The situation with Urlashov perfectly illustrates the collapse of our state institutions (in this case, the security forces and the judiciary). Suppose I personally do not know Urlashov. Suppose I do not trust all those who today shout about his innocence. Suppose I accept in principle that bribe-takers are found among both progressives and oppositionists. Suppose the police provide the most convincing evidence of his guilt. And what? That’s right, nothing...

A criminal case has been initiated against the mayor of Yaroslavl, Evgeny Urlashov. He unexpectedly won the elections despite the fact that he was opposed to United Russia. Almost immediately after taking office, he had a conflict with local legislators. He is currently a member of Mikhail Prokhorov's Civic Platform party. He and three of his subordinates are accused of attempting to take a bribe of 45 million rubles.

In the Blagena Blog, a wonderful story about a penguin named Pierre was told about the markets some time ago. This penguin was a plowman of a penguin flock living at the California Academy of Sciences. The penguins are very easy to learn from the alpha male: he always sits on the highest stone and oversees order. These penguins live about 20 years, and Pierre has already lived 25. And so, having lived 25 years, he was bald.

In society Abramovich and Chelsea - 10 years July 3, 2013 Anton Oresh Ten years ago, July 2, 2003, I came to the fly to us at the Echo. Discussion of current topics, prioritization. It was on this day that the news came that Abramovich bought Chelsea. I no longer remember what news considered the main ones that day.

In uniform What is wrong July 3, 2013 Alexander Golts The phrase “Something seems to have gone wrong”, which was squeezed out of the Vesti 24 channel at the moment when the Proton-M missile was falling over the Baikonur to burning pieces, and she would undoubtedly get into one row with the textbook “It drowned”. Cases in the space industry are in such a way that a successful launch should already be considered an extraordinary incident, and the norm is another disaster.

At the regular hearing in the Leninsky Court of Kirov on July 2 in the case of Alexei Navalny and Pyotr Ofitserov, accused of theft by embezzlement of wood from the Kirovles enterprise, Judge Sergei Blinov again made it clear that he did not need to listen to defense witnesses. On June 16, he refused to call all of the defense's witnesses. Now the defense has demanded his recusal on this basis.