Alfred Koch walks along the Ostankino corridors. Photo NTV.ru Unpleasant discovery: on the Hamburg account, the opposition oligarchs outplayed the Kremlin. Their cooking was not a couple of clumsy officials, their combinations were built flawlessly. In an almost hopeless situation, they now managed to bring the party with the Kremlin draw. It is also clear that Alfred Koch, the general director of the Gazprom-Media, is not subject to salvation.

Twenty years ago, on March 30, 1981, Ronald Reagan President Ronald President was attempted. He left the Washington Hilton hotel, but did not have time to sit in the limousine: a young man, patiently waiting at the entrance, took out a 22nd caliber gun and shot him right in his chest. The attacked man managed to press the trigger five more times before the secret service agents came to his senses and knocked him down.

In the case of Robert Hanssen, accused of cooperation with Soviet and Russian intelligence, a new element has appeared. The investigation established that Hansssen had a secret friend. The Washington Post, citing “sources close to the investigation”, writes that the former special agent of the FBI bought her a car worth at least 10 thousand dollars and, possibly, paid for her air ticket to Tokyo. It is still unknown whether he presented her other gifts.

These notes are not about the professionalism of the president's bodyguards. Perhaps, just from the point of view of professionals, modern bodyguards act flawlessly, follow every comma of their official instructions.

Boris Yeltsin and Alexander Korzhakov on August 19, 1991. Photo from the archive AP Vyacheslav Kolesnikov, senior officer of the Security Service of the President of the USSR, talks about the secrets of his profession. How do they get into our service? According to the recommendations. And authoritative. My example is atypical - I did not have powerful parents, high patrons. But in general, he did not come from the street.

The murder of Lincoln Not a single leader is safe from attempts on his life, and the President of the United States is no exception. Four presidents fell victims of attempts. The first was Abraham Lincoln . On April 14, 1865, he was mortally wounded in the bed of the Ford Washington Theater by actor John Wilks Buto and died the next day. John Boot, shining in Shakespeare's plays, gained a reputation as the "most charming man of America." In the Civil War, he sympathized with the south.