In an old joke, the outgoing boss leaves the successor three envelopes that should be opened sequentially when things are bad. In the first there was a note: "Vali everything on me." Judging by the performance of the Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu at the expanded meeting of the State Duma committee on defense, the head of the military department opened the first envelope.

In society About democracy, fascism, Putinism March 12, 2019 Sergey Mitrofanov When I studied in high school - and this was in the early seventies - we have developed a small circle of young carbonarians, who considered themselves “democrats”. But I give this example not for the sake of an expensive and funny memoir, but solely to tell how it happened that we became “democrats”.

Digest for current publications As the studies of the Levada Center show, most Russians prefer to have a ruler at the head of the country “from God” (it doesn’t matter what to call him-a pharaoh, king or an irremovable president), not subordinate to the parliament or the results of the elections.