In the Kirovsky district, the heads of election commissions are massively dismissed, on whose sections in September 2016, falsifiers were seen. In the delicate situation were State Duma deputy Vitaliy Milonov and the head of the City Parliament Legislation Committee Denis Four Bucks, who won a convincing victory in dubious areas.

“So you’re saying there’s a memorial sign to our battalion somewhere here?” – writer Daniil Granin clearly did not recognize the places of his battles. It’s not surprising, since more than 75 years have passed since his 292nd OPAB fought here. – What is OPAB? – I ask Daniil Alexandrovich. I accompany one of the war soldiers, a 98-year-old veteran of the battles for Leningrad, to lay flowers at the memorial sign. – This is a separate machine-gun and artillery battalion.

It is clear that in journalism Stalin is given very different assessments depending on the ideological position of the author who wrote the text. But there is a sphere of truly folk art, in which the image of the “father of nations” is preserved exactly as it was perceived by his contemporaries. This is a joke. Continuation. Start: Loser Stalin , USSR , Holodomor , Comintern , War , Social System, Death.

Despite the conflict of Russia with Ukraine and the unattractive level of freedoms, the population of Eastern and Central Europe and today sees in our country the necessary counterweight to the West. The PEW* Research Center (Pew Research Center, Washington, DC) presented in Russia the results of its great study “Religion and National affiliation in Central and Eastern Europe”. The organization asked 25 thousand inhabitants from 18 countries of the region more than a dozen questions.

For several months, my colleagues in the urban protection movement and I have been trying to challenge the absurd order of the St. Petersburg Committee of Property Relations (KIO) dated December 30, 2016 - on the approval of an action plan to prepare for the transfer of St. Isaac's Cathedral to the Russian Orthodox Church. This order was made public on January 13, four days after the news of Governor Georgy Poltavchenko allegedly “resolving” the issue of transferring St.