Sir Roderik Line, the former ambassador of Great Britain to Russia - about anti -Americanists and Russophobes Russia-West: What to wait in 2009? Any foreigner who will now come to Moscow - and the author has been here four times in the last months - will drown in a deep and fierce sense of discontent that the Russian elite experiences in relation to the West as a whole and to the USA in particular.

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The Orthodox world is seething. Moreover, by no means in Russia .. In anticipation of the election of a new patriarch from Sukhumi to Moscow, messengers regularly fly - they agree on the future of the Orthodox diocese of Abkhazia.

The Russian people spent the end of December and the first half of January in endless feasts and holidays, showing a clear tendency to ecumenism. Noting their Orthodox Christmas with geese and piglets, the Russians did not neglect both the Protestanticcatolic and, unlike the American president, did not pardon a single turkey. Digently celebrating the New Year, the country did not miss the old, January 13th.

Igor Klyamkin - The New Times How do the modes collapse? The world experience on this score is rich: from 1946 to 1996, 133 modes of regimes were recorded in the world - both to democracy and from it. Latin America and Africa were especially successful in this field - power options prevailed there. But in the geographically closer central and eastern Europe, the collapse of authoritarian regimes took place in significantly more civil forms.

In the next gas conflict with Ukraine, Russia is essentially law. However, he loses again. Why? The gas dispute has a commercial nature. But if Russia focused on commercial matters, then a compromise would be found faster. Moscow did not decide that the main thing for her is economics or politics.

Ukraine takes from Russia not only gas, but also the best coaches The coaches are not afraid to freeze. In football Ukraine there was a new fashion - to invite the former head coaches of the Russian national team to work.

Vladimir Feigin - The New Times It is completely impossible to understand who is right in the gas conflict of Russia and Ukraine, a person watching TV. There are many points of view, the arguments of the conflicting parties are completely different. The New Times applied for explanations to the expert - director of the Institute of Energy and Finance Vladimir Feigin Vladimir Isaakovich, let's figure out if something Ukraine should be for gas for gas?

Novel "Pyramid": Spitsbergen as a lost paradise A shadow of non -being. The book of the Norwegian writer Hyartan Flegstad “Pyramid” tells about the city of the victorious communism.

Some historians claim that she did not say that ill -fated phrase about bread and cakes, that they attributed it to her ... It may well be: the queen, like that rat from a joke, had problems with PR. It is worth, however, to notice that the legend did not occur from scratch. By this time, the queen for twenty years in the eyes of everyone ducking the state treasury and made rude political mistakes one after another.

The film "Milk" claims the collection "Oscars" The main cinema of the year - the presentation of the Oscars - this year will attract increased public attention thanks to the film Milk. The release of the film about the first American Gee-bureaucrat, who did not hide his sexual orientation and killed for this in 1978, coincided with the ban on same-sex marriages in the state of California. Milk called a flurry of emotions, received many bonuses, and now is one of the main contenders for Oscar.

Sellers do not behave like that with the buyer. The way Gazprom allows itself to deal with Ukraine - a country that is one of the main consumers of Russian gas, and also provides 80% of its transit supplies to Europe, does not fit into any framework, say international experts. Arguments listened to The New Times By December 30, Ukraine paid for the entire volume of gas, which it imported in 2008.

Does Duumvirate split? The first thing President Medvedev did in the new year was publicly expressed dissatisfaction with the government’s work to overcome the consequences of the global financial crisis. The New Times sorted out the features of the backstage struggle between the Kremlin and the White House If you believe the officialdom, the head of state, criticizing the government, just wanted to demonstrate its own inclusion in the management of the anti -crisis agenda in this way.

If Ditmar Rosenthal is alive - Dmitry Medvedev could well count on the mention in the new textbook on the Russian language. The great linguist devoted the whole heads of his textbooks as one of the main stylistic mistakes as one of the main stylistic mistakes, by which schoolchildren and students study. Many were fond of Medvedev with the synthesis of chancellery and expansion and expansion. It is enough to recall the speaking pike from the Strugatsky: “I do not see: old.

Again, the war in the white world ... During the month of the casting lead operation, Israeli aviation and artillery inflicted about two and a half thousand strokes along the gas sector. More than a thousand Palestinians were killed, and in the best case, only half of them were related to the organization of Hamas. According to Israeli intelligence, the Islamists in Gaza put from 15 to 20 thousand people under a gun, but the Israelis failed to find this army.