Kirill Kobrin “There are beautiful villages in hell And the souls are not dead. But stupid motion They are doomed " K. Vaginov This is my last column in 2010, which imposes some obligations on the author.

According to a survey by the Yuri Levada Analytical Center, every fourth Russian is aware of the sensational scandal surrounding the Internet resource Wikileaks. Of those surveyed who know about the publication of secret documents on the site, the majority have a positive attitude towards this fact. Only 10% of the population stated the opposite, and among young people this figure was 21%.

The Chairman of the Board of the Institute of Modern Development (Incor, the Board of Trustees is headed by Dmitry Medvedev) and the vice president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Igor Yurgens, believes that the verdict of Mikhail Khodorkovsky should only be justifying. He stated this in an interview with Kommersant .

The thousands of passengers waiting for the dispatch at the Domodedovo airport broke through the fence on the approaches to the passport control zone, and accumulates at the racks, Interfax reports . Earlier, passengers, many of whom have been waiting for flights for more than a day, demanded meetings by representatives of the airlines, but no one came to them.

The action in support of the former head of Yukos was held in Yekaterinburg. Its participants suggested “changing Putin to Khodorkovsky,” reports Echo of Moscow . Last night, from December 26 to 27, about 80 stencil drawings appeared on the walls of residential buildings-portraits of the former head of the Yukos and the Prime Minister with the inscription “We change Putin on Khodorkovsky”. The action was held by participants in the youth movement "Defense".

The Blagoveshchensk court today justified the former Governor of the Amur Region Leonid Korotkov, withdrawn in 2007 from the post of Vladimir Putin’s post “In connection with the loss of confidence”, and then accused of exceeding official powers, RIA Vostok-Media reports. Korotkov was accused of three points. According to the prosecutor’s office, having overestimated the tariffs for electricity, he financed the local football club Amur.

The organization of Amnesty International calls on the Moscow courts to cancel the decision announced today on the guilt of the famous businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky on charges of legalizing funds on the basis that the process over him was unfair and impressed politically motivated.

Kharkov human rights activist Yevgeny Zakharov commented on the “ Paul.ua ” decision of the Moscow authorities to close the only library of Ukrainian literature in Moscow in Russia. On Friday, December 24, in Moscow, the library of Ukrainian literature searched the employees of the department for combating extremism, who decided to withdraw about 50 publications in view of their "extremist orientation".

On December 20, in St. Petersburg it became known about the change in the leadership of the St. Petersburg City Palace of Creativity of the Young (former city Palace of Pioneers). Vladimir Kiselev, who headed him for twenty years, was relieved of his position, and Tatyana Govorushina, director of the Palace of Children's (Youth) work of the Moscow District of St. Petersburg, was appointed in his place.

The company "Heatotechnik", which is the contractor for the construction of the Moscow -St. Petersburg road, withdrew its lawsuit against the defender of the Khimkinsky forest, reports " Lenta.ru " with reference to the activist of the "In Defense of the Khimkinsky Forest" Yaroslav Nikitenko. The head of Heat Engineering, Alexander Semchenko, demanded from ecologists who prevented the construction of the route, 6.7 million rubles for disruption of work.

“There are beautiful villages in hell And the souls are not dead. But stupid motion They are doomed " K. Vaginov This is my last column in 2010, which imposes some obligations on the author.

Director of the Association of Vinogradaries and Winemakers of Ukraine Sergey Petrenko at a press conference on how best to choose alcohol for holidays, commented on the decision of the Kiev authorities not to sell alcoholic beverages in kiosks, the Polit.ua correspondent reports. According to Petrenko, such a decision of the Kyiv City Council is two -digit.

The day before yesterday I was on the subway. In front of me is a six-seater leatherette bench. There is a Russian guy sitting at one end. Well, or a Belarusian. Or perhaps a disguised German or Swede. In general, a person of politically incorrect skin color. At the other end is a Chinese person. Between them are three black women. At the next stop, a black-mustachioed gentleman in a black woolen cap enters. In general, a person of famous nationality.

Ex-Minister of Internal Affairs Yuri Lutsenko was detained in the case of the poisoning of ex-president Viktor Yushchenko. The corresponding application is posted on the official website of "People's Self -Defense".

Khodorkovsky must sit in prison, confirmed the court of the recent statement of Vladimir Putin. How much, however, he will sit - it is still incomprehensible. The prosecutor asked for 14, but 14 may not be given. For politico-arithmetic considerations, they can give 11 years. The authorities simply again decided to transfer the decision “Khodorkovsky’s problem”.