"... Moldovans are sitting and proud that they are Romanians." M. Zadornov It is interesting to observe Russia. The pride in the loved ones is growing directly in proportion to the cost of oil in the world market. More recently, it was considered in a good tone to sprinkle his head as ash and repent in all mortal sins, now this ash is spining on his head, but not his own.

On February 1, 2007, the next press conference of the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin was held. As expected, the president gave a very high assessment of the economic development of Russia in 2006. Yes, and it would be strange not to note the impressive achievements of the country: GDP growth by 6.8-6.9%, a decrease in inflation to 9%, early repayment of external debt of $ 22 billion.

The press conference of Vladimir Putin left a painful impression. It seems that the Russian president himself also experienced something similar to cognitive dissonance, like many observers. Of course, everyone ruined the journalists. And those who asked the prepared questions, and those who got the microphone by chance. The good half of them turned to Vladimir Putin as the deceased saint, and he was perceived by the answers as revelations from the other world.

Vladimir Putin holds a press conference in the Kremlin for representatives of Russian federal and regional, as well as foreign media. Vladimir Putin began the "great" press conference by summing up the development of Russia last year. The president began with the social part and said that the average increase in salaries around the country amounted to 13.3%, the incomes of the population increased by 10%, and pensions by an average of 5.4%.

The main social event of the year has completed safely. If earlier the sovereign-emperor invited everyone to the ball, now he is successfully replaced by Gala Press Conference.

"United Russia" is for effective politicians Marina Sonina The United Russia party plans to receive in the upcoming elections, including in the regions, the majority, but this is not an end in itself. The main thing is to create in Russia such a political system that will be able to lead to power of effective people, on Thursday the secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia Vyacheslav Volodin said.

"National narcissism is a chronic disease of the Russian consciousness." Semyon Frank A perky speech by Arkady Mahler entitled “There is nowhere to retreat, Moscow is behind us!” not just a wonderful example of party myth-making.

The President of Latvia Vike Vike-Freberg at a meeting of the Sejm (Parliament) of the republic on Thursday tried to convince the deputies to transfer the mandate to the government to sign a compromise version of the border agreement with Russia. "Now is the most suitable moment to sign the border agreement with Russia. This agreement will help to defrost really frozen relations with the eastern neighbor," the president of Latvia told reporters after the speech.

“National projects are what everyone is doing with pleasure,” the First Deputy Prime Minister, curator of priority national projects (PNP) Dmitry Medvedev began a meeting with young political scientists with such words. Of course, such a motivation could not ignore young political scientists - activists of youth political movements who came to the Fund for Effective Policy to discuss the implementation of the PNP.

Vladimir Putin does not agree that Russia surrounded itself with its foreign policy with a "ring of ill -wishers." “This is not so,” the President of the Russian Federation said at a press conference in the Kremlin, commenting at the request of a common opinion that Russia's policy led to the fact that it was surrounded by a number of unfriendly states. “To enjoy the fact that you are praised when you betray national interests is very simple.

The Basmanny Court has authorized the arrest of the ex-Senator from Kalmykia Levon Chakhmmayan Alisa Borisova The Moscow Basmanny Court issued the arrest of the ex-Senator from Kalmykia Levon Chakhmyan, who was suspected of fraud. As the correspondent of Interfax reports, in this way, the court granted the petition of the Prosecutor General, who asked L. Chakhmyan to a preventive measure in the form of detention. According to the law, the arrest sanction is issued by the court for two months.

In 14 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the acceptance of lists of candidates and documents from parties to participate in the elections to regional legislative bodies of state power under updated electoral laws ended. The editors of the "Russian Journal" asked to comment on this event of the Chairman of the Council of the Russian Public Institute of Electoral Law Igor Borisov.

For a decade, a social policy in the country was barely warm, and the people began to slowly get used to the idea that this is capitalism. It was useless to complain, people suffered and adapted. But the stronger state remembered its social duties, declared priorities and the efforts of its own daily television propaganda does not allow anyone to forget about them. The authorities inadvertently “woke famously” - large folk expectations that are difficult to comply with.

Russia's exit from a long-term all-encompassing systemic crisis of the 80s-90s opens up the possibility of a strong restoration of its potential and transition to stable, sustainable development. One of the most significant obstacles to the realization of this possibility was the absence of officially established and normatively fixed goals, objectives and ways of development of our society and the state.

Hurbert Wolf. List history, Vatican and prohibited books. - ed. Doncellli. - 278 p. In the history of the Catholic Church, it often happened that the papacy spent a lot of energy on the introduction of prohibitions that public opinion perceived only an anachronisms. All these numerous prohibitions were simply ignored by believers, and subsequently quietly eliminated (often due to their ridiculousness).