You can’t call me a great connoisseur of architecture: I can hardly distinguish a pilaster from a buttress, but in a philistine way I can rejoice at beautiful buildings. In this sense, New York is a real treasure. Although the city is relatively young, and its active development has only been carried out over the past 150 years, during this time New York has managed to be enriched with so many layers of urban development that almost any point in it will take your breath away.

So should we go or, after all, checkers? One of my acquaintances says: “Let Putin first repent and ask the people for forgiveness.” But for me, this is just not necessary. And there is absolutely no need to present to the authorities any demands for repentance, or even demands to recognize the past elections as dishonest. First of all, they will never agree with this. Those.

Russians would choose President Gleb Zhelov If the presidents were not for real politicians, but movie heroes, Gleb Zheglov would have ruled in our country, ”the Superjob.ru portal showed. The second place in the list of applicants for the presidential chair was divided by Stirlitz, an American fighter for justice - the superhero Batman and the Green Shrek. ... Read more> RBC Daily newspaper Yeah, well, here the puzzle has developed.

A strange desire, or rather fantasy, arose in me recently. I suddenly thought, which citizen of our country would I like to meet and talk to this year? Who would be interesting to me in a personal conversation, and to whom do I have such attention and the questions that I would like to ask?.. In general, fantasize about this. The task turned out to be extremely difficult.

March 4 is another single voting day in Russia. On this day, not only the presidential elections of the Russian Federation will take place (there will be a lot of talk about them in this LJ), but also local and regional elections. Unfortunately, nothing interesting will happen in Yekaterinburg and its immediate surroundings on this day, but elections of deputies to municipal assemblies will be held in Moscow.

The main character from mid-December to the Old New Year is still the Christmas tree. In our densely forested region there are a lot of live Christmas trees everywhere, but it still brings tears to our eyes when they are thrown away. True, educated foresters at one time competently explained that the forest requires care, and therefore sanitary felling. Sometimes you need to cut down an old tree so that it doesn’t infect others, sometimes you need to thin out the young trees.

Natalya Sindeeva did not accept Mikhail Prokhorov’s offer to sell control over media assets - the Dozhd TV channel, the Slon.ru portal and the Big City magazine, Gazeta.Ru reports. ONEXIM, owned by businessman and Russian presidential candidate Mikhail Prokhorov, suspended negotiations on the purchase of shares in Sindeeva’s media assets, the negotiation process entered a passive stage.

During the holidays I wandered around the streets of frosty Chelyabinsk. A friend is calling on cell phone - listen, since you are there, go and sign for Prokhorov, otherwise there is silence in Zlatoust, but in Chelyabinsk it seems to be lively. And he dictates the address. I’m vaguely thinking - damn! It's on the other side of town! In such frost... Why, they couldn’t find a place closer to the human camp... I come and tell my friends. They perked up - we’ll go and put it on later.

Dedicated to the elections to the State Duma 2011 About a new holiday - National Corruption Day. Corruption truly works wonders. Here are just a few of them. One of the astute mid-level police officers - the participants above probably knew this - noticed that the death rate of persons under investigation for serious and white-collar crimes has increased in the last 2 years.

Vladimir Ryzhkov said that the opposition will apply for a 50,000-strong march against election fraud on February 4, Interfax reports. “Our organizing committee is now actively talking about holding this protest action, which will continue the demands that were previously made at mass rallies in the capital on Bolotnaya Square and Sakharov Avenue,” said a member of the organizing committee, adding that by January 19-20 the application will be served.

Eduard Limonov is an unpleasant opponent in the discussion. Endless interruptions and the desire to shout down an opponent in the style of Zhirinovsky, to put it mildly, do not contribute to meaningful debate. Limonov greatly prevented me from clearly formulating my position, but I still voiced my main arguments. And I am very glad that, despite the low quality of the dispute, I was heard and supported by 65% ​​of the 4 thousand people who took part in the final vote.

Vladimir Putin criticized today belyh for some increase in the tariff for hot water in the “town of Novovyatsky” . It is quite obvious that this is part of Volodin’s strategy for victory in the first round and a purely Putin form of response to the result of the party of swindlers and thieves in the Kirov region and the city of Kirov (including the “town of Novovyatsky”), and especially to participation in the rally on December 24 .

As part of the program for the development of education in Yakutia, 61 secondary schools are planned to be built in the republic by the end of 2016, a representative of the press service of the Ministry of Education of Yakutia told the Interfax agency on Tuesday, January 10. “In 2011, 12 schools were opened in the republic: 10 of them were opened under the state program for the development of education, two more - as part of the good deeds program “My Yakutia in the 21st century”.

Today in Moscow there will be a large-scale event in support of Taisiya Osipova. The event will be held in a new format. This has never happened in Moscow before. People with identical posters “Free Taisiya Osipova” will go out simultaneously to each Moscow metro station and will stand in a single picket for an hour - from 18 to 19 hours. I carefully studied Taisiya's sentence.

On January 10, about 150 employees of the Bor mining and chemical complex (MCC) in Primorye, which is the city-forming complex for Dalnegorsk, notified the enterprise management of their refusal to work due to systematic delays in the payment of wages. “149 employees of the Bor mining and chemical complex enterprise suspended work on Tuesday. The workers were not paid advance payments and salaries for December 2011.