Passion for drugs - drug addiction, for theft - kleptomania, for drunkenness - alcoholism. What is the term for the passionate acquisition of millions and billions? Reality has already shown that this process cannot be dispassionate. What about the unbridled desire for power? All manias and isms come from the same “root”; their common basis is complete dependence on the desire to receive only for oneself. Receive money, honor and fame.

The list of ineffective universities published by the Ministry of Education, which included our educational institutions, caused heated discussion and slight panic. We need to figure out what to be afraid of and where such ratings come from. To begin with, this supposed blacklist is extensive. For example, it lists the Moscow Architectural and Literary Institutes as ineffective. There are many regional universities - here is Kemerovo State University. But!

Met an old friend in Khasavyurt. He was coming from the military registration and enlistment office. We started talking, and he told me that he had been trying to join the army for a long time. Everything is in vain. He let it slip: “I wanted to give money, but they didn’t take it.” And they don’t take money and just send it. In general, a strange situation. I thought: why? I remembered how in the United States they tried to fight crime in disadvantaged areas.

I return to the topic of my previous post ( http://stepanyukv.livejournal.com/20859.html ). And so, yesterday we returned to Barnaul and now we can say more objectively that the problem of building a hydroelectric power station is really serious. A group of specialists and I toured the entire Multa valley, talked with an initiative group of fighters for the preservation of the valley, and talked with representatives of local tourism businesses and farms.

Due to the fact that “Poet and Citizen” Dmitry Bykov suddenly turned out to be “person No. 2” in this Coord Council, here is a work on this topic: from my friend in LiveJournal Oleg Rudoy (http://ran-ger.livejournal. com/1640.html - "About nightingales and fat poets"). “ ...It was at the very height, at the highest moment of their feelings, when Bylinkin and the young lady went out of town and wandered through the forest until nightfall.

Photo: ITAR-TASS/PublicPost The new Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu returned the pupils of the Suvorov and Nakhimov schools to the parade on May 9, canceling the decision of his predecessor Anatoly Serdyukov. The sources in the Ministry of Defense are confident that other decisions of Serdyukov will soon be canceled, which caused rejection in the military environment.

An Orthodox monastery founded in 1371 in a bend of the Vologda River by the disciple of Sergius of Radonezh, Saint Demetrius of Prilutsky. One of the oldest and largest monasteries in the Russian North. It was closed by the Soviet government in 1926 and was used as a transit prison in the 1930s. In 1992, it was completely returned to the church, and since then it has been a newly functioning monastery. Information from Wikipedia . This is a deaf and mute worker from Mordovia.

The situation with former slaves in Golyanovo is developing according to a predictable scenario. Slave owners are destroying evidence, activists and lawyers are being pressured, journalists are being beaten, and former slaves are being deported. Mitya Aleshkovsky reported sad news on Facebook: “Danila Medvedev, the leader of the transhumanists, one of the leaders of the rescue operation to free the slaves, just called. According to him, the situation with the freed slaves is like this.

in fact, the “Plus Poetry” festival itself deserves a huge, huge plus!

Photo: PublicPost Collage The presidential administration wants to prohibit governors from abusing Twitter, the Izvestia newspaper claims and provides a ranking of the most active microblog users among regional heads. The reason for the possible ban is scandals related to the talkativeness of governors. The most active blogger among governors is Nikita Belykh , head of the Kirov region. He has long and regularly maintained a Live Journal, as well as Twitter.

It all started much earlier. On Thursday, November 1, a group of oppositionists - all young people in their twenties - was detained three times. Allegedly, according to the description, some of them resembled criminals. And I spent National Unity Day at police station No. 3, where activists and organizers of the “anti-fascist picket” were held for about five hours.

On Wednesday, November 7, to commemorate the 95th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, a number of events are being held in the Tula region, organized by the regional and local branches of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. In Tula, a rally took place in the reconstructed Kommunarov Square. It was opened by Vladimir Sokolov, a member of the bureau of the regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.

Photo: ITAR-TASS President Putin appointed to manage the head of the United Russia faction in the Duma of Andrei Vorobyov. Colleagues, possible rivals and political scientists told Publicpost, who is the new and. O. Governor of the Moscow Region and what to expect from him. Photo: ITAR-TASS Sergey Mironov, leader of the Fair Russia faction: “The appointment is something logical, but not very much.

Photo: Alexander Boroda and Roman Abramovich (from left to right). ITAR-TASS Today in the building of the Bakhmetievsky garage-the former art center "Garage"-solemnly opened the Jewish Museum and the Center for Tolerance. The ceremony was attended by Israeli President Shimon Peres and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Until the last expected and personally inviting the Israeli president, Vladimir Putin did not come to this event.

“There are some planes flying across the sky all day. They are probably taking someone on vacation to Pattaya.” Igor Rasteryaev I was in this Pattaya of yours. If I had hell and Pattaya, then I would live in hell and rent out Pattaya. Appearance: the town both in appearance and in climate resembles South Tel Aviv. The Israelis will understand what we are talking about. Straight streets, architectural chaos of garages, shops, hotels, concrete boxes, almost no greenery, dirt.