Darkin was resigned Sergei Darkin managed to keep his post for a long time, but the December failure of United Russia led to the resignation of the most scandalous governor Lashenia, to the exit! Primorye can become the last region where the governor will be appointed by the Kremlin, and not elected residents.

Chances of oppositionist Enrique Capriles One against Chavez. Venezuela approved a single opposition candidate in the upcoming presidential election in October. The challenge of Hugo Chavez, who has just had an operation to remove the new cancer tumor, was thrown by the 39-year-old Governor Enrique Capricles Radonski. His chances of defeating the current president appreciated The New Times “I will tear off the mask from you, no matter how much you hide under it, bastard!

New round of the "Embassy War" The ambassador is over! Europe was tired of enduring the indomitable disposition of Alexander Lukashenko: the head of the diplomatic agents of the diplomatic mission of all 27 states - members of the European Union left the Belarusian capital. In the difficult history of Lukashenko’s relationship with the West, “Embassy Wars” have already happened, but there was no such rigid “blows”.

$1.8 billion for presidential campaign Voice price. $ 1.8 billion - in such an amount, according to experts, the presidential campaign-2012 got up. The New Times dealt with accounts and balance sheets --- Budget expenditures for holding presidential elections in the Russian Federation 12.1 billion rubles. Nikolai Konkin, Secretary of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation: “This amount was received by the CEC on December 8 last year.

Relations between the European Union and Belarus today are more reminiscent of the relationship of incompatible but indecisive spouses: they constantly throw scandals at each other, leave and return, but the last step - divorce - will not be decided. The recall of the ambassadors of all 27 EU member states from Belarus is, of course, a strong step. But it is unlikely that this demarche of European diplomats in itself greatly upset Alexander Lukashenko.