Just a couple of days ago, describing the state sliding of the head of the VGTRK (from the peaks of professional reputation - to the trash with dirty linen), I rhetorically asked: what next? The answer followed immediately, in the Sunday program of Dmitry Kiselev on the channel "Russia 1": the fight against foreigners, the disclosure of Jewish pseudonyms! This is 1949 according to the old calendar, meet. Two moral taboos were overcome by the state almost at once.

In society Half-Olympiads February 17, 2014 Anton Oresh At the request of the road editorial office, I summarize the intermediate Olympic result. Half of the games in Sochi is behind, and you probably need to do some. But the main conclusion is that nothing special is happening in Sochi. Nothing out of the ordinary. And in this sense, for the organizers, the lack of news is good news. In general, this situation is quite typical.

On January 29, the parliamentary majority of the Verkhovna Rada voted for the law on the amnesty of the protest shares in that version that involved the liberation of the actual hostages (detained activists of the Euromaidan) in exchange for the analysis of part of the barricades in the center of Kyiv and the transfer of the seized buildings of state administrations. According to the law, the term of this exchange expires on February 17.

Freedom of speech on February 17, 2014, Julia Latynina Shenderovich wrote a column in which he compared the Sochi Olympics with Berlin, and the Putin regime, respectively, with fascism. After which a powerful stripped persecution campaign began against him. The most amazing thing in all this campaign is that, although our regime is not much like fascist, this campaign like two drops of water is like a totalitarian ghost campaign, unleashed by the Nazis, Stalin and Mao.

At the request of the road editorial office, I summarize the intermediate Olympic result. Half of the games in Sochi is behind, and you probably need to do some. But the main conclusion is that nothing special is happening in Sochi. Nothing out of the ordinary. And in this sense, for the organizers, the lack of news is good news. In general, this situation is quite typical.

In the economy Olympics. Deripaska. Versions February 17, 2014 Vladimir Volkov In an interview with CNBC, Oleg Deripaska expressed doubt about the figure of expenses for the Olympics. According to his estimates, not fifty billion dollars were spent on Sochi games, as previously reported, but less than thirty. How, one wonders, understand? A billionaire and noble Sochi developer Oleg Deripaska, sitting in the middle of the Olympic Park, tells the American television channel like that? Which one?

In society An iron curtain looms for changing exams in universities February 17, 2014 Nikolai Svanidze Many Russian universities nevertheless changed the list of entrance exams, although the Ministry of Education and Science promised future applicants that this would not happen. Lists of entrance tests are published on the sites of educational institutions on February 15. However, a number of higher educational institutions have not yet made public information about admission.

They are scoundrels and talkers! Our chief oncologists said that sending children abroad for treatment would discredit our wonderful medicine. They told us that Zhanna Friske would have received excellent treatment in Moscow - and for free. Then Mr. Kozhin promised to use Kremlin medicine to treat Plushenko’s sore back. But at the Games in Sochi, our freestyler Masha Komissarova received a serious injury. Putin visited her, wished her, encouraged her, and so on. And what?

The Basmanny Court, the media reported, issued permission to arrest two deputy heads of the Department of the Main Directorate of Economic Security and Countering Corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (GuabipK) Ivan Kosuurov and Alexei Bodnar. The latter was raised: he had just been recommended for the post of head of the anti -corruption department of the police near Moscow. The task of management “B” GuemiBiPK is to counteract the firing of budget funds.