A rally on Manezhnaya Square. Photo by D. Borko Moscow, Manezhnaya Square, February 1990 a rally in support of democratic reforms and Boris Yeltsin. Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru

Boris Yeltsin at a democratic rally in Luzhniki, 1989 PHOTO D. BORKO/Grani.ru Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin is 75 years old. Brani.ru sincerely congratulate the first president of Russia and wish him health and long life. We asked Russian politicians and political scientists who collaborated with Boris Nikolayevich to evaluate his contribution to the history of our country. Georgy Satarov , President of the Indem Foundation, co-chair of the Civil Congress, in 1993-1994.

Ilya Milstein If there is any meaning in universal history, then this is the movement of peoples to freedom. From shameful slavery to inhuman feudalism, from feudalism to the shameless robbery of the workers, from primitive communism or fascism - to democracy. History moves zigzags, then breaking into the abyss of lack of freedom, then getting out of the abyss. Similar ways, aggravated by constant bad luck, the Russian history also moves. In the West, turns to freedom are called progress.

We arrived in Krivtsy with Father Arkady, a priest from the village of Kolodozero, who stayed on our journey through Karelia. He had two things in Krivtsy - to baptize the baby and visit the elderly in the DSU. They were waiting for us - about. Arkady previously called on the phone and said that there would be photographers from Moscow with him. The resolution for the shooting was given, the patients were warned, everything was tidied up, and the old women put on their most beautiful scarves.

Vodka. Photo from the site http://mvdrk.karelia.ru Russian alcohol manufacturers, who were idle all of January due to the lack of excise stamps, were supposed to resume work on Tuesday, but this did not happen, they write on Wednesday Vedomosti. From January 1, 2006, in Russia, amendments to the law on state regulation of the alcohol market entered into force, which, in particular, introduce excise stamps of a new sample.

Broken 'Gazelle'. Frame RTR In Moscow, the Gazelle minibus hit the accident. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" on Wednesday a source in law enforcement agencies of the capital. The Gazelle hit an obstacle, as a result of which five people were injured, ”the agency’s interlocutor said. As Interfax clarifies, the accident happened about 07.40 of the medium in the area of ​​the highway of the highway Fraser with the 2nd milling lane. The driver could not cope with the management.

Hotel "Russia". Photo by D. BORKO/Brani.ru In the coming days, the demolition of the Russia hotel will begin in the very center of Moscow. According to RBC, this was announced at a press conference by the First Deputy Mayor of the capital, the head of the Moscow construction complex Vladimir Resin. “All documents are agreed, and the other day we will begin the dismantling of the hotel,” he said. According to Resin, the wall panels of Russia will not be destroyed.

Truck "Ural". Photo from the site Truckua.com The Georgian military police detained the car of Russian peacekeepers in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. This was reported to RIA Novosti on Wednesday in the regional police of the region, Shida Kartli. Last night, the car of the Russian peacekeepers, Ural, collided with a car of a local resident near the Georgian village of Tkvai. According to the police, no one was injured as a result of an accident.

Boris Yeltsin. Photo '' Novaya Gazeta '' He became the acting face of history exactly when he was driven from the Tsekovsky Olympus. It was from this moment, and not when he began his party-economic ascent, his private fate became life. Here is a quote: "The representative of the Russian people, after the enemy was destroyed, Russia was released and put on the highest degree of its glory, there was nothing more to do, like Russian." This is "war and peace", this is about Kutuzov.

Strasbourg Court of Human Rights In 2005, the European Court of Human Rights made 83 decisions against Russia. This, as ITAR-TASS reports, said on Wednesday the chairman of the Supreme Court of Russia Vyacheslav Lebedev. These data were announced at a meeting of the chairmen of the supreme and regional courts held in Moscow. According to Lebedev, over the past year, more than 8 thousand complaints were filed in the European court, while in 2004 - more than 7.8 thousand.

Cosmic rays that affect the Earth. Illustration from the site www.extra.rdg.ac.uk.uk A new evidence that events in distant space can most directly reflect on the weather and climate of the Earth were obtained by British meteorologists from the University of Riding (University of Reading - UOR ). Corresponding article ("Empirical Evidence for a non -linear effect of Galactic Cosmic Rays on Clouds" - "Empirical evidence of the influence of galactic cosmic rays on clouds") behind Dr.

Genghis Aitmatov. Photo from the site www.old.echo.msk.ru The jury of the Russian Prize literary contest, chaired by Genghis Aitmatov, formed a long list of the first Russian prize for writers of the CIS countries, according to a press release posted on the website of the competition. In total, this list includes 12 works of writers from six CIS countries: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.

Irakli Distribvili. Photo from the site www.georgianews.ru The Ural car car of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, which was detained and seized by the Georgian side due to an accident, will be returned to the Russian side after official apologies and compensation for damage to a Georgian citizen, whose car was collided with the Urals Peacemakers.

This is a pseudo-color image of the satellite of Saturn Diona (in the photo is the “leading” hemisphere of the moon, always facing one side to the Gigant planet), it is interesting primarily because it can be clearly seen on the vast tectonic faults that prove that Diona once in the past was a geologically active heavenly body. The dialect of the dion is 700 miles (or 1126 kilometers). Its north is located in the upper part of the picture, the disk is turned to 20 degrees to the right.

Moscow metro. Frame 'Vesti' Traffic along the Zamoskvoretskaya line of the Moscow metro is completely restored. This was reported to RIA Novosti by Elena Krylova, the head of the subway of public relations service, reported on Wednesday. According to her, the incident occurred at 10.55. The driver of the trainer’s train told the dispatcher about the relief on the Total-Fire Parting. There was a break of two current collectors and a contact rail.