One of the important results of the permutation in the power after the transition of Vladimir Putin to the government is a powerful blow to the positions and authority of the entire highest echelon of the security forces close to Putin.

Source: [Email Protected] Translation from English Anna Makarova, The New Times Global Internet against private life is a topic that more and more worries network users. The battle is already lost or is there a chance to compete? This was devoted to a discussion organized by the Center for Law of the Famous Wardon Business School (Pennsylvania, USA). The New Times introduces its readers to the results of the discussion If you go to the Amazon website.

8 people died from rabies this year in Russia. More than one hundred cases of infection. Experts are alarming. “This is an epidemic of bites,” they state This summer, a scandal broke out in the Primorsky Territory. On the territory of one of the sanatoriums, the Odlov Service opened fire on cats that walked there on their own. They shot from pneumatic weapons, a mortal dose of sleeping pills was used as bullets. More than 30 street animals were killed in the eyes of vacationers in two days.

Political scientists and Kremlinologists, analyzing the 100 days of D. Medvedev, run the risk of forgetting about another date eight years ago, when ice broke under us for the first time under us. And not in the Barents Sea, and not in the Arctic Ocean, but under the freedom of speech, under NTV journalists, under our small, accumulated by the Eltsian era of capital guarantees.

Medvedev has not yet announced his plan.

Did President Medvedev come out of the shadow of his predecessor? The signals that the authorities sent in the last three months, the editors of The New Times deciphered George Satarov and Sergey Guriev The conversation took place before the events in Tskhinvali What did the new president manage to do in the first hundred days? Georgy Satarov: I think it went more to the beep. Compared to Yeltsin, the first three months of the presidency and compared to Putin, almost nothing has been done.

Why don't they go to rest to us? Breakfast for a tourist. Summer is in full swing - and millions of Russians fly around the world, choosing a comfortable and cheap rest in Turkey, Egypt, Arab Emirates. But foreign tourists go to us very reluctantly. The question is, what is the bad coast of Russian, endless open spaces, forests and fields? A backpack on the stomach (so that the money is not stolen), a confused look, movement exclusively with the group and accompanied by a guide with a flag.

Report from the funeral of Alexander Solzhenitsyn Alexander Solzhenitsyn died on the night of August 3 to 4 and was buried in Moscow at the cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery on Wednesday August 6 in the second hour in the afternoon. At the writer’s funeral, as well as at the farewell, which was held the day before in the building of the Academy of Sciences, there were surprisingly few people in the scale of his personality and the size of his merits before literature and the country.

Once on the radio I heard the phrase: "I do not care which state is being built in my homeland." But I don't care - I am a normal citizen of my country. I want to be proud of my country. I want the whole world to understand: we are building democracy, we have not abandoned this idea. The first 100 days of President Dmitry Medvedev passed. I have questions. Will there be answers to them? I have not been at home, in Moscow, for 14 months.

Russians through the eyes of the owners of the Olympiad Back aunt! There is a place on the ground where any woman can feel like Venus, and a man - Apollo. This place borders on the mysterious country of geese ... It is here that these days they accept the 2008 Olympics When you are in Beijing two or three times a year, this city, of course, becomes your family, familiar and inhabited for you. Everything here is familiar and sweet to the heart.

Putin runs the country, Russians believe One hundred days after the order. The first one worked out by President Dmitry Medvedev ends as restlessly as the first hundred days of President Vladimir Putin. Putin had “Kursk” (see p. 26), Medvedev had a Georgian-Yugoosetan war. This is a real test for the new head of state, far beyond other small “wars” inside the garden ring - parquet, nomenclature. Perhaps another step to getting an answer to the question: Who is Mister medvedev?

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Prophet in his Fatherland, returned to Russia in 1994, 20 years after expulsion, and just at the moment when the demand for the prophets fell sharply. The conversation “from under the blocks” was already irrelevant. The country was just engaged in the fact that it was fussily, in the self -survival regime, she dismantled the blocks of the empire, which remained inherited from the collapsed USSR.

From September to December in Russia, a cardinal change in the wage system of state employees will take place. The innovation will affect more than 3 million people working in healthcare institutions, education and culture The main innovation: the unified tariff grid (ETS) that lasted 16 years is abolished. Deputy Minister of Health and Social Development, Alexander Safonov, says that the new system will allow the leader to establish exactly the salary that the individual employee deserved.

Let's go! XXIX Summer Olympic Games opened in Beijing on the 8th of the 8th month of 2008 at 8 hours 8 minutes and 8 seconds local time In fact, the competition in China began earlier: on August 6, a women's football tournament started, the next day it began men's. But it so happened, we can’t see medals in them: they didn’t go through.

The heavy tank rushed along the embankment of the Moika, crushing police cars, dropping the UAZ river, full of military personnel, and skewers of the walls and monuments of domestic architecture. Agent 007 of its royal Majesty James Bond with a calm face of handsome Pierce Brosnan, not even sweating, on the very foreman, on Saturday evening, turned half of St. Petersburg, saving the world from the Soviet threat. It was on the channel "Russia".