In society A fairly simple case October 14, 2014 Viktor Shenderovich There are simple and clear things, and there are quite a lot of them. Well, maybe this opening infinity is not accommodated by the head, and so more or less accessible to the mind. The angle of fall and the angle of reflection. Galileevsky pebble rushing to the center of the Earth. The temperature of boiling water. Or, say, a donkey from a story about Hodge Nasruddin.

In the Kremlin The President spoke about the alienation of Russians and Ukrainians October 14, 2014 Nikolai Svanidze Vladimir Putin participated in a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights.

Around Russia The St. Petersburg dialogue is unknown to when October 14, 2014 Jens Siert The Russian-German Forum "Petersburg Dialogue", which was supposed to be held in Sochi at the end of October, was postponed, but the new term of the conduct was not named. Such a transfer means cancellation. First, from Berlin they announced the cancellation of consultations at the highest level, which usually took place as part of the forum, and now the forum itself has been postponed.

No, I’m still willing to argue about the bloodiness of the current regime! The FSO detained the poor fellows near Pashkov’s house who were laying out the word MOSCOW on the slope with sawdust. They only managed to lay out two letters, but they were already tied for the reason that these two letters were in two colors of the Ukrainian flag. And their boss from the landscaping department was pulled in for a survey. All this is true - insanity was getting stronger, no doubt about it.

In society Protective fantasy troops October 14, 2014 Igor Yakovenko In Russia, three processes are walking in the leg. The first process: an economic decline, rising prices, a drop in a ruble that broke a bottom of 40 units per dollar and 51 rubles per euro. The second process: the growing autism of Russian public consciousness, which is manifested in the fact that Russians see a picture of the world, radically different from the one that the rest of the world sees.

In society A little useless Olympics October 14, 2014 Anton Oresh You can, of course, throw a couple of tomato and one egg at me, but I liked the Grand Prix in Sochi. I mean Formula 1 in mind-suddenly not everyone understood what I mean. I liked the Olympics in Sochi. And even before all Olympiads and the Grand Prix, I have repeatedly said that it is impossible to think with the categories of “feast during the plague” regarding large sports (and not sports too) events.