Right now: on BBC, CNN and France-24 - reports from Volgograd, on all Russian channels except Dozhd, the fun continues. Then they will still talk about the collapse of the country... Here it is, the collapse of the country, right now.

The head of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, Irina Yarovaya, spoke in favor of using the death penalty for terrorism. She made this statement immediately after the second explosion in Volgograd. Yarovaya had almost no time to think, but her intellect did not let her down. To scare a martyr with the death penalty is a solid five. We're safe now. If only we could put the idiots from the authorities somewhere else, we could live.

In the last weeks of the outgoing year, President Putin made important speeches in two characteristic “meetings” - the Russian literary (before cultural figures) and federal (to deputies and officials). In both cases, he made speeches not only as the highest official of the state, but also as an expressor of official ideology. In a message on December 12, the president announced his worldview credo to the Federal Assembly in terms of international relations.