The results of the election of the governor of the Irkutsk region partially refute the generally correct idea that elections are not an Olympic sport. Here, as a rule, the main thing is not participation, but victory. However, the defeat of the secretary of the Irkutsk regional committee, Sergei Levchenko, who lagged behind the incumbent governor by 2 percentage points, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation can safely record in its asset.

Photo AP The demonstrative flight of Putin from Moscow on Jubilee August days could not attach him to him none of the presidential advisers. Different, of course, people feed near the Kremlin, but frank idiots recommending the president to ignore the state holiday - the Day of the State Flag of Russia is difficult to imagine among them. Obviously, the decision to hide in the chupe and not to get out of it until August 23 was made by Putin himself.

Mikhail Kasyanov and Anatoly Kina. Photo NTV.ru A somewhat unexpected meeting of the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine - earlier they intended to meet in October, at a meeting of the Russian -Ukrainian commission on economic cooperation - ended with a promise to sign an agreement that regulates the payment of Ukrainian debts for Russian gas in September. However, there was a reason to meet Mikhail Kasyanov and Anatoly Kinakh.

Of course, no one hoped that something would change in the US patent legislation. We are not the same optimists. However, the stories with patents that amenable to interpret so general that it is capable of some extent to slow down the development of the whole industry of the industry, is still obsessively repeated.

Oleg Deripaska, Nazir Khapsikorov. Photo from the site www.compromat.ru Some Grani.ru interlocutors in the presidential administration, confirming circulating rumors, indicate a significant change in the alignment of forces in the hardware and business of the Yeltsin family. And the main family business has always been lobbying support for the activities of a number of largest Russian companies and super -rich state structures controlled by "family friends".

Pedophilia // Barbie with two fingers, with ice Mattel lost a lawsuit against artist Tom Forsyth. I already wrote about this case when it was just beginning. Will have to repeat. Well... My friend, photographer Olga Vinnikovetskaya, and I have been trying for a year to finish a project called "Children's Pornography" (the name should be understood by analogy with "children's literature", "children's food", children, but for children).

Photo NTV.ru A few days before the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the proclamation of state independence of Ukraine, citizens of this country again recalled that it has not yet been done for this decade: the coal industry has not been reformed. Not only do Donbass Giray hung on the country's economy - terrible disasters are constantly taking place on his mines, taking the lives of dozens of people. The President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma had to urgently fly to the tragedy area.