In 1669, from the Nativity of Christ, one not particularly well -known and often disgraced English political strategist John Locke completed the order to write the text of the Constitution of the North American state of Carolina.

All last week there was only talk about the burial of the ashes of General Denikin in the Moscow Donskoy Monastery . The symbol of the White movement, the unambiguous villain of official Soviet history, was buried for the third time (I wanted to say “in my life,” but stopped short) with military honors, and his coffin was carried on the shoulders of soldiers nominally Russian, but in reality, alas, still the same The Red Army, with which he once fought.

If you imagine for a minute that you live the devil knows where, outside the garden ring, or, God forbid, even outside the Moscow Ring Road, then, probably, you are not aware that in the capital of our Motherland terrible political passions are now boiling, alliances are being created and resolutions are accepted, but also a whole project of the new Constitution is proclaimed. This is not comic.

The last week there was only conversations that about the burial of the dust of General Denikin in the Moscow Don Monastery . The symbol of the White Movement, the unambiguous villain of official Soviet history was the third time (I wanted to say "in his life, but stopped in time) was buried with military honors, and the coffin was carried on the shoulders of the soldiers nominally Russian, but in fact, alas, the same Red Army with which he once fought.

Google began testing another of his services, called " Reader " and intended for reading RSS fiders . You can not only add XML taps for reading, but also search them. The company is also going to deploy a wireless access network in the city of San Francisco, funded by advertising income, and access will be not only wireless, but also free. Also, the recently, an agreement was concluded between Google and Sun Microsystems on the mutual promotion of their products.

Very little time has passed since President Putin introduced an amendment to the State Duma , according to which the candidate for governor is proposed by the party that won the elections to the regional parliament. And now the head of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, referring to this new order, talks about the “government of the parliamentary majority” - this time in relation to the federal government.

From each next political season they expect something unusual, but expectations are most often not come true. A year ago, the expert community was configured by Alarmist - the collapse of the Putin regime was predicted under the influence of obvious misses in domestic politics, the inefficiency of the administrative vertical created by him, etc. Indeed, there were problems, but their scale was clearly exaggerated by experts. The Putin regime is much stronger than it seems at first glance.