It was, of course, worth living up to these times to see this. Russia has become the center of world shopping! How our people storm the counters - even not very old people have seen this more than once. But so that foreigners flock to us! And not only neighbors from the former Soviet Union. The Finns flocked across the border to buy cheap goods and cheap (!!!) gasoline. Who said that our gasoline is expensive?! They're following him through the cordon! It's cheap!

In the Kremlin The results of the week. Authoritarianism in a crisis December 19, 2014 Alexander Golts The currency crisis that was expanding at the past week somewhat spoiled the final press conference of Vladimir Putin. All previous years, the majority of those who asked questions made up either the Kholui “Poperizers”, or the frank lamps, who were fired from the opportunity to say something to the very most and carried some kind of prohibitive nonsense with delight.

I honestly admit: the annual New Year's Event “Big press conference of Vladimir Putin” is interesting to me rather as a historian and ... a photographer, rather than a journalist. In the end, not every historian can, at least once a year, get the immediate impressions of the "head of the state", so to speak, live. Not to mention a great case to capture it on your camera. And isn't it worth a dear possibility of this way ...

Leading publications and information agencies talk about the dismissal of Mikhail Lesin from the post of Chairman of the Board of Gazprom-Media as a case of a decision. Even in the midst of the scandal around the Echo of Moscow, “Hedgehog” wrote about such a scenario as the most probable, if the attack of Mr. Lesin on the radio station choke if he could not dump Venediktov. Today, the media cite a variety of reasons for the upcoming personnel solution.