- Explain to us such a paradox: voters are poorly versed in economics, politics, and public administration in democratic countries is significantly better than in countries with authoritarian regimes? Although there decisions are made by specialist officials. Is this not strange? —Takova reality. Yes, ordinary voters of party programs and bills do not read.

That’s probably what Margarita Simonyan thought, God forbid! But she really could have ridden around Sadovoy with an American flag after Trump’s victory. It would be stupid, right? I was waiting for what our representatives would say after the Tomahawks, and the representatives seemed ready to say “a knife in the back,” but apparently they remembered that there had already been a “knife in the back.” Our friend Erdogan arrived, opened the Cathedral Mosque, and then... shot down our plane.