Every job has a purpose. In order to achieve a goal, you need to move, that is, work. If the goal is to produce something very large in a limited time, a lot of people are needed. People need to be forced to work. Over thousands of years, humanity has developed two main ways to attract their own kind to work. First: exchange labor for something of equivalent value. For example, give money to a worker. The second way: exchange labor for a guarantee of maintaining the status quo.

Everyone is talking about low voter turnout in the elections. Many people say: “I don’t vote, I don’t vote for anyone.”, “I don’t vote, nothing depends on me.” I'll tell you how to vote. I talked with many people known and unknown to me. The entire audience was divided into two parts: those who voted and those who did not vote (for some reason there were no voters for a united Russia, not a single one).

Photo: Reuters A Belarusian court on Wednesday sentenced two defendants accused of a terrorist attack in the Minsk metro to an exceptional punishment - the death penalty, Interfax reports. During the announcement of the verdict, the defendants were kept in specially installed iron cages.

In recent days, at the suggestion of citizen V.V. Putin. The topic of grants and grant recipients has become fashionable. “Grantee” is such a dirty word now. Meanwhile, the majority of foreign grants (I think 99 percent) are aimed at supporting our science and culture. Without them, many of our scientists and artists would not be able to work. There are, of course, grants for the development of institutions of a democratic society. I don't see anything wrong with this.

This is not a text in the Journal and not an attempt to once again express or clarify my opinion about what happened. This is the most sincere repentance. The great Orthodox shrine has left us, emotions have subsided somewhat, and the time has come for enlightenment. Naturally, I did not participate in the vicious persecution that radical atheists and atheists carried out against millions of believers trying to touch the belt of the Virgin Mary.

In St. Petersburg, unknown activists write “crooks and thieves” on the posters of United Russia, for some reason, the statement is most often found at public transport stops, apparently people have nothing to take their hands. It is one thing if the radicals aggressively configured to the party go to a feat like a rearrangement of letters on a giant transparen from Osra.

I walked in his area. I saw the houses, glued with this. Naturally, there are no output data on posters. Illegal agitation, smelling of a large provocation. There are not many options: 1.

Bonapartism in Russia is developing due to the crisis of the political system, and the crisis of the political system is aggravated by Bonapartism. So it turned out to be a vicious circle. Vicious circle. Ubiquitous mutual responsibility. Napoleon Bonaparte is Vladimir Putin, and Louis Bonaparte is Dmitry Medvedev.

The long bus route with a transfer in a provincial town became an unexpected revelation for me. Namely, an hour-long wait at the bus station, which helped me open my eyes to some aspects of social reality :)) At the station I visited, excuse the details, a public place called a paid toilet. And to my amazement, I discovered that at the entrance, visitors were given free... propaganda booklets of the famous Party. Here it is, the use of administrative resources taken to the point of absurdity!

The “locomotive” tactic is United Russia’s favorite way to attract votes. They put on the list a well-known, popular person who enjoys the authority of citizens, but obviously does not want to become a deputy. Voters vote thinking they support that person. But in reality, completely different, sometimes unknown people, become deputies. But it seems that in these elections the love for “steam locomotives” can play a cruel joke on United Russia.

The XI Alla Shelest Classical Ballet Festival, which took place since 1994, and this year resumed after the reconstruction of the theater, has ended at the Samara Opera and Ballet Theater, TLTnews.ru reports. This time the festival was attended by soloists of the Bolshoi, Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky theaters: Ekaterina Osmolkina, Maxim Zyuzin, Marianna Ryzhkina, Sergei Manuilov, Daria Pavlenko, Alexander Sergeev and others.

Our Internet fighters love to brand the anti-people elite - they say that they are so crooked, comprador, thieves, and so on. Meanwhile, our elite is mutating, and quite significantly. The elite of the 90s were, as they say, single-celled and calculated the situation exactly two moves ahead. The first move is to steal more, the second move is to move further away.

An acquaintance, who became the chairman of one of the precinct election commissions (PECs) in Saratov, surprised me with a message today. He was summoned to the administration of the district in which the polling station was located, where some people gave detailed recommendations on how to behave in the elections. Some people offered money, but he did not take it. Not a lot of money. Their number will depend on the percentage of EdRa in these elections.

In August 2008, I was grossly mistaken - I predicted that there would be no war between Russia and Georgia. The fact is that I simply didn’t have enough imagination to imagine - FOR WHAT, WHY should Russia fight? Now I understand. So, first, about the “small winning price”. Russia has ruined relations with the West. Not for long - the hole was somehow patched.

Now it will not be about tired politics at all, so don’t stop reading at the very first lines. Nikolai Zlobin, who for some misunderstanding still continues to be called an American political scientist, although for a long time he has been neither one nor the other, had dinner with Alexander Voloshin, who, apparently due to a different, but also misunderstanding, continues to be considered very influential and informed human. This was at the end of April this year.