The election of the editor-in-chief by the work collective of our Echo aroused some unexpected interest for me. Monday passed in an atmosphere of fantastic excitement. Before the elections, I received text messages saying that we are with you, hold on, don’t let us down. After the elections, I received text messages saying, we are with you, congratulations, well done, keep it up. Live broadcast, cameras recording, photographing!

It is possible to argue as much as you like whether the Russian troops had to cross the Ukrainian border and a wide front to move to the west, restoring the “constitutional order” in the republic, whether military operations were planned in the Crimea with the direct participation of Russian troops, and not “armed people without identification marks”.

In society Mediafiya. The carrier that gave rise to the war March 4, 2014 Igor Yakovenko In archaic societies there was a ban on pronouncing words that call trouble. For example, one cannot, for example, be called by the names of the spirits of evil, which may be offended or, conversely, decide that they were called and, having appeared, to do horrors. All past weekends on Russian television channels Russian politicians conjured Russian journalists not to pronounce the word “war”.

I will not talk much about the obvious—the discord between the authorities and modernist groups of the population. We won’t, because this discord occurred long before the incident and the authorities do not consider it a tragedy at all. On the contrary, by relying on the loyal majority, it seeks to discredit the disobedient minority, which is clearly demonstrated in numerous television programs.

In an old Jewish joke, a tailor said that if he were a king, he would live richer than the king, because he would sew a little more. Yesterday’s collapse of the ruble after the deployment of troops to Ukraine and today’s Putin’s order to withdraw troops, received a few minutes before the start of trading on the stock exchange, suggest that Putin lives richer than just the president. I think he still sews a little.

The most disgusting thing is lies. “Fascists”, “Bandera”, “pogroms”. “Our military is needed due to the threat to the lives of our military.” "Everything is in one breath." "All as one..." So far everything is going according to the worst scenario. The rebellious regions do not separate, but declare Kyiv illegitimate, i.e. our faithful and brave friend Yanukovych will lay claim to all of Ukraine. Kyiv, naturally, does not recognize characters like Aksenov.

Last Thursday, when the Verkhovna Rada approved the composition of the new government of Yatsenyuk, who in the near future has to pull Ukraine out of the state of actual bankruptcy, receiving a friend of a friend from Switzerland. My friend serves as a representative of one of the local traders. They sell metal rolling, including Ukrainian pipes.

On March 3, the elections of the editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow were held. The result was obvious and predictable: at a general meeting of journalists for a non -alternative candidate - Alexei Venediktov, 72 journalists out of 79 present voted. Against 4, abstained - 3. Now, within two weeks, Mr. Venediktov should approve or not approve the Board of Directors of Echo, in which most of the representatives of Gazprom-Media make up.

Since last year, the Russian economy has been going through its far from the best of times. In January, even when its participants only dreamed about the victory of the Maidan, the ruble was rapidly cheaper in Russia, and the economy almost stopped. In February, negative trends continued, the Central Bank, acting in the framework of the established rules, ceased to cope with the growth of the ruble exchange rate. The only thing that continued to grow accelerated pace is consumer inflation.