The XIV Congress of United Russia, outlined on October 3-5, will be held for the first time without the participation of Vladimir Putin, the Kommersant newspaper reports. Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Putin had no plans to attend the Congress of the ruling party. The funny thing is that, according to the position of the leadership of United Russia, the congress will be devoted to the success of the party in the past elections.

The term of office of the coordination council of the opposition of the first convocation expires. The results of his activities, to put it mildly, do not make a strong impression. But, as some have already noted, it would be worth closing their eyes if the council had managed to organize new elections and ensure procedural continuity for its new composition.

How time flies! It seemed that not so long ago we were heatedly discussing elections to the newly invented Coordination Council, talking about its necessity and prospects - but now a year has passed, and we are again talking about almost the same thing. About necessity, prospects and elections (more precisely, re-elections).

In society Mediafiya. Role games in politics and media September 25, 2013 Igor Yakovenko The content of the leading Russian media last week was a large artistic canvas called "The Tale of how Putin defeated Obama with McCain, became the absolute leader of the globe, found a national idea for Russia and tamed the wild Russian opposition." Let's start small, with Putin’s victory over McCain.

In the opposition Tolokonnikova's letter September 25, 2013 Alexander Podrabinek Camp letters could become a separate genre of Russian literature. It is our literature, because a prison in Russia is more than a prison. This is not a trouble or punishment, it is rock and very often - reckoning for stamina and justice. If you collect the most piercing camp letters together, you will get such a mournful book that not everyone has the spirit to read it to the end.

It seems to have figured it out with the turnout. But it was attributed and attributed to it not on its own. Each attributed voice gives an extra unit in the total layout of the ballots. In fact, just the voices are attributed (who needs it), and the indicator of the turnout only dutifully stretches after. As a humble function behind an impudent argument. This is important to realize. Once the turnout is attributed, it means that the added voices went to one of the participants.