At the end of November, Ukraine reappeared in the Russian information space. The guilt of everything is not allowed yet to the dispute between Russia and Ukraine regarding gas prices. And another reason to recall Ukraine was the past festivities of the anniversary of the "orange revolution". They gave rise to a lot of talk about the winners who stood on the Maidan physically or spiritually and who were allegedly deceived.

The question of strengthening the vertical of power was posed by Vladimir Putin in connection with the need to overcome the negative consequences of the Yeltsin era. Mostly it was about the disintegration of the state and the privatization of power. For the first time, the concept of building a vertical of power was represented by the president in the message to the Federal Assembly of 2000.

Since childhood, I have not liked enthusiasts and try, as far as possible, to avoid their complicity in all the affairs that I do. I’m simply afraid of fanatics, but what is a fanatic? This is an enthusiast who has gone to the extreme, his, so to speak, nocturnal, gloomy version. An enthusiast in a dark corner will not stab you, but he can strangle you in his arms and will certainly ruin any business he takes on.

Since childhood, I do not like enthusiasts and try to avoid their complicity in all the matters that I am doing as far as possible. Fanatics - I’m just afraid of those, but what is a fanatic? This is an enthusiast that has gone to extreme, his, so to speak, night, gloomy option. The enthusiast in the dark corner will not cut, but it can be strangled in his arms and certainly collapse any business that will take up.

Vladimir Nikolaevich Toporov died. The space of Russian culture is compressed by tragic jumps. After the death of Yu.M. Lotman, I thought: we still had Averintsy , Gasparov and axes ... But after the recent tragic death of the brilliant linguist S.A. Starostin, it seemed to me that the feeling of some deep irreversible loss began to clarify inside. When M.L.

This Saturday, I left the house twice and twice halfway returned back. Both times I went to the Maidan (on Friday evening they told me - come, they say, tomorrow at the Maidan to the Supreme Court), and both times my mobile phone received SMS messages from the Rodina party taken the day before. At first, the phone reported that the Maidan was transferred from hourly for three hours, then at all - "the Maidan is canceled.