Around Russia Sniper shooting February 3, 2014 Alexander Golts The Munich Security Conference is always a serious test for domestic chiefs. The insidious representatives of the West strive to plunge something conciliatory, about the need for mutually beneficial cooperation, for example. It is firmly ordered by ours to give a proper rebuff. So, speaking last Saturday in Munich, the NATO Secretary General Anders Fog Rasmussen made a question of cooperation one of the most important.

VTsIOM conducted a survey of how Russians evaluate the liberation of Punch Riot punk groups as part of an amnesty. A year and a half after the sentence, the share of the respondents supporting this decision increased from 31% to 44%. The fifth of the respondents (22%) believes that the punishment was too soft and he should be tightened. Respondents talk about the excessive severity of the sentence in 2014 less often than in 2012 (19% versus 33%).

It is nice to reappear on federal television - at least in the form of photography and quotes, with meat torn from context. On Sunday, Dmitry Kiselev tried for me. The titer was in full screen: "Shenderovich VS Vera Inber." It turns out that I actually proposed to hand over Leningrad to the Nazis, giving 300 thousand Leningrad Jews to the destruction. "What would Schenderovich answer Vera Inber to the proposal to pass Leningrad?" -sarcastically asked Mr. Kiselev.