the resignation of the cabinet Nikolai Azarov, and on December 9 offered the newly elected parliament the candidacy of the new Prime Minister. The intrigues did not work out: this is the same Nikolai Azarov. In principle, few doubted that Azarov was the first number in the “Portfolio List”.

In uniform The reform will be strangled? December 10, 2012 Alexander Golts A month passed after the sensational dismissal of Anatoly Serdyukov and the appointment of defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Obviously, this time was not enough for the new team to develop its own program for the construction of the Armed Forces (the same Serdyukov took about a year to propose their plan for the development of the army).

Quotes from V.V. Putin’s meeting with trusted faces. No comments needed. “And personally, dear Leonid Ilyich” is about to sound... A. NAZEYKIN: You know that Russian postal workers, which is 400 thousand people, mostly more than three hundred thousand, joined the All-Russian Popular Front. They were active voters and agitators; in general, the communications industry actively supported you. I. GLAZUNOV: Vladimir Vladimirovich, we all stand behind you like a mountain.

Around Russia Ideals and interests in American December 10, 2012 Mikhail Berg The vengeful sense of justice is not the most noble, more archaic, but very pleasant. As they say, joyful joy. I am to the fact that the American Senate adopted the “Act of Magnitsky” with deprivation of vile Russian corrupt officials and obscurantists, and not today and tomorrow, President Obama will sign it and put it into life.

In society Okhlobystin as a litmus paper December 10, 2012 Viktor Shenderovich After a recent interview with Ivan Okhlobystin, Echo of Moscow, a puzzled acquaintance called me with the question: do you think he is serious? Here is all this: about the Orthodox Empire, about Russia revealed to the world, to repulse the world adversaries, about the people who will call him, Ivan, to the kingdom ... Well, yes, seriously. That is, he is serious, but in fact, seriously, of course, is not at all.