That Putin did not say in Katyn “There can be no excuses of the totalitarian regime,” Vladimir Putin said at memorial events in Katyn on April 7. But the condemnation of the crimes of the Stalinist regime does not mean that the state’s attitude to its victims has changed dramatically. So far, we are talking about the rehabilitation of the executed Poles, nor about the resumption of the investigation of the "Katyn case".

Katyn, the same Katyn, where exactly 70 years ago the NKVD bodies shot 4421 Polish officers, and in the spring of 1940 21857 - a place where history, contrary to the well-known saying, repeated itself twice in the form of a tragedy.

The people could not stand family lawlessness "I will protect this power with a machine gun in my hands!" -said Kurmanbek Bakiev at one of his first press conferences as the head of Kyrgyzstan. Then it seemed to be a figure of speech, now - a reality. Question: Will it be different under the new government? Two women walk in a broken glass and the remains of windows. Inflamed, tearful eyes speak for themselves: the store was plundered by the new Kyrgyz revolutionaries.

Kyrgyzstan fell into a vicious circle If the “tulip revolution” of 2005 with a certain stretch can be classified as “color” - it was still associated with protesting against the election manipulation and “tried to be peaceful”, then the current riot is much closer to the classic revolutions of the past - with street battles and taking the armed crowd of different “basstilians”, and at the same time - the robbery of the “palaces of tyrants” and the shops ” ordinary merchants The fall of two

(Exclusive photos) The overthrown president of Kyrgyzstan Kurmenbek Bakiev appeared in public: he spoke at a rally in one of the villages near Jalal-Abad, and on Tuesday, April 13, he intends to take part in the new rally of his supporters. On the eve of Bakiev’s exit from the underground, The New Times found the overthrown president in his family village of Teet, where he came for a relative’s funeral.

Causes and consequences of "color" revolutions The first decade of the 21st century will go down in post-Soviet history as a decade of color revolutions: from the Rose Revolution in Georgia in 2003 to the current bloody one in Kyrgyzstan in 2010

In four cases out of five, “color” revolutions in the post-Soviet space in the 21st century were triggered by election fraud ( see table ). And this is in countries where the manipulation of the electoral process was quite common, and not democrats were in power: from the “doubting” Shevardnadze (Georgia) and Voronin (Moldova) to Akaev (Kyrgyzstan) evolving towards Asian despotism and Kuchma capable of political assassinations (Ukraine).

CONTENT Another tragedy of Katyn Boris Yunanov, Egor Mostovshchikov, Konstantin Novikov, Zoya Svetova Kyrgyzstan: days of anarchy Reporting from a country where there is no state Ilya Barabanov Chronicle of the Fall The people could not stand the family lawlessness Kerim Kadyraliev "Bakiyev ruled like a khan" Kubanychbek Apas — The New Times Boris Yunanov Steppe Democracy Kyrgyzstan is in a vicious circle Dmitry Furman Across the spectrum Causes and consequences of "color" revolutions Stripped

In addition to officials, there were many public figures and relatives of those who died in the Katyn Forest in the spring of 1940 on board the Tu-154. Here are the names of only some of those who did not reach the Katyn Memorial on that terrible morning.

Report from a country where there is no state Ilya Barabanov Bishkek-Osh-Jalal-Abad-Moscow In Bishkek, state flags are visible, the funeral comes. April 9 and 10 were declared in Kyrgyzstan the days of mourning. The Museum of Fine Arts, defeated on the night of April 7 to 8, is a pool of blood. Someone put two white flowers right in the blood. The Moscow -Bishkek flight was scored by foreign journalists and ... deputies of the Kyrgyz parliament.

We all go under God and fly - it happened, the presidents were also crashed: in Bolivia, Ecuador, Pakistan, Mozambique, Burundi ... In 2004, the President of Macedonia Boris Trikovsky died in the plane crash. But all these disasters are not comparable in scale to the present.

Who is to blame for the tragedy: technology, weather or human factor - learned The New Times The squadron of the Polish president consists mainly of Russian-made ships: two Tu-154-M aircraft (since 2006 this model is the only one from the Tu family that is not prohibited from flying in the EU zone), four Yak-40s and three M-28 Bryza, which are modernized An-28. In addition, there are 12 helicopters in the government fleet. The crashed plane was produced at the Aviakor plant in Samara in 1990.

Katyn, the same Katyn, where exactly 70 years ago the NKVD bodies shot 4421 Polish officers, and in the spring of 1940 21857 - a place where history, contrary to the well-known saying, repeated itself twice in the form of a tragedy.