In January 1999, 24-year-old Corporal Salvatore Vacca was in excellent sports. He was an athlete, "he could run and play football for hours," his mother recalls. But at the beginning of September, Salvatore was gone - he was killed by leukemia.

Caesar is not strewn with roses. President Putin will undoubtedly inhibit a potential opposition, whoever tried to form it: oligarchs, Yeltsin family, regional leaders or all together. So, it is obvious that the presidential environment will promote - with different success - all their political projects that were announced earlier. An exclusive club will be prepared for each fraction of the opposition community.

The failure of negotiations with the IMF and the painful pause in the dialogue with the Paris club are caused in elites by very temperamental disputes, but not panic. Firstly, there were already a lot of these failures, they got used to it. Secondly, people close to Putin use the situation in the strict framework of bureaucratic games: for accounting. Finally, in addition to bureaucratic games, there are real beliefs. Who will win?

Official representatives of the UN Environment (UNEP) UN program ( UNEP ), finding out the possible consequences of bombing, came to the conclusion that there were only two threats - chemical and oil pollution. The Russian military believe that the unenlightenment of the members of the UNEP commission is explained simply: the United States and other NATO members are still refusing to provide at least some information about the weapons that was used during the bombing.

In January, a new spy process awaits us. This time they will judge Igor Sutyagin, who is accused of transmitting secret information about the new generation atomic submarines to the US and Great Britain. He was charged under Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - state treason (provides for imprisonment from 12 to 20 years). Sutyan was arrested on October 27 last year and has been sitting in the Kaluga pre -trial detention center since then.

The president’s order on the creation of the Working Group of the Presidium of the State Council on the reform of the electric power industry formally and legally secured the decision already adopted on December 27 last year that the Tomsk governor Viktor Korus will take up the restructuring of RAO UES. About the same as the Khabarovsk governor Viktor Ishaev shortly before that was engaged in the correction of the approved and adopted to execute the government program named after German Gref.

The observers were not so miscalculated. At the beginning of the previous month, the corridors of the fifth floor of the White House were filled with rumors about an extremely unfavorable conversation for Kasyanov with the president held on October 28. Then Putin wished Kasyanov to think not about the reconstruction of the government, but on his own resignation no later than February-Mart.