In the Kremlin The referendum passed, on the approach of sanctions March 17, 2014 Alexander Golts I suspect that many representatives of the so -called Putin elite with bated breath are waiting for today. And not at all because they are so concerned about the final results of the Crimean referendum. With a referendum, everything was clear in advance. According to the Crimean authorities, more than 96 percent of the residents of the peninsula voted for unification with Russia.

I am touched by this bashful formulation of our supervising lovers of elegant office literature - “access to the site is limited”... It seems that he is not completely closed to such and such a mother, but rather slightly covered - some are visible, some are not... And in fact, access to the site is not limited, but organic...

It is clear that in light of Russia’s latest achievements in the international arena, the interpretation of the concept of “lawlessness” has changed significantly. And what we called lawlessness just yesterday now falls into the category of “childish pranks.” So, about pranks... Roskomnadzor and the Prosecutor General's Office still did not bother to tell us why the decision was made to block the Daily Journal. We wrote them a counter letter with the corresponding demand.

The campaign initiated in the late 70s for the international boycott of the Moscow Olympiad in protest against violations of human rights in the USSR did not begin too successfully. But its organizer Vladimir Bukovsky did not lose heart: “You can rely on the Soviet ones. They will always come up with something. ” And I was not mistaken. On December 24, 1979, Soviet troops entered Afghanistan.

More than half a century ago, American politicians and political scientists fiercely argued on the topic: “Who lost China?” I am sure that very soon in the States and Western European states a discussion will begin about who is to blame for the loss of Russia.

No matter how scary it is to say and write it, but we gradually get used to the word “war”. True, we (in Ukraine) are trying to inspire that we have a “civilian” war, and we understand that our war was informational and that it did not begin yesterday, and not on March 1, when “polite people” in camouflage without identification signs entered the Crimea.

Unfortunately, neither the respected agency nor other media outlets that quoted this news considered it necessary to report that “the head of the international observer mission, Mateusz Piskorski,” is a well-known Polish fascist and anti-Semite , an open admirer of National Socialism , a Holocaust denier , and the author of articles on the portal “ White World" and in the newspaper "I am Russian" , former editor-in-chief of the Polish skinhead magazine Odala, which extolled the "Aryan race" and

The Crimean "referendum" began the countdown. Both for Russia and for the surrounding world. Let's only clarify that the matter is not at all in the attempts of Moscow to return Crimea. No one in the Kremlin is worried about the rights of the “Russian-speaking population” in the Crimea, nor in the southeast of Ukraine. The problem of prestige for Moscow is also more likely to be secondary. So what's the matter? Yes, the fact that the Kremlin, apparently, realized the exhaustion of the autocracy.

I remember recent Saturday gatherings at his house. It was an un-Moscow sunny January day. A large family gathered around the table. There were my wife's parents. We talked for four hours: about life, politics, the country, children. Tactful and intelligent Natasha listened without interrupting and smiled. She only entered into a conversation if Sasha and I started to get carried away. The intellectual field of our battle was guarded by wooden and tin soldiers from his famous collections.