In 2004, The Banker magazine called Alexei Kudrin the Minister of Finance of the Year, who managed to " convince lenders and investors that Russia is a responsible and disciplined debtor ." Kudrin himself once remarked: " This is a revolutionary thing: we pay off debts, and do not accumulate them ." However, these compliments of Western colleagues have always looked “drops of honey in the tar barrel” in Russia, where public opinion could not clearly explain and prove the need to stay of the

The results of the elections in the Moscow City Duma are interesting for politicians and sociologists in that, in principle, there is nothing new or shocking in them. All results are predictable, and most importantly, easily explained. There is nothing that could not be analyzed. Take, for example, the failure of the apple. What did this party do in recent years? Have you heard anything about her?

Thank God the local and foreign media were quickly closed on Nobel, by very harmoniously rewriting the information of the news tapes in their own words, scoring it with a couple of comments. However, the current prize broke all the records of surprise of the names of the laureates.

Twenty years have passed after the execution of Chausko, and his secret service is still alive. Romanian-German writer Gerth Müller was the first to talk about how she herself constantly encounters a securitate terror. News October 8: writer Gerth Müller, a German by origin, grown in Romania, received the Nobel Prize in literature for 2009! We present to your attention an excerpt from her new novel “I carry all my own with me” (“AtemSchaukekel ”).

The results of the elections in the Moscow City Duma became known. United Russia won. Something went to the Communist Party. The rest of the parties failed. As for the defeat of the "apple", it was not surprised.

The news of the sudden death of Arthur Medvedev shocked the whole community that he himself gathered around his main project for many years - the philosophical and esoteric almanac “The Magic Mountain”. The fact that Medvedev no longer could believe. Some, including the author of these lines, still do not believe. Perhaps because in the generation of Moscow intellectuals of the birth of the late 1960s-early 1970s, Arthur's departure is the first noticeable loss ...

Today, the results of the Moscow Parliament have become known yesterday. The results of this political event could be easily predicted. Of the 35 places 32, “United Russia” was fixed, and the Communist Party received the remaining three places. Such a sharp increase in the results of United Russia over the past four years can be explained not only by the use of an administrative resource.