The next round of the doping scandal can be called a battle of television channels. "Russia 1" against ARD. Olga Skabeeva against Huio Zeppelt. Russia (not the one that the TV channel, but the one that the state) has few reasons to love the ARD TV channel in general and journalist Hyo Seppelt personally.

“In general, I proceed from the possibility of considering the issue of indexing pensions next year based on inflation, that is, in other words, returning to the procedure that has been in effect for us until now.” This is Dmitry Anatolyevich again about pensions. After these words, which should be “cast in granite,” there will be more clarity and calm, and it will be easier to “hold on.” Well, everyone’s “health” will increase.

A rare case when history is more interesting than the result. If only because the result, in general, was predicted ahead of time. Three weeks ago, the Committee of protest actions decided to organize a mass action in the center of Moscow on Russia Day. Mass - this is alas! - coordinated “with executive authorities”, that is, with the Moscow Mayor. Because for a disagreed mask action we have, my dear Muscovites, the gut. In any case, so far something is thin.

Deputies passed the next bill in the first reading. They propose to toughen penalties for match-fixing and other types of corruption in sports. I read this news and remembered the old arithmetic rule: multiplication by zero gives zero. Even if you multiply it by a hundred, even by a thousand, even by a million. In the entire history of observations, I don’t remember that anyone has ever been punished for fixing matches or bribing sports referees. I don't remember at all. Zero!