In society Agony February 5, 2013 Lilia Shevtsova To insist that the Putin regime has exhausted itself is trite. Today it is more important to reflect whether the agony of Putinism will lead to the end of the autocracy, whether the elites can hope for the split and how other countries came out of authoritarianism. Part 1.

A bus with a mustachioed executioner is already dissecting in St. Petersburg; The name of the rippled killer will soon be called the city on the Volga. Unbearable. And to live on Leninsky Prospekt - carried out? Walk past the monuments to the bald maniac who unleashed the civil war and gave out quotas for executions with whole classes - is carried out? Yes, quite. It is easier to tolerate for some reason. Here are two simple reasons for this difference in the level of the pain threshold.

Prosecutor Tashkenov and Lieutenant Colonel Vaizer Another judicial day in Berezniki ended. Finally, the consideration of the case on the merits began. Darova with Alekhina in the colony, sitting sideways on a side. Sometimes they laugh at something, which carries a judge out of their own way. I'm alone at the table. In the morning they attached documents to the case of the colony administration. The documents are bad, poorly executed.

In the economy "Shuvalov case" February 5, 2013 Maxim Blot The Shuvalov case is radically different from other corruption cases that have been spinning from the end of last year in Russia. First of all, because it was initiated not one of the Kremlin or government groups.

The World Russian People's Council (VRNS) considers justified the idea of ​​returning Volgograd to the name with which it entered the history of the 20th century. “Regardless of the assessment of Stalin’s personality, Stalingrad became a symbol of our military art and a symbol of the highest courage, at the same time as Thermopylae and Salamis.

The Ukrainian political news of this winter is most reminiscent of the scenario blanks of the criminal thriller: the characters and performers are understandable and spelled out in general terms, the plot with its “key episodes” is set, moreover, these “key episodes” will enter the textbooks of the latest history of Ukraine soon or later, and few doubts this today. So, the main events of the news tapes were two custom -made murders more than a year ago.

According to the Kommersant newspaper, the Kremlin has nothing to do with the very timely initiative of Kirov deputies to impeach the head of the region, Nikita Belykh, who was recently questioned by the Investigative Committee in the case of the theft of shares in a local distillery. This version seems absolutely fantastic to us!

To insist that the Putin regime has exhausted itself is trite. Today it is more important to reflect whether the agony of Putinism will lead to the end of the autocracy, whether the elites can hope for the split and how other countries came out of authoritarianism. Part 1. Putin - Antican Tomb The history of the democratic revolutions of modern times shows that authoritarian leaders (and dictators too), having begun to lose power, usually tried to survive in three ways.